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Berlin City Highlights (a small range of highlights)

Berlin is a dynamic, cosmopolitan and creative city and the capital of . East meets West, tradition and innovation coexist in the metropolis at the heart of a changing . Berlin is characterized by its turbulent past. Since the unification twenty years ago the city has risen to the urban and environmental challenges of rebuilding itself. Here we present you the most interesting sights and places of the city which you should not miss during your stay in Berlin and can book directly on site at the congress office. Further information about most famous attractions of Berlin, please find here: www.berlin.de/international/attractions/index.en.php

Discover Berlin with our City Circle Tour in 13 languages!

Board and leave the coach as you wish at 20 different stops throughout the city, or remain seated and experience the capital during one two-and-a-half-hour tour: the choice is yours.

Commentary via your included personal headphones in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese and Hebrew.

Price: EUR 22.- per person (children 6-14 years: EUR 11.-)

Hop on/Hop off points: 1a Kurfürstendamm 216 / Fasanenstr. - office / shopping mile, Kempinski Eck 1b Kurfürstendamm 220/225, corner Meinekestraße / shopping mile, Ku'damm Eck 1c Rankestr. / Kurfürstendamm / Memorial Church, Europa Center, Zoological Garden, Aquarium 2 KaDeWe / Germany's largest department store, underground station Wittenbergplatz 3 Lützowplatz/Hotel Berlin Berlin - Bauhaus Museum 4 / Memorial German Resistance, Philharmonic Hall, Gallery 5 / Panoramapunkt, Daimler City, 6 Jewish Museum 7 / Wall Museum 8 / Galeries Lafayette, German and French Cathedral 9 Eastside Gallery / O2 World 10 / TV Tower, Red Town Hall, St. Nicholas Quarter 11 12 DomAquarée - office / boat pier, Sea Life, DDR Museum 13 /Humboldt-Box - , Island of Museums 14 /Friedrichstr. - State Opera House, Humboldt University, Madame Tussauds 15 Gate / Reichstag, Government district 16 Hauptbahnhof / Meininger City Hostel 17 Victory Column / Bellevue, Tiergarten park 18 Flea Market 19 Palace / Bröhan Museum, Berggruen Collection 20 Antikmeile Kantstraße / Antique shopping, Lietzensee lake

Please see the timetable for rates and departure times on the website www.getyourguide.de/berlin/2-tage-berlin-mit-dem-hop-on-hop-off-sightseeing-tour-pass-t3267. We decline all responsibility for traffic-related delays and detours; seating availability is on a first come, first served basis. Berliner Unterwelten e.V. – Berlin underground

Tour 1 – Dark Worlds

Every day, hundreds of people walk past a Berlin. Over the course of the tour, visitors will green door in the Gesundbrunnen view a museum exhibition of WWII remnants Underground railway station unaware that that the Berlin Underworlds' Association has within lies a subterranean labyrinth full of retrieved during their work below ground. The authentic history waiting to be experienced. Underworlds Museum displays objects from How uncomfortable it must have been during many layers of the long and fascinating history WWII to be crammed inside these small of subterranean Berlin. Visitors will see chambers – the depleted air supply, the artifacts from Berlin's late-19th century incessant clanging of ventilation machines, the pneumatic dispatch system, as well as thundering of bomber aircrafts overhead. This documentation of the hundreds of kilometres atmosphere of fear and anguish can still be of Berlin's sewer systems and of the city's sensed today. many amazing cathedral-like brewery cellars.

Tour 1 will lead visitors through civilian shelters and bunker complexes as they learn about life during the bombing campaigns in

Tour 3 – Subways, Bunkers, Cold War

This tour follows the traces of the Cold War in for up to 48 hours. Here, with the help of the underground. In civil defence various objects and photos, we will deal with shelters were reactivated or newly built in some related themes. preparation for a possible nuclear war. Particularly after the building of the Berlin After a short ride via the U-Bahn to Wall, the West German government and the Pankstrasse station, we offer a glimpse into West Berlin senate invested millions in these the workings of a 'modern' bunker, which was projects. Some of these were built as ‘multi- intended to protect the citizens of West Berlin purpose structures’ and are currently used as in case of a full-blown nuclear war. This 'multi- underground stations, parking garages and purpose' facility, built in 1977 along with the storage facilities. By explaining the practical northbound extension of the U8 Underground preparations made to help people survive, this line, serves not only as an U-Bahn stop for tour attempts to make the realities and horrors commuters – in an emergency it could have of such conflict easy to comprehend. sheltered 3,339 people for up to two weeks. Here, we try to give you an idea what it could First we visit the civil defence shelter – have been like, had World War Three broken “Blochplatz”, an air raid shelter from WWII out. that was renovated in the early 1980s. In an emergency 1,318 people were to shelter here

Please find more detailed information regarding the both tours on the website http://berliner-unterwelten.de/guided-tours.

Trabi-Safari – Zimmerstr. 97, 10117 Berlin

(TRABI was the most common vehicle in East driving fun is guaranteed. On this tour it will Germany) be YOU taking over the steering wheel and maneuvring this unique vehicle. While you are A few years ago only a few enthusiasts dared enjoying the sights passing by the windows of to show themselves in public with their Trabis. your personal Trabi, your guide provides you Anyway, times have changed - so now the cult with information about historical facts and vehicle of the East is back. "To drive a Trabi funnny things via radio. once in a lifetime" has not only become the dream of car and "East" fanatics, but is A Trabi-Safari will be an incomparable ranging amongst the cultural "musts" for any experience for everyone and for sure one of visitor. the ultimate highlights of your visit in Germany! With this unique sightseeing offer in Germany you you can combine unsurpassed driving Result: Unforgettable memory and flash feeling and nostalgic sightseeing with the real in your photo album! atmosphere of the past "East". Please find more information on the website No matter which colour your Trabi has or www.trabisafari.de. wether it's a convertable or a genuine closed one, on a tour with our all but ordinary fleet,

Deutsche Oper Berlin – Bismarckstr. 35, 10627 Berlin

23 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – Jeanne d’Arc – Walter Braunfels 24 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – Romeo and Juliette (ballet) – William Shakespeare 25 November, 2012 – 6.00 pm – Carmen – Georges Bizet

Please find more information on the website www.deutscheoperberlin.de.

Staatsoper at Schillertheater – Bismarckstr. 110, 10627 Berlin

23 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – Madame Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini 24 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – La Finta Giardiniera – W. A. Mozart 25 November, 2012 – 6.00 pm – La Peri (ballet)

Please find more information on the website www.staatsoper-berlin.org.

Komische Oper Berlin – Behrenstr. 55-57, 10117 Berlin

23 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – “Der Freischütz“ – Carl Maria von Weber 24 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm – “Im weißen Rößl“ – Ralph Benatzky 25 November, 2012 – 6.00 pm – ”Zauberflöte/Magic Flute” – W.A. Mozart

Please find more information on the website www.komische-oper-berlin.de. Friedrichstadtpalast – Friedrichstr. 107, 10117 Berlin

„SHOW:ME“ - 22 - 25 November, 2012 – 7.30 pm

Glamour is back! like? And not each individually, but all three We breathe, of course, to live. But the greatest geniuses together? A dream team in the truest moments are those in which we hold our sense. breath. On the quest for just these moments, SHOW:ME homes in on one particularly The product of this dream line-up will be the fascinating notion: what if show icons from the event of 2012. past like Busby Berkeley, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Esther Williams hadn’t had their heyday in  Please find more information regarding the the past century, but here and now? What show on the website would a modern-day show by the greatest www.show-palace.eu. revue creators of the 1920s to the 1950s look

Madam Tussauds Berlin – Unter den Linden 74, 10117 Berlin

Madame Tussauds Berlin is your chance to music legends and icons of the silver screen on experience the real glamour and elegance of your star studded journey through the Berlin and the World of celebrity. You will find Madame Tussauds Berlin experience. a total of 82 figures featuring predominantly historical dignitaries, cultural icons and A-list Price: EUR 20.95* per person celebrities. * Save by online booking 10% of the Meet and interact with the people that shaped admission price. German history and culture, learn about their achievements through hands-on exhibits and Please find more information on the website immersive sets. Feel like a celebrity yourself as www.madametussauds.com/Berlin/. you mingle with A-list elite, sports champions,

Potsdam Half –Day Tour from Berlin – Unter den Linden 74, 10117 Berlin

Enjoy a half-day tour to where you Viertel. Enjoy a walk through marvellous will have the chance to see marvelous gardens of and see the famous sites Sanssouci Palace and many other famous like Sanssouci Palace, , Palace New sights, and gardens. Take opportunity Chambers, Historic Windmill, Charlottenhof to see Dutch Quarter, see Russian Colony Palace, the , the "Alexandrowka" and more. and more.

Visit Potsdam, the historic center near Berlin Take the opportunity to visit one of the palaces and see all the famous palaces and gardens in in Sanssouci gardens or relax in one of the Potsdam. Enjoy a relaxing and harmonious local restaurants. journey through cultural, art- and architectural time during our sightseeing tour through After the break of approx. 2 hours enjoy the Potsdam. return drive to Berlin in our comfortable coach.

See among other sights the historic sections of The tour is guided via ear-phones. Choose the city, the Russian Colony "Alexandrowka" your language at every seat. and the Dutch Quarter, called Holländisches Highlights (a small range of museum highlights)

Russians & Germans. 1000 Years of Art, History and Culture – , Bodestr. 1-3, 10178 Berlin

For the first time a major exhibition is being the richness of mutual contacts between these held that will highlight the historical depth and two countries, past and present. diversity of common ties between Russians and Germans. In the exhibition, an arch will be The exhibition project has been developed by formed telling the story of these two countries' key cultural bodies in both countries: the ties, starting with the period of initial contact Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and intense trade links in the , and the State Historical Museum in Moscow moving on to the age of lively, dynamic and, on the German side, the Prussian Cultural interaction in the 18th and 19th century, Heritage Foundation, with particular through to the fundamental breaks and involvement from its Museum of Prehistory and successful fresh starts in the 20th century. Early History. The project is supported by the Visitors to the exhibition will discover German governments of both countries and promoted 'footsteps' in Russian history and Russian by the Petersburger Dialog, a discussion forum 'footsteps' in German history. The magnificent set up to foster cultural ties between the two exhibits, many of which have never gone on countries. show before, taken from major museums and Please find more information on the website archives in both countries will be joined by http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/detail international loans. Together they will illustrate s.php?objID=25017&lang=en

Karl Friedrich Schinkel. History and Poetry - Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin

An exhibition organised by the National Museums in Berlin - Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings), in conjunction with the Kunsthalle der Hypo- Kulturstiftung Munich.

On 6 September 1812 the city of Moscow, at aesthetics, which hitherto dominate the the time occupied by Napoleonic troops, was research activity; rather, the entire Schinkel art burning. The fire, probably started by the universe is investigated, newly appraised and Russian side in a strategic move is to be translated into descriptive arrangements of art regarded as a poignant visual marker works with special attention given to the symbolizing the turning point of the Napoleonic transformation achievements of the early wars and the subsequent restructuring of historism period. The visitor enters into an Europe. A few months later, during the experimental narrative and is presented with Christmas period, Schinkel restaged the event an integral view combining diverse art forms and created a sophisticated optical diorama, and subjects: , interior design and which was enthusiastically received by the decorative arts, stage design and perspective Berlin audience. The exhibition will open on images, , watercolours, drawings and the 200th anniversary of this event, with one lithographs, the buildings and landscapes, of the highlights being a reconstruction of this views, fantasies and allegories, amongst them impressive construction. icons such as the designs for the "The Magic The Kupferstichkabinett's exhibition planned in Flute" and the most important programmatic cooperation with designated academics, paintings by Schinkel as well as models made experts and renowned museums, draws on a especially for this occasion. number of international loans and has set itself Please find more information on the website an ambitious goal: Not only does it dedicate http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/detail itself to aspects of Schinkel's oeuvre regarding s.php?lang=en&objID=26787&type_id=10 the history of architecture and building Following in the Footsteps of Grünwedel – Lansstr. 8 / Arnimallee 25, 14195 Berlin

Research on the restoration of Central Asiatic wall paintings as part of the KUR programme

The National Museums in Berlin owns the most archaeology of this region were pivotal in important collection of artworks from Central introducing the Buddhist high culture of Asia in the world. For this we mainly have to Central Asia to Germany and even to the rest thank the inquiring mind of researcher and of Europe. indologist Albert Grünwedel (1876-1935). Grünwedel led the first Turfan expedition in The exhibition explores the 100-year history of 1902 and was director of the Department of these valuable Buddhist wall paintings in the Indian Art at the Museum of European context of the museum and the German Ethnology in Berlin. archaeological expeditions and highlights groundbreaking new strategies that have been Albert Grünwedel's discoveries included wall developed to preserve the collection. paintings, clay , stone and wooden artefacts, textiles, metal objects and Please find more information on the website manuscripts, some of which were transported http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/detail back to Berlin. The various publications of the s.php?objID=30025 results of his research into the art history and

Treasures of Faith - Bode-Museum, 1, 10178 Berlin

Masterpieces from the Dom-Museum, Hildesheim, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, on display in the

The most famous testaments to medieval world cultural heritage site. Important church art from the National Museums' incunabula and illustrated manuscripts from Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin, and the the and selected works Dom-Museum, Hildesheim, have been brought from the host museum's own together in a show hosted in the Bode Collection complete the spectacular exhibition. Museum. The impetus for the exhibition is both positive and distinctly practical in nature, as Awaiting the visitor are numerous works extensive renovation work is currently being representing various high-points in European undertaken at both the Berlin Museum of cultural history, ranging from Late Antiquity to Decorative Arts and the Dom-Museum in the late Gothic period. Thanks to the striking Hildesheim. Rather than having the two juxtapositions of the works, visitors are institution's most beautiful treasures hidden afforded new and often surprising perspectives away from the public during this time, the on these testaments of deep faith and the exquisite sacred art treasures will go on show, exceptional artistic craftsmanship, be it, for brought together for the first and last time. instance, while admiring the expressive, 1000 The centrepiece of this exhibition is formed by year-old Bernwardian silver casts, or the key works from the Welfenschatz (which once radiant, colour-rich enamel works that bear made up the church treasure of the Collegiate witness to Romantic enamel art from Cologne Church of Saint Blaise in Braunschweig, also and Hildesheim. known as Brunswick), as well as from the Hildesheim cathedral treasure, which, together Please find more information on the website with the Hildesheim cathedral itself and the http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/detail convent church of St. Michael, form a UNESCO s.php?objID=30025

The Romantic Middle Ages – , Bodestr. 1-3, 10178 Berlin

Architecture and Nature in Painting after owners, and facing imminent demolition. Schinkel Because of this, however, they became Complementing the Schinkel exhibition at the established in the collective consciousness as Kulturforum, the museum will present an integral part of Germany's cultural heritage. architectural paintings connected to and from Medieval castles and forts were a popular the period after the painter and architect Karl motif in literature and painting while the Friedrich Schinkel. Architectural painting "German" Gothic style of cathedrals was experienced a surprising revival in the first half greatly admired. The reception of the Middle of the 19th century which was triggered by the Ages in the early 19th century culminated in fact that medieval architecture itself had such projects as the completion of Cologne become charged with a highly emotional Cathedral, which was also regarded as a significance. national duty. These testaments are of past greatness and daring awakened feelings of nationalism, Please find more information on the website patriotism, , even religious http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/detail devotion. Countless buildings were destroyed s.php?lang=en&objID=32751&p=1 during the Napoleonic Wars, and the secularization of Germany in 1803 left churches, monasteries and castles without

Josef Strzygowski and the Berlin Museums – Am Kupfergraben 1, 10178 Berlin

With the aim of creating a high-quality a biographical perspective. Whilst he was a collection of artworks from late antiquity and pioneer in many areas of Byzantium prior to the opening of the Kaiser- history,he became increasingly absorbed in Friedrich Museum in 1904, ethnic and racial notions in his later years. On turned to an expert in Byzantine art: Josef exhibit will be biographical documents, Strzygowski. The art historian,who worked as contemporary sources on his work for the a lecturer in Graz, helped to expand this Berlin Museums and objects that were section of the collection from less than 100 to acquired on account of his efforts. about 2000objects.The Ägyptisches Museum and the Islamic Department also profited from Please find more information on the website his work. http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/detail This one-room exhibition highlights s.php?lang=en&objID=32781&p=1 Strzygowski's significant role in defining the course for the Museum für Byzantinische Kunstand presents his difficult personality from