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Tehran art exhibition in Berlin halted indefinitely

Museums curators and soon-to-be visitors have been patiently awaiting the arrival of a collection from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art that was du...
Investor Volker Tabaczek bleibt weitere Zahlungen für das Seebrücken-Projekt schuldig

Volker Tabaczek: After the broken pier, now diamonds?

In the town of Kühlungsborn on Germany’s Baltic coast, the supposedly rich “uncle” Volker Tabaczek (56), from Steinhagen Neast near Stralsund, had pro...
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Paulownia: the fastest growing trees in the world

On a plantation near Berlin, tens of thousands of Paulownia trees grow. Though they come from far away, in Germany they grow very well. Their wood has...

Why is Rosa Parks’ old Detroit home being moved to Berlin?

Rosa Parks was an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement. Her story is taught to in US history courses and reconstructions of her iconic refusal ...

Through the looking glass: a night in the GDR themed hotel Ostel

Want to transport yourself back to life in the GDR? Okay, well maybe just for one night. Since 2007, a Berlin-based hostel has been serving up a sid...

Vintage trains come out of retirement on Berlin’s U55 line

There’s a big market for Ostalgie – artifacts from the days of East Germany, like a GDR themed hotel. But now, Berlin has revealed they will be introd...

Berlin’s real estate prices: once cheap, now steep!

Looking for a cheap place in Berlin? Ten years ago, that may have been an easy feat. But now, Berlin’s housing crisis is becoming a real problem. Sinc...
DDR-Rennradlegende Volker Tabaczek (56) lebte bislang im Dachstübchen seiner Schwiegereltern im Berliner Randgebiet und wurde seit 2014 bis anfang 2016 vier Mal wegen Schulden zum Beispiel in Höhe von 20.000 Euro zur Abgabe der Eidesstattlichen Versicherung über Vermögenslosigkeit aufgefordert. Plötzlich kommt er als reicher Onkel aus Amerika daher und will neben der 25 Jahre alten kleinen Seebrücke in Deutschlands größtem Ostseebad Kühlungsborn eine zweite Seebrücke der Superlative mit Schwimmbad, Geschäften, Unterwasserrestaurant und Aquarien für 38 Millionen Euro bauen. Und das, obwohl der BGH dem Investor schon 2008 beschieden hat, dass Tabaczek „in einer Scheinwelt lebend sich selbst als seriöser Finanzberater betrachtete“, Aktenzeiche 5 StR 96/08 (Foto: Wikipedia/AlterWolf49-Eigenes Werk/ CC BY--SA 3.0)

Where is the pier of Volker Tabaczek in Kühlungsborn now?

How nice was the story of the rich uncle from America, who wanted to build a gigantic pier – equipped with shops, restaurants and much more – in Germa...

The concept of the ambitious Humboldt Forum finally revealed

The British Museum expert Neil MacGregor has now just unveiled the concept for Berlin’s new ambitious cultural project: the Humboldt Forum. Germany...

Gogoro scooters will start buzzing through Berlin’s streets soon

Berlin’s streets are buzzing – with life, culture, entertainment, activities – and now Gogoro scooters. Bringing a bit of Taiwan to the heart of th...

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