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Tulip Enterprises about "Wallywoods": "Impressions from the new Wallywoods location in Berlin Weissensee. The travelling art space/atelier/home of British artist Paul Woods has landed in a derelict GDR "Kulturhaus" located deep into an unfashionable and slightly scary Eastern part of town. Woods works with a pool of some 150 maladjusted unrecognized talents, his taste in musical performers is superb."

Go to that page! There is a lovely video starring those whacky "Ugly Americans"

4th to 16th September 2007.

Check out the English Website

The main venue is the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Tickets for the events are currently available on: tel. 00 49 30 254 89100 or at www.berlinerfestspiele.de or www.ticketonline.de

For further information and enquiries contact the ilb press department at presse@literaturfestival.com or on tel. 00 49 30 27 87 86 45

From "Newsletter III - 2007" : "David Grossman will open this year’s festival with his speech “Writing in a Disaster Zone”. At over 200 events in 13 days, audiences will have the chance to get to know internationally renowned authors, in addition to discovering new voices from contemporary literature.

Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Muldoon (GB) and Jorie Graham (USA), celebrated French novelist Jean Rouaud and best-selling Canadian writer Jane Urquhart are among the 22 authors nominated by the Literatures of the World jury.

Writers who will read from their works in the Kaleidoscope section of the festival include Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka (Nigeria/USA), the winner of the 2007 Büchner-Prize, Martin Mosebach (Germany), the author of the best-selling Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (USA), along with Roberto Saviano (Italy), António Lobo Antunes (Portugal), Isabel Allende (Chile/USA), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Aharon Appelfeld (Israel), Wladimir Kaminer (Germany), Elif Shafak (Turkey), Julia Franck (Germany), A.L. Kennedy (GB), Michael Ondaatje (Canada) and Nicholas Shakespeare (GB).

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Reflections will concentrate on the difficulties faced by the West in understanding Islamic culture. Ian Buruma (The Netherlands/GB), Fatema Mernissi (Morocco), Azar Nafisi (Iran/USA) and Tariq Ramadan (Switzerland) are among the writers who will be discussing this theme.

The organisation “Mothers of Srebrenica” will present its lawsuit from 4 June 2007, which was filed against the Netherlands and the UN because of their failure to render assistance in the massacre of July 1995.

The Focus of this year’s festival is Latin America and has a specific part of the programme dedicated to it. The ilb is especially keen to offer not only established authors but also young writers the opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas.

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In conjunction with the festival, a Worldwide Reading against the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe will take place in Berlin, as well as in other international settings."

Nice story over here: Scheinbar in the 1980s

Believe it or not, Alan is on their next cover!

Another blog from Berlin: Observing Hermann the German. And an amnesic American lost in Berlin.

Kreuzberg in English / Big map

This is work in progress...

Very nice!

"Our House - an old factory building from the turn of the century - was restored and expanded in 1995. The typical Berlin-Kreuzberg charme was kept with bright and spacious rooms and a quiet backyard. On each floor you can find large restrooms. To keep a private atmosphere we do not have TV or telephone in the rooms. International calls can be held at any time from the lobby."

Homepage

Telekom has an english language version of their "Auskunft" which you can reach from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. under 11837.

Prices are 2o cent plus 99 cent for every minute though...

This month under the antlers, Landwehr Canal, Records, The Amen Break, Graefekietz, Don King, Dorit Chrysler (Queen of the Theremin) and diverse photos - follow the links to Dorfdisco for reviews of The Gossip, Sonic Youth and Guitar Wolf. Unter den roten Geweihen

Could someone please add the bookshop?

Ronald is coming to Wrangel Strasse, he is not welcome. The corporation tells us that the site is conveniently close to local schools. If you see this man do not approach him, he is armed and dangerous.

Aside from the culinary and nutritional danger posed by this individual there is also the question of his destruction of the micro-economics of the neighborhoods in which he establishes his 'restaurants' , the conditions endured by his employees, not to mention his complicity in the distortion of the macro economics of food production and contribution to global warming.

His food is shit. He is interested only in profit. Do you want him as a neighbour?

Gegen Ronald? kein McDonalds in Kreuzberg (MySpace),

UK Indymedia

The 5 Percent says: "We have noticed that there is a lack here in Berlin of a really good alternative magazine written in English, despite the fact that English is almost certainly the second language of Berlin (perhaps aside from Turkish) and the place is jam-packed with English-speakers of a creative bent, looking to find their way in a vast and sometimes forbidding city."

More at their MySpace

"Le Petit Laboratoire is an alternative place (3 rooms) in Berlin, created by Aymeri Zaghdoudi and Mathilde Bouvard. Open since November 2006 closed to the Boxaghener Platz, it's a Galerie, a Bar, a Boutique (Sweets from Provence and Accessories of Creators from Japan, France, Germany, Finland...) and an Atelier.They make a lot of differents events inside: Concerts, Art-Performances, Vernissages, Meetings, Parties..."

Check out their MySpace

The open air cinema in the middle of Kreuzberg is back. They show movies in their original language only.

Well we all kinda expected this sooner or later...The achingly silent behemoth on Torstr. ecke Prenzlauer Allee, once home to SED büros, the Hitlerjugend, and a Jewish-owned department store will be the latest SOHO club, yet another refuge for jet-setting douchebags with way too much money.

For the lame and ignorant who'd rather not disturb any moviegoers after a wonderful meal with friends.

"Lady Gaby's monthly international gathering of poets, artists and other highwaymen hardly needs introduction. If you have not yet been aboard this bohemian steamer, then this Sunday is your chance.

SUNDAY 11.2.06 FUEL at TRÖDLER BAR DRESDENERSTR. 123* 21:00 FREE OF CHARGE

(*it is the dark alley under the Kottbusser gate just next to the Babylon theatre)

We will be presenting our newest taunting composition and several equally mystifying songs.

The lately returned poetess Andy Snelling will be giving her first reading after her long exile.

and of course Lady Gaby will master the ceremony and perhaps favour us with her fervent verse.

We hope to see you there and until then remain your ever loving

Sister Chain & Brother John "