ONLY BE BERLINER
Only-Be Berliner
Lala Berlin
Lala Berlin offers its own designs in its shop in Berlin and also on the Internet.
Sexy-Mamá Berlin
At Sexy-Mama, in its physical and virtual shop, they offer designer clothes for future mothers.
Serpentina Satélite releases a new album in Berlin
Space Rock is a genre which has many aspects and representatives around the globe. From the end of the 60s, this genre hasn´t stopped bringing valuable music which have created legends and a unique and complex musical history in the variety of sounds which float in the air. Bands such as Hawkwind, Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Duul, Spacemen 3, Loop, White Hills, Mugstar, Gnod, The Heads and Farflung are only some of the names who have defined this genre for the last thirty years. Around the world new bands appear, new labels are created and the interest of fans remains decade after decade. One of the most representative South American bands of this genre is Serpentina Satélite. Formed in Lima, Peru, in 2003, this band´s career is already three albums long. The independently edited ´Long Play´ (2004), ´Nothing to Say´ (2008), and the recent ´Mecánica Celeste´ (2010), which came out in London last year thanks to the Rocket Recordings label. The first edition of ´Nothing to Say´ was only available on CD. This 28th of October, the label Trip in Time from Berlin will make it available to all the international crowd in vinyl, especially for collectors and true psych-rock lovers. This is a new opportunity to appreciate this album in a different dimension in terms of format and sound. The album cover has also been re-designed for the LP. ´Nothing to Say´ is an album in which Serpentina Satélite gambles for a much more elaborate sound than the one in its first album. The first song ´Nueva Ola´ is a trip to the purest confines of Krautrock. Guitars and...German Unity Day in Berlin
Every year between the 1st and 3rd of October, the Germans celebrate their reunification with events in Berlin and other cities in the country.
JazzFest Berlin
JazzFest in Berlín is one of the most famous jazz festivals in the world. It takes place at the beginning of November.
Caspar David Friedrich: The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin
There are many persuasive claims which are capable of guiding our steps towards the splendid neoclassic building of Corinthian aspect which is where the Alte Nationalgalerie is in Berlin (http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=17&n=1&r=2). Among others, its own façade of red sandstone, built between 1866 and 1876 according to its design inspired by Schinkel, by the architects Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack, which had to be rebuilt, like the rest of the building, after the damage caused by Allied bombing during the Second World War, and the outstanding presence in its rooms of the ´Mill On The Couleuvre at Pontoise´, the first work by Cezanne which was exhibited in a museum, some splendid paintings by Manet and Degas, its excellent collection of scultpures and, most specially, its romantic painting section, where they shine with their own light, shall we say dark and golden, tumultuous and calm, the seventeen paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (1744-1840), one of the indisputable cult painters of the last two-hundred years, which is exhibited here. Referring to romantic paitning, David D´Angers coined the term ´The Landscape Tragedy´. Friedrich is probably the painter who best illustrates the whole extension and depth of this concept of his time. To understand this tragedy we have to remember that the romantic artist is permanently tormented by the conscience of rift, which characterized modernity like few other things did. A conscience which the conception of the landscape won´t be alienated at all, expressing with tears and an impossible melancholic feeling a nostalgia which is outside all measure for this entirety which, inevitably lost, it felt that it had sometime been a constitutive element of...Spielzeit´europa Berlin
From the second fortnight in October, this classical theatre and dance festival takes place in Berlin with artists who have come from all over the world.
Festival of Lights in Berlin
During the second fortnight in October, Berlin shines with this spectacular festival of lights.
Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie
On the night of August 12 1961, in one of the most secretive missions carried out in history, more than four thousand Soviet troops converted what had been an imaginary dividing line through Berlin into a very real line. The next morning incredulous Berliners, on both sides of the East-West divide, woke up face to face with the wall that was to keep them divided, both politically and physically for the next four decades. During those early days the wall was just a fence, heavily guarded by well-armed soldiers. It was not unknown for these soldiers to escape to the West side themselves. The first one on record was 19 year-old Hans Conrad Schumann who threw away his gun and ran to the other side when his comrades were distracted. He became famous for being the first deserter of the Berlin Wall. The wall was built quickly and efficiently. It soon became an impregnable border, dividing Berlin in two, splitting apart families, lovers and friends. Several gates were fitted to allow entry to authorized military personnel and international ambassadors. Each of these entry points was named after a letter: A (Alpha), B (Bravo) or C (Charlie). In Friedrichstraße was the letter C: Checkpoint Charlie. The name of this gateway was all over the media in October 1961, when Soviet tanks faced off against American tanks, both sides with their fingers on the trigger and about to start World War 3. Although that particular moment of crisis was resolved, there were many more tragedies which occurred around the wall. The documentation centre in Potsdam states that a total of 120 people died. Other sources cite twice...Kunstfabrik Schlot Berlin
Located in the central neighbourhood of Mitte, this old factory is used as a cultural centre and musical events, especially jazz.