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All articles from August, 2013

Das Literaturhaus: an oasis of calm just off the Ku’Damm

Das Literaturhaus: an oasis of calm just off the Ku’Damm

Berlin’s Literaturhaus is an institution in City West. The beautiful listed building, located on Fasanenstraße just off the busy Kurfürstendamm shopping boulevard, has had many uses since it was built at the end of the [...]

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Steffen Sinzinger’s favourite recipe book

Steffen Sinzinger’s favourite recipe book

The Eleven Madison Park restaurant in New York, under the award-winning Head Chef Daniel Humm, was recently voted fifth best restaurant in the world. In Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook, the restaurant’s sumptuous cuisine (“modern [...]

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Win an evening with the literary giant J.M. Coetzee

Win an evening with the literary giant J.M. Coetzee

The International Literature Festival in Berlin, of which the Hôtel Concorde Berlin is partner, is one of the biggest and best of its kind in the world. This year’s festival, which starts on September 4th, [...]

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Discovering Schöneberg with Carsten Colmorgen III

Discovering Schöneberg with Carsten Colmorgen III

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 French [...]

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Breathtaking Anish Kapoor exhibition in Berlin

Breathtaking Anish Kapoor exhibition in Berlin

It’s quite a coup for Berlin to be staging Anish Kapoor’s new exhibition – he is, after all, one of the world’s most famous and highly regarded sculptors, and he is a guaranteed draw, as [...]

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