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Wax Hitler Causes Controversy
With the new Berlin branch of the famous Madame Tussauds waxwork museum due to open soon in the capital, one planned exhibit was always likely to stir controver... | Comment |
Holocaust Train Passes Through Berlin
A vintage 1921 locomotive train hauling four carriages arrived in Berlin Ostbahnhof station earlier this week, its cargo not passengers but rather haunting imag... | History |
Even Gay People Grow Old
Yes, it's been scientifically proven that gay people grow old too, but whereas proudly painting the town pink might be encouraged in trendy young clubs and cult... | City Focus |
Rolling Stones Rock Berlinale
Veteran musicians, the Rolling Stones, are touching down in the capital tomorrow to attend the premiere of Martin Scorsese's rockumentary "Shine A Light", about... | Art and Culture |
Berlin's Santas Put Through Their Paces
Once upon a time the minimum requirements for becoming a city santa over the Christmas period was a willingness to put on a daft costume and give 'Ho ho ho' a b... | City Focus |
Heartbreak Hits Berlin
Ever wondered what to do with that lip-stick smothered poem and terrible Winnie the Pooh tie, which the ex-love of your live (Cecilia was it?) gave to you? You ... | Art and Culture |
Valkyrie Scenes To Be Reshot
Oh dear, oh dear, it seems that nothing is quite going according to plan for Tom Cruise and his latest venture onto Celluloid, Valkyrie - the story of Claus Sch... | Art and Culture |
Cruise, Controversy and Nazis in Berlin
Swastika flags have been flying high over Berlin in recent days, and Nazi uniforms are once more marching imperialistically through the city. No wonder then tha... | History |
Love Parade A Success In Essen
It must have been with a mixture of pride and pain that residents of Berlin read up on the weekend news this monday. The child that they had brought into the wo... | Art and Culture |
Soviet Bomb Found In Berlin
Berlin construction worker Jens Hoehme got a scare recently whilst operating his digger. Encountering something hard and unyielding he decided to proceed with c... | Comment |
Love Parade Leaves Berlin
After failing to reach an agreement with the city council, it seems the Love Parade organisers have had no choice but to bid a teary farewell to the event's sp... | Comment |
Berlin Bikes Ahead
Two years ago, the powers that be in Berlin decreed that cyclists should make up 15% of city traffic by 2010 and, in fact, results just in show that the German ... | City Focus |
Knut Grows Up
The fact that a polar bear cub is growing up might not be considered a news worthy item in most cities, but then this isn't most cities and this isn't most pola... | Comment |
Tresor Returns to Berlin!
Well it's been an up and down year for fans of dance music in Berlin. First there was the sad news that the Love Parade would be moving elsewhere in 2007, causi... | Art and Culture |
Berlin Goes Knuts
Officially Berlin's cutest resident, Knut the Polar Bear is fast becoming one of her most famous too. So much so that it has been the furry toddler consistently... | Comment |
Where is the Love?
It seems that the triumphant return of the Love Parade to Berlin in 2006, after three years in the wilderness, was shortlived indeed. Despite great optimism ema... | City Focus |
Berlinale back for 2007
Berlin's prestigious 'Berlinale' Film Festival returns to the capital for another year this February. As usual a wide selection of films from across the globe h... | Art and Culture |
Berlin's Culture Under Threat
Berlin's vibrant arts and culture scene may face a dismal future due to a court ruling last week denying the German capital federal support to pay off its 60 ... | Comment |
Smoking Ban in Berlin?
Smokers will feel the pinch of Berlin's incoming government's policy on smoking, after it committed to propose legislation to ban smoking in the city's bars, ca... | City Focus |
Polanski's Vampires in Berlin
Berlin - Roman Polanski is bringing his cult classic musical Dance of the Vampires to Berlin, where it will premiere in the Theatre Des Westens. The German musi... | Art and Culture |
Controversial Exhibition opens in Berlin
Organized by the conservative German League of Expellees, a controversial exhibition highlighting forced migration, displacement and genocide in Europe in the 2... | Art and Culture |
Berlin theatre cutting it fine
Bertolt Brecht's "Three Penny Opera" is supposed to open Friday in Berlin, 50 years after the playwright's death. There's just one problem: the newly renovate... | Art and Culture |
Berlin 2009 kicks into gear
Gothenburg, Sweden - For those who read on, no you haven’t overslept and missed the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan, or the Beijing Olympics of 2008 fo... | Current Affairs |
Budget flights under threat?
BERLIN, August 8 /PRNewswire/ --
Air Berlin Wins the First Part of the BDF Exemplary Case Concerning Subsidies for Ryanair
The business model of Luebeck A... | Business |
Russian Jewish immigration poses questions
BERLIN (EJP)--- Over the last 15 years more than 200,000 Jews have immigrated to Germany from the former Soviet Union (CIS).
Recent statistics compiled on ... | Current Affairs |
Berliners protest agains war
Last Friday evening the Palestinian community and other Arab organizations in Berlin called a vigil in the centre of West Berlin attended by over 500 people to ... | Current Affairs |
Berlin Opera reaching new highs
A Berlin opera house is encouraging its audience to get high along with the actors while watching a new opera.
The Neuköllner Opera House says smoking a jo... | Art and Culture |
Lebanon question challenges Germany
The memory of the Holocaust is fuelling a debate in Germany over involvement in a Lebanon peace force, even before practical steps are taken to create one.
... | Current Affairs |
Germany avoids Europe budget fine
The European Commission has suspended disciplinary proceedings against Germany for breaching EU budget rules.
It said that Berlin was on course to bring its ... | Current Affairs |
Mosque Building Boom
Berlin's moderately sized Muslim community is set to benefit from a Mosque building-boom, which will create better conditions for worship and prayer for the cit... | Art and Culture |
Lebanon question challenges Germany
The memory of the Holocaust is fuelling a debate in Germany over involvement in a Lebanon peace force, even before practical steps are taken to create one.
G... | Current Affairs |
Loveparade returns to Berlin on July 15
The Loveparade celebrates its so long expected comeback on July 15th 2006 in Berlin. After a two-year break, the return of the world’s biggest party in the fede... | Art and Culture |
Berlin Jewish culture festival
Berlin’s Child, Youth and Family Centre (FEZ) is putting on a five-day information programme aimed at educating teachers, families and young people about Jewi... | Art and Culture |
German birth rate lowest since 1946
New data shows Germany is bottom of the world's birth rate rankings.
There were between 680,000 - 690,000 births in Germany in 2005 - among the lowest birth ... | Comment |
Germany Hoping for Soccer Miracle
Humiliating defeats, public recriminations and a match-fixing scandal have plunged German soccer into crisis less than three months before the World Cup. Ch... | Current Affairs |
Berlin launches World Cup charm offensive
BERLIN, March 14 (Reuters) - Being the grumpiest city in Germany is not the image Berlin wants with the World Cup finals less than three months away.
To shed... | City Focus |
Berlin Cancels Soccer Opera
The Berlin State Opera has canceled Soccersongs, an opera commissioned to mark the finals of soccer's World Cup in Germany this summer, the company announced.... | Art and Culture |
Germany threatened with match-fixing scandal
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Prosecutors confirmed Thursday that they are investigating another match-fixing scheme by gamblers in German soccer, three months befo... | Current Affairs |
The Love Parade finally returns to Berlin
After two years of political struggles and financial problems, The Love Parade has a new sponsor and is ready to return to Berlin in full force on July 15, 2006... | City Focus |
Berlin Takes Tough Line On Russia
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern over the development of democracy in Russia in an interview released Saturday, taking a cooler stance... | Current Affairs |
Clooney, Farrell films to show in Berlin
The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first seven films in the running for its Golden and Silver Bears awards in February along with two US. films that wil... | Art and Culture |
No Christmas Trees For Berlin Prisoners
Berlin, Germany (AHN) - Berlin's highest court ruled Monday that convicts cannot have Christmas trees in their cells out of concern that they may use them to sm... | Comment |
Germany awards Mohammed Ali
BERLIN Dec 17, 2005 — Muhammad Ali is being honored with a prestigious German peace prize for his work with in the civil rights movement and for the Unite... | Comment |
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