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Up until a couple of years ago, I used to freelance articles to a magazine called Germany Trade & Invest, which had previously been known as Invest in Germany, which at least made grammatical sense. It was an English-language rag published by the German government trumpeting innovations that German companies had come up with which Continue Reading

Last Friday afternoon, while riding the bus, I witnessed an unusual scene from the bus window: German entertainer Frank Zander was singing at Kottbusser Tor (Berlin-Kreuzberg). Some people had gathered around him and a film crew was filming him. I don't know if he was giving a free concert there or filming a music video Continue Reading

A debate about obesity broke out recently at one of my cyber-hangouts, and it turns out that the reason so many people in the U.S. are so fat isn't as simple as you might think, which is to say that a lot of the old arguments about processed food, high-fructose corn syrup, carbohydrates, exercise, genetics Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
A film festival centered on the city of Berlin can, and one could say should, certainly include films about getting the hell out of Berlin.
One film that gets us out of town and into the wilds of East Brandenburg is “Der Ausflug”, which begins as a sunny little story of a family picnic Continue Reading

By Andrew Horn
The Achtung Berlin Film festival is by no means on the scale of the Berlinale, but still no less a potential to see some decent films. Any festival has many more films than you could, or would want to, ever see and one’s impression is, more often than not, significantly due to the Continue Reading

Woo-hoo!! That sound has, for the past couple of weeks, been eminating from my computer speakers, although, sad to say, less often in recent days. That's because I'm stuck. Where I'm stuck is in the root system of a large tree, and by "me" I mean a band of tiny beings who've been Continue Reading

I didn't know what to expect when I visited the Gerhard Richter exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin a couple days ago. In fact, I must admit that it is only recently that I have first heard about Gerhard Richter. Before going to the exhibition, a friend who is an artist told me that Continue Reading

Another Record Store Day has come and gone, and it's interesting to see how this pseudo-holiday has evolved. Like Mother's Day or Secretaries' Day, but far more overtly than either of those, it's an event organized by an industry to both celebrate itself and sell stuff. Lots of stuff.  And that's the way it seems Continue Reading

I must have missed the press release. You know how, when a singer has a new album out, they're suddenly on the covers of all the magazines that week because someone sent out a press release? That's what happened this week, only with an idea, not a cultural artifact. And the idea is one I'm Continue Reading

realeyz.tv caught up with Timo Jacobs, the star and co-director of achtung berlin feature competition entry KLAPPE COWBOY! (Clapper Cowboy!) at Saturday's festival party. The extremely low budget labor of love (although not that low budget, says Jacobs, if everyone had been paid “humane wages” and not deferred their fees), produced over a period of Continue Reading