Meanwhile, the 20,000 Americans living in Berlin, including many New Yorkers. But why you have picked, of all things, the German capital? What’s not here, what New York City offers?
“We have been three days in Berlin and I never want to… I’m from New York City and I must say: Long time New York City was the largest, the most cosmopolitan city in the world, but from now on, Berlin is number 1,” said one of the Hosts of the US Podcasts “Chapo Trap House” to the Start of their European Tour at the beginning of June in Berlin. Share this enthusiasm, many of US Americans, the discover Germany’s capital city for yourself. Many of them stay after their first 72-hour Trip, finally for a while longer: Currently, around 20,000 Americans living in Berlin after all.
With the year of Germany, which will be celebrated in 2019 in the United States, promotes Germany for a year, its cultural ties to the United States. As you stated in the Live Podcast of your positive impressions of their time in Berlin, reinforced the Team of “Chapo Trap House” unknowingly the Trend.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in Berlin48 Hours Neukölln
14. to 16. June, you can spend 48 hours with the art and Performances of all kinds in the hip district of Neukölln. The special feature of this Festival: It takes place not only in public art spaces, but also in courtyards and private apartments. Here in the picture is the high school orchestra, the school of art Berlin-Weißensee plays.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinState Opera for all
If experimental art is not your thing, you can on the same weekend, on September 16. June, at the Staatsoper, for all the go. Under the direction of star conductor Daniel Barenboim, the concert is open to all and is free of charge. Traditionally it takes place on the Bebelplatz, next to the state Opera, the scene of one of the book burnings of the Nazis from 1933 known.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinFête de la Musique
Every year, music play musicians in the world, the beginning of summer on 21. June, the Fête de la Musique – in the public space, and on numerous district and distributed. The French end of the rises since 1995 in Berlin, in this year, over 600 events on the official program. Traditionally, spontaneous Jam Sessions, join them.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinOpen-air cinemas
You can see it as a film festival that lasts the whole summer In Berlin’s Parks such as the Volkspark Friedrichshain Park, the Hasenheide in Neukölln or Rehberge in Wedding, you can movies on warm evenings outside. More intimate spaces such as the Pompeii of the East and the Central in the middle are rough and convey the feeling of the subculture of Berlin.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinTheatre in the swimming pool
With your trashy, made from foam produced Mario mattresses nice and hilarious re-enactments of literary works, the Helmi puppet theatre embodies since 2001, the Berlin-based DIY creative spirit. It is part of the cultural programme of the Tropez in the Sommerbad Humboldthain, where you can see the performances from the 1. June to 1. September in an unusual frame can experience.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinNeighborhood festivals
A stroll around town can leave you with a summer full of free parties. Pay attention to posters on the yard or street fixed point, which is celebrated in well-off neighborhoods such as the Choriner Strasse in Prenzlauer Berg, as well as alternative projects of the former Berlin squatter scene, for example on the Kreutziger street festival in Friedrichshain.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinThe lesbian-gay city festival
Europe’s largest LGBTI street festival rises on may 20. and 21. July. The motzstraße is fixed since 1993, integral part of all around the gay district, known Nollendorfplatz in Schöneberg. The writer Christopher Isherwood immortalized the infamous nightlife of the Weimar period, in his “Berlin Stories”, the template for the film musical “Cabaret”.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinDance in August
Dance in August is the international Festival for contemporary dance. This year’s program includes from 9. to 31. August 31 productions, with 160 artists from 15 countries, including a retrospective of works by the American choreographer Deborah Hay, one of the most influential personalities of the post-modern dance. Here are the Zimbabwe-born artist, Nora Chipaumire is to see.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinPop-Culture Festival
Fans of new pop music most likely to travel throughout the summer to different Festivals outside of Berlin. Back in the city, also offers the Festival of Pop-culture from 21. to 23. August international young artists a stage. With this, among other things, CocoRosie, Mykki Blanco, and the Berlin-based English electro-pop musician Planningtorock (photo) are in this year.
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Music, dance and theatre: 10 tips for summer in BerlinMusic Festival In Berlin
Berlin may be a Techno stronghold, but it is also a Mecca for lovers of classical music. The music from the 30. August 19. September, officially opens the fall concert season. In the framework of the festival 22 international orchestras and Ensembles will perform more than 65 works. A Highlight of the Japanese Noh-theatre appearance in the Philharmonie is.
The Myth Of Berlin
The fact that Berlin, with its turbulent history, the epicenter of the 20th century. Century, has inspired many foreigners – not just Americans-to visit the city. “Destroyed, divided and locked in a century that was marked by Chaos and upheaval, Berlin has remained until today a town in the drifter, dreamer and outsider to find a place and finally can roam free,” writes DW-author Stuart brown in his book “City of Exiles”.
Many international artists and intellectuals have lived in Berlin. Among them: Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Susan Sontag, or Nan Goldin. Their public appearances have helped to consolidate Berlin’s Image of a free-spirited city.
In the 1990s, the re-United city of squatters, artists, and DJs drew understood it, the empty Wasteland after the fall of the Berlin wall to transform into an anarchic cultural spaces. Among them, New York, who recognized the similarities between the two cities were.
Has found a new home in Berlin: the musician Howard Katz
“I was here to visit, after the wall had fallen. Berlin, exuding a raw energy that New York had in the 1970s and 1980s,” says Howard Katz, a choreographer, a Performer, a musician and healing practitioner, was born in New York and in the 1990s decided to want to live in Berlin. “There was a lot of space. Everything was so open and crazy. I was able to open myself to all these strange things and people.” Even if this alternative scene in Berlin of today is not what it once was, the city still as a place of refuge where you can escape from the current US policy.
Refuge from the US-policy
“We have to leave our apartment on the day that the Trump was sworn in, officially,” says Alana Range, which has decided with its partner, after a three-month scholarship in the year 2016, with a second office in Brooklyn based Agency in Berlin to set up. “It was a funny Timing, but also purposeful, because it’s totally frustrating to live in a place that is so highly polarized – even if New York is a bubble, in the from all safe.”
Alana Range is a creative Director and wants to stay in Berlin
But even 15 years prior to trump’s election as President of the United States, the terrorist attacks of 2001, New Yorkers have to leave the city on the East coast for Berlin: “I have tried to return to New York. That was a few weeks before the 11. September – and this did not work for me. The city was closed after that,” says Katz, who later returned permanently in the German capital.
A relaxed life and work
Some expats love Berlin because of its night life, the other praising, in turn, the relaxed pace. For Range Berlin feels “like the opposite of New York, where people think that you’re not dead, if you torture yourself 24 hours a day and on an E-Mail with a 45 minute delay, respond”.
Berlin is electrifying the New York
Berlin is like a kind of Airbag, a soft pillow where you can rest well. Especially the attitude towards their work is fundamentally different than in New York. “Work is for Berlin only work.” A healthy attitude, the U.S. Americans, in your opinion, very rarely take. Only the Sunday, the shops are closed in Germany, was very used to, she says. Even in the hyped Start-up scene, it would be slower than in the United States. Many come simply to escape the Stress in their home.
Gentrification grabs in Berlin more
It is, as always, there is a Dilemma: Expats, because you will find in Berlin a better Work-Life Balance, at the same time you are pushing, of all things, the Rents, because they are payment strong. An ominous momentum.
Howard Katz, who since the 1990s, the immediate witness to the change of Berlin’s alternative art scene, don’t want to complain anyway. Rather, he encourages people to get involved for the design of a Berlin that you want. To created for this purpose he rooms in Berlin his own new free. In 2017, opened Katz with his Partner, the “Q-Space”, a rehearsal and performance venue in the East Berlin district of Pankow. For him everything is exactly right: “I love Berlin”, he says. “And I love the changes here.”