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Temples of Drama and Music

21/02/2020 3 Comments

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The Fantastic Futurium

21/10/2019 No Comments

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Berlin’s Green Heart

02/09/2019 No Comments

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City Centre Sights

Making a Grand Entrance

19/07/2019 1 Comment

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Café Society

Berlin Blast

23/05/2019 1 Comment

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Saturday NoonSong

29/03/2019 No Comments

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Tag: Politics

A Museum for Our Times

27/03/2023 4 Comments History and Politics History

War is raging in Europe again and we feel helpless in the face of such terrible loss of life and devastation. Berlin has scores of ...

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Charlotte’s Amazing House of Treasures

10/03/2022 No Comments Cool Collections History and Politics The Outer Edges Art

The Gründerzeitmuseum, tucked away in Mahlsdorf on the eastern edge of Berlin, is home to a unique collection of furniture, antiques and curios. Its name ...

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Berlin Global

14/12/2021 No Comments Cool Collections City Sights

“Only Connect” “Only connect and both shall be exalted” is the essence of the Humboldt Forum. When E.M.Forster famously used these words he was linking ...

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The Ku’damm’s grandest café

12/06/2018 1 Comment Café Society History and Politics Cafés

The long, grand boulevard of the Kurfürstendamm, referred to by Berliners as the Ku’damm, dates back to 1542 and takes its name from the Kurfürsten ...

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Meander through Moabit

18/05/2018 1 Comment History and Politics Small Worlds History

Surrounded by waterways, Moabit is a diverse neighbourhood to the north of the Tiergarten and the Reichstag. Barely off the main tourist track, it has ...

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Fontane’s Berlin

02/01/2018 3 Comments Books about Berlin City Centre Sights History and Politics Books

The emergence of Prussia as the dominant power in the new nation of Germany had a profound effect on 20th Century Europe. This first blog of ...

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Checkpoint Charlie Then and Now

28/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

What’s in a name? In the case of Checkpoint Charlie, with its personification of a notorious border crossing at the Berlin Wall, it immediately conjures ...

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The Berlin Wall Revisited

09/11/2017 No Comments City Centre Sights History and Politics City Sights

The Berlin Wall Revisited – Today, 9th November 2017, is the 28th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin has now been reunited ...

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New Eastside Berlin Wall Museum

30/10/2017 No Comments Cool Collections History and Politics History

The New Eastside Berlin Wall Museum – The Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years from 1961 until 1989. In 2017, 28 years since its ...

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Russian Berlin

04/10/2017 No Comments Café Society History and Politics Cafés

Russian Berlin – Berlin’s relationship with Russia is unique. There are now an estimated 300,000 Russians living in the German capital, many of them Russian-Germans ...

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