04/23/2013 - 4:17pm
...do you know how long I had been looking forward to being able to say this sentence at the ticket counter in our village station for the first time? I can’t remember anymore. But I'll never forget the
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03/28/2013 - 2:26pm
Easter is incredibly close but you have never been farer away from a good present to surprise your loved ones? Don´t worry! Just follow our lead and turn your Berlin passion into something really sweet.
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03/20/2013 - 3:21pm
Some days are one of those days. Days when you slip and fall or cruel car drivers ruin your outfit with mud. This is when I lose it - my patience, my optimism and worst of all: my smile. But you know what?
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02/14/2013 - 10:22am
Chocolates, flowers, promises of love: Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Going by the shop window decorations, this is the most important event of the year after Christmas and Easter. Happy couples
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02/11/2013 - 3:49pm
What would Berlin be without the Berlinale? And what would the Berlinale be without its fans? A film without viewers, obviously. The Berlinale sinks or swims with its visitors, movie buffs, film makers, and
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01/17/2013 - 10:43am
Oh no! As I look out of my window into the grey rainy clouds of a Berlin January, there's only one thing to do: Turn up the volume of my sound system and sing along loudly. What's more, I would be the perfect
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11/30/2012 - 6:02pm
Coffee is a beverage that deserves to be drunk straight and unadulterated, which is possible once you've discovered the perfect method of preparation. As a previously devout adherent to the riches of frothy
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11/30/2012 - 5:58pm
Today I'd like to try another variant of manual coffee preparation: the AeroPress. It's supposed to work like my French press at home. That's why I'm looking forward to seeing if I really can survive The Barn
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11/28/2012 - 12:24pm
For my next coffee I am drawn to Westberlin. Just four weeks ago, architect Kai Bröer and April Melnick, who learned her barista trade in Portland, opened a coffee bar two blocks south of Checkpoint Charlie.
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11/28/2012 - 11:45am
What gets you moving in the morning? For me, it's not my morning shower or even jogging laps around Friedrichshain Volkspark under grey November skies – I am instead one of those who only gets moving with my
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09/03/2012 - 10:07am
by Tobias Maul
10,000 IT aficionados – and I am in the middle of them. Tempelhof Airport was THE meeting point for the technology and entertainment community from 21 to 26 August 2012. Berlin is not only the
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08/20/2012 - 10:27am
Plastic chairs instead of sofa, artificial light instead of sunset, fasting instead of supper – my visit to film studio G in Berlin-Adlershof requires minor sacrifices. But that’s no problem for me, because I
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08/02/2012 - 9:51am
Ten, nine, eight…3,000 people count down together. On the stage the DJ sets the beat with humming basses. Three, two, one, go!
Colours all over the place: neon green, sunny yellow, shining pink! A huge
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07/30/2012 - 1:43pm
9.00am: The fair-haired woman with the bike basket full of plants comes closer with an inquisitive look. “What are you doing here?” She points to our red-white summer mobile in front of which the visitBerlin
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05/29/2012 - 10:41am
A lot goes on in Berlin. Millions of feet. Every day. On their way to work, heading to a café or on a sightseeing tour. The right footwear is of course a must-have for all that. Whether sporty or elegant,
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04/17/2012 - 5:37pm
Berlin is a metropolis. It is also known as the German capital to most people. But that’s not all: Berlin is also a Green City! With the awakening of spring, it can no longer be ignored – everything is
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03/30/2012 - 3:19pm
Friday evening in Berlin. My dancing leg is already twitching … at last I will go out, celebrate, turn night into day! According to the Berlin clock it is still too early – just 9pm. Nonetheless I hit the road
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03/09/2012 - 12:07pm
ITB Berlin 2012 is where men wear the sea in their hair and women have a desert in the hair-dries. This is at least what the current poster campaign of the world’s largest travel trade show suggests. I am
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02/08/2012 - 5:39pm
The elderly gentleman hurries over to the boarding desk. Even before he gets to it, he’s waving his boarding pass. Just as he reaches the desk, an aircraft passes the window on the runway. The lady at the desk
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01/10/2012 - 3:13pm
Palermo, Buenos Aires I press my nose against a shop window and cannot believe what I see: fish eats foot! Tourists are sitting there, hold their feet in a tank and let little fish nibble at their feet. This
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12/19/2011 - 5:22pm
Queen Louise of Prussia looks a bit sad. Standing there, her husband Fredrick William III in the back and Old Fritz to her right, she already seems to have a suspicion. Maybe a forthcoming farewell. Because
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11/25/2011 - 5:21pm
Do you sometimes have the feeling that someone is watching you? Do you feel eyes boring a hole in your back but when you turn around, there’s nobody there? Take it from me, there is someone there. He’s just
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11/03/2011 - 12:16pm
Our dear colleague and enthusiastic Berlin blogger, Karin Willms, is currently travelling around South America. There she’s piranha fishing, freezing to death in four pairs of socks, camping on the third
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10/12/2011 - 3:09pm
I recently left Berlin for a weekend trip to Moscow. When I arrived there, my thoughts often went back to the city on the river Spree: when I admired sights I wished to have them in Berlin. When the local
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10/07/2011 - 3:32pm
Everyone knows about them; everyone has them at home: the countless things that you suddenly no longer like and which you haven’t used for months, or even longer. And yet, for some reason, you still keep them
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09/16/2011 - 12:44pm
When Phantano rides on the Underground, he is equipped in accordance with the rules. He has a one metre long leash so that the passengers feel safe and wears a muzzle so that they feel even safer. In most
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09/07/2011 - 3:15pm
Wearing a bikini on the beach … or rather more serious? Full body or close up shot? Naturally or rather “photoshopped”? The choice of a profile picture requires a lot of consideration. Has this always been
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09/02/2011 - 10:59am
More than a year ago I regularly took the bus to Berlin-Adlershof once a week. My destination was the University gym on Rudower Strasse. I hardened my laughing muscles during the whole-body workout “Kick Fit
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08/18/2011 - 10:44am
It’s just not fair: It’s torture. And it’s also an unreasonable imposition for people unable to make decisions: white chocolate with orange and ginger, premium Madagascan vanilla, prosecco-mint, sesame with
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08/08/2011 - 1:27pm
When I was a child, a trip to Friedrichstrasse railway station always ended before a vast steel barrier. I often waited there for hours with my parents – for my great aunt Hilde, who frequently paid us a visit
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07/20/2011 - 1:22pm
I can’t really picture it. I mean, a high ropes course – okay. But a forest high ropes course…in Berlin?
I’d seen that sort of thing once while on holiday on a Mediterranean island. There were plenty of
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07/11/2011 - 10:17am
The little East German kid in me cannot deny that there are still corners of the city that are unfamiliar even to me. The English Garden is in the middle of the Tiergarten, next door to Schloss Bellevue. A
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07/05/2011 - 3:46pm
In the age of Google Maps and Street View, which enable me in theory to dive into my neighbour's paddling pool on my laptop screen, it shouldn't be a problem to accurately locate a lake in Berlin. So I thought.
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06/28/2011 - 12:00am
What a weekend – typical Berlin! Starting on Saturday with the Christopher Street Day, followed by “Staatsoper für alle”, and then, on Sunday, the opening match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup…this weekend in
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06/16/2011 - 2:52pm
Two oversized copper fingertips point the way - through the lush green of Monbijou Park to a rundown studio. Behind its non-descript facade is currently a collection of that which has earned Berlin the title
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05/19/2011 - 1:02pm
What is likely to be growing in a Christian garden?
As I approach the Garden of the World in Marzahn-Hellersdorf the question is playing on my mind.
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04/28/2011 - 12:00am
Above the awning of the legendary Curry 36, a huge curry sausage made of fluorescent tubes sits resplendent in its throne. Beneath it, in the red glow, there is always a group of people. Anyone who joins the
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04/21/2011 - 11:39am
A gentle stroll through the desirable “Gräfe Kiez” an area of Kreuzberg may not seem at first glance to have much to do with sport.
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04/14/2011 - 12:00am
Spring has come to the German capital: couples in love have butterflies in their tummy and would like to embrace the whole world – like Sabrina and Andy, Nina and Urs or Angela and Tobias. They love each other
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03/02/2011 - 3:21pm
Usually illuminated, sometimes illuminating but always ubiquitous–Advertisements. More precisely: written signs and luminous advertising. They have a Corporate Identity, reflect the zeitgeist and they are
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02/16/2011 - 1:00am
The grey facade is hidden behind scaffolding. No signpost, no bell – nothing points to the treasures hidden in the house at the back. The door is ajar. If you walk through the courtyard, you reach the entrance
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01/25/2011 - 2:55pm
Well hidden in a backyard on Glogauer Strasse 19 in Kreuzberg, there is a gem of … well, actually what?... the Berlin café scene, neighbourhood bookshops or cinematography video stores?
Anyway: if you feel
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01/21/2011 - 11:58am
The slogan definitely hits the nail on the head. The - sadly just temporary - restaurant „Pret a Diner“ www.pret-a-diner.com in the former Berlin coin mint is not just about food, but also about experience.
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12/29/2010 - 7:36pm
The bad news first: The Berlinomat closes its flagship store on Frankfurter Allee in Friedrichshain on 15 January 2011. And now the good news for all bargain hunters: fashion and design “Made in Berlin” will
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12/01/2010 - 10:56am
Whatever covers garbage does not look like garbage in most cases. Whatever closes holes can have holes itself. Whatever is artistic is not always perceived as such. Confusing statements? Possibly, but I ask
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11/26/2010 - 3:06pm
Playing and eating makes people happy… playing, eating and saving money makes them even happier…
Until the end of March 2011 the Spanish restaurant Tauro offers game lovers from Sunday to Thursday the
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11/15/2010 - 1:00am
Rainy autumn days? The colourful underworlds of Berlin's first black light indoor miniature golf course in the cellar of the family café Isa Mitz in Görlitzer Park guarantees fun for young and old!
The café
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10/29/2010 - 2:48pm
How is breakfast in a five-star hotel? Presumably very good. And how is breakfast in a five-star hotel which has just been presented with the award for the restaurant with the best breakfast service in Berlin
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10/19/2010 - 3:06pm
It all depends on your point of view. A glass that is half empty can be seen as half full. In the same way, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. But how can you see light in complete blackness?
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10/05/2010 - 4:19pm
Some people behave strangely. They stand still without warning, stare fixedly at the ground. Suddenly they lift their heads and a knowing blink of the eyes, combined with a delightful smile, adorns their faces
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09/15/2010 - 9:37am
Look at the picture on the left. Take a close look. What could that be? An animal? Perhaps. A sheep? Possibly. Definitely modern art! Wrong.
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08/30/2010 - 3:51pm
Whereas the local residents of long standing are still struggling to grasp what is happening all around them, the next shops are being refurbished somewhere in the triangle between Maybachufer, Kottbusser Damm
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07/26/2010 - 2:17pm
Still relatively small but already ever so cool. The new “Flowmarkt” in “Nowkoelln”. Between Nansen- and Liberdastraße on Maybachufer, it has picked a really nice spot.
Sometimes still slightly bleary-eyed
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06/30/2010 - 9:29am
A babble of voices fills the holy hall of Emmaus Church in Kreuzberg. People are drinking beer, catching up and laughing in the house of God. It is time for “silent move” football.
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06/24/2010 - 3:34pm
With no big theatre or impressive atrium, the bat studiotheater of the Ernst Busch Drama School is located in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg.
For the students who are gaining their first experiences in direction
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06/12/2010 - 12:18pm
In April, a natural Icelandic spectacle with the beautiful yet unpronounceable name Eyjafjallajökull grounded air traffic throughout Europe. Stranded tourists and cancelled trips were the result.
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06/12/2010 - 12:18pm
In April, a natural Icelandic spectacle with the beautiful yet unpronounceable name Eyjafjallajökull grounded air traffic throughout Europe. Stranded tourists and cancelled trips were the result.
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06/11/2010 - 3:45pm
The Berliner Weisse is as much a part of life in the German capital as the ubiquitous curry wurst.
However, some say that more recently the Hessian ‘Äppler’ cider is gradually becoming a more popular choice in
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06/11/2010 - 3:31pm
During the World Cup, the eyes of the whole world will be on Africa – and many of those at home will experience wanderlust!
Fortunately, Berlin can take you on a culinary journey. And you only have to go as
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