Posted in Berlin on Aug 8th, 2011
A deluxe exhibition is what’s taking place until August 29th in the Bauhaus Archives in Berlin on the photographic work of Albert Renger-Patzsch, based on images of the Fagus factory. The exhibition is titled The Modern Eye, and it’s looking to outline the aesthetic concept crafted by the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius as well as [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Aug 4th, 2011
Between the 12th and the 18th of August, Berlin will be the stage of a new version of Dance in August, where the best musical and dance performers get together in all their expressions. This summer festival is considered the most important event in Europe with the expressive art that is dance, therefore many fans [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Jul 22nd, 2011
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, better known as Bertolt Brecht, was born in a wealthy bourgeois family in Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1898. The son of a catholic father and protestant mother, he’s one of the most important German playwrights and poets of the 20th century, aside from the creator of the epic theatre, He was known [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Jul 18th, 2011
The history of the world’s most famous modern art school is housed in the archives of the building designed by Walter Gropius in Berlin. It’s the Bauhaus School, that institution that renovated the concepts on architecture, art and design, revolutionizing generations that today consider it the precursor of all modern design. It’s name, Bauhaus, is [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Jul 6th, 2011
From the different attitudes and points of view as writers and as individuals, Agatha Christie and in Samuel Beckett gave us an accurate testimony from the account of their reaction when they contemplated the fascinating and strange sculptures of the Mesopotamian mythology at a museum in Berlin (deities, disturbing bird-scorpion men, birds, sphinxes, griffins, …). [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Jun 22nd, 2011
W.G Sebald, (Wertach im Allgäu, Baviera, 1944) who died tragically and prematurely death in December 2001 in a car accident in England, where he had lived and taught at European Literature at the University of East Anglia since 1970, was probably one of the most fascinating European writers of the second half of the 20th [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Mar 29th, 2011
The Block Parties in New York of the 1970s, were a way for the inhabitants of the city’s Latino and African-American communities listen to some good music and have a bit of fun – as many of the clubs and bars would refuse them entrance. From this search for a space to have a good [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Mar 14th, 2011
The Neues Museum http://www.neues-museum.de/index.php?lang=en is an nineteenth century architectural gem designed by German Friedrich August Stüler who, despite the deep damage suffered as a result of indiscriminate and perhaps excessively silenced allied bombing during the Second War World reopened its doors in 2009 after careful restoration led by the British architect David Chipperfield. Located on [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Feb 16th, 2011
Would you dare to try it? In the midst of a night of passion, during the next position-change, would you let your girlfriend apply you with lubricant and slip a cheeky finger between the buttocks? The male G spot is located about 7cm inside the anus, and stimulating it can bring on the strongest of [...]
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Posted in Berlin on Feb 3rd, 2011
If a filmmaker is worth remembering, it is Ingmar Bergman, and it is now, 3 years after his death, that the international film festival in Berlin, the Berlinale, devotes him a retrospective. Stockholm-born director debuted in 1946 with the film Crisis, and since then he remained active almost until his death in 2007. Throughout his [...]
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