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Today in Berlin: Current parties, concerts, plays, exhibitions, events and daily cinema program |
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Tip of the week: karaoke in the park |
 Open-air singing in the Mauerpark
People flock to the Mauerpark in Berlin's center at weekends, and not just for the huge flea market. Bearpit Karaoke has taken place in a park amphitheater since 2009 from 3 pm to 8 pm. Participants include punks who dedicate their performances to dead polar bears from Berlin's zoo or little girls who pluck up the courage to go on stage or wannabe stars who want to test their skills in public. All this makes for an entertaining Sunday afternoon.
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 Berlin's Currywurst Museum
In this unusual museum, visitors learn all about the German capital's culinary emblem, the Currywurst (sausage with curry sauce). Herta Heuwer's experimental kitchen gives a flavor of life in the 1940s when the Chill-up curry sauce was invented to accompany sausages. Amid oversized ketchup drops and gigantic fries, visitors can check out the perfect ingredients for curry sauce. The museum also has fascinating information on fast food from 5,000 years ago and on the bit parts that Currywurst has played in movies and television shows. Included in the admission fee is a portion of Currywurst in the cup. A fun place for young and old!
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Minding the gap: A new Berlin subway line |
 Rebuilding the U5 underground line
Berlin’s public transport company, the Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft (BVG), started the most difficult and most expensive project in its history in the autumn of 2010 – a € 433 million scheme to fill the 2.2-km gap in the U5 underground train line between Brandenburger Tor station, currently the end of the U55 line, which is nicknamed Kanzlerlinie (Chancellor Line) because it passes through the government quarter, and Alexanderplatz.
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Palast der Republik
Rebuilding history
It will be back to the future when the Palast der Republik (palace of the republic), which was built in 1976 as the home of the German Democratic Republic parliament, is replaced by a rebuilt Renaissance palace. The palace was damaged by bombing in the Second World War and is now being reconstructed. The Stadtschloss (city palace) will open in 2019.
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New to Berlin? We'll help you to move and settle in
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Language schools in Berlin |
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 About 14% of Berlin’s 3.4 million residents are non German and the city has a wide choice of language schools to help newcomers learn German – and many other languages. They can also help non native English speakers improve their Business English.
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New in Berlin? This is what you need to know... |
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 Berlin is unique: for some it is a bureaucratic metropolis, for others a city of violent protests, or a first-rate party location. Strange things thrive in Germany’s capital, right next to idyllic, provincial neighborhoods, international business and federal politics.
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Registered already? This is how you become a Berlin citizen |
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 Put your name here, your address there, then sign on the dotted line... If you want to be able to watch TV in your new home, make a phone call, you have to fill out lots of forms. The trip to the Einwohnermeldeamt – Residents Registration Office – should be one of the first things you do.
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Public transport – buses, trams and trains in Berlin |
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 The length of Berlin’s railway tracks equals the distance from Berlin to Zurich, Switzerland: 430 km of tram tracks, 151 km of underground tracks and 331 km of commuter train tracks can be found here. If there's no rail track, the Berliner takes the bus or boards a ferry.
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