“Hi, am Conny Rudat. I was your interpreter at your first concert in East Berlin on March 7th in 1988.” “So I heard”, was Andrew Fletcher’s terse reply when I met him for a quick chat before Depeche Mode’s "Sounds of Universe" gig in Berlin’s grand ...
The closer we get to November 9th, the more events, exhibitions, documentaries, books and panel debates remind us of the upcoming 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. One richly anticipated event was the debut of “24h Berlin”, a day-long ...
Need a waltz partner? Hankering to do the jitterbug? Why not hire yourself a "taxi dancer"? Cornelia Rudat reports on the revival of a long-lost service in Berlin ... It all began in a glamorous vintage ballroom in early April. I tagged along with some ...
When German friends saw Mel Brooks’s famous slapstick musical some years ago in London, they found it extremely amusing but rued that it would never come to Germany. “The Germans came off so badly,” they explained. The German version of "The Producers" ...
Can it be true? Is it nearly 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall came down, wiping the East Germany of my youth from the world map? Playwrights and film-makers are providing us with plenty of memorials to 1989--unforgettable, especially to those of us ...
Amadeus himself would have loved it. Christoph Hagel relocated "The Magic Flute", Mozart's most famous opera, in a Berlin underground station. He removed the renowned work from the daunting environs of an opera house and delivered it to the ...
Alas, Berlin's annual international film festival is over. Some 400 movies and documentaries from all over the world lured around 200,000 visitors to screenings from February 7th until the 17th. And the 58th annual Berlinale enjoyed more glamour and ...
Cormac McCarthy: The Road I hate it, I'm horrified by every page of it, there is nothing here to enjoy, and I cannot put it down. A truly great and horribly depressing book about human extinction. Martin Amis: House of Meetings An inspiring stylistic ...
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