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All articles from June, 2013

CSD 2013 in pictures

CSD 2013 in pictures

This year’s Christopher Street Day, Berlin’s annual pride event, was a wonderful mix of bizarre, political and emotional. Take a look through our gallery to refresh your memory or find out what you missed. We’re [...]

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Fête de la Musique: trombone choirs & amateur popstars

Fête de la Musique: trombone choirs & amateur popstars

This Friday 21 June, the whole of Berlin will become a stage for the annual Fête de la Musique from 4pm to 10pm. This festival is quite literally unmissable: wherever you go, you will come [...]

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CSD 2013: more than just a queer street festival

CSD 2013: more than just a queer street festival

Germany’s LGBT Pride, the Christopher Street Day (CSD), is set to take place in Berlin for the 35th time this Saturday 22 June. The event is a colourful and euphoric celebration of LGBT culture, and [...]

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Discovering Schöneberg with Carsten Colmorgen II

Discovering Schöneberg with Carsten Colmorgen II

The Hotel Concorde Berlin’s General Manager Carsten Colmorgen was kind enough to show me around his neighbourhood in Schöneberg recently. In Part I, we explored the legendary Deko Behrendt fancy dress shop; the wonderfully authentic [...]

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Our pick of Berlin’s best open-air cinemas in 2013

Our pick of Berlin’s best open-air cinemas in 2013

The open air cinema season in Berlin is supposed to run from May to September, but it got off to a slow start this year due to the rain and stubbornly low temperatures. Now the [...]

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Natalia Wörner on cats, public reading & prosthetic limbs

Natalia Wörner on cats, public reading & prosthetic limbs

The 24-hour literary festival 24 Stunden Buch, debuted in Berlin recently. With sold-out readings, lively discussions and unusual special events around-the-clock, the festival was a huge success. At the Hotel Concorde Berlin, the German actress [...]

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