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On November 5th, 2021, Margot Friedländer will turn 100. Ahead of her big birthday, she introduced a new book with portrait photos at Red City Hall in Berlin.

The German-French actress Romy Schneider was adored during her lifetime and still is today, almost four decades after her untimely death. Both her aura and her…

In Berlin, people squeeze into those 'U-Bahn' trains to get from 'A' to 'B' in the morning. Once the day is over, they go back to 'A'. And 'A' is usually the…

According to Edvard Grieg, Clara Schumann was "one of the most soulful and famous pianists of the day". As a composer, she was admired as well. In the past five decades, the pieces she wrote were rediscovered and interpreted a lot.

Victor Baruch, one of the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews who were saved from the Nazis, and the only Bulgarian to cover the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, celebrates his…

Sérgio Santos Mendes is the man who brought Bossa Nova, Samba and Musica Popular Brasileira to the world. But this is only the simple version of a story that started exactly 80 years ago.

Margot Friedländer grew up in Kreuzberg. Her family was murdered by the Nazis. She survived Theresienstadt and emigrated to the United States. Ten years ago,…

Berlin has a best friend in the United States of America. Gail Halvorsen is turning 100 today. The city he helped so much congratulated him with a video clip.

Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, will receive the Nobel Prize. Governing Mayor Michael Müller congratulated her already.