By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published 26 June 1993, International Herald Tribune Whether it is because he is new to the Berlin art world or in spite of it, the gallery owner Thomas Schulte is not shy about making his strong opinions known. He has no regrets about announcing in a podium discussion that “Berlin has [...]
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By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published 16 July 1993, International Herald Tribune Rolf Schmidt is as diplomatic as possible when discussing the state of cooking in his new home town. The Michelin two-star chef, who was lured to Berlin to help raise the standard of eating to one befitting a European capital, is one of the [...]
Originally published in the International Herald Tribune, June 30, 1993 By Ann Brocklehurst For publishers and writers of English language books in search of profits and audiences abroad, Germany has often proved their most lucrative foreign market. Germans are the world’s biggest book buyers on a per-capita basis, and the country’s publishers have become more [...]
Ann Brocklehurst Originally published 18 September 1993, International Herald Tribune Daniel Libeskind is one of the top names in international architecture today. He was a finalist in the Alexanderplatz urban design contest in Berlin, winner of the competition to design Berlin’s Jewish Museum, one of seven architects selected for the New York Museum of Modern [...]
Ann Brocklehurst Originally published 7 January 1994, International Herald Tribune I knew for certain that I was on the right train when a man charged into my compartment and, before I had even had time to sit down, began tugging the window wide open. It is my experience that it is next to impossible to [...]
By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published in the International Herald Tribune, February 16, 1994 When the East German state of Brandenburg announced its intention to found a so-called “European University” in Franfurt-an-der-Oder, on the Polish border, the decision raised more than a few eyebrows. . Germany’s established universities are all crying out for cash. The relatively [...]
By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published 28 May 1994, International Herald Tribune The East German art collection is stored in an old bank vault in the basement of an office building in Eastern Berlin, but the 14,000 objects that it comprises are not kept there for security reasons. In fact, the art historians who look after [...]
By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published in the International Herald Tribune, Wednesday, October 20, 1993 The filmmaker Detlev Buck is walking down the Kurfürstendamm discussing the subject now on most European filmmakers’ minds and lips: namely, why American films so dominate the European market. He stops in front of one of West Berlin’s biggest cinema houses, [...]
By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published in the International Herald Tribune, Saturday, November 13, 1993 The project proposes to turn a Communist-era housing horror into a residential, recreational and business community of the type currently favored by Western architects and urban planners. Three neighboring apartment buildings, bare and unembellished concrete blocks, will receive new facades, windows, [...]
By Ann Brocklehurst Originally published in the International Herald Tribune, Saturday, July 17, 1993 IT’S a modern-day dilemma. Your environment conscience has persuaded you to use your car less often. But since most of the costs of car ownership are fixed, the less you drive, the less the investment pays off. And green as you’ve [...]
