Dance of the Vampires Open Day Berlin

March 26, 2012

The original German version of Jim Steinman’s and Michael Kunze’s hit-musical Tanz der Vampire is performing in Berlin right now and the Theater des Westens invited everyone to an open day with a special look behind the scenes. People had the chance to watch a rehearsal, discover the stage or meet the cast.

Interesting but heavily crowded, thousands of people tried to get a look of the interesting areas, while some parts of the theater were completely empty, I also skipped the stage due to a 2h waiting line.

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Echo 2012 – The Purple Carpet

March 22, 2012

The Echo 2012 (Pop Edition), the most important German Music Price, was held today in Berlin and stars like David Guetta, Katy Perry, Shaggy, Shaun Paul, Marilyn Manson or Rammstein together with many other German and International Stars walked the red purple carpet to perform on stage, or just watch the great live award show at the Palais am Funkturm on Berlin’s Fairground.

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Justin Bieber Wax Figure at Madame Tussauds Berlin

March 19, 2012

The Wax Figure of Justin Bieber, the teen sensation, award winning singer and social media king, was unveiled today in Berlin. The figure was created to celebrate Justin’s 18th birthday and is now the newest sensation at Madame Tussauds around the world. I must say that the wax figure looks really amazing, even if I’m not really a fan of him.

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Playstation Vita Launch-Event Berlin

February 21, 2012


Sony’s new Handheld, the PlayStation Vita will be available tomorrow in every store in Germany, but the launch party was held today at Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. People who bought the PS-Vita today, got an extra free Launch-Day-Bundle, which contains a 4GB memory card, blue PS-Vita earbuds and 3 downloadable games (via PSN): Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Little Deviants and WipEout 2048.

The first customer who bought a Vita today, was photographed and interviewed by the local press, after that, all of the about 250 waiting gamers were able to get hands on their very own console.

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Potsdamer Platz – Readings in Yurts

January 16, 2012

The Potsdamer Platz is famous for its events, movie premieres and festivities, but what I saw yesterday was a bit different, 3 big yurts were standing in the middle of the Sony Center, in front of the CineStar Event Cinema. Yurts are portable, bent wood-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by Turkic nomads in the steppes of Central Asia, so it was quite interesting and I wanted to know what’s going on there.

Two of the yurts were closed, the third one had a sign, “Info Yurt”. I went in and was told that the yurts are being used by 35 authors, reading chapters of their books in front of an audience of about 25 people, as part of an event called “Readings in Yurts”. After the reading, they could ask question about the book and the author, probably because there were a lot of students in the audience.

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The Largest Pope Picture of the World

September 22, 2011

While the current Pope is visiting Berlin, the Axel Springer AG (one of the largest multimedia companies in Europe) came up with something special; a 60 meter high poster of Benedict XVI.

The poster shows the front page of the famous German “Newspaper” BILD from April 20th, 2005 (white letters: “WE ARE POPE!”) and hangs on both sides of the Axel Springer building in the middle of Berlin.

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Light Message for Peace – 150 Years Germany – Japan

September 9, 2011

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the relationship between Germany and Japan, light was used to project the word “Peace” in languages from around the world on Berlin’s most representative landmark, the Brandenburg Gate. One program, 2 different Parts, with orchestral music and an amazing art-light-show, enchanted hundreds of visitors for about 30 minutes.

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Magical Open-Air – 125 Years Kurfürstendamm

September 4, 2011

The Kurfürstendamm received a fantastic birthday present, huge helium-filled fairytale creatures designed by the French artists’ group Plasticiens Volants, a fish, sea snakes, dragons, lizards, birds and a gigantic “Happy birthday, Ku’damm” hot air balloon with more than 40 French and Berlin-based artists in costumes or on stilts. From Halensee to Breitscheidplatz, tens of thousands celebrated this special open air theater.

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Great Oberbaum Water Fight

August 28, 2011

Oberbaum-Bridge 2011, a war between two districts, a war between Kreuzberg (Xberg) and Friedrichshain (Fhain), a war with everything you can throw but won’t hurt people. Since 1998, each summer, people of all kinds and all ages meet up at Oberbaum-Bridge Berlin to fight an anarchic battle with rotten fruits, water-bombs and similar harmless objects.

This year’s winner and therefore the new champion of the bridge is Kreuzberg.

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60 years Federal Police Birthday Party

August 21, 2011

Berlin, Pariser Platz, 27°C, a small helicopter is hovering above the Brandenburg Gate, suddenly a group of GSG9 Special Forces is jumping out of the helicopter, attached with a parachute and a smoke flare gun. Thousand of tourists waiting for them to land in the middle of the Pariser Platz right in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

The Berlin Federal Police celebrated its 60th Anniversary yesterday on August 20th 2011, with a big street festival and the GSG9 paratroopers as a special event.

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