Qi

Have you ever heard of Qi ???
No? But I am sure you have at least seen this image before, right?

Experience a combination of colours, costumes and fabulous music on the world’s biggest theatre stage! It’s simply unimaginable great!

Everybody, who went there was just impressed by a world-class show of superlatives at an unbelievable tempo. Enchanting female and male bodies, thrilling dance and ballet numbers, high-powered music and incredible artistic feats combined with an extravaganza of haute-couture costumes and sumptuous stage designs. It is pure show entertainment.

If you are not interested now, I can’t help you. If yes I can:

When?
e.g. 2 July 2009, 7.30pm

Where?
Friedrichstadtpalast
Friedrichstraße 107
10117 Berlin

To get tickets click here.
Worldwide, you only experience show entertainment like this – with more than 100 artists on stage – at Friedrichstadtpalast. This show is a highlight for all Berliners and a must for all visitors to Berlin.

The Reader

I just found out, that the brilliant movie ” The Reader” is still going in quite a lot of cinemas in Berlin, so in case you still didn’t watch that one, I advise you to watch it soon:

As the 15 year old student Michael has a Blackout, the train porter Hanna is helping him. After his convalenscence Michael develops a passion for her and reads out to her regulary-until she leaves traceless. Many years later Michael meets Hanna again: She appears in court, where she is confronted with her dark past. His still shows sympathy for her.

Have a look at the official Trailer:

The film is made after the international successful novel written by Bernhard Schlinks.
I was very touched by the film and I was impressed by this well actored movie. The main actors are:
Kate Winslet as Hanna
David Kross as the young Michael
Ralph Finnes as the old Michael
To find out more about that film or any other film going in the cinema click here.

Berlin Philhamonic orchestra

This seasons taditional last concert by Berlins philhamonic Orchestra shouldn’t miss anyone. It is gonna be an open air highlight, which will be, in that I am sure, unforgettable. The Beginning is this year the conductor himself: Simon Rattle with his piano accompanist Yefim Bronfman.

The Program, he chose for this event, is a diligent selected mixture of a sophisticated and popular creation. Starting with pieces out of Peter Tschaikowskys Ballett The Nutcracker (Overture plus 1st Scene and March from Act 1) leading over to the beautiful ductile, tecnically very sophisticated Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor by Sergej Rachmaninow and ending with Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Strawinsky.

Even if you are not too fond of classical music, I am sure you will like it due to the whole atmosphere, which going to lead this evening.

When?
21 June 2009, 8.15 pm

Where?
Waldbühne Berlin
Glockenturmstr. 1
14053 Berlin

It is going to be amazing, especially because the weather forcast is great for Sunday!!!

Here you can see a part of the great concert. Although it was raining it was just amazing and touching:

City of future

Didn’t you, as child, also, loved building sand castles at the beach???

For the older ones it is a relaxing paradise and an appreciation of facinating art, for the little ones it is a highlight and pleasure to build castles over and over again. It is the summerevent of Berlin 2009, a real…

…SANDSATION!!!

The Sandsation attracts with paradisiacal art out of sand, colourful Program, a nice beach bar, sand-workshops and a really beautiful location next to the river Spree.

This sand exhibition is called „City Of Future“ and shows 30 of the best sculpture artists, who come from all over the world to Berlin to enchant this little place in front of Berlin’s mainstation…this might sound a little exaggerated but i myself had the chance to see it last year and i was really impressed by these amazing sandbuildings!

You should visit it yourself, the exhibition already started, so you can go there straight away and admire real art:

When?
7 June – 30 August 2009
every day open from 9am – 8pm

Where?
Sandsation GmbH
Hauptbahnhof (Lehrter Bahnhof)
10557 Berlin‎

Eperience a real Sandsation in Berlin’s Summer of 2009.

Yet another concert

They are young, they are promising and they are damn talented:
Let me present to you:

LE MAJA CACH

This great band is soon going on tour, starting in Munich, rocking Hamburg and ending in Berlin!!!

I have been to their last concert in Berlin. Without having any expectations nor intentions, in the end I was so impressed by those talents that today I want to recommend the coming concert warmthly to you. These guys are playing amazing music.

To get a little taste of the music they play click here.

You want to convince yourself life of this greatness?

When?
14 June 2009, 7 pm

Where?
ZOSCH
Tucholskystrasse 30
10115 Berlin

You shouldn’t miss a really great concert. I can promise you you won’t regret it.

Peter Fox Concert

“The greatest Privilege in my job is having the possibility to work day by day together with people, who happen to be creative”

Peter Fox

Peter Fox originally never wanted to publish a soloalbum but always wanted to produce an album for another voice. Well, but after his workmade Cee-Lo left to start a new project Peter himself started to sing, because he simply needed a voice.

He wanted to create his individual and own sound and he made it with a whole orchestra, he established own melodies and string-riffs. He searched for groups of good stringplayers, as well as blowergroups.
Peter worked together with his Co-songwriter Monk, whom he fully trusted. They worked on the texts over a year until he was satisfied. In the end we see the work was definitly worth it: his album ” Stadtaffe” is amazing…

Me and some of my friends are lucky and got tickets for the coming concert of Peter Fox and the Cold Steel Drumline in Berlin:

When?
12 June 2009, 7 pm
13 June 2009, 7 pm
25 August 2009, 7 pm

Where?
Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide
An der Wuhlheide 187
12459 Berlin

Maybe you are lucky and still get a ticket too, to buy one online click here.

I just wanted to tell you a little bit about the concert, where we went, on the 13 June. It was as I guessed, just amazing. I was really impressed by the Wuhlheide, I wasn’t expecting a real tribune with appropriate seats. Here you can see some pictures of us enjoying the night:

As you can see, it was worth it. Think about it, you can still go to one of his coming concerts…even if you don’t get tickets online anymore, there are always people selling their tickets at the S-Bahn station Wuhlheide.

Cream Contemporary

Since one year my friend works in a gallery, called ” Cream Contemporary” and once every while they have exhibitions, which I, so far, always really liked. That is why I want to recommend you the coming exhibition RINGEN.

It shows ten unusual works of international contemporary art, which are based on different forms of self confrontation and confrontation with the world. The artists explore the complex problems of an individual and social contextualisation from diverse angles. All the while adjoining the elementary physical experience of being in the world.

by Miguel Angel Rios
There will be a performance by Nezaket Ekici at 8 pm during the exhibition opening

When?
Friday May 29th, 7-9 pm

Where?
Schröderstr. 14
10119 Berlin

The exhibition will start on May 30 through July 11, 2009.

Take the time and come to visit it !!!

Libanon on Stage

Today I got something very special for you. It is of great importance for me. Since 2008 I am working for a social project called “Das Libanonprojekt”

by the Community of young Maltesers 

Its a yearly summercamp in the lebanon for disabled people.

To finance this project the Community of young Maltesers initiated a charity theatre called “Libanon on Stage” in 2005. This year we perform in 5 cities of Germany: Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg, Potsdam and Cologne.

This year live on stage: “Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund” by Witold Gombrowicz

“Yvonne? Who is Yvonne?”
Exacly this is the main theme of the play. Nobody knows Yvonne, even worse nobody wants to know Yvonne! She is inconsiderable, pale, just different! The play is about how society is incapable of coping with people being different.
It is black humored, sharp, merciless, but colorful, touching,funny and surely teaches everybody a lesson.

The director of this great play is the one and only Severin Hoensbroech!!!

You really shouldn’t miss an amazing, a little contemplative, wonderful and diverting afternoon in Potsdam.I should know since I’m going to be in it myself, so if you want to see me acting and simultaneously help handicapped people, by paying the entrance fee, you should definitley come!

When?
21 May 2009 at 5 pm
22 May 2009 at 8 pm

Where?
Malteser Treffpunkt Freizeit
Am Neuen Garten 64
14469 Potsdam

To buy tickets online click here
I am looking forward to meeting you there!!!

Sleeping Beauty

This is going to be a little different than all the other events I have recommended to you.

Since i was dancing ballet for 15 years and I am still very much into it I love seeing ballet shows sometimes.

There is one coming up soon in the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which you shouldn’t miss. If you like ballet the “Sleeping Beauty” won’t disappoint you . I myself danced this ballet twice with my balletschool, in a so called “grand ballet”.

Don’t these facinating movements move you as well?

When?
15 May 2009 at 7.30 pm

Where?
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Richard-Wagner-Str. 10
10585 Berlin

Ballet in three acts
Music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky

Choreography and Staging by Vladimir Malakhov after Marius Petipa

Tickets and more information here

I hope you like classic events, if not next week i will present something differnt.

Dirty Dancing

Who hasn’t seen the movie ” Dirty Dancing”?
I believe there is barely anyone ( at least no woman) who hasn’t.
But now there is something even better:
The MUSICAL!!!

If you want to experience the excitement and romance of the blockbuster film – live on stage, you should definitly go to see that Musical. Go back in time to the summer of 1963.

Featuring the hit songs from the best selling movie soundtrack of all time including; Time Of My Life, Hungry Eyes, Hey Baby and Do You Love Me?

When?
For example 6 May 2009

Where?
Theater am Potsdamer Platz
Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1
10785 Berlin

You get the tickets online here

First dance. First love. You’ll have the time of your life!