In some scenes of ‘Interstella 5555′, the animated film of the ‘Discovery’ album by the excellent Daft Pink, you can see images of a club-concert of the future. In it, colour platforms float and thousands of lights and sounds invade the dancers, plastic costumes similar to latex with colours, lights that never stop spinning and transport to a cosmic dance that never ends. The future, however, is happening and, today, thousands of parties in Europe explore how to break all the barriers of sound, light, image and colour in extraordinary events. In Rome, Paris, London, Barcelona… the electronic nights of light and colour don’t have an end.

For the gay community, the dancefloor is more than a dancefloor, it’s a total celebration. And the freedom that you find in dancefloors of gay parties is unique, really surpassing all heterosexual context, the level of commitment and freedom that you find in a party like this is, undoubtedly, enviable around the world.

HustlaBall is a party without limits in Berlin that, as well as encompassing concepts that go from fetish, SDM and bear, you can be free and let your most original crazyness free. HustlaBall began around 1998 in New York, from the gathering of many boys who were part of the webpage Rentboy.com. Because the well-known magazine Hustler already existed, the chose the name ‘HustlaBall’ to avoid any legal problems. In 2003, the format of the party was brought to Europe and it became the biggest ever carried out. The freedom that exists in Berlin allowed, from its beginning, thousands of people to attend this party that mixes erotic, fun, sexual freedom and mutual respect. Nothing more intense than living the spirit of freedom and free love without any dogmatic discrimination or prejudice.

In each of its dates, HustlaBall explores different clubs, changing sounds as well as DJs, themes and the space of the party, making each day a unique and truly futuristic experience due to the high level of freedom that exists among the participants of HustlaBall. Dancers and pornographic actors will be part of the scene and will mix in the atmosphere to bring the temperature even higher. If you want to celebrate for four straight days, we guarantee you that these are the party nights for you. The amount of international public that is also part of this event make it into a cosmopolitan celebration of sexual freedom. You’ll be able to meet very interesting people from around the world. For more information visit the following webpage: http://www.hustlaball.de

Alexa Ray

Nothing better than getting apartments in Berlin and being part of this fabulous party where you’ll be able to dance and get to know people from around the world. Take advantage of this opportunity to see the streets of Berlin as well as enjoying its vibrant cultural offering, from museums to galleries, shops and everything at your reach.

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From October 15 the Martin Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin showcases the work of Ai Weiwei in an exhibition called Ai Weiwei in New York: Photographs 1983-1993. The exhibition focuses on the work produced by this Chinese artist during his 10 year stay in New York. It contains over 10 images depicting this liberal society which so influenced his life and work.

Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing, China, in 1957. His father was the writer, Ai Qing, who fell from grace during Mao Tse Tung’s Cultural Revolution and was exiled with his family to a labour camp in Xinjiang in 1958. This public humiliation marked young Weiwei, who didn’t return to Beijing until twenty years later, when he enrolled at the city’s Film Academy and began studying under the tutelage of a number of important directors. 

A year later, Weiwei, together with other artists, founded the avant-garde collective, the “Stars”, who set about challenging the aesthetics imposed by the regime and criticising the government’s cultural policy. This position soon led Weiwei to becoming a political activist, campaigning against human rights violations in China and abroad, and supporting the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, who has been held since 2009. For his pains he has been arrested, tortured and accused of various crimes that he had not committed. 

During the 90′s he was involved in the creation of “artists’ villages”: areas for artists and creative residences located around Beijing. This initiative helped many interesting artists to cross national boundaries and go on to become internationally-known artists. 

The work shown in Ai Weiwei in New York: Photographs 1983-1993 reveals how at home Weiwei was in a society as open to experimentation, ideas and art as New York. His positive experience of the city contrasts with his relationship with his own country, which is still cold and hostile towards him and his family. 

Ai enjoyed the streets of New York and the diversity of life he found in them. That vitality has left its mark on the pieces in this exhibition, a series of photographs in which he has captured everything that his senses threw at him, from street fights or gay marches to portraits of intellectuals and friends. 

For more information:

http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau/mgb_frz_ita_span/mgb_programm_spa/2011_mgb_programm_span/mgb11_ai_weiwei_span.php

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If you’re thinking about spending a few days in apartments in Berlin this autumn, don’t forget to pay a visit to the Martin Gropius-Bau museum and learn more about the work of Ai Weiwei.

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The learning of languages has different dimensions and effects. Today, the need to be able to speak three or four languages has become necessary, not to speak them perfectly, of course, but to dominate them in some shape or form to be able to generate better and bigger communication links with social networks, communication tools that are more than necessary in today’s day and age on all levels. The learning of a language also takes you to many unknown places, because not only does it consist in generating or producing language but also intervening in the culture that you’re learning, participating in it and inserting in the culture that it represents. Learning language is, undoubtedly, one of the best strategies to understand the world through reading and also to work with other materials in other languages.

And so, Expolingua presents the best possibilities for those who are interested in teaching and learning languages. This international language and culture fair presents the best in all aspects of the language learning market. This edition will be number 24, and it shows why, for over two decades, this fair has presented its exhibitors, an adequate platform where to present a different margin of products related to the learning and teaching of languages, as well as different cultures from all over the world. Every year, around two hundred exhibitors from over thirty countries and over 12,000 visitors are those who visit this multinational event. This way, at Expolingua the visitors can be in contact with different cultures and over sixty different languages. The experts at Expolingua present first-hand information and advice on the learning of foreign languages and the teaching of them. Among the exhibitors in the fair, you can find language schools from all over the world, travel and language agencies, embassies, cultural institutions, foreign exchange organizations, producers of language learning software, translators, etc. The event also presents lectures, musical events and artistic interventions.

What could be better than exploring Berlin and being part of this fair! Berlin also presents itself as an important option for an event of this magnitude, where international participants can meet, at the same time, an international crowd interested in creating social and business networks. Times are changing and being aware of new cultures and languages, as well as being aware that social and cultural integration generates new community perspectives and a better economy. The cultural barriers and prejudices can only be erased from the knowledge of language and dialogue. Nobody has to assimilate customs or traditions that aren’t logical but, on the other hand, the public has to be dynamic when admitting that all markets, more than ever, offer cosmopolitan exchange proposals. For more information on Expolingua, visit the following webpage: http://www.expolingua.com/

Alexa Ray

Get apartments in Berlin and enjoy this event, as well as the great cultural offering that this city offers. Practice any language that you know in Berlin, as well as German, and you’ll meet someone who shares your language.

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Lucian Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was born in Berlin in 1922 – and though he spent a large part of his life in England, where he had had to flee to from the Nazis, he is nevertheless today considered one of the most influential artists to come out of Berlin of all time.

After a beginning in the surrealism side of art, Lucian immersed himself in the figurative style of painting, and like one of his more famous subjects Leigh Bowery, he became interested in the dark and sordid side of life and human existence. Inspired by Egyptian masks, Lucian went in search of the unknown element of the human body, sexuality and death – and it was this which possibly led him to choose Leigh Bowery as a kind of muse for years. Freud painted a series of portraits of Bowery in which the famous London legend appears as this huge naked mass, stripped of his recognizably flamboyant clothing; just a naked man, the bare essentials, and a carnal quality which ignited the artistic desires of the painter, creating for him a distinct, new and highly personal pictoral style. Without a doubt, Lucian Freud was the artist to bring to the representation of the human body a new and original form of transparency which exposed everything going on inside – that line between the visible and the invisible, the deep and the superficial, the conscious and the unconscious was forever faded after the work of the Berlinese artist.

After the death of Bowery, his assistant Sue Tilley, an opulently larger than life woman became a favourite model for the artist, and became widely known as Big Sue. Freud spent hours observing Tilly’s unusual skin, carefully painting the craters and wounds caused by obesity and heat as she slept in a chair in the his studio. Many of these pieces are distinctly reminiscent of the theories outlined by Sigmund Freud on beauty, aesthetics, the terrible and the horror; clearly, the interests between grandson and grandfather struck a chord with one another even if the methods and forms of investigation were different.

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Take a little tour of the Lucian Freud’s beautiful home city, and rent apartments in Berlin and follow the path of this artist who was so devoted to showing the nature of the human form.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel or better known as Hegel was a German philosopher who managed to captivate the audience of his time, as well as, a lot of coming generations. Born in 1770 and died in Berlin 61 years later, because of a cholera epidemic. Each moment of his lifetime he dedicated himself to train and build the philosopher who finally he was.

He was a lover of any kind of literature and during his youth became interested in Plato, Kant, Descartes and many other icons of classical philosophy, but he also liked history and seriously compromised during the French Revolution.

One of his greatest disciples was Karl Marx, the Communist intellectual creator of modern socialism. But many other writers and thinkers took up his work as a basis and source of inspiration. The same thing happened with each generation that read his works, was amazed and eager to learn more about his work.

Phenomenology of Spirit, published in 1807 was the work that consecrated him in the cultural environment of the time, but Hegel dazzled various streams such as the metaphysics of Nietzsche, among others.

The most important issue that Hegel developed in his books was the reality. What is real and what is not? What is the true essence of reality? How are you? All these questions, were the ones that the German – Jewish thinker asked himself and developed throughout his life, seeking evidence in various daily routines.

He always related to the logic of nature and spirit. Combined his basic ideas and created other even more wonderful. Is what it is called the reader’s attention and all the adventurers who seek and find knowledge in his books (classics and old) responses to current issues and modern.

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Read Hegel as one walks the streets of the German capital city is a pleasure to be given to those who have rented apartments in Berlin

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marked a before and an after in the history of world culture. Of German nationality, born in 1740 he lived all his life devoted to the study of literature and other arts. In 1832 he completed and published the second part of the most important book of his work, Faust, he died that very same year.

The history of Goethe’s life is so exciting to read that one can understand why his works were so wonderful. The writer of poetry, prose and playwright, was one of the founders of romanticism and for that remains alive today in many contemporary writers who adopted his style and writing structure.

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the book that the establishes the author and maintains him until today at the podium of literary glory. All universities in the world study his works, but above all as Faust tells the gripping story the main character, who gives name to the whole book.

This tragedy called Faust is a play written entirely in dialogue, which makes it a jewel of literature and an excellent piece to read in pair. It was published in two volumes, the first was released in 1808, although there is another shorter versions circulating. The second volume was finished the year of his death. Although the two halves of the book seem to complement, they are not at all similar for in that the second volume rather than being based in the character’s life, develops social, psychological and moral human being themes

It’s still very interesting to look back through the work of Faust,  Goethe demonstrates us that his passage through this world was very well used. His works are translated into over 25 languages and  has  uncountable fans all over the world.

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This book is a classic of world literature and you should read it if you rent apartments in Berlin and want to learn a little more about an author native to the region.

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A Ramones museum in Berlin?, With this question the history of the only museum of the famous punk rock band started, The Ramones. There is a group of cities in which a fan would think of finding a museum of The Ramones and Berlin is not in that group. However, curiously Berlin is the first city in the world that created a museum dedicated to the band, it really worth a visit.

A museum founded by a fan and for fans. Florian Hayler, founder of the museum, followed the band to the farthest corners of the earth, to the point of having seen more than 100 concerts of the band and acquired an amazing number of posters, band members personal items, musical instruments, etc, etc. The museum opened its doors in 2005, after the Flo´s  girlfriend, as he is known, decided that the vast personal collection, could not be part of their apartment anymore and he should find a better place to it. Flo was thus decided to create the museum, which started in one place and now is located in another, given the huge success it had only the first year of opening.

Since the summer of 2009, the museum is located in Kreuzberg, in Krausnickstr 23, at the metro station S-Bahnhof Orannienburger Strasse. In the museum, besides enjoying a very complete collection unpublished photos (some from their  childhood), clothing such as the pants that Johnny Ramone wore during his last concert, instruments, posters, tickets, CDs, shirts, etc.. You can enjoy a coffee or a drink at the bar or buy a souvenir from the museum at the store. You know, if your destination is Berlin, Ramones museum is a must visit.

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Hey ho, let `s go!, Pack your suitcase, take a flight and rent apartments in Berlin Ramones museum awaits you as well as a thousand interesting places to visit in the German capital .. so, Hey ho, let` s go to Berlin !.

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