Berlin

Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary Celebrated World Wide

Cheryl Phillips — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:40:46 -0600

Monday, November 9, 2009 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. World leaders will join the crowds as part of Monday's celebrations. The Wall's original path next to the Brandenburg Gate has 1,000 giant painted dominoes have been set up that will be toppled on Monday evening in the presence of visiting leaders from Britain, France and Russia, in a symbolic re-enactment of the day the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago.

Berlin Museum On Tour

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:47:13 -0600

The Jewish Museum Berlin will be back "on.tour" from 19 January 2009. The Tour 2009 will begin at a school in Berlin's district of Neukolln and continue on to three further schools in Berlin. Guides with both thematic and didactic training will be aboard the touring bus with a mobile exhibition and a workshop in their luggage, visiting 46 secondary schools in nine federal states.

Obama Berlin Speech At Victory Column

Armen Hareyan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:01:23 -0500

Barack Obama's Berlin Speach at the Victory Column started at 1PM Eastern Standard Time. Here are the highlights of Obama's Berlin Speach that gathered an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 visitors.

Jewish Museum Opens Cultural Summer Program

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:53:30 -0500

"Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra" Present "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - Jews in Jazz"There are but a few who don't know the song "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," but not many are aware of the significant role Jewish musicians and composers played in the emergence of jazz – not only in America, but also in Germany and the former Soviet Union.

Jewish Museum Opens A Special Exhibition

ruzik_tuzik — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:47:46 -0500

The exhibition "typical! Clichés of Jews and Others" which opens on 19 March takes visitors on a journey into the world of over-simplified images and notions. It shows works of art, junk, photos, and film clips and raises the question of how popcult objects, bric-a-brac, and historical collectors' pieces spread stereotypical messages.

Chinese, German FMs meet in Berlin

seher — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:18:07 -0600

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier held a bilateral meeting in Berlin on Tuesday morning, which Steinmeier said was "a positive signal" to Chinese-German relations.

Briefing En route Berlin, Germany

seher — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:52:49 -0600

SECRETARY RICE: Why don't we just start with your questions. Sue. QUESTION: Do you think that you're going to get a resolution today? Do you think that you're going to be (inaudible)?

Chinese, German FMs to meet on bilateral ties

seher — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:10:15 -0600

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier are scheduled to meet in Berlin Tuesday, Chinese diplomats said in Berlin Monday.

Program For Kids And Teens At Jewish Museum

ruzik_tuzik — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:23:36 -0600

There will be no time for boredom during the winter vacation at the Jewish Museum Berlin! Visitors great and small will learn more about Jewish festivals, religious rituals and the Hebrew alphabet on the family tour "Jewish Life, Jewish Traditions."

Jewish Museum Exhibits 'Dateline Israel'

ruzik_tuzik — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:09:54 -0600

May 2008 is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel – marking a major event not only for history, but also for the media. The young state has been accompanied by photographers and filmmakers from the very hour of its birth, who left their mark on the perceptions of people all over the world.

Jewish Museum Opens The Hanukkah Market

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:04:43 -0600

The festive Hanukkah Market at the Jewish Museum Berlin will be opened with words of welcome by Ingeborg Junge-Reyer, mayor of Berlin, on Sunday 2 December 2007 at 2 pm - this year for the first time in the new Glass Courtyard designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind.

Joanne Gläsel To Perform At Jewish Museum

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:17:08 -0500

The actress Joanne Gläsel, known for her role as Superintendent Eva Klaussner in the German television series "Der Ermittler" (nominated for the Bambi Award in 2002), and the director Soogi Kang were inspired by Charlotte Salomon's life and her colorful, expressive gouaches to produce a theatrical performance which will have its première at the Jewish Museum Berlin on Saturday 1 September.