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2009-02-18

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a view of the the Box Offices at the Arkaden am Potsdamer Platz (a shopping center)

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the employees at this clothing store were changing the mannequins...some arms in a corner

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a native american statue outside a store

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Cinemaxx on Potsdamer Platz has been the main Berlinale cinema since 2000. From early in the morning till late at night, films in every section are shown on the theatre’s 19 screens.Cinemaxx was built as part of the new development of Potsdamer Platz and was opened in 1998. It offers all the advantages of a well-equipped multiplex cinema. Besides several snack bars, it is also home to the Maxx Bar, where Knut Elstermann hosts his nightly Berlinale talks for Berlin’s Radio Eins

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for people to take pictures in front of, the berlinale bear

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a film poster of one of the films being shown

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the police

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a film poster of one of the films i saw there. I skoni tou chronou "The Dust Of Time" Director: Theo Angelopoulos Cast: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irene Jacob

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The Berlinale Palast on Potsdamer Platz is actually a theater for musicals. Every year, for two weeks, it is transformed into the most prestigious venue of the Berlinale. The Competition films celebrate their premiere. A throng of journalists, fans and autograph hunters wait for the stars to appear on the red carpet. The opening and awards ceremonies also take place in the Berlinale Palast. And when the lights go out in the auditorium, things really heat up in the basement of the Berlinale Palas

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the red carpet. all of the big premieres were shown here, with the celebrities on this red carpet

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the mcdonalds where i ate twice

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a sculpture on a frozen pond near Potsdamer Platz

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the Potsdamer Platz skyline

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the city library where I spent many hours during Summer 2006 with the Rutgers in Berlin program

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the Philharmonie

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free internet spots all over the city

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an advertisement in the Arkaden

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so a co-worker of mine asked me to get her a bag in berlin. so I took pictures of the bags i saw to send to her, to ask which one she wanted

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a map of the greater berlin area

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The Urania has been a venue for events since 1888 and it is one of the most important historical places for film in Germany, as some of the first motion pictures were shown here. Nowadays it serves not only as a multi-purpose lecture hall and cultural centre, but it is also one of the largest repertory cinemas in Berlin. In the Humboldt Auditorium and in the smaller Kleist Auditorium, the Urania shows selected repertory films, classics, art house films, special film series and, on selected dates, films followed by a discussion. Until the Berlinale moved to Potsdamer Platz in 2000, the striking complex was the main venue of the Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest. It was also home to the programme segment for new German film. Today the Urania hosts repeat screenings of Competition films – and the beginning of the show is still announced by the striking of a gong.

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a view of the Weltzeituhr and the Fernsehturm at Alexanderplatz

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they have so much american fast food there

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i thought this was a place where i could get a back massage, until i remembered that the word "to bake" in german is "backen". this was a bakery

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L'Oreal Paris was a huge sponsor of the festival. L’ORÉAL PARiS will again set up a make-up studio on Potsdamer Platz. Here the Berlinale audience can let experienced make-up artists give them the new “Berlinale Look” by L’ORÉAL PARiS.

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For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, an exhibition was set up around important parts of Berlin, where the change before and after the falling of the wall has been drastic

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some street art near Schonhaueseralle

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a euro shop, like our dollar stores

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In the mid-Twenties architects Max Bischoff and Fritz Wilms were hired to convert the old garages of the “Großen Berliner Pferdeeisenbahn AG” (horse railway) on Schönhauser Allee into a cinema. The Colosseum opened its doors for the first time on September 12, 1924 and was the first movie theatre in the working-class district of Prenzlauer Berg in the northeast of Berlin. The long, narrow theatre seated 1,200 people back then and was turned into a talkie theatre with 1,365 seats five years later. In 1957 was refitted to serve as a DEFA premiere cinema. The Colosseum has been operating as a multiplex ever since renewed construction work on the building was completed in 1997. In 2005, the Colosseum hosted Berlinale screenings for the first time. A selection of films from the Panorama, Perspektive Deutsches Kino and Forum sections are screened in the main theater to an especially mixed and easy-going crowd.

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the film poster of one of the documentary films i saw. It was about Kushras, communities of transgender women in large cities of Pakistan

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graffiti/street art on Friedrichstrasse

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more

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The Berlinale gets a huge boost by gaining the Friedrichstadtpalast as a venue in 2009. With 1,895 seats, 1,750 of which are available for film screenings, it will be the biggest cinema at the International Film Festival. Here the festival will show movies from the Competition and Berlinale Special sections. Normally the Friedrichstadtpalast serves as Europe’s largest show theatre. The Berlin institution has a hundred years of history behind it and was rebuilt in 1984 – on a gigantic scale. The Friedrichstadtpalast is home to the largest theatre stage in the world. For both weeks of the Berlinale, the show theatre will be transformed into a “film palace”. To make that possible, certified, top-range professional cinema equipment will be installed in the theatre

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at night

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a view of the Fernsehturm and Bode Museum from the bridge on Friedrichstrasse over the Spree River

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my room at the hostel! it was an 8 bed all female dorm.

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One of the view from our window. you can see one of the venues, Babylon, here.

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now a little to the left from our window, a view of the Volksbühne

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and then all the way to the left. a view of Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse and the conveniently located U-Bahn (U2) (subway)

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the view of the stage in Friedrichstadtpalast before the start of the film. when the film starts the curtains rise

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another view, of the seats

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tall buildings at potsdamer platz.

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pieces of the Berlin wall, part of the 20 Jahre nach der Mauerfall exhibition

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an advertisement for cable...the couch i took naps on between screenings

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a film poster of a German film I saw Alle Anderen Director: Maren Ade Cast: Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka

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a film poster of the film "La teta asustada", which I also saw. Director: Claudia Llosa Cast: Magaly Solier, Susi Sànchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón, Delci Heredia This film won the most prestigious award of the festival, Golden Bear for the Best Film

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picture of H & M

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after one of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino films I saw, the two main actors of the film, along with the director, producers, sound techs, composer, camera men, all came up on stage. the film was "Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf". only at film festivals are you able to meet the cast and crew like this.

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a picture of the Rotes Rathause, or Red City Hall, near Alexanderplatz

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with the Fernsehturm

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the DDR Museum

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the Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral)

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the Berlin sewer system

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a statue of Friedrich the Great and the road Unter den Linden

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closer

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after walking all the way down unter den linden, from alexanderplatz to the brandenburger tor, i had to sit down for a while before i could take more photos.

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the Brandenburg Gate

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the only proof i was in berlin

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Hotel Adlon, where Michael Jackson held his baby out of the window

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my hostel, St. Christopher's Berlin

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The lobby of Friedrichstadtpalast

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the stained glass architecture of Friedrichspalast

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the line outside for the next film

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the advertising in the U-Bahn stations was a bit excessive

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even on the stairs

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more graffiti

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my 2nd and last döner kebab + fanta meal of the trip.

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the remains of my döner

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some murals in the alexanderplatz u-bahn station

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the flower store we used to pass every day in summer 2006

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the beginning of my trip down memory lane of Rutgers/Duke in Berlin 2006. the U8 to Kotbusser Tor.

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random old germans

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the turkish farmers market in Kreuzberg

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the beginning of adalbertstrasse

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construction in the streets

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the Kreuzberg museum

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street art

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florist

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the sushi place where we would eat 1/2 price happy hour sushi

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turkish music store

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the scary trinkteufel bar

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dog poop and an orange peel. there is dog poop all along the sidewalks of kreuzberg because people do not clean it up after their dog does their business.

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the internet cafe we used to go to

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there were old punks (literally, punks from the late 60s and 70s) sitting out here in the summer drinking at all hours of the day and night