May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Reeperbahn":
National: 2 May 12
Berlin and Hamburg saw their most peaceful May Days in years, authorities claimed on Tuesday. But the police were accused of "unbelievable brutality" as one anti-capitalist demonstration was broken up in the German capital.
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Lifestyle: 31 Jan 12
With a four-star hotel soon joining the brothels on Hamburg’s legendary Reeperbahn strip, Stephen Lowman reports how the city’s “sinful mile” is changing.
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National: 26 Jan 12
Germany’s Federal Administrative Court ruled Wednesday that police can film on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn red light district for crime prevention purposes, ending a legal dispute closely watched by privacy advocates.
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Travel: 17 Nov 11
Had your fill of Oktoberfest? Unimpressed by the Reeperbahn? The Local List counts down Germany's oddest tourist attractions.
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National: 5 Sep 11
A taxi driver in Hamburg became so enraged during a fare dispute with a passenger that he beat the woman and then locked her in the car boot for five hours before she was freed, the police reported on Monday.
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Society: 1 Sep 11
A ban on alcohol in Hamburg's public transport system starts Thursday – though drinkers are being given one month's grace before the €40 fines are levied.
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Society: 27 Apr 11
British actor Hugh Laurie, best known as “House” from the hit US medical drama, will make his German musical debut in Hamburg on Wednesday.
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National: 23 Mar 11
National rail provider Deutsche Bahn plans to improve safety for passengers by significantly increasing their number of security personnel, the company said Wednesday.
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Sport: 20 Jan 11
Hamburg football club St. Pauli has shown the red card to strippers performing inside a corporate box owned by one of the city's many lap dance clubs – but they can dance once matches are over.
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Sport: 17 Sep 10
The northern port city of Hamburg is bracing for a heated football derby pitting HSV against FC St Pauli this weekend. Joseph Corcos reports on a potentially violent rivalry packed with ideology.
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Lifestyle: 19 Aug 10
This week's highlights: Pop in Cologne, Argentine stories in Frankfurt, dragonboat races in Hamburg and a palace festival in Potsdam.
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Lifestyle: 16 Aug 10
The Beatles might have hailed from Liverpool, but the band that changed the world got its big break in Hamburg. David Sharp traces the steps of the Fab Four fifty years later.
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Lifestyle: 25 Feb 10
This Week's Highlights: Macbeth in Berlin, pole dancing in Hamburg, and a folk metal festival comes to Munich.
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Lifestyle: 11 Feb 10
This Week's Highlights: A film festival in Berlin, Karneval in Cologne, and Warhol and pals go on view in Hamburg.
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Society: 3 Dec 09
Paul McCartney kicked off his first European tour in five years Wednesday night in Hamburg, the German city where he first exploded on to the pop scene with the Beatles nearly five decades ago.
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Lifestyle: 24 Sep 09
This Week's Highlights: Tori Amos plays Munich, Arto Lindsay leads a parade through Berlin, and sculptures from the Mao era arrive in Frankfurt.
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Lifestyle: 13 Jul 09
Schlager, Germany’s own brand of schmaltzy pop music, faces plenty of ridicule. But as Jeff Kavanagh reports, that doesn’t stop thousands from celebrating its cheesy, good-time vibes each year in Hamburg.
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Society: 11 Jul 09
A high-ranking policeman is under investigation after colleagues reported him for allegedly attacking a suspected fraudster who was being held in the police station cells.
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Society: 31 May 09
Forty-nine years after the Beatles' fateful arrival, the German port city of Hamburg is claiming its place in the history of what became the world's most successful ever pop group with a new museum -- called Beatlemania.
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National: 29 May 09
Thomas Wolf, Germany’s most-wanted criminal, was arrested without a fight on Hamburg’s notorious Reeperbahn red-light strip on Thursday evening. He had been on the run for nine years.
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Society: 17 Apr 09
The recession has reached the German sex industry, with many brothels offering specials to keep business pumping, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday.
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Society: 28 Nov 08
One vendor at the Santa Pauli Christmas market in Hamburg has taken a non-traditional but all-natural approach to Christmas gifts this year, selling handmade spruce wood dildos, Hamburger Morgenpost reported on Friday.
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Society: 31 Oct 08
Hamburg politicians are spearheading a discussion about racist discrimination by club bouncers in the city’s famous red-light Reeperbahn district after recent complaints from an Ethiopian patron.
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Sport: 6 Jun 08
Want to know where to catch all the action for this summer’s European football championships? Check out The Local’s list of best places to catch a match in Germany and submit your own suggestions.
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Lifestyle: 25 Mar 08
Hamburg's oldest bordello might be closing, but bawdy St. Pauli is still thriving. Campbell Jefferys takes a closer look at a red light district in flux and the demise of its sex industry.
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Travel: 27 Feb 08
Hamburg might be irredeemably damp, but Campbell Jefferys finds plenty to fill the wet afternoons in Germany’s second biggest city.
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