Thursday, February 12, 2009

Berlin 7th - 10th February


8th February

1. Neue National Galerie: Mies van der Roher building, Paul Klee exhibition
2. Alte National Galerie: German Romantics, Caspar David Fridrich
3. Pergamon Museum: Pergamon alter piece, Ishtar gate, Market gate of Miletus, Babylonian processional street
4. Altes Museum: bust of Nefertiti
5. Berliner Dom (Cathedral)
6.Unter den Linden: long street between Brandenburg Gate and the Museumsinsel
7. Film by Dante Lam, part of the Berlinale, screened at Cubix near Alexanderplatz
8. Visit the Reichstag, go up the Dome by Norman Foster, have dinner at the Reichstag restaurant


9th February

1. Bauhaus Museum
2. Cafe Einstein for lunch
3. Jewish Museum: Daniel Libeskind building, and the Holocaust tower
4. Check Point Charlie
5. Gestapo HQ 'topographia des terrors'
6. Missing Building by Christian Boltanski, opposite the Jewish School
7. Walk around Alackaescher Hofe
8. Alexanderplatz
9. Kino International on Karl Marx Allee. Saw Michael Winterbottom's documentary of Naomi Klein's book 'The Shock Doctrine'
10. Afterparty for Revolution FIlms at the Newton Bar
11. Lutter & Wenger for supper
12. 'Barbe Bleu' by Catherine Breillat at Potsdammer Platz, Sony Centre


10th February

1. Brecht's House
2. Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum
3. Hitler's Bunker, near Wilheln Straise
4. Fragments of the Berlin wall

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