Dear friends, this is the Berlin-Newsletter 01/2010 from Sue and Eckart Arns ________________________________________________________________________ My special thanks to all of you who are passing
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We just love it. About our private life
The little movie (3,5 minutes) giving a short overview about my life was broadcasted on February 2nd on TV. To watch it click here or onto the picture: Eckarts Giur (exam in front of
the Beit Din) will definitely be on February 18th, afterwards
he will go to the Mikwe and be a member of our tribe. My special thanks
to our friend Rachel, who is also receiving this newsletter, for sitting
down twice a week with him to teach him Hebrew and the Brachot.
January 27 – Commemoration of the Shoah in Germany While in Israel Yom HaShoah takes place this year on
April 11 (the date changes every year) in Germany the commemoration date
of the Shoah victims has been declared to be on January 27, which is
the liberation anniversary of Auschwitz.
Fashion Week and Bread & Butter The Fashion Week Berlin and fair Bread & Butter took place in Berlin in January and was quite successful. Berlin is becoming more and more a city with quite interesting fashion labels and wonderful Berlinish brands. More than 200.000 visitors came to Berlin to join this great event which took place inside the former Airport Tempelhof and many other locations. The central location for the Fashion Week (sponsored by Mercedes) was a huge tent allocated at the plaza Bebelplatz on top of the memorial to the book burning. Therefore the memorial was to be visited only and when no fashion show was on. Many people protested (as they had done in the years before) against the event taking place on this plaza and finally, Mercedes and the Federal State Government of Berlin gave in and will present the catwalk somewhere else in the years to come.
Olafur Eliasson-Exhibit starting on April 28th Starting on April 28 this great and creative artist
will have an exhibit in Berlin in the Museum Martin Gropius Bau. The
pieces will be specially designed by him for this extraordinary exhibit.
The 60th Berlin Film Festival will have 2 world premieres: "Shutter
Island" from Martin Scorsese with Leonardo di Caprio, Ben Kingsley
and Max von Sydow starring. At the same time also the debut of "The
Ghost Writer" from Roman Polanski with Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall
and Ewan McGregor.
Fritz Lang's masterpiece "Metropolis" (1925/26)
will be presented in the theater "Friedrichstadtpalast" and
simultaneously open air at the Brandenburg Gate. After all 40 copies
of the movie have been lost for decades a rather complete copy (in very
bad condition) of the movie was found in summer 2008 in Buenos Aires
and after its complete restauration will be presented in Berlin. Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger are in Berlin for a couple
of weeks for the shooting of this new movie. Some of the shots being
done in the Studio Babelsberg (near Potsdam) and some open air in Berlin.
The longlasting snow and ice in the city is causing some problems to
the film team, since the rivers are frozen and the streets completely
blocked with ice and snow. George Grosz-Exhibit in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin As one of the founders of Berlin Dada and New Objectivity
Group, Grosz was an convinced Anti-Nazi and left Germany 1932. He taught
at the Art Students League of New York until 1955. Frida Kahlo in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Starting on April 30 until August 9 the Martin-Gropius-Bau
Museum will present an exhibit of this great painter and some of her
art works which had been sort of lost for decades. Besides of the paintings
and drawings a photo-show will be available to the public giving a valuable
insight into her very private life. Queen Luise and her life in 3 different exhibits Queen Luise – a special woman and wife of King
Frederic William III (during the Napoleonic wars) - her 200th death anniversary
is on July 19 this year. Therefore we will have the opportunity to visit
3 different exhibits, one of which seems quite interesting to me at takes
place in Charlottenburg Palace from March 6 – May 31st. Public Competition to commemorate Georg Elser Georg Elser, the resistance fighter who unsuccessfully
tried to kill Hitler in November 1939 in Munich by crafting a bomb and
hiding it in the "Bürgerbräukeller" brewery shall
be commemorated on a very symbolic location: There, where the Hitlers
Reichs-Chancellory once stood, there will be a commemoration to this
couraged man. The competiton is on. We will keep you informed. Konzerts of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra online Yepp – it is true but unfortunately, like everything
in life, not free of charge. But for those among you who love this wonderful
orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle and /or other famous conductors the concerts
can be watched online at http://dch.berliner-philharmoniker.de/#/en/
live in HD Quality and CD-quality sound. Krug Room inside the Restaurant "Ma" Beside the very exclusive Krug Rooms in London (Hotel "The
Dorchester") and Hongkong (Hotel "Mandarin Oriental")
the Berlin Krug Room opened within the Restaurant "Ma" inside
the Adlon Complex.
Well - that's all for today. We send you all our best wishes. Sue and Eckart Arns your Berlin Dream-Team
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