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Tax time!

Tax deadline is creeping up on us. And for the 2011 return, it may be May 31, but if you aren't thinking about it by now, you should. We have a few tips for those of you not so familiar with Germany's tax-appeal (and non-appeal).

May 2, 2012 by in Zeitgeist (2 Comments)

Second hand scam

Second hand scam

Ever asked yourself where those boots you scored at your favourite thrift shop came from? The trade in used clothes is second-hand fashion’s ratty little secret, going back to that container down your street.

Jan 31, 2012 by in Features (2 Comments)

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Don't mention the G-word

Death camps, mass executions, starvation and eugenics are all part of the lexicon of horror associated with Germany’s past. But few know they date back to German colonial rule in Namibia, 40 years prior to Auschwitz.

Nov 23, 2011 by in Features (3 Comments)

Going Deutsch

Every year some 100,000 foreigners become Germans, the vast majority driven by economic or political factors. But what about that minority who decide to become German without ‘having to’?

Nov 9, 2011 in Zeitgeist (1 Comments)

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Norbert Röttgen

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Konrad Werner: You have failed me for the last time, Admiral Norbert

Darth Merkel is getting nervous about next year's election – you can tell because she is starting to choke her admirals.

May 18, 2012 by in The Berlin Blog (1 Comments)

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Amok Mama: Don't mention it

So, Jacinta Nandi doesn't want her kid to grow up to be the kind of German who thinks the worst consequence of the Holocaust is that every now and again German tourists in Bournemouth get some schoolkids doing the Hitlergruß at them. Boo-HOO.

May 15, 2012 by in The Berlin Blog (6 Comments)

Euro 2012

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Konrad Werner: Only the corrupt separate sport and politics

Whenever a fat, powerful man says we should "keep sport and politics apart," something stinks of corruption and fascism.

May 4, 2012 by in The Berlin Blog (2 Comments)

Kristina Schröder

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Konrad Werner: The ultimate sicknote

This week, Konrad salutes Kristina Schröder, the woman who has given sheer idleness a moral dimension.

Apr 20, 2012 by in The Berlin Blog (2 Comments)

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Hitler: Volksvillain

Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime suggests that the man who ruined a certain type of moustache was not some charismatic monster but a manmade villain – the product of immense popular support.

Nov 18, 2010 by in What's On

Schneeweiss

It is a sign of the times that traditional German Essen has become as much a type of concept food as any international cuisine.

Apr 1, 2010

Vis à Vis

Let's face it - despite all the talk of gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg, truly good restaurants are few and far between compared to the likes of Savignyplatz.

Apr 1, 2010

Hartmanns

This elegant nook serves up a mouth-watering fusion of European flavours laced with a German sensibility.

Apr 1, 2010

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A display that would have the Kaiser creaming over a bombastic array of oomph, as military bands from all over the world strut their stuff. Also Nov 6.

Porn art provocateur Bruce LaBruce DJs for the third anniversary of the trashiest Sunday in Berlin. Drink, dance, strip, fuck and SQUEAL PIGGY!

A German tour through a Prenzlauer Berg cemetery recently refurbished with funds from the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. Where was the mula invested and why was it so expensive and necessary in restoring this historical memorial? Meet in cafe.

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Designed by students of Berlin's top three universities, the exhibition covers 200 years of student activism and traces Berlin's history – from its Prussian past, through the Nazi years, to unified Berlin after 1990. Free English tour by HISTOX.de

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Mr. Green Deutschland

OUT NOW! JOSCHKA UND HERR FISCHER is a fast-moving portrait of Fischer and 60 years of postwar Germany.

May 19, 2011 by in Film

Retropolis

OUT NOW! Catch the Weimar classic METROPOLIS where it belongs – on the big screen.

May 10, 2011 by in Film (2 Comments)