It’s quite a Berlin style story – in many ways: Berlin tourists are one part of that story, the financial situation of the city and the financial support for cultural institution (“the free art scene”) is the other detail of it, Berlins mayor Klaus Wowereit plays a major role – and (very typical for Berlin) […]
The probably most famous Berlin department store KaDeWe is about to change its owner – again. Together with Hamburgs department store Alsterhaus and Munichs Oberpollinger as well as the sports shops of the Karstadt group the department store is sold to an investor from Austria. The previous owner/ investor Berggruen is selling these houses to […]
Today Berlin media reported again some ‘news’ about the new Berlin airport – or actually about processes that some fine day could turn the current mess into a functioning airport some fine day. If you ask Mr. Mehdorn that fine day could already come March 2014. But… At least in October 2013 we can probably […]
The mayor of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Monika Herrmann is currently loudly thinking and talking about installing Coffee Shops to undermine the local *soft drug business*. Finally!! And skyscrapers are back: US-American investor Hines is planning to build a high rise building at Alexanderplatz. The tower would reach 150m in height, that’s about 50m beneath the visitor platform […]
Oh no! The venue Festsaal Kreuzberg is no more. Last night the venue burnt down to the ground, despite great efforts of the Berlin fire fighters that tried their best For over nine years the venue hosted a great number of concerts, parties, marriages, readings, performances of all kind. The Festsaal’s calender lists upcoming events […]
On June 26th, 1963 the president of the United States of America John F. Kennedy held his historic speach at Schöneberger Rathaus in West-Berlin and said the historic phrase “Ich bin ein Berliner!”. And my mom was there too. Does that make me a Berliner? What makes you a Berliner? Are you a Berliner? How […]
Congratulations: 200000 signatures were needed, but in the end over 260000 people signed the petition. That means that the petition is a success and now further steps towards a community-owned energy supply can follow… I’m looking forward to this new step towards a community-owned infrastructure. First Berlin water supply got back into public hand, now […]
setting: me entering the local super market, catching a bike from from falling. a woman approaches me… me: wasn’t me! woman:: oh, great, thank you! By the way: have you signed the petition? me: what petition? woman: THE petition! me: ahm – i signed some petition.. woman: what petition? me: various petitions.. What’s your petition […]