Culture
13th Jazz Meeting in Berlin
For the 13th time since 1997, Berlin's Jazz Festival will take place from the 10th to the 15th of October, with a foretaste on S-bahn stations on the 9th!
What the folk?
by Michael Haeflinger
If there could be one weekend of folk music overload in Berlin, this coming weekend might very well be it...
Action
The Bunt for Red October: The Mixed Softball Championship
It’s Sunday afternoon in July. The mercury is flirting with 25 degrees and the clouds in the sky seem to miss the sun, who burns holes in the dirt around the infield. Sweat pours down the pitcher’s...
Cricket in Berlin
"Win or loose, we're on the booze", is their logo, and on Fun Fridays they play 20.20 at 5pm and welcome all newcomers...
EUROCHAMP 2008
The moment we've been waiting for is finally here, the EUROCHAMPIONSHIPS 2008!! CARPE have compiled a little calendar for all you footie lovers and fans.
Life
POOR BUT SEXY: STUDENT LIFE IN BERLIN
In time with the start of the autumn semester, Carpeberlin´s Student Special will give you Tips and Tricks about everything concerning your new student life in Berlin.
Getting Started: Climate and Weather
Berlin enjoys a continental climate and a special kind of air, which has often been praised.
Berlin New Arrival: Language, Culture, Art
The wheels of the airplane finally touched ground, Berlin, here I am! CarpeBerlin would like to help to make your arrival here as smooth as possible...
Equal Opportunities
Homosexual Memorial Tour: The Gay Museum
The Gay Museum in Kreuzberg sheds a light on Homosexual History from 1790 to 1990. Right now, beside the permanent exhibition, is the L-projekt...an exhibition presenting for the first time ever, the...
Gay Nightlife: London Calling
On Friday 5th of September rock and electro lovers rally together from 11pm at the London Calling party hosted at SchwuZ...
Berlin Names Street After Gay Rights Activist
In early May 1933, the "Einstein of Sex"'s Institute for Sexual Research was raided by the Nazi regime. 75 years later, on the 7th of May 2008, a street on the banks of the river Spree was renamed...
Opinion
The Sound of the Gong
As a simple enthusiast I was chosen to attend the opera and write a review aimed at the everyday opera-goer, such as me. Nevertheless, I decided to bring along two friends of a more informed opinion;...
Church of Reconciliation, 2008
Daniel Rosenkrantz- An American Poet in Berlin...
City
Bye-Bye Tempelhof
After months of heated debate, the closure of the oldest airport in Europe has a final date: the 31st of October. The symbolic building, testimony of the Berlin blockade during the Cold War, could...
KIDS PLAY: Farm at Görlitzer Park
The sun is shining, the streets are once again full of life, and the night glimmers in Berlin. Families can enjoy the coming summer days with their children without having to leave Berlin, for the...
Relics of the GDR: the Watchtowers
Today only 2 of the once 302 watchtowers are still standing and can be visited in Mitte and Kreuzberg...
































