Berlin is not a city that tries to hard to seem what is not. Is unfiltered. Do you agree? This year I found myself thinking about the contrast between the raw edges of Berlin and the joy of cultural moments in elegant halls. So many contradictions in modern cities and classical art, and if you find it also confusing – you are not alone.
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Thoughts from the road (literally), looking back at lessons and highlights of 2024 from sports and corporate work, family and travel, the ups and downs. A year that felt like a pilgrimage in 9 countries. With both cities and nature as inspiration in an extension of a complex life.
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The light goes out, people take their seat and the silence settles down, before the play starts. My notes from Berlin, after I spend the month of March in the theater world, described in an amateurish way also in my last London story.
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Maybe this sounds familiar, but the year ended with many beautiful German Weihnachtsmärkte and sparkling decorations in Berlin, as a tradition, in anticipation of Christmas. Not just like the movie.
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Berlin mix of the week. This edition is about an exhibition from Vienna, Berlin Fashion Week, a nomad at home, art after work, one island and 5 museums.
One of my favorite and the first place I recommend to anyone heading to Berlin is this Museum island, located in historic Mitte, in the heart of the city. Every. Single. Time.
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One of the biggest public international film festivals in the world. That special time of the year if you are a Berliner and movie enthusiast, as special as the history of this city. To attend again last week the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, for a 4th year in a row, was a great joy.
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I started thinking at my life so far when I was in the Naturkunde Museum, during Berlin Science Week, while surrounded by children (and dinosaurs). Growing up, I did not had the opportunity to attend this type of events.
This November, Berlin Science Week was a 10 days international festival with innovative scientific organizations, a different type of travel experience, and most important, a reminder to stay curios and optimistic.
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KulturForum in Berlin. We need to talk! – German with Art. Wir müssen reden! – Deutsch mit Kunst. Learning in Berlin art museums, or what I do in my free time in order to improve my German.
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There is joy in discovering the musical diversity in Berlin, a city with no shortage of events, from clasical to techno. In concert buildings with stunning architecture and acoustics. This January I finally attended a concert at Philharmonie. Later, during Schubert Week at Pierre Boulez Saal, the conductor Thomas Hampson wished us to enjoy the music, because after all, we are in Berlin, one of the most incredible cities in the world.
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Berlin is not short of ways to enjoy the warmer months, in both Spring and Summer. Oldest beer garden and open air cinema. Museum and galleries, lakes and rooftops, bookshops and icecream.
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Kreuzberg and Neukölln neighborhoods were like a puzzle. East-meets-West aesthetics. Unconventional, different, yet still Berlin. Contrasting parts of the city, most tolerant, and in the same time, surprisingly traditional, both part of former West Berlin.
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Going East to start the party. Friedrichshain is an eclectic mix of alternative places, street art, pieces of Berlin history and lively squares. A little rough around the edges. The place of the iconic East Side Gallery, the destination for techno club culture, but also home to Berliners and filming location for the Queen’s Gambit.
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Exploring the old Berlin in Charlottenburg. A walk in this area is like a return to the Belle Epoque period. Is both cool and stylish part of former West Berlin, located near Tiergarden park, you can combine Palace or museum visits with vintage shopping.
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Berlin has “Unter den Linden” and the central historical boulevard feels as an old postcard. The name comes from the linden trees that lined the boulevard. From the Brandenburg Gate until the Museum Island and Berliner Dom, passing by the Komische Oper, Neue Wache, Bebelplatz, Staatsoper, and soon, Humboldt Forum (reconstructed Berlin Palace).
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An event that started in Paris is now almost everywhere in the world. Every year, in spring, around the 18th of May is celebrated the International Museums day. Galleries and more other cultural places join every year the “Long Night of the Museums”.
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The diversity of Berlin Mitte mirrors the diversity of the city. When I moved here, I discovered the city by neighborhoods. After Tiergarten, now I wrote down some moments spend in Mitte, considered today the city downtown, but for almost 30 years was divided between East and West.
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Starting a districts round, as Berlin is divided in 12 administrative districts, each of those with many neighborhoods. Tiergarten is a huge urban park that is part of neighborhood Mitte (Middle). Used to belong to West Berlin before the Reunification. The former royal park is now open to the public and is a great connection from the West part to the center.
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Alongside Cannes and Venice, Berlin is the platform of one of the biggest public international film festivals in the world. For a movie enthusiast, living in a city with many classic arthouse cinemas, was a joy to celebrate in February 2020 the 70th Berlinale International Film Festival.
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