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Tempelhof

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Fashion Week turns Berlin into runway

Society: 16 Jan 12
Berlin Fashion Week kicks off on Tuesday, with an array of shows throughout the city during the week, runway shows at the Brandenburg Gate and the three-day Bread and Butter trade fair at Tempelhof Airport. READ »

'Forest boy' rejects help to find out who he is

Society: 28 Sep 11
The English-speaking boy who says he lived wild with his father in the forests near Berlin for five years, has told authorities he doesn’t want them to help find out who he is. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 8 - 14

Lifestyle: 8 Sep 11
This Week's Highlights: Breakdancing in Hamburg, an art weekend in Munich, and a music festival sets up at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. READ »

Urban gardening takes off at Berlin's fabled airport Tempelhof

Society: 29 Aug 11
It's sunflowers instead of planes and kale instead of kerosene at the German capital's legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest urban gardens. AFP’s Deborah Cole reports. READ »

What's on in Germany: July 21 - July 27

Lifestyle: 21 Jul 11
This Week's Highlights: Pyrotechnics in Munich, silent film in Hamburg, and sound art in Berlin. READ »

Revenge attacks spark fear of extremist violence

National: 28 Jun 11
A string of tit-for-tat attacks in Berlin between political extremists on the far-left and right, including an alleged knife attack on a young mother walking with her three children, has given rise to fears of surging ideological violence. READ »

What's on in Germany: May 26 - June 1

Lifestyle: 26 May 11
This week’s highlights: Contemporary design in Berlin, classic cars in Hamburg, and a night of music in Munich. READ »

Injuries and arrests as neo-Nazi march stopped in Berlin

National: 15 May 11
Several people were injured in clashes during an attempted neo-Nazi demonstration in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin on Saturday. Over 350 anti-Nazi demonstrators managed to stop the march. READ »

German 'thought car' could be driven on Sabbath, Rabbi says

Science & Technology: 12 Apr 11
A German-designed car that can be driven by thought alone could allow Jews to drive on the Sabbath, a young Rabbi and artificial intelligence scientist says. READ »

Suspect arrested in mosque arson case

National: 22 Jan 11
A 30-year-old man was arrested Friday evening in Berlin's Neukölln district on suspicion of arson, following a series of attacks on several mosques in the German capital, a police spokesman said. READ »

Arson attacks against Berlin mosques continue

Society: 8 Jan 11
Police in Berlin are investigating an arson attack on a mosque in the capital city after a man walking past saw flames at the entrance in the early hours of Saturday morning. READ »

Islamic centre hit by arson attack

Society: 9 Dec 10
An Islamic centre in Berlin was hit by an arson attack on Thursday, with an assailant hurling a petrol bomb against the building’s facade. It was the third such incident involving a Muslim building in the capital in a fortnight. READ »

What's on in Germany: December 2 - 8

Lifestyle: 2 Dec 10
This week's highlights: A singing Christmas tree in Frankfurt, a record sale in Cologne, a bluegrass jamboree in Munich, and a tattoo convention in Berlin. READ »

What's on in Germany: November 4 - 10

Lifestyle: 4 Nov 10
This week's highlights: Celebrate Scandinavia in Frankfurt, attend a concert in a Hamburg house, and overnight with reindeer in a floating museum hotel room in Berlin. READ »

Scientists predict golden future for 'self-driving' cars

Science & Technology: 13 Oct 10
Scientists in Germany unveiled the latest self-driven car on Wednesday amid predictions the days of humans behind the wheel are numbered as technology helps reduce accidents and help the environment. READ »

Düsseldorf to host Eurovision Song Contest

Society: 12 Oct 10
Public broadcaster ARD announced on Tuesday that the western German city of Düsseldorf will host the next Eurovision Song Contest, beating out its more cosmopolitan rivals Berlin and Hamburg. READ »

Berlin Festival pulls plug after crowd build-up

Society: 11 Sep 10
The Berlin Festival was closed early on Friday night and thousands of people sent home after a crowd built up around the entrance to one of the hangers being used as venues at Tempelhof Airport. But the show will go on Saturday. READ »

Berlin buskers break record for longest street concert

Society: 9 Sep 10
A group of German musicians broke the world record for busking on Thursday, logging 24-hour street concert in Berlin to kick off the city’s Popkomm international music trade show. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 9 - 15

Lifestyle: 9 Sep 10
This Week's Highlights: A weekend of art in Munich, Hamburg celebrates China, and the Berlin Festival lands at Tempelhof Airport. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 2 - 8

Lifestyle: 2 Sep 10
This Week's Highlights: A celebration of street art in Hamburg, a wine festival in Frankfurt, and "Music Week" in Berlin. READ »

Dancing with fate - performance explores the plight of asylum seekers

Lifestyle: 23 Aug 10
Fear, hope, and frustration – the plight of an asylum seeker is not an easy one. But as Sally McGrane reports, a dance project at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport is hoping to show the human fates trapped in a bureaucratic limbo. READ »

The Best of Berlin in July

Lifestyle: 20 Jul 10
Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, in July finds Elysian airfields, explores laundrette culture, and scrutinises a corporate shantytown. READ »

Berlin Fashion Week begins

Lifestyle: 7 Jul 10
The Berlin Fashion Week begins on Wednesday as the German capital transforms itself into a giant catwalk for designers, models and fashion industry insiders for the next few days. But plenty of events are also open to the public. READ »

What's on in Germany: July 1 - 7

Lifestyle: 1 Jul 10
This Week's Highlights: Fashion in Berlin, electronica in Hanau, and the Rhine goes up in flames. READ »

Candy Bomber plane makes crash landing

Society: 20 Jun 10
Seven people were injured on Saturday when a historic plane used in the Berlin Airlift made an emergency landing shortly after taking off for a pleasure tour around the city. READ »

Design festival taxies for takeoff at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport

Lifestyle: 9 Jun 10
With Berlin’s DMY design festival set to start on Wednesday, The Local took a sneak peak of what’s on offer. READ »

Berlin Airlift remembered at Tempelhof

National: 12 May 10
Just days after Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was turned into a giant city park, people gathered on Wednesday in the German capital to commemorate the Berlin Airlift. READ »

Whistles for Wowereit at Tempelhof park opening

Society: 8 May 10
Around 50 demonstrators whistled through Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit's speech at the opening of a new park on the former Tempelhof airfield on Saturday. READ »

What's on in Germany: May 6 - 12

Lifestyle: 6 May 10
This Week's Highlights: A new park opens at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, Hamburg holds a big birthday bash for it's celebrated port, and Nathalie Merchant plays Cologne. READ »

The Best of Berlin in January

Lifestyle: 21 Jan 10
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, hits the catwalk for Fashion Week, uncovers the art of being tacky and helps you brush up your German skills. READ »

Fashion Week brings visitors and their cash to Berlin

Society: 20 Jan 10
Despite the decidedly inelegant snow and icy temperatures that continue to bedeck Germany’s capital, more than 130,000 style-savvy visitors descended on Berlin Wednesday to trek through the 2010 Autumn/Winter Fashion Week. READ »

Rapper fined over 'nauseating' misogynist lyrics

Society: 21 Dec 09
A Berlin rapper who goes by the stage name of Frauenarzt – or "gynaecologist" – was fined €8,400 by a court on Monday for distributing violent pornographic writings and depictions of violence. READ »

Allied Museum angles for space at Tempelhof Airport

National: 11 Dec 09
Berlin’s Allied Museum has unveiled a proposal to move from its remote location in the city's Zehlendorf district to Tempelhof Airport by 2014. READ »

Google Earth adds WWII aerial shots of Berlin

Science & Technology: 7 Dec 09
Google Earth recently added a new feature for history fans: With the program’s historical imagery function, users now can explore the devastating ruin of Berlin just before the end of the Second World War. READ »

Berlin stokes foreign investor land rush

Lifestyle: 17 Nov 09
Berlin is a roomy place, but private investors from Britain and the United States have come to see the German capital as fertile ground for a cheap property deal. Ben Knight finds out how much of the city is left for Exberliner magazine. READ »

Taxiing for takeoff at Berlin's Tempelhof

Analysis & Opinion: 21 Oct 09
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport might be closed to air traffic, but Roger Boyes, correspondent for British daily The Times, believes it could still help the German capital soar. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 8 - 14

Lifestyle: 8 Oct 09
This Week's Highlights: Mucha in Munich, an onion festival in Weimar, and a candlelit commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Leipzig's Peaceful Revolution. READ »

What's on in Germany: September 24-30

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. READ »

Tempelhof to become enormous city park

Society: 31 Aug 09
The airfield of Berlin's historic Tempelhof airport will become the German capital’s largest park by the summer of 2010, city officials announced on Monday. READ »

Schönefeld airport to get new name for re-opening

National: 23 Aug 09
Berlin’s Schönefeld airport will get a new name when current extension work is completed, but the city remains uncertain over what it will be. READ »

Berlin Festival takes off at Tempelhof Airport

Society: 10 Aug 09
Thousands of music fans descended on Berlin’s iconic Tempelhof Airport over the weekend for the fourth installment of the Berlin Festival, which brought Jarvis Cocker and a not-so-scandalous Peter Doherty. READ »

What's on in Germany: August 6 - 12

Lifestyle: 6 Aug 09
This Week's Highlights: A rock festival invades Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, Roman gods fill a hall in Dresden, and summertime revellers splash through the fountain at Frankfurt's opera house. READ »

Poor, sexy and incompetent in Berlin

Analysis & Opinion: 21 Jul 09
Berlin is facing months of public transport chaos caused by a near-total shutdown of the city’s S-Bahn commuter train network. Portnoy's Stammtisch asks what the mayor is doing to end the mess. READ »

Hamburg street festival ends with riot

National: 5 Jul 09
Anarchists from Hamburg’s autonomous scene battled police for six hours late Saturday and early Sunday in the trendy Schanzenviertel neighbourhood after a street fair. At least 67 rioters were arrested and 27 police officers injured. READ »

Buttering the bread of Berlin's fashion scene

Lifestyle: 29 Jun 09
Exberliner Magazine talks to Karl-Heinz Müller, the man behind this week's Bread & Butter fashion show taking place at Berlin's iconic former airport Tempelhof. READ »

Would-be airport squatters held back by huge police presence

Society: 21 Jun 09
More than 100 people were arrested in Berlin on Saturday while trying to storm and squat the disused Tempelhof airport. READ »

Berlin votes to keep Tempelhof an architectural monument

Society: 8 Jun 09
Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district voted overwhelmingly in a referendum on Sunday to keep the storied Tempelhof airport an architectural monument and apply for UNESCO World Heritage status. READ »

Bike couriers rolling into Berlin for championship

Sport: 27 May 09
More than 1,000 couriers will descend on Berlin this weekend for the 14th European Cycle Messenger Championship, and defending champion Michael Brinkmann said Wednesday he is ready for them. READ »

Berlin thanks airlift pilots 60 years later

National: 12 May 09
The city of Berlin on Tuesday kicked off celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. READ »

One more drag

Lifestyle: 8 Apr 09
Remember the smoking ban? You might not have noticed, but it is still legal. Now a petition is being distributed to kill it off with a referendum. Ben Knight meets the campaigners who want to reclaim their right to nicotine suicide. READ »