Barenboim "proud" to lead Berlin anniversary concert

The conductor Daniel Barenboim said Wednesday he felt proud and honoured to be leading an orchestra in Berlin, 20 years after staging a free concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.- 22/10/2009, News

London museum to honor David Chipperfield in first UK retrospective

Form Matters, opening on October 21 at the London Design Museum, will take a new look at architect David Chipperfield's work including his ten-year restoration project of the Neues Museum in Berlin.- 20/10/2009, House & Home

The fall of the Berlin Wall goes up in Los Angeles

The Wall Project, the largest commemoration in the US of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be staged in Los Angeles with segments of the real Berlin Wall along Wilshire Boulevard for public viewing, October 17-November 14.- 17/10/2009, News

The fall of the Berlin Wall goes up in Los Angeles

The Wall Project, the largest commemoration in the US of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will be staged in Los Angeles with segments of the real Berlin Wall along Wilshire Boulevard for public viewing, October 17-November 14.- 15/10/2009, News

Amy in Berlin

Click on the image to launch the gallery - 14/10/2009, Gap Year

Giant puppets attract 1.5 million people in Berlin

(AFP) - More than 1.5 million people watched gigantic puppets parade in the German capital at the weekend as part of celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, organisers said Sunday.- 05/10/2009, New Articles

Mary Dejevsky: Rail chaos puts the brakes on Berliners

It's a good thing for Berliners that the mid-autumn weather has been mostly clement. Cyclists and walkers have taken to the streets and pavements in their thousands, but not entirely for pleasure. An especially crowded route has been the half-mile or so between Tiergarten and Zoological Gardens stations, a wide pathway through the park alongside the zo- 05/10/2009, Mary Dejevsky

The story of the 100m record

Following Usain Bolt's world record run in Berlin yesterday, we take a look at how the record has been whittled down since it was first officially recorded in 1912. - 17/08/2009, Athletics

Spicy sausage that is worthy of a shrine in Berlin

It is Germany's answer to fish and chips, fried pork sausage chopped into slices, drowned in ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder. Buy one at any Berlin kiosk and you will invariably be asked whether you want it served with or without its intestine.- 15/08/2009, News

Slow, smelly and made of plastic – the Trabant gears up for electric comeback

The smoke-belching cars are still affectionately held symbols of communism's abject failure and when the Berlin Wall fell, hundreds of thousands of them put-putted their way through the gaps in the Iron Curtain into the capitalist west.- 14/08/2009, Motoring News

Tony Patterson: German efficiency goes off the rails

This city is normally good at organising big sporting events. The 2004 World Cup and – dare I mention it – the 1936 Olympics were classic examples of Teutonic efficiency. But, in the case of the World Championships in athletics, which is due to be staged in Germany's reunited capital in just over a week's time, Berliners have got themselves in- 06/08/2009, Commentators

Revealed: how Stasi tackled Jackson 'threat'

Germany's Bild newspaper is reporting that a 1988 Michael Jackson concert in West Berlin prompted security concerns for East Germany's secret police. The top-selling newspaper today published a message from the files of the former Stasi. It said East German officials thought the Jackson concert in front of the Reichstag could be used to test th...- 30/07/2009, Europe

Gilberto leaves Tottenham

Brazilian defender Gilberto has left Tottenham after his contract with the club was cancelled by mutual consent. The 33-year-old arrived at Hertha Berlin in January 2008 but struggled to make an impact and only made 10 appearances. Meanwhile, Troy Archibald-Henville has joined Exeter City on loan for six months and Ben Alnwick has moved to Norwi...- 24/07/2009, Premier League

Trabant parade remembers the first crack in Berlin Wall

A procession of restored Trabant cars streamed through a replica of a metal gate this weekend, commemorating the place and time, 20 years ago, when Hungary and Austria opened the first breach in the Iron Curtain and, in former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's words, "took the first brick out of the Berlin Wall". - 29/06/2009, Europe

Berlin Tales, Trans. Lyn Marven

Racy and restless, Berlin is again the city it was before the Nazis imposed conformity and the Allies created division. This haul of 19 vignettes from the 1920s to the present reveals an intriguing continuity . The pre-war insights of Kurt Tucholsky ("If Berliners didn't exist, the telephone would have invented them") are even truer in ...- 26/06/2009, Reviews