German Director Jan Ole Gerster’s low-budget, black-and-white debut film Oh Boy! was one of the surprise success stories of 2012 with around 230 000 cinema-goers and rave reviews, particularly in Berlin, where the film was shot. [...]
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Where else in the world could you find works from the likes of Ai Weiwei, Olafur Eliasson or Cerith Wyn Evans displayed inside an enormous world war II bunker, whose previous uses include GDR tropical [...]
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Martina Gedeck is one of Germany’s most prolific actresses. Acclaimed both at home and abroad, she shone in box office hit The Lives of Others (2006); won a LOLA for her performance in Mostly Martha [...]
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This Friday 26th, the German Film Prize awards ceremony – Germany’s answer to the Oscars – will be taking place at the magnificent Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin. Amongst the nominees are Martina Gedeck, who the Sunday Times [...]
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The Camera Work gallery on Kantstrasse, founded in 1997, is named after the legendary magazine published by American photographer Alfred Stieglitz at the start of the 20th century. The gallery has an emphasis on vintage photography, and has [...]
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The statuette handed out at the German Film Prize each year, the Lola, is named after Marlene Dietrich’s infamous nightclub singer in the classic 1931 film The Blue Angel; and the Lola Festival – taking place this [...]
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