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NEWS ABOUT: Berlin

Berlin stories: 66 news summaries

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Merkel in Her Undies Drives Berliners Wild

Berliners fascinated by provocative billboard

May 1, 09 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A striking new ad featuring a drawing of Angela Merkel wearing only underwear has attracted the fascination of Berlin residents, the Local reports. Placed prominently in a busy shopping district, the billboard depicts Merkel with other figures from German politics—also in their skivvies—looking on. "The chancellor's office... More »

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Angela Merkel • Germany • Berlin • underwear • billboards • ad campaign

 Berlin Pols Target 
 'Disneyland' Soldiers 

They're turning serious monument into 'Disneyland:' officials

Apr 15, 09 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - German politicians want the fake Cold War soldiers who pose near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate gone, because they’re turning a somber symbol of the nation’s unification into “Disneyland,” Der Spiegel reports. The performers don American, East German, and Soviet military gear and snap photos with tourists... More »

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Germany • tourism • Berlin • Cold War • East Germany • Brandenburg Gate

(Newser) - This could be awkward. Mel Brooks’ The Producers has been a smash around the world, but will the Hitler-mocking musical play in Germany? The Admiralspalast theater in Berlin—which the real Führer once frequented—is betting Germans are ready to laugh at the blood-soaked past, the Daily Mail reports.... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Mel Brooks • The Producers • Nazis • Mein Kampf

Brothel Battles Downturn with Flat-Rate Pass

Berlin club charges $90 for 'everything—ladies, drinks, and food'

Mar 17, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Berlin brothel is fighting world economic gloom with a special offer: a flat-rate, unlimited, all-access pass, Der Spiegel reports. For about $90, clients are free to get chummy with all the workers. Men can even bring their wives. “70 euros, that includes everything—ladies, drinks and food,”... More »

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prostitution • Berlin • brothel • economy • downturn • financial crisis

 Grumpy Berliners 
 Learn to Smile 

Friendliness campaign gives city an image makeover

Mar 11, 09 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Berlin may not be a city of churlish insults and bad manners much longer. Long known for the rudeness of its residents, the German capital is on a “friendliness offensive,” Der Spiegel reports. Pegged to its annual tourism convention, Berlin’s campaign aims to boost the number of... More »

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Germany • tourism • Berlin • manners

Berlin Protesters Torch Luxury Cars

Sardonically named 'BMW' claims responsibility for arsons

Feb 27, 09 3:13 PM CST
(Newser) - As the financial crisis inflames class tensions, economic protest in Berlin has taken the form of arson attacks on luxury cars, Bloomberg reports. Activists have torched more than 2 dozen vehicles this year, and the pace is increasing. A group puckishly calling itself “BMW”—an acronym for "... More »

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Germany • Berlin • arson • recess • class divide • arsonist • cars • recession depression

German Politician: Let the Poor Catch Rats

Advocates for poor squeal about Dickensian plan

Dec 17, 08 7:04 AM CST
(Newser) - One German politician has a solution to help Berlin's poor: let them catch the rats that are plaguing the city. "People who collect bottles could get one euro [$1.40] for every dead rat," he cheerfully explained. But the Dickensian plan, which may be officially introduced today, wasn't... More »

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Germany • Berlin • rats • poor • rodents

 Berlin Divided Over Wild Boars 

Some locals call for extermination, shocking others

Dec 16, 08 9:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Berliners are sharing their city with thousands of wild boars—and citizens are split on how to treat the porkers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some prefer a more aggressive approach: Don’t feed them corn, says one licensed urban boar hunter, “feed them lead." But others are... More »

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Germany • Berlin • animal behavior • hunting • boar

Bow WOW! Berlin Opens
Soup Kitchen for Dogs

New leash on life for pets of struggling humans

Nov 2, 08 6:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Things are apparently woof all over—so Berliners have now opened a soup kitchen for dogs. Businesses have donated pet food and funds so that hounds belonging to homeless people and the unemployed can chow down. Organizers shrug off criticism that their efforts would be put to better use serving... More »

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Berlin • homeless • soup kitchen • Man's best friend • dog • financial crisis

 Artist to Smoke 
 Kurt Cobain's Ashes 

Nirvana frontman's supposed remains, stolen from wife, will star in Berlin exhibition

Oct 1, 08 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Australian performance artist who claims to have obtained late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s ashes will smoke them at a Berlin exhibition, NME reports. Artist Natascha Stellmach says the lighting up will symbolize Cobain’s ultimate freedom from the media. As to how she came by the remains,... More »

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Courtney Love • Kurt Cobain • Berlin • art • Nirvana • remains • ashes • exhibition • performance artist

 Heart Attack Killed Knut-Keeper 

Autopsy rules out foul play

Sep 23, 08 1:34 PM CDT
(AP) - Berlin prosecutors said an autopsy today showed that Thomas Doerflein, the zookeeper who gained fame for hand-rearing the polar bear cub Knut, died of a heart attack. The city's mayor paid tribute to him for writing Berlin history. "Other causes of death, in particular involvement by another party, are... More »

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Germany • Berlin • Knut • autopsy • heart attack • zookeeper

OPINION

 Reject Obama 
 and World Will Revolt 

A McCain victory would be a clear message to the globe

Sep 10, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Electing John McCain would be a little like giving the rest of the world the finger, writes Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland. Judging from international polls, “if the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama,” he writes. And if the US rejects... More »

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Barack Obama • Berlin • Europe

 Berlin Opens Hitler's
 'Future City' Tunnels 

Network provides glimpse of megalomaniac's plans for world capital

Aug 27, 08 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Berlin has opened three vast tunnels under the city built as part of Adolf Hitler's vision of a grandiose Nazi capital, Reuters reports. The tunnels were to house a transit system beneath planned boulevards, squares, and huge buildings, including a Great Hall with room for 180,000 people. The Albert... More »

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architecture • Germany • Berlin • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • Third Reich • Albert Speer

Opinion

Obama's 'One World' Vision Too 'Radical': Bolton

Ex-ambassador takes exceptions to Democrat's globalism

Jul 26, 08 6:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s Berlin speech seemed short on content, but actually revealed the senator’s radical globalist thinking, ex-UN ambassador John Bolton writes in the Los Angeles Times. Obama called himself a “citizen of the world,” and said the Berlin Wall fell because “the world stood... More »

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Barack Obama • globalization • Berlin • alliance • speech

OPINION

Obama Speech Plays Well With Euro Pundits

Most praise it, with reservations

Jul 25, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s speech in Germany is drawing the full complement of responses in Europe, from glowing to scowling. Here are a few:
  • He’s “an idealist in the true spirit of the American success story,” writes Gerhard Spohl in Der Spiegel, and aspires to be "
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Barack Obama • Germany • Berlin • optimism • George W. Bush

Opinion

Obama's Empty Rhetoric Starting to Wear Thin

Optimism needs substance, Brooks says

Jul 25, 08 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Say this for Barack Obama: He’s optimistic. Yesterday in Berlin he promised to “remake the world,” envisioned a “new dawn in the Middle East” and mentioned walls tumbling down no fewer than 11 times. It was trademark Obama rhetoric, writes David Brooks of the New ... More »

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Barack Obama • Berlin • speech

OPINION

Gimmickry Makes McCain
the Howard Dean of 2008

His Berlins ad blast calls to mind antics Dem used in '03-04—when he didn't win, either

Jul 25, 08 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - What’s the most apt parallel for John McCain’s underdog White House run? It’s Howard Dean’s gimmick-loving, maturity-lacking 2004 run, Ezra Klein writes in the American Prospect. McCain’s “whimsy” shone yesterday with ads in Berlin, NH; Berlin, Penn.; and Berlin, Wis. (with Barack Obama in... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • Berlin • Howard Dean • Mike Huckabee • gimmicks

opinion

Not Exactly JFK, But Obama Leaves Crowd Happy

His speech in Berlin is rather ordinary

Jul 24, 08 6:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Make no mistake, Barack Obama gave a fine speech in Berlin today, writes Shane Danielsen in the Guardian. But any comparisons to JFK can stop right there. His speech hit all the right notes but shaded more toward the ordinary than the memorable. The mood of the mostly young crowd... More »

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Barack Obama • Germany • Berlin • Obama 2008 • Berlin Wall • Brandenburg Gate

 Obama, in Berlin: There Are
 More Walls to Tear Down 

Estimated 100K see Dem give long-awaited speech to Europe

Jul 24, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama told an estimated 100,000 in Berlin today that “America has no better partner than Europe.” Touching on climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, genocide, and human rights, the Democrat referenced Ronald Reagan’s famous plea to the Soviet Union—saying there are new “walls we must... More »

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Barack Obama • Germany • Berlin • speech

ANALYSIS

Free of History and Politics, Berlin Is Perfect for Obama

Even 'Victory Column' is associated now with a music festival

Jul 24, 08 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget the chatter about whether Barack Obama should be stopping in Brussels or giving Germany pride of place over France and Britain. Berlin is “quite an appropriate setting” for the candidate's big European speech, Cameron Abadi writes for the New Republic. The “existential angst of the Cold War”... More »

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Barack Obama • Berlin • France • generation gap • Brussels • Election 2008 • Victory Column

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