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A global local newspaper in cooperation with 2016 MEDIA DATEN 2016 EVER IN THE MAKING The people moving the city GESAMTAUFLAGE: 350.000 EXEMPLARE REICHWEITE: ÜBER 1,1 MIO. LESER The Berlin Times kommuniziert das heutige Bild von Berlin und Deutschland publizistisch. Die Zeitung erschien zum ersten Mal im Herbst 2014 anlässlich des Jubiläums „25 Jahre Fall der Mauer“ und schuf bei Gästen und Besuchern der Stadt sowie bei über 120.000 Entscheidern in 74 Ländern ein neues Bewusstsein für Berlin. The Berlin Times erscheint zweimal im Jahr. Die Zeitung ist zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit am 16 2014 2014 17 99 Red Balloons Berlin Times Berlin Times Have you some time for me, then I’ll sing a song for you about 99 balloons 3. Oktober mit einer weltweiten Sonderauflage on their way to the horizon. If you’re perhaps thinking about me right now then I’ll sing a song for you about 99 balloons and that such a thing comes from such a thing. in über 150 Ländern bei den Feierlichkeiten Jim Rakete/photoselection, dpa 99 balloons Out of Nothing: on their way to the horizon The glittering heart of Berlin People think they’re UFO’s from space so a general sent up Nena (left) in No Man’s German reunifi cation, a fi ghter squadron after them Land in 1987. Her former Potsdamer Platz has been manager, Jim Rakete, who the site of major develop- Sound the alarm if it’s so later became a famous ment projects. It’s now a but there on the horizon were den deutschen Auslandsvertretungen, Botschaften photographer snapped busy district in the middle only 99 balloons. her in Potsdamer Platz, the of Berlin housing the head- empty zone between West quarters of Sony, plus big 99 fi ghter jets and East Berlin, laid waste shopping malls, luxury ho- Each one’s a great warrior during WWII and left tels, restaurants and clubs. Thought they were Captain Kirk desolate during the Cold Lit up in the foreground War era when the Wall is the Philharmonie (see then came a lot of fi reworks bisected its location. Since page 27). the neighbors didn’t understand anything und Generalkonsulaten präsent. in and felt like they were being provoked so they shot at the horizon at 99 balloons. 99 war ministers matches and gasoline canisters They thought they were clever people MY already smelled a nice bounty Called for war and wanted power. Man, who would’ve thought that things would someday go so far because of 99 balloons. The Berlin Times erscheint in Kooperation mit 99 years of war left no room for victors. NAME There are no more war ministers nor any jet fi ghters. Today I’m making my rounds see the world lying in ruins. I found a balloon, einer der führenden Qualitätszeitungen IS think of you and let it fl y (away). Deutschlands und wird am 30. September 2016 NENA der Gesamtauflage von „Die Welt“ und Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born March 24, “Through all the years, Berlin was 1960), better known by her stage name Nena, rose to international fame in 1983 99 dreams I have had always there for me, my anchor“ with the New German Wave song “99 Red Luftballons.” In 1984, she re-recorded the had the scent of the big wide world in the borders, always following the pull of my holiday, I covered for her for three weeks. I “Gib mir die Hand, ich bau dir ein Schloss that image. That was the moment when titled: “Wunder Gescheh’n.” (Miracle Hap- song in English as “99 Red Balloons.” Nena my nostrils and an irresistible yearning heart, a few hours later, I ended up in the looked after his studio, a converted factory aus Sand, Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann” my friend and guitarist Carlo Karges wrote pened.) I went straight to Berlin to see this is mother to fi ve children, grandmother for an adventurous, self-determined life. walled city. loft in Kreuzberg. I fi elded phone calls, sorted (Give me your hand, I’ll build you a castle out the fi rst lines of the song “99 Luftballons” miracle with my own eyes. to three – pictured with her youngest „Welt kompakt“ beigelegt. Deutschlandweit It was 1978 and I was 18. I’d left my West Berlin received me with open arms. out the post and met pretty much all the West of sand, somehow, somewhere, sometime). (later English version: “99 Red Balloons”). “Wunder gescheh’n. Ich hab’s geseh’n.” grandson,Victor. Ifi rst band The Stripes - I’d already released It’s true that people were rather arrogant, but Berlin bands coming in and out of the studio It’s strange how you felt so bound up with He completed the lyrics the same day and (Miracle happened, I’ve seen it.) an album with them and gained plenty of at the same time really open and curious. The every day. It was a brilliant acclimatization for everything, although you were actually cut from that moment we were propelled into a And now? experience performing live – and I took the energy that fl owed through the streets, clubs me. I was right in the middle of things, albeit off from the outside world. different dimension. Suddenly we were rock Now the sky’s still there, it still goes on for- decision to leave my West German suburban and minds went something like this: Hey great still in camoufl age with the telephone receiver stars and fl ew all over the world with our ever. And on Potsdamer Platz, the sandcastles The home behind. that you’re joining us…Cool, let’s see what in my hand and wearing a sweater I’d knitted ot long after Mick Jagger “99 Red Balloons.” have been replaced with concrete blocks. I original And so, one day, I really did climb into my you’ve got! myself. And there was music everywhere. I released thousands of balloons live in Hamburg but I love visiting Berlin, cover of the old beige-colored Simca with my guitar, my bathed in neon light, drifted through the at the end of a Stones concert in Through all the years Berlin was always which will always be close to my heart. And “99 Red Stones, Blondie and Ramones LPs and a few Through Spliff, the former Nina Hagen never-ending sky, and in the shadow of the Berlin. They were all picked up there for me, my anchor, my rock in turbu- whenever I’m there, it receives me with open Balloons,” favorite bits of clothing on the back seat, band, I met the photographer Jim Rakete. Wall and the Hansa Studios built castles in Nby the wind and carried in the direction of lence and my home. And then when the Wall arms and says: Hey it’s great that you’re back! US- and hit the road. Along the motorway, over Because his assistant happened to be on the sand on Potsdamer Platz. East Berlin, over the Wall. I’ll never forget fell, I was in Zurich and I recorded the song Cool, bring it on! ■ Privat; DPA version. The Berlin Times ist am Tag der Deutschen . Einheit bei den Feierlichkeiten in Dresden präsent. In Berlin wird eine Sonderauflage an die Besucher 20 2014 und Gäste der Hauptstadt verteilt. BERLIN, MY LOVE The Berlin Times geht im Direktversand an die 30 2014 wichtigsten Entscheider und Multiplikatoren aus Politik und Wirtschaft, Medien und Kultur. LET’S TALK AGENTUR RM AGENTUR LD E BI 1ONLIN F ES/ ABLEIMAG In Berlin. In Deutschland. Weltweit. ABOUT KLEE/ TA TA UT STYLE, J Members of the Prussian royal family are entombed in the Berlin Cathedral’s crypt; across the street, their former palace is being rebuilt. MR. JOOP Good can win at any time Even if that victory takes a long time – it can happen suddenly | By Thomas Brussig WOLFGANG STAHR/LAIF WOLFGANG ecently I was asked which is the of manuscripts ended up – most of them on intentionally misunderstand and cheekily are countless television images. If there was n the 1980s Berlin style came into its Around that time, the movie “Christiane more important date – November worn paper. Everything which had been ask the border guards: “How will you tell anything good about the Wall falling, it was own with Nina Hagen. She sprung up F.” came out. The world noticed that it told 9, 1989 or September 11, 2001. gathering dust in desk drawers across East the difference between those who are leaving that it gave us pictures like that. not just as a pop artist. She didn’t jump the story of a very particular kind of Berlin On November 9, 1989, I was a Germany was now being sent to publishers, for good and those who just want a quick Never has there been an event which was over the Berlin Wall from the GDR – its lostness fitted perfectly into the “no Ryoung man who wanted to become a writer. who were sinking under a flood of manu- look at the West?” so surprising and so eruptive – and released Ivia West German suburbia as a wallflower, future” punk era, which then segued into I had finished my first novel months before, scripts. I added mine to the stack, although On my way home late that night I could such feelings of excessive exhilaration – as she appeared as the queen of the fauns. She the postmodern, where the unfinished, the but given the censorship in the East I saw I had no hope that my work would stand out sense a strange atmosphere.