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Cafe Niesen in Prenzlauer Berg: no children please
Prams, buggies, babies, toddlers, kids... you name it, anything child related, Prenzlauer Berg will have it. This includes a cafe which has been open since 2005 but is getting media attention now - extract from the official blog of the cafebabel.com team in Berlin
prenzlauer berg, business, cafe, blogs, children, family, opinion
Europe's 'beautiful laundrette' culture: socialising chores
Social networks have allowed a whole generation to abandon any sense of shame and showcase its private life. The fashion for exposure doesn't limit itself to the screen; Europe's urban landscapes offer more and more spaces which mix the private and the public. Washing your dirty laundry in public in Germany, France and Denmark
prenzlauer berg, cologne, mangelwirtschaft, lifestyle, cleanicum, laundrette, laundromat
Berlin craze: tourists shun sights for ‘Kiez’ experience
The metropolis attracts more visitors than any other German city with almost 18 million overnight stays in 2008. But tourism is no longer about taking in the typical sights: tourists are now taking over ‘Kiez’ (city neighbourhoods) and bikes which, until now, were exclusively secrets for the capital’s residents
prenzlauer berg, berlin wall, biking, tourism, germany, berlin
Online music, copyright and illegal downloads in Berlin
All three topics are now making the rounds at the various political benches around EU member states, who are all trying to contain internet piracy with new means and thereby putting fundamental rights under the microscope. In Brussels, the council of ministers is also pressing the issue against decisions of the EU parliament. Bloggers, politicians and legal representatives of the ‘civil society’ speak
prenzlauer berg, nicolas sarkozy, silvio berlusconi, european parliament, pirate bay, graduated response, copyright
Fair trade with Germany's 'Sukuma initiative'
What do mobile phones have to do with the war in Congo? Why do we, when thinking about coffee, think Starbucks before Colombia? The Germany-based Sukuma initiative is campaigning at an EU level to enforce targets for developing countries, as set out by theUN
prenzlauer berg, coffee, international trade, fair trade, poverty, africa, germany
Françoise Cactus: 'society is a little too turned on by sex'
The vocalist and drummer for kitsch pop duet 'Stereo Total', 43, evokes Franco-German bilingualism applied to masculinity-femininity, Gainsbourg and modern frustrations
prenzlauer berg, music, multiculturalism, sex, western eu, france, sex
Berlin - breakwater of nostalgia
The death and rebirth of two city icons provide an impressive picture of the nostalgia that characterises Germany
prenzlauer berg, tourism, cities, traditions, culture, germany, berlin
Wladimir Kaminer: I don’t give a damn about being a model for Russia
Talented author, but also a bit of a party animal in Berlin, the lively Russian Wladimir Kaminer, 40, knew how to capture and revive the ‘ostalgic’ image
Valérie Favre, acrylic performer
Valérie Favre, 47, is a Swiss artist working in Berlin. For her, painting is an out-dated medium which still offers interesting possibilites.
