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BERLIN

December 2010 - January 2011

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Contents

Berlin’s districts

Getting streetwise

Arrival & Transport

Get your bearings on S, U and ICE

Culture & Events

Roll up for theatre, show and cinema

Where to stay

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From park bench to Park Grand

Restaurants in Mitte

Fine dining, food with a view, and more

Nightlife in Mitte

One of the many theatre

premieres, a musical or

cabaret? Check it out, it

will be interesting!

From light drinking to debauchery

Food & Drinks around town

Going out in Berlin’s happening ‘hoods

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What to see

Palaces, squares and museums

Pop, rock, jazz or heavy

metal. Visit the most suc-

cessful bands of our time,

and concerts which are an

experience. Always in the

middle of Berlin!

Cold war Berlin

Behind the Wall

Holidays

Christmas and New Year’s Eve

Shopping

Buy buy buy

Directory

Buy tickets online for all of Berlin‘s hottest

rock, pop, theatre and sport events.

www.berlin-ticket.de

Maps & Index

Street register

Centre map

69-71

Transport map

72-73

Index

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FOREWORD

BERLIN DISTRICTS

Berlin’s streets and squares light up in December

as Christmas approaches, and this year more

foreign visitors than ever are expected to visit the

city and enjoy the markets that are dotted all over

the city. It’s cold outside, so wrap up warm when

you walk about, or simply use our cafés pages to

find suitable warm places to grab a hot chocolate

or coffee before you move on.

Greeting

Berlin is four times the size of Paris, and even though the

city consolidated its 23 districts into 12 in 2001, you’re still

left with 23 self contained areas (Kieze) in which Berliners

often find everything they need. Public transportation is

far-reaching and effective though, and you’ll grow to love it

as you shuttle between the four areas with the most sights:

Charlottenburg, Tiergarten, Mitte and Kreuzberg.

Mitte (MI)

Since reunification, Mitte has rightly snatched back the title

of most-visited district from Charlottenburg. On and off the

boulevard Unter den Linden, whose trees Marlene Dietrich

once extolled in song, are baroque and classical monuments

to Prussian culture. The proximity of state libraries, the State

Opera, Humboldt University, the old Arsenal (now the German

History Museum), Gendarmenmarkt, Museum Island, Berliner

Dom, and the abandoned East German Parliament building

make for more talk, less walk tours. The architecturally

humbler area of Mitte is the Scheunenviertel, whose layout

looks as if 17th-century planners got interrupted during a

game of pick-up sticks. It’s on these streets that the casually

chic saunter from courtyard gallery to sidewalk café, pointing

out directions to tourists seeking out the latest hotspots or

traces of the Jewish community that lived here from the late

17th-century until the mass deportations of the Nazi era.

Prenzlauer Berg (PB)

On a low hill northeast of Mitte, ‘Prenzl’ Berg’ is an old

working-class district in the former East Berlin that came

through the war relatively unscathed. The best places to

soak up the atmosphere are Kollwitzpl, Helmholzpl. and along

Kastanienallee (all near U-Bahn Eberswalderstr.). Prenzlauer

Berg’s few attractions include the Vitra Design museum and a

19th-century brewery complex that is now the Kulturbrauerei

culture centre. A good time to visit is Saturday when the eco-

market is open on Kollwitzplatz, or Sunday when everyone

sits outside being cool and eating breakfast all day.

Since the fall of the

Berlin Wall around 20

years ago, Berlin has

experienced breakneck

change: its infrastructure

was modernized from the

ground up, while entire city

districts were either created

from scratch or thoroughly

remodeled. Moreover, Berlin

has become a capital not

only in the political sense,

but culturally and intellectually as well. As a result, it is

now considered one of the most exciting and diverse

cities in all of Europe.

Besides the markets, Berlin’s event calendar is

packed with exciting concerts and exhibitions that

will also keep visitors entertained in January when

the smell of glühwein is but a faint memory. In the

excellent exhibition Hitler and the Germans – Nation

and Crime, the Jewish Museum shows how Hitler

fascinated Germans in the 1930s; the exhibition

has already had over 100.000 visitors and has

been extended into February to accommodate even

more. See p. 9 for the full events listings.

Further afield

Districts mostly known for their restaurant and nightlife

scene are Schöneberg (SB), the centre of gay Berlin,

and Friedrichshain (FH), filled with creatively tattered and

tattooed students. Berlin has green spots galore, and after

Tiergarten the most popular getaways are the Grunewald

forest and lake Wannsee, in the southwest district of

Zehlendorf (ZD).

Berlin finds its positive image reflected in its tourist

industry statistics: more and more people are visiting

our city to see its countless attractions for themselves.

These include, for example, the ubiquitous traces

of a turbulent and emotional history and the city’s

compelling museums, which invite you to browse the

world’s cultures. The contemporary art scene, too, has

long since found a home in Berlin, proof of which can

be seen in the city’s hundreds of galleries, many stellar

collections – often exhibited in innovative settings –

and, most recently, the new temporary art gallery in the

heart of the city.

Whatever you do this winter, send us your comments

at berlin@inyourpocket.com. Enjoy Berlin.

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Charlottenburg (CB)

If downtown to you means wide, traffic-filled streets,

crowds of shoppers, five-star hotels and tall buildings, then

Charlottenburg comes closest to fitting the bill in Berlin.

Much of what was here was bombed in the war and built

anew in the 1950s. The nexus of activity is the knot where

Kufürstendamm, Joachimsthaler Str, Bahnhof Zoo and

Tauentzienstr. come together. Follow what becomes an

increasingly silken ribbon down Kurfürstendamm (Ku’damm)

and the setting becomes more genteel where you can’t see the

buildings for the trees. Nearby but isolated from the hoi polloi

is Schloss Charlottenburg, the residence of King Friedrich I.

The Deutscher Dom cathedral

towers over the Christmas

market on Gendarmenmarkt

square. Destroyed in the Second

World War, this church stood

ruined for half a century before

being rebuilt and reopened

as a museum in the 1990s,

completing one of Europe’s

most beautiful squares. The

Christmas market is on of

dozens held in Berlin throughout

December until just before

Christmas day, and these are

the perfect places to get some gifts, souvenirs or simple

to get a tad sozzled on the potent glühwein mulled wine.

Great art can of course also be experienced in Berlin’s

opera houses and its many renowned theaters. Its

wide range of orchestras – including the Berliner

Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle, the Deutsches

Symphonie Orchester, the Rundfunksinfonie Orchester,

and countless others – is unmatched in its quality and

diversity. And let’s not forget Berlin’s exciting club scene

and the many different restaurants, pubs, and bars

that make the city the place to be for anyone looking for

cosmopolitan flair and the latest trends.

In this spirit, I would like to wish you an eventful stay

in Germany’s capital city –

welcome to Berlin!

Tiergarten (TG)

Tiergarten is both a district and the name of the 255 hectare

park that began as the Great Elector’s hunting grounds in

the 1600s and became increasingly more civilised with

landscaping in the 1800s. Traffic passes through it, doing a

dosey-doe around the Siegessäule (Victory Column). Slicing

though the park’s length is Str. des 17. Juni, which leads to

the Brandenburg Gate at the eastern end. Just south of it

are the museums of the Kulturforum and Potsdamer Pl.

Kreuzberg (KB)

Thanks to a large Turkish community and more hippies,

anarchists and alternative folks than you can shake a

didgeridoo at, Kreuzberg feels neither East nor West. It

was the black sheep of West Berlin, left alone in its far-off

room to play loud music and draw on the walls (literally, it

was parked in a dead-end, cornered by The Wall). In 1987

social and economic frustration exploded into violence and

vandalism during the traditionally political demonstrations

of May Day. Every year since, the city prepares for a long

night of stone-throwing and burning automobiles. May 1st

is essentially Kreuzberg’s way of reliving its 15 minutes of

fame. The rest of the days are marked by backgammon at the

men’s clubs, café-sitting on the Landwehrkanal, and ambling

down the popular drags Oranienstr. and Bergmannstr. Two

major museums, the House at Checkpoint Charlie and the

Jewish Museum, are planted in the staid parts of the district.

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ARRIVAL & TRANSPORT

CULTURE & EVENTS

Trains

DB ( Deutsche Bahn , German railways) runs ICE trains (high

sp e e d), EC (E u roCi t y) a n d I C (I n ter Ci t y). S eat res er vati ons are

sometimes obligatory; check before boarding. Tickets can

be purchased at the the DB Centres in the stations, or book

online in advance at DB’s fabulous online train timetable at

www.bahn.de.

With three opera houses, seven resident orchestras, doz-

ens of variety and theatre companies and ticket prices to

match all wallets, Berlin is truly a culture-lovers’ paradise.

Here we present a selection of Berlin’s cultural highlights

that are suitable those who don’t speak German. Tickets

for theatre, concerts and other events can be purchased

at the venues, the tourism offices as well as at one of

many ticket kiosks (convenient ones are in Friedrichstraße

and Alexanderplatz stations). Online bookings and pay-

ments for most events can easily be done via the venue

websites or www.btm.de.

Opera & Classical music

Deutsche Oper B-3, Bismarckstr. 35, CB, M Deutsche

Oper, tel. (+49)(0)30 343 84 01/(+49)(0)700 67 37

23 75 46 (tickets), www.deutscheoperberlin.de. A

functional, introvert 1960s building houses the only opera

stage available to West Berliners during the Wall era. Italian

conductor Renato Palumbo is the current music director.

Konzerthaus F-3, Gendarmenmarkt 2, MI, M Stadt-

mitte, tel. (+49)(0)30 20 30 90, www.konzerthaus.

de. Together with the neighbouring Deutscher and Fran-

zösischer Dom churches, the Konzerthaus forms Berlin’s

most spectacular architectural ensemble. Originally built

as a theatre by Friedrich Schinkel in 1821, it was destroyed

in WWII and only reopened as a concert hall in 1984. The

Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester (conductor Eliahu Inbal) plays

at the venue.

Ask the concierge

Berlin’s top hotels all have concierges that are there

to make the guest’s lives easier. They can inform you

about current events, book tickets, make restaurant

reservations and hand out copies of Berlin In Your

Pocket , transport maps, and brochures. Concierges

can be recognised by the crossed golden keys on the

lapels of their jackets.

Berlin’s huge new glass-sheathed Hauptbahnhof main

station is where all regional and intercity trains stop.

The station has all the essentials; shopping mall, post

office, toilets and showers and the Infostore tourist

information centre. Zoo Bahnhof (Zoologischer Garten)

and Ostbahnhof (in Friedrichshain, 20 minutes away by

S-Bahn from Zoo Bahnhof) have been reduced to regional

train stations. All three stations are connected by the

main S-Bahn line, and some to the U-Bahn. Regional (RE)

trains along the elevated east-west track stop at Mitte’s

Alexanderplatz and Friedrichstraße stations as well. If

your ticket destination is ‘Berlin Stadtbahn’ you can use

it to travel further on the elevated S-Bahn track between

Charlottenburg and Ostbahnhof stations.

Taxis

Taxi drivers have a fine reputation in Berlin, and not only for

the splendid cream-coloured Mercedes they drive. Taxis

queue outside S- and U-Bahn stops, and can also be hailed

from the street at the same rate. The special €3.50 Kurz-

strecke is a set fare for short trips (2km or 5 minutes), and

can onl y be used in hail ed cabs an d i f you m ention i t as soon

as you board. Calling a taxi is an option as well; mention to

the operator if you want to pay by credit card, as not all taxis

h ave card -rea di n g e q uipm e n t. B y th e way, Fu n k m ea ns ra di o.

Public transport

Berlin’s integrated network of S-Bahn (Schnellbahn), U-Bahn

(Untererdische Bahn, underground), bus , and Straßenbahn

( tram , in eastern Berlin only) is run by the BVG (tel. 194

49, www.bvg.de) and the system runs very smoothly, even

though they confuse everyone by naming buses and trams

the Metro network. If you remember the number (or colour)

and end station of the U or S line you want to use, you’ll soon

be navigating the labyrinth-like stations like a local. Signs

display the destination of the train, and at U-Bahn stations,

display when the next train will arrive.

Philharmonie E-4, Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1, TG,

M Potsdamer Platz, tel. (+49)(0)30 25 48 89 99,

www.berlin-philharmonic.de. The crumpled-looking yellow

modernist building behind the chrome glitz of the Potsdamer

Platz developments was once just as revolutionary as its

new neighbour. The excellent Phil orchestra is directed by

Liverpudlian Sir Simon Rattle.

Staatsoper F/G-3, Unter den Linden 7, MI, M Franzö-

sische Str, tel. (+49)(0)30 20 35 45 55, www.staatsop-

er-berlin.org. A grand building on Berlin’s grandest boulevard,

with beautifully rebuilt interiors and an in-house confectionary.

Daniel Barenboim has been named chief conductor for life of

the award-winning Staatskapelle orchestra, one of the oldest

(1570) orchestras in the world.

Shows

Admiralspalast F-3, Friedrichstrasse 101, MI, tel. (+49)

(0)30 47 99 74 99, www.admiralspalast.de. Reopened

to the public in 2006, the Admiralspalast was originally a

bathhouse and club for Prussian soldiers to relax in. Rebuilt

in 1911, it was famous in Berlin’s Roaring 20s for its cabaret,

operetta house, spa and brothel. Hitler cleaned up their acts

in the 1930s, installing a private box so that he could watch

his favourite operetta ‘The Merry Widow’, and in the 1940s the

building was spared war damage. Bertold Brecht used the the-

atre for his eyebrow-raising new theatre in the 1950s and 60s

before the theatre went into decline. The complex has been

restored (without the brothel) and is a new centre of nightlife.

Berliner Residenz Concert B-3, Spandauer Damm

22-24, Große Orangerie of Schloss Charlottenburg, tel.

(+49)(0)30 25 81 03 50, www.concerts-berlin.com. The

Berliner Residenz Orchestra plays famous Baroque-era works

by candlelight, with musicians in period costumes. Guests

can combine the concert with a tour of Charlottenburg castle

or a trip on the river Spree, and dinner amidst 500 candles.

Concerts take place up to 6 times weekly. Q Admission €29-

75. Dinner starts at 18:00, the concert at 20:30.

The same tickets serve all BVG services. Vending machines

at stations and on trams have instructions in English and

accept coins (and on platforms, banknotes too). At larger

stations there are S-Bahn information and sales counters.

On buses, the driver can sell you a ticket.

Venue list Berlin

AR – Arena, Eichenstr. 4, tel. (+49)(0)30 533 20 30,

www.arena-berlin.de.

CB – c/o Berlin, Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Str. 35, tel.

(+49)(0)30 28 09 19 25, www.co-berlin.info.

CC – C-Club, Columbiadamm 9-11, tel. (+49)(0)30 698

09 80, www.columbiaclub.de.

CH – C-Halle, Columbiadamm 13-21, tel. (+49)(0)30 698

09 80, www.columbiahalle.de.

DH – Deutsches Historisches Museum, Unter den

Linden 2, tel. (+49)(0)30 20 30 44 44, www.dhm.de.

FT – Flughafen Tempelhof, Platz der Luftbrücke

HB – Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Invalidenstr. 50-51,

tel. (+49)(0)30 39 78 34 11, www.hamburgerbahnhof.de.

HX – Huxley’s Neue Welt, Hasenheide 108-114, tel.

(+49)(0)30 627 93 20.

JM – Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Lindenstraße 9-14, tel.

(+49)(0)30 25 99 33 00, www.jmberlin.de.

KH – Konzerthaus Berlin, Gendarmenmarkt, tel. (+49)

(0)30 20 30 90, www.konzerthaus.de.

MB – Messe Berlin, Messedamm 22, tel. (+49)(0)30

303 80, www.messe-berlin.de.

MG – Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstr. 7, tel.

(+49)(0)30 25 48 60, www.gropiusbau.de.

MK – Museum für Kommunikation, Leipziger Str. 16,

tel. (+49)(0)30 20 29 40, www.museumsstiftung.de.

NA – Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Straße 50,

tel. (+49)(0)30 2662651, www.neue-nationalgalerie.de.

OW – O2 World, Mühlenstraße 12-30, tel. (+49)(0)30

20607080, www.o2world.de.

PH – Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1, tel. (+49)

(0)30 25 48 80, www.berliner-philharmoniker.de.

TD – Tempodrom, Möckernstr. 10, tel. (+49)(0)30 69 53

38 85, www.tempodrom.de.

ZS – Zitadelle Spandau, Am Juliusturm, tel. (+49)(0)30

354 94 40, www.zitadelle-spandau.de.

City Funk tel. 21 02 02

Funk Taxi Berlin tel. 26 10 26

Spree Funk tel. 44 33 22

Würfel-Funk tel. 0800 222 22 55 (tollfree), tel. 0177-222

22 77 (for mobile phones)

With a €2.10 Einzelticket (single ticket) you can travel

one-way, with transfers, within the AB zone. Buy a €1.30

Kurzstrecke (short distance) ticket if you want to travel

up to three S/U-Bahn stops, or up to six stops by bus or

tram. If you anticipate a lot of travelling, consider either the

Ta ge s ka r te (day card, valid until 03:00 the next morning;

€6.10) or seven-day pass (€26.20).

Airports

Berlin has two airports (online at www.berlin-airport.de).

If you’re in a group of up to five people, you can buy a

Kleingruppenkarte (group day ticket, €15.90). The BVG, the

tourist office, and some hotels sell a variety of great-value

multiday city cards including the Berlin WelcomeCard and

the City Tour Card (see Sights for more details). If you’re

arriving in or leaving Berlin by train and your ticket says

Berlin Stadtbahn, you can travel free on the elevated S-Bahn

line between Charlottenburg and Ostbahnhof on the day of

arrival/departure.

Te ge l (TXL), the main airport, is 7km northwest of the

city centre. Behind the airport information desk in the

main hall are the BVG public transport ticket office

and the luggage office. Nearby are a post office and

ATM s. Tegel is well-connected to the city centre by bus;

the TXL JetExpressBus runs every 15-20 minutes

between 05:00 and 23:30, and is the quickest con-

nection to Hauptbahnhof station, Unter den Linden and

Alexanderplatz. Bus X9 (ever y 5 -10 mi n u tes from 04:5 0

to 23:00) gets you to Zoo Bahnhof in 20 minutes. Bus

N°109 heads to S-Bahn station Charlottenburg and

N°128 to U-Bahn station Osloer Straße. Single €2.10

tickets can be bought from machines outside or from

the driver, and are valid for two hours. A taxi to the city

centre will cost about €18.

Before boarding the S- or U-Bahn, always validate your

ticket by punching it in the machine near the end of the

platform. On buses and trams, the machines are on board.

Public transport uses the honour system, and there are

regular checks by plainclothes inspectors . If you are caught

without a ticket (or with an unvalidated one) you’ll be fined

€40 on the spot.

Schönefeld airport (SXF) is 20km southeast of the city

centre and mostly serves budget flights and holiday char-

ters. A shuttle brings you to the nearby S-Bahn/railway

station. An Airport Express train from here reaches the

ci t y centre in 30 minu tes; th e S-Bahn take abou t 40 min -

utes. Take bus X7 to U-Bahn station Rudow for Kreuzberg.

You can go play the night owl, as the nightime transport

options are excellent and have smooth connections. All

U-Bahn trains run every 15 minutes on weekend nights;

on weekdays buses marked N travel their routes every

half hour. Also, all tram and bus lines starting with M run

every half hour at night.

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8 CULTURE & EVENTS

CULTURE & EVENTS

Dalí - The Exhibition

Ellington Hotel events

With over 450 exhibits, the new museum and

cultural highlight ‘Dalí – the exhibition’ offers the

most complete overview of Dalí’s virtuous and

experimental mastery in almost all art techniques,

right here in the heart of Berlin. As Dalí once said:

“Come into my brain”. In keeping with this spirit

’Surrealism for all’, visitors to Berlin now have the

chance to discover ‘their Dalí’.

Dalí - Die Ausstellung / Dalí - The Exhibition ,

Leipziger Platz 7, M Potsdamer Platz, tel. +49 1805

10 33 23, www.daliberlin.de. Open 12:00-20:00, Sun

10:00-20:00. Admission €11, reduced €9.

Berlin’s grooviest hotel is well-known for its relaxed Jazz

brunches, held Sundays between 11:30 and 14:30 in the

Duke restaurant. A set fee allows you to sample anything

from the buffet, while talented Jazz musicians take care

of the atmosphere. Check the website for the programme

in December and January. Until 28 February, ladies can

drop by every Tuesday and Thursday for an evening of

pampering. The “Ladies Styling Dinner” includes profes-

sional hair and make-up styling followed by a 3-course

meal with bubbly. Book ahead.

Ellington Hotel , D-4, Nürnberger Str. 50-55, tel.

(+49)(0)30 68 31 50, www.ellington-hotel.com.

& FESTIVE MENUES

in the historical setting of Charlottenburg Palace

December 10 | January 11

sundays: concert 3.00 pm

wed., fri., sat.: dinner 6.00 pm | concert 8.30 pm

24.12.: concert 4.00 pm

25.12. - 01.01.11: dinner 6.00 pm | concert 8.30 pm

Madi-Zelt der Sinne (Madi - Tent of the Senses)

B-1, Bernhard-Lichtenberg-Pl., corner Holzhauser Str.,

M U Holzhauser Str., Tegel, tel. (+49)(0)30 1805/57

00 00, www.madi-ZeltderSinne.de. One way to cocoon

yourself from winter is to slip into this cozy, Moroccan royal-

style tent in north Berlin’s Tegel district. You’ll be whisked

away to the Orient with a Middle Eastern four-course meal

and 3.5-hour show with belly dancers, story-tellers, musicians,

acrobats, and jugglers. The brainchild of a Palestinian Berlin

resident, the show makes the small audience (there is only

room for 45 guests in the tent) feel at home with rosewater,

a welcome drink, gleaming mint tea sets, and drags from

a hookah waterpipe. Q Shows Thu - Sat at 19:30, doors

open 18:00. (€75).

Palazzo E-2, Humboldthafen, MI, M Hauptbahnhof, tel.

(+49)(0)1805 38 88 85 (€0,14/min), www.palazzo.

org. Not just any show, this is a three-and-a-half-hour dining

and variety experience. Enjoy a multi-course gourmet meal

while you watch a varied programme of acrobats, jugglers,

comedians, musicians and magicians in a purpose-built

‘palace of mirrors’. The emphasis is on the visual effects, so

language is not a barrier. Q Closed Mon. Admission, includ-

ing food, €79-135.

Schiller Theater C-3, Bismarckstr. 110, CB,

M Ernst-Reuter-Pl., tel. (+49)(0)30 847 20 03

12/0180-557 00 00. Musicals animate the stage of

this landmark theatre that originally opened in 1907

with the German poet and playwright Schiller’s The

Robbers (1782).

Stars in Concert J-6, Sonnenallee 225 (Estrel

Festival Center), KB, M Sonnenallee, tel. (+49)(0)30

68 31 68 31, www.stars-in-concert.de. Ve ga s m e e ts

Berlin in the huge Estrel hotel and convention centre,

where the Stars in Concert show features impressive

performances of lookalike artists Elton John, Elvis, Tina

Turner, Joe Cocker and Sting. Tickets are also available

for combinations with dinner and/or a stay at the hotel.

Q Shows at 20:30, Sat also at 17:30. Closed Tue.

Admission €16-45.

Tipi am Kanzleramt E-3, Große Querallee, TG, M Bund-

estag, tel. (+49)(0)180 327 93 58 (€0,09/min), www.

tipi-das-zelt.de. Continuing a tradition that started a century

ago in Berlin, the Tipi team wine, dine and entertain guests

for an evening in their surprisingly elegant, year-round tent

in Tiergarten park. Before the show starts, gourmet food

is served from their on-site kitchen. Then it’s over to the

artists featured that night to entertain the audience. Q

Tickets €18.50-36.

TICKETS

Tel.: 030 - 526 81 96 - 96

www.concerts-berlin.com

BLUE MAN GROUP E-4, Marlene Dietrich Pl. 1, MI,

Bluemax Theatre, M Potsdamer Pl., tel. (+49)(0) 18

05 44 44 (€0.14/min), www.blueman.com. The (quite

literally) Blue Man Group has been wowing audiences in the

US with a show that is a kaleidoscope, a whirlwind, a puzzle,

psychedelic, and many more adjectives that people just

haven’t managed to sum up the visually and musically power-

ful show with. Eminently suitable for foreigners, the little text

there is, is in English. Q Tue-Fri 21:00; Wed, Thu, Sat 18:00,

21:00; Sun 18:00. Tickets from €59,90 (plus charges). A

Friedrichstadtpalast F-3, Friedrichstr. 107, MI, M O-

ranienburger Tor, tel. (+49)(0)30 23 26 23 26, www.

friedrichstadtpalast.de. No one does over-the-top better

than the producers and long-legged dancers and acrobats of

Friedrichstadtpalast. This venue normally puts on the glitziest,

biggest revues in town. Q Tickets €17 - 61.

La Vie en Rose F-6, Tempelhof airport, M Platz

der Luftbrücke, tel. (+49)(0)30 69 51 30 00, www.

revuetheater.de. Apparently this is the only revue

theater in the world that’s in an airport. La Vie en Rose

has daily shows with magicians, acrobats, singers, can-

can girls and is the only one in town to add a touch of

eroticism. Q Shows at 21:00, Sun 20:00. Closed Mon.

Admission €20-28, €45 including dinner, €65 including

dinner and drinks.

Theatre & Comedy

Berlin is full of great theatre, but if you don’t speak Ger-

man, you’ll be limited to enjoying the scenery of plays or

watching cabarets’ mimes and contortionists silently ply

their trade. Here are the two exceptions.

Sabina Chukurowa (piano), Mozartquartett Berlin

Works by Mozart

5 Dec, 20:00 KH

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor

Conductor: Christopher Hogwood; Works by Kraus, Mozart

and Haydn

Tickets for theatre, concerts and other events can

be purchased at the venues, the tourism offices as

well as at one of many ticket kiosks (convenient ones

are in Friedrichstraße and Alexanderplatz stations).

Online bookings and payments for most events can

be done via www.btm.de (click to English and then

Tickets ).

English Theatre Berlin F-5, Fidicinstr. 40, KB,

M Platz der Luftbrücke, tel. (+49)(0)30 693 56

92/691 12 11 (box office), www.etberlin.de. Berlin

residents, whether native English speakers or not, come

to this theatre for the edgy programming on the little

black box’s stage. The entrance is in the back courtyard.

Q Admission €14/8.

Kookaburra G-2, Schönhauser Allee 184, PB,

M Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl., tel. (+49)(0)30 48 62 31

86, www.comedyclub.de. Laughing matters at Ber-

lin’s premier comedy club, which has English-language

stand-up comedy every Tuesday at 20:30 and Saturday

at 23:45. Kim Eustace’s Comedy Night alternates with

the Supernaturals experimental comedy show on Tues-

days, while the hilarious Laugh Olympics improvisation

alternates with the Treason Show (Brighton) and others

on Saturdays. Q Open 12:00 - 24:00, Fri, Sat 12:00 -

02:00, Sun 11:00 - 24:00. Closed Mon. Shows at 20:30.

Admission €3-12.

5 Dec, 20:00

Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin

Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado, Saleem Abbound Ashkar

(piano); Works by Debussy, de Falla, Dallapiccola, and

Mendelssohn

Berliner Residenz Konzerte

Enjoy beautiful classical Baroque concerts held in the

beautiful Große Orangerie at Schloss Charlottenburg

this December. Guests can opt for a candle-lit dinner

before the concert too. Dates for this season include:

Christmas compositions by Baroque masters:

3, 5, 12, 10, 19, 24, 26 Dec.

Masterpieces of Baroque and early classical music:

25 Dec, 22, 30 Jan

The most beautiful works by Mozart and Strauß:

29, 30, 31 Dec.

Works by JS Bach: 7 Jan

www.inyourpocket.com

For times, prices and bookings see www.concerts-berlin.

com or contact +49 30 526 81 96 96.

Berlin In Your Pocket

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December 2010 - January 2011

CLASSICAL CONCERTS

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