What to see in Berlin, Berlin blog

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Flove-parade-berlin%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Will the B-Parade replace the Love Parade?" }); The Love Parade was organized as a peaceful, political demonstration in 1989, a couple of months before the demolition of the Berlin Wall. Its message was peace and international understanding through love and music. It originated out of the electronic underground music [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Ftips-on-kissing%2F", "style": "big", "title": "The Perfect Kiss" }); Kissing, from Old English cyssan “to kiss”, describes the action of touching something with the lips by contracting and spreading them, and id the action that makes up 80% of sex. According to Sigmund Freud’s, the mouth is the first place where we sense sexual [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Fgay-pride-berlin%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Christopher Street Day" }); Gay Pride 2010 in Berlin You surely know that the German capital is one of the most welcoming capitals for members of the LGBT community. Whatever your sexual orientation, Berlin is the ideal place to you feel like a fish in water. And of course, the Gay [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Fwhat-is-chatroulette%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Chatroulette: Play at your own risk " }); The name is inspired by the dangerous game of Russian roulette, but since this game takes place via the Internet, it’s not quite so life-threatening. The weapon in this case is not a gun, but a web cam. The chatroulette service was [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Fberlin-biennial-2010%2F", "style": "big", "title": "The Berlin Biennial 2010" }); Save the date! On June 11, the sixth Berlin contemporary art Biennial will open, and run until the 8th of August. The event and its exhibitions will be held at various locations and galleries in Berlin, and the headquarters will be the KW Institute for [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Fchess-boxing-berlin%2F", "style": "big", "title": "A punch in time saves eight" }); In the ring the boxers pounded hard: left hook, uppercut, a punch flies by. They avoid moving from side to side of the ring, and concentrate despite the deafening roar of the crowd. Suddenly, a gong sounds and the contenders get down from [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Fjazz-in-berlin%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Jazz in Berlin" }); Some say that curiosity killed the cat, while others venture about like Alice in Wonderland, and live out wild adventures which fill their lives with colour Like Alice, who hasn’t once found themselves in the place they least expected. One long night in a place known [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Ffrida-kahlo-berlin%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Frida Kahlo Exhibition in Berlin" }); The German capital just recently inaugurated an retrospective dedicated to legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), one of the most controversial and mythic figures of this central American country, and one of the most relevant representatives of feminist art in the early 20th century. Kahlo [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Ferotic-art-for-blind-people%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Erotic Art for Blind Beople" }); Not long ago, an erotic book for blind people was presented in Great Britain by Lisa J. Murphy, a Canadian photographer certified in Tactile Graphics. The book is called “Tactile Minds” and collects 17 images in a 3-D format accompanied by erotic texts written [...]

topsyWidgetPreload({ "url": "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whattoseeinberlin.com%2Flenin-berlin%2F", "style": "big", "title": "Possible Comeback for Lenin in Berlin?" }); Wladimir Iljitsch Uljanow, known to most of us as Lenin, was one of the most influential politicians of Soviet comunism . He was responsible for the founding of the Soviet Union and the October Revolution of 1917. His political activity and ideology was [...]