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...This week’s “Berliner Salon” hosted by the German ambassador to the UK and his wife did not lack imagination or ambition....
...Fearing a Red takeover of all Germany, the western allies improvised an airlift for Berliners stranded in the eastern sector....
...Ian Shuttleworth is an FT theatre critic Go here for a list of devices on which this content is available....
...revelation was Die Borderline Prozession, staged by Kay Voges, Dirk Baumann and Alexander Kerlin for Schauspiel Dortmund and presented here (unlike most of the productions, which are in the premises of the Berliner...
...For two weeks each May, under the principal aegis of the Berliner Festspiele, the 10 “most notable productions” of the past 12 months in the German-speaking world are invited to perform in Berlin theatres...
...berliner-ensemble.de...
...So, for instance, it is seen as a bad thing to fine Berliners up to €100,000 for renting out their homes on Airbnb....
...The Berliner presses make it difficult for The Guardian to share print sites with other titles, as newspaper sales decline....
...They note the expansive instincts of Mr Rusbridger, who pioneered the newspaper’s £80m switch to a Berliner format in 2005 that left The Guardian unable to share print sites with another paper....
...However, as a sometime Berliner, I have to say the urge to obey is much attenuated; I’ve even, once in a while, seen someone cross an empty late-night street when the little Ampelmann on the crossing light...
...Hitler’s crimes are still vivid to us, and so the actors, Ian Hart as Hitler and Ed Stoppard as Hans Litten, did their earnest best....
...It is no accident that by the end of the evening, the words “freedom and democracy” sound utterly hollow. () www.berliner-ensemble.de...
...It has a certain allure to it that is hard to describe,” comments Mr Berliner. “Yet the most successful retailer in the world is Walmart.”...
...The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories....
...to emphasise the continuity rather than the rupture that was represented by John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and the plays of Bertholt Brecht performed during the Berliner...
...The show is inspired by Alain Berliner’s 1997 film about a young boy who wants to be a girl....
...Van Badham and Jonny Berliner’s Cash In Christ! is a mock-evangelical rally....
...Food is the focus of Irish duo Ian Walton and Eoin McNally’s Cultivate System, an indoor vegetable-growing apparatus created as part of the Kitchens of the Future project sponsored by the German domestic...
...This was one of only four performances here of Claus Peymann’s magnificent 2001 Berliner Ensemble production of Richard II....
...The contrast is with Max, who metamorphoses from flamboyant Berliner gay-about-town to someone who will deny everything for survival, even telling of how he raped a teenage girl in order to “prove” his heterosexuality...
...Kennedy’s solidarity with the Berliners, for example, in 1963: “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin....
...Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh The Berliner Ensemble was for decades associated intimately with the work of Bertolt Brecht....
...Ian Buruma is professor of human rights, democracy and journalism at Bard College, New York....
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