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hello@zgberlin.comBy Jonathan Freedland
One of the few foreign policy achievements of the Bush administration has been the creation of a near consensus among those who study international affairs, a shared view that stretches, however improbably, from Noam Chomsky to Brent Scowcroft, from the antiwar protesters on the streets of San Francisco to the well-upholstered office of former secretary of state James Baker. This new consensus holds that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a calamity, read more...
Jason, photo by Kristijan Trummer
by Mike Riemel
So here it is, the roundup of the G8 after a 3 days visit in Rostok on the days of 'the War' and later and after all the unbelievable media BS. Which is difficult, as a lot of details and experience add up to my conclusions. The fact again (like in Genua) 'agents provocateurs' from the police dressed as 'black block' were used, shows the level of scam you need to be aware of.
1, G8 07 was the biggest raid and mapping project on the left movement in Germany.
2, Greenpeace has cool boats, the police borrows them from sweden and Attac borrows nutshells. read more...
There have been a number of times when I've been walking around Berlin and run into something that makes me say "Wha'?"
Here's one of them. It comes from a playground near my house on a street that doesn't get much traffic.
Now, don't get me wrong. I absolutely love the playgrounds in Germany and particularly in what was formerly East Berlin. read more...
Contributed by Josh Ward http://zisgermanlife.typepad.com/
photos by Gabriel Brioga
By Till-Ted World
The G-8 summit in Heiligendamn promised to be the event of the year for Berlin's huge alternative community, a perfect place to revel in four favorite pastimes, the three P's and an A--politics, protest, party and art.
For German anarchists, known locally as anarchos, the meeting in a Baltic sea resort just two hours from Berlin was far more important. read more...
The birth rate in Germany dwindled in 2006 to its lowest rate since 1946, according to the Federal Office of Statistics. 673,000 babies were born, a drop of 1.6 percent from the previous year. In comparison, 822,000 people died--149,000 more than those starting their journey through life--dropping Germany's population to 82.32 million humans.
Berlin, as usual, hasn't followed the lead of the rest of Germany. read more...
Art by Clara Fialho http://www.clarafialho.com
Jens Jessen on Berlin, the urban insult to Germany's faith in hard work
Eds: Note: This article was a response to last year's decision by Germany's highest court that the heavily-in-debt capital wasn't entitled to any financial help--instead the city could save money by cutting its huge budget for culture. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit fmously retorted, "Berlin is poor but sexy."
It will be tough to forget that spiteful grin with which the rest of West Germany reacted to Berlin's defeat in the Constitutional Court. No money for the parasitic capital! That was good news. No money for the con-artist who took the government away from Bonn. No money for the happy-go-lucky that bask in the brilliance of operas, museums, theatres and public debate, none of which he can afford. read more...
Interview with Chris Cummingham
I think the driving point is everybody watches porn but no one knows any one that has contact to the actual production of it. The question as to who is involved is easily answered, everybody. It's your neighbor, the girl working in the cell phone store, someone attending university, make up the list yourself. I met them. I had a brain surgeon working for me that was like an Abteilungsleiter (department head) at the Charite (one of Berlin and Germany's most famous hospitals). I find it interesting that he wore a mask...read more...
By Till-Ted World
Berlin likes to believe it is the measure of all things in Germany and sometimes anywhere else when it comes to cities, but the metropolis on the Spree River once again is a huge disappointment--the crime here is a scandal.
Interior minister Wolfgang Schaueble released the 2006 statistics for Germany and Berlin was third in crimes registered behind Frankfurt and Hannover, two forgettable places. Frankfurt registered 17.57 crimes per 100,000 residents, Hannover 15.69 and Berlin lagged at 15.030.
Crime dropped 2.4 percent in the capital, and hopes are dwindling that Berlin can ever measure up to real world cities like New York, Paris, London. read more...
By Alain A-Dale
It is vitally important that we all realize this and move on. People (eg Bloggers) go on and on about how wonderful it is. About how much information is out there in cyberspace. About the way that everything is within reach in just a few clicks of their mice. For instance:
If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. read more...
Lee Iacocca, former Manager at Ford and builder of Chryslers before the German Invasion, grabs the Wheel and takes dead-on aim at George W Bush.The 82 year old automotive Detroit denizen is mad as hell... can you blame him?
The Test of a Leader I've never been Commander in Chief, but I've been a CEO. I understand a few things about leadership at the top. I've figured out nine points — not ten (I don't want people accusing me of thinking I'm Moses). I call them the "Nine Cs of Leadership." They're not fancy or complicated. read more...
By Mike Riemel
So there is the new arisen economy. Back from the cellar it seems people are back in the buying mood. Media says. SO if this is true or if you are bringing in the energy (money) as a tourist in the city you should make sure to buy the right things at the right places to support the local dealers and NOT go to Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann or just chain stores. Eat what the locals eat. And the places are there - spread all over the city sometimes difficult to find but - believe me - worth a look as there you can find the sweets that were produced here in the laboratory.
So again I'll start with Mitte as that's where the diversity is probably the highest. At least in terms of shopping. Let's start the stroll read more...
In a speech delivered at the Berlin conference "A Soul for Europe," German filmmaker Wim Wenders says Europeans must believe in the power of their own imagery
One has the impression that Europe is a wreck, fucked, "foutue", if you think back to the constitution disaster, reflect on Europe's actual political influence or on the lack of enthusiasm shown by its citizens for "the European Cause" in recent times. "The Europeans" have had it up to here with Europe...read more...
In the near future, one of Berlin eternal riddles could be answered: Where can you get some decent Chinese food? Technically the only correct answer will remain "nowhere, shut up and eat your currywurst." But only if Oranienburg--a city a few miles north of the capital--is ruled out by a strict definition of geographical terms.
Two engineers out of Frankfurt, with two Chinese partners, have submitted plans to build a 2,500 resident Chinatown on an abandoned Russian landing strip in the city of 40,000... read more...
Eds note: In his first part Berlin Art, longtime Berlin veteran artist and musician Manuel Bonik looked at how many artists in the city soured on the scene as the 90s art boom failed to deliver financially, then went home to get real jobs.
By Manuel Bonik
The rest stayed here and continued to occupy themselves with art. That has made the situation an odd mixture of consolidation and a new form of crisis that exists only because after a decade of a mood of breaking out and starting something new, there is now something to lose and the discovery was made that it really could be lost. Evaluation cycles can be both manic and depressing.
Left behind is an attitude of artists, and not just Berliners, that grew up in what can only be recognized in hindsight as the city's boom years. read more...
(also the best shops to buy hot vinyl)
Berlin Fashion District, Riemel Photo 
By Mike Riemel
The temperature is rising in the city and it's not coming up from minus 20°Celsius this year. So where's the beef in these April days? The interesting turf Berlin is known for? The reason for millions of tourists and pubcrawlers to flood and squat the streets.
If you go deeper than the major clubs, the hotspots like Hackescher Markt or the institutions like Hamburger Bahnhof or Kunstwerke, you will notice that the multicolored "underground" is suffering through several phenomenon: A massive wave of investment means (East) Berlin no longer looks like Prague in the nineties, and the mostly newly arrived inhabitants of those pretty (and expensive) buildings are quite nervous about sounds--the sounds of the music city and its mostly young guests.
So there are no more clubs in Mitte or Prenzlauer not suffering from a plague called neighbors. There are almost no more clubs (at least compared to the city's roaring nineties). Fact. The image of galleries as the driving force behind gentrification (it should also be ateliers where artists live and work by the way) is proven right... read more...
No, it doesn't have to one of those warm and magical Berlin evenings on the Eastern Comfort ship, but they rank among the best times at the International Party--evenings when the sun is reluctant to say goodbye too and sticks around until 10 at night.
But whether summer-kissed or wintry dark, up to 100 people from across the world gather on Wednesdays at the ship parked near Oberbaumbruecke in Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain for what may be Berlin's biggest privately run international party.
Beer and wine flow and conversation and laughter floats out across the Spree River. It truly is an easy place to meet and mingle. read more...
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Club Scene ZGBerlin Club Tips
ZG Shorts Hauptbahnhof leaves passengers in rain
Berlin Myths True or false facts about the city?
M.A.CU.M.B.A BERLIN PARTY ZURÜCK AUS DER KREATIVPAUSE
M.A.CU.M.B.A BERLIN PARTY
EVENTS BOOKING in ACUD KUNSTVEREIN 2007
JUN 24 M.A.CU.M.B.A BERLIN PARTY SUNSPLASH BOB MARLEY TRIBUTE JUL 01 ANNUL CANCEL OFF read more...
Exhibition ...then we take berlin. part 1
Opening Friday June 1st 18:00 1st June - 23 June 2007; wed-thurs 16-19h, fri 16-21h, sat 14-18h.
an exhibition of 3 contemporary Swiss Artists: Patricia Bucher, Tatjana Marusic (image above), Loredana Sperini
substitute
torstrasse 159,
http://www.substitut-berlin.ch
HACKmit! Exhibition Medien und Kunst zum Leben (Media and Art to Live)
1st May - 26th August 2007, MACHmit! Museum, Berlin, Germany Opening: 1st May, 11 am, Free entrance The HACK MIT! event at MACHmit! Museum fuer Kinder (www.machmitmuseum.de) is an exhibition and event about art and new media, with a particular focus on the concept of hacking. read more...
In the last five weeks of spring, some befriended Berliner artists are showing their latest works. This group has no name, follows no manifesto, their work is unrelated, and their association with one another is purely random. read more...
Kristijan Trummer, Postcards
