Berlin What's on
17 July-10 Sept 2006. The Berlin Literaturhaus presents a series of readings, films and lectures dedicated to Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel prize-winning a...
Berlin What's on
21 June-4 Sept 2006. The Bauhaus Museum of Design presents Photographic Experiments in Colour, 1934-1946, an exhibition dedicated to the work of Hungarian-born artist/photographer Lszl Moholy-Nagy (18...
Berlin What's on
6-10 July 2006. The concert festival in the neo-classical Gendarmenmarkt is now a summer fixture in Berlin. The festival opens with a concert of French classical music and song performed by soloists i...
Berlin What's on
1 June-16 July 2006. For the second time since 1996, the Sonambiente festival of Sound Art comes to Berlin to coincide with the football World Cup. Installations, performances, visual art, video, radi...
Berlin What's on
12 April-10 July 2006. This exhibition at Berlins Martin-Gropius-Bau gallery explores art and culture in Papal Rome, with over 300 art works on loan from the Vatican Museums, the Fabbrica di San Pietr...
Berlin What's on
27 May-9 Sept 2006. This year the annual festival on Berlins Museum Island has been extended to include the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz, which hosts concerts throughout the World Cup football compe...
Berlin What's on
7 June-3 Oct 2006. Over 100 years of artistic, historical and political ties between Japan and Germany are explored in the exhibition Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Stdte at the Neue Nati...
Berlin What's on
9-11 June 2006. Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo took over the direction of the acclaimed Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from Sir Simon Rattle in 1998 after the British conductor became director of the B...
Berlin What's on
18-20 May 2006. The Friends of the Italian Opera Berlin English Theatre present staged readings of three plays by modern Canadian dramatists. First up is Naked West on 18 May, a tale of real men by Ca...
Berlin What's on
2-5 June 2006. Berlins mega street festival and carnival parade is celebrating its tenth edition this year. Held in the German capitals Kreuzberg district, the Karneval der Kulturen aims to promote th...
Berlin What's on
5-21 May 2006. The most important German-language theatre festival, Theatertreffen, presents the ten most significant theatre productions of the current season. Chosen by seven critics from over 300 p...
Berlin What's on
20-26 April 2006. Sponsored by the British Council, the British and Irish film festival Britspotting is now in its seventh year. The programme includes full-length features, short films and documentar...
Berlin What's on
Gnter Kupetz. Industrial design.
5 April-5 June 2006. The Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design in Berlin presents the work of industrial designer Gnter Kupetz on the occasion of his 80th birthday. During the 1950s and 1960s, Kupetz was o...
Berlin What's on
29 March-3 Sept 2006. The life, loves and travels of Giacomo Casanova, whose name has become synonymous with seduction, is now a musical presented by the Friedrichstadtpalast theatre. Set in Venice, L...
Berlin What's on
Until 22 Dec 2006. The Berlin Potsdamer Platz Theater is hosting the fifth production of this extraordinarily popular show combining theatrical performance with highly percussive rock music.
Using a...
Berlin What's on
17 Feb-7 May 2006. This exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie explores the idea of melancholy, a major preoccupation in European art over the centuries. Over 300 works are on display, from the earlie...
Berlin What's on
China Between Past and Future.
24 March-14 May 2006. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt hosts an exhibition of photographs and video works by 48 contemporary Chinese artists focussing on the rapid social and cultural changes currently...
Berlin What's on
Berlin biennale of contemporary art.
24 March-28 May 2006. This is the fourth edition of the Kunst-Werke Institutes biennial festival of contemporary art, which takes place along Auguststrae in Berlin's central Mitte district. Entitled O...
Berlin What's on
8-16 April 2006. Wagners operas Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal feature in the 10th edition of the Berlin Staatsoper festival Festtage created by general music director Daniel Barenboim. Tristan und...
Berlin What's on
International Tourist Exchange Berlin.
8-12 March 2006. Celebrating its fortieth year in 2006, the ITB Berlin is one of the tourist industrys leading events, attracting around 84,000 trade visitors and 58,000 members of the public. Held at...
