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What’s on in Germany: October 25 – 31

This Week's Highlights: A big birthday celebration in Berlin, jazz in Frankfurt, and English theatre in Munich and Hamburg.

Published: 25 October 2012 14:48 CEST
What's on in Germany: October 25 – 31
Photo: DPA

BERLIN

Events

Berlin’s 775th Anniversary Celebration

The first documented mention of Berlin dates from October 28, 1237. That means the city officially turns 775 on Sunday. Berliners have been celebrating all year, but the festivities culminate this weekend in a big bash in the Nikolaiviertel. Go and marvel at fire installations and street theatre taking place in the historic district. Of course the party wouldn’t be complete without a market straight out of the Middle Ages. Here’s your chance to stock up on hand-dipped candles, spun wool, copper, and ironwork.

Price: Free

Location: Nikolaiviertel, around St. Nicholas Church.

Times: Saturday, October 27, and Sunday, October 28

More Information: www.berlin.de

Another Country Bookshop’s Halloween Party

If Edward Gorey were alive and living in Berlin, he’s be at Another Country Friday night wining and dining with his fellow lovers of the macabre. Go in costume to the English language bookshop’s annual Halloween party and maybe you’ll go home with a prize.

Price: €5 contribution towards dinner

Location: Another Country, Riemannstrasse 7

Times: Friday, October 26, 8pm

Phone: 030 6940 1160

More Information: www.anothercountry.de

Music/Concerts

Tura Ya Moya

The Nordic ensemble takes their performances out of the traditional concert hall setting and instead creates beautiful site-specific experiences in places like caves, planetariums, churches, industrial ruins, and icebergs. This time the group brings their mesmerising music and projected images to the brick walls of Berlin’s Freies Museum. Check it out Thursday night.

Price: TBD

Location: Freies Museum Berlin, Potsdamer Strasse 91

Times: Thursday, October 25, 8pm

Phone: 030 34 72 18 14

More Information: www.freies-museum.com

COLOGNE

Music/Concerts

Hot Chip

Pitchfork called Hot Chip’s latest disc In Our Heads “their most playful and colorful record yet.” It’s also full of joy. Have fun on the dance floor Monday at Cologne’s Live Music Hall when the English electro-rockers start their four-date run in Germany.

Price: €25

Location: LiveMusicHall
, Lichtstrasse 30

Times: Monday, October 29, 8pm

Tickets: 0221 2801

More Information: www.livemusichall.de

FRANKFURT

Music/Concerts

Frankfurt Jazz Festival

Rock meets jazz in Frankfurt this week. The duo of French saxophonist/clarinetist Michel Portal and Paris-based Israeli pianist Yaron Herman kick off the German Jazz Festival Frankfurt’s four-night program Thursday. Friday sees British pianist Keith Tippett jamming with Soft Machine Legacy. And on Saturday the power trio Stick Men goes into overdrive when legendary Frank Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio steps on stage. Too hot! Cool down a bit at the kinder concert Sunday afternoon.

Price: €37.50; €95.50 (All three nights); €7.50 – €11 (Children’s concert)

Location: hr-Sendesaal, Bertramstrasse 8

Times: Thursday, October 25 – Sunday, October 28

Tickets: 069 155-2000

More Information: www.hr-online.de

La Galania

When soprano Raquel Andueza starts to sing you’re transported back to a time when conquistadors bowed to the Infanta of Spain and Velasquez mixed paints on a palette. Stop in at the Cervantes Institute Thursday night when her group La Galania performs early music from the Iberian Peninsula.

Price: €10

Location: Instituto Cervantes, Staufenstrasse 1

Times: Thursday, October 25, 8pm

Phone: 069 7137 4970

More Information: www.frankfurt.cervantes.es

Film

Homage to Carole Bouquet

The ravishing French actress Carole Bouquet made her film debut in 1977 in Luis Bunuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire. A decade later she brought home a Cesar Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Beautiful For You. See that film and others this weekend in Frankfurt. The German Film Institute is showing a handful of Bouquet’s best films with English subtitles. And if you go Sunday morning when her latest movie Impardonnables screens, the leading lady will be there too.

Price: €7

Location: Cinema in the German Film Museum,
Schaumainkai 41

Times: Friday, October 26, 6pm; Saturday, October 27, 8:30pm; Sunday, October 28, 11am and 7:30pm; Wednesday, October 31, 6pm

Tickets: 069 961 220 220

More Information: www.deutsches-filminstitut.de

HAMBURG

Theatre

The Two Henrys

A pair of British chaps both called Henry host an off the wall talk show in a humorous theatre piece premiering Saturday in Hamburg. With unexpected guests, live music, live cooking, and plenty of comedy, The Two Henrys offers a fun opportunity for anglophones living in Germany to get a little English-language entertainment.

Price: €16

Location: Monsun Theater, Friedensallee 20

Times: Saturday, October 27, 8pm and Sunday, November 11, 6pm

Tickets:  0180 50 40 300 (0,14 €/Minute (Landlines), 0.42 € (Mobiles)

More Information: www.twohenrys.net

LEIPZIG

Events

Halloween in the Zoo

Dress up like a wild animal Wednesday and head to the zoo. Leipzig Zoo’s annual Halloween party features face painting, pumpkin carving, and a bonfire. Are you brave enough to embark on the ghost tour? Clutch your torches tightly, there’s no telling what kinds of savage beasts you’ll encounter.

Price: €17 (Adults); €10 (Kids); Free for kids in costume

Location: Zoo Leipzig, Pfaffendorfer Strasse 29

Times: Wednesday, October 31

More Information: www.zoo-leipzig.de

MUNICH

Theatre

A Beautiful View

Two women. Twenty years. Relationships like the one shared by “M” and “L” in Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View are the kinds lives are made of. Becky Johnson and Amy Rutherford play the ladies in question in BeMe Theatre’s production. Ride the waves of their tumultuous relationship before the play closes Saturday night.

Price: €18

Location: Einstein Kulturzenturm, Einsteinstrasse 42

Times: Thursday, October 25 – Saturday, October 27, 8pm

Reservations: 089 385 377 66

More Information: www.bemetheatre.com

Children’s Events

Halloween Story Time

Every month the Munich Readery hosts a story time event for kids over three-years-old. This time around, the little ones will hear stories with a Halloween theme. Put the kids in their costumes and head over to the English language bookshop for a morning of books about pumpkins and witches.

Price: Free

Location: The Munich Readery, Augustenstrasse 104

Times: Saturday, October 27, 10:30am

Phone: 089 121 92 403

More Information: www.readery.de

For members

BERLIN

EXPLAINED: Berlin’s latest Covid rules

In response to rapidly rising Covid-19 infection rates, the Berlin Senate has introduced stricter rules, which came into force on Saturday, November 27th. Here's what you need to know.

Published: 27 November 2021 16:16 CET
Updated: 29 November 2021 14:17 CET
A sign in front of a waxing studio in Berlin indicates the rule of the 2G system
A sign in front of a waxing studio indicates the rule of the 2G system with access only for fully vaccinated people and those who can show proof of recovery from Covid-19 as restrictions tighten in Berlin. STEFANIE LOOS / AFP

The Senate agreed on the tougher restrictions on Tuesday, November 23rd with the goal of reducing contacts and mobility, according to State Secretary of Health Martin Matz (SPD).

He explained after the meeting that these measures should slow the increase in Covid-19 infection rates, which was important as “the situation had, unfortunately, deteriorated over the past weeks”, according to media reports.

READ ALSO: Tougher Covid measures needed to stop 100,000 more deaths, warns top German virologist

Essentially, the new rules exclude from much of public life anyone who cannot show proof of vaccination or recovery from Covid-19. You’ll find more details of how different sectors are affected below.

Shops
If you haven’t been vaccinated or recovered (2G – geimpft (vaccinated) or genesen (recovered)) from Covid-19, then you can only go into shops for essential supplies, i.e. food shopping in supermarkets or to drugstores and pharmacies.

Many – but not all – of the rules for shopping are the same as those passed in the neighbouring state of Brandenburg in order to avoid promoting ‘shopping tourism’ with different restrictions in different states.

Leisure
2G applies here, too, as well as the requirement to wear a mask with most places now no longer accepting a negative test for entry. Only minors are exempt from this requirement.

Sport, culture, clubs
Indoor sports halls will off-limits to anyone who hasn’t  been vaccinated or can’t show proof of recovery from Covid-19. 2G is also in force for cultural events, such as plays and concerts, where there’s also a requirement to wear a mask. 

In places where mask-wearing isn’t possible, such as dance clubs, then a negative test and social distancing are required (capacity is capped at 50 percent of the maximum).

Restaurants, bars, pubs (indoors)
You have to wear a mask in all of these places when you come in, leave or move around. You can only take your mask off while you’re sat down. 2G rules also apply here.

Hotels and other types of accommodation 
Restrictions are tougher here, too, with 2G now in force. This means that unvaccinated people can no longer get a room, even if they have a negative test.

Hairdressers
For close-contact services, such as hairdressers and beauticians, it’s up to the service providers themselves to decide whether they require customers to wear masks or a negative test.

Football matches and other large-scale events
Rules have changed here, too. From December 1st, capacity will be limited to 5,000 people plus 50 percent of the total potential stadium or arena capacity. And only those who’ve been vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 will be allowed in. Masks are also compulsory.

For the Olympic Stadium, this means capacity will be capped at 42,000 spectators and 16,000 for the Alte Försterei stadium. 

Transport
3G rules – ie vaccinated, recovered or a negative test – still apply on the U-Bahn, S-Bahn, trams and buses in Berlin. It was not possible to tighten restrictions, Matz said, as the regulations were issued at national level.

According to the German Act on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, people have to wear a surgical mask or an FFP2 mask  on public transport.

Christmas markets
The Senate currently has no plans to cancel the capital’s Christmas markets, some of which have been open since Monday. 

According to Matz, 2G rules apply and wearing a mask is compulsory.

Schools and day-care
Pupils will still have to take Covid tests three times a week and, in classes where there are at least two children who test positive in the rapid antigen tests, then tests should be carried out daily for a week.  

Unlike in Brandenburg, there are currently no plans to move away from face-to-face teaching. The child-friendly ‘lollipop’ Covid tests will be made compulsory in day-care centres and parents will be required to confirm that the tests have been carried out. Day-care staff have to document the results.

What about vaccination centres?
Berlin wants to expand these and set up new ones, according to Matz. A new vaccination centre should open in the Ring centre at the end of the week and 50 soldiers from the German army have been helping at the vaccination centre at the Exhibition Centre each day since last week.

The capacity in the new vaccination centre in the Lindencenter in Lichtenberg is expected to be doubled. There are also additional vaccination appointments so that people can get their jabs more quickly. Currently, all appointments are fully booked well into the new year.

 

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