Activity Highlights in August 2023
It's lazy late summer ... a few of our activities are paused until autumn, but there are still many opportunities to enjoy good company and the pleasures of Berlin. Get Out and Explore Friday, 18 August A day trip to Werder—famous for its fruit orchards, smoked fish, and other attractions—by boat from Potsdam. Tuesday, 22 August A three-hour boat tour from Wannsee pier, proceeding past Schwanenwerder Island and Kladow to Peacock Island. The boat then passes Glienicke Palace and Cecilienhof Palace, providing marvelous views of the so-called "Prussian Arcadia". Eat, Drink, and Enjoy Thursday, 10 August Fancy
Summer Party 2023
What better way to spend a summer afternoon than to sit outdoors and to relax with friends old and new? Especially at the BIWC summer party! We celebrate every summer, and every summer is a little different. In the past we have had a barbecue on the bank of the Spree, a garden party in a charming village with timbered houses, and buffets at members’ homes along the water, with a chance for a swim in the nearby lake. This year we enjoyed that grand German tradition, a Sunday lunch in a classic beer garden—in this case, at an inn
Activity Highlights in July 2023
The summer outdoors in Berlin can be wonderful. Here are our plans for enjoying it! Get Out and Explore Tuesday, 18 July A tour of Volkspark Schoeneberg-Wilmersdorf, which was an elegant promenade in imperial times, and is now a modern all-generations park that has kept a certain flair. We will see a fountain with a golden stag on a 8.5m high column, a beer garden under chestnut trees, stone and bronze sculptures, gently sloping lawns for sunbathing, a running track, a ‘hippie hill’, playgrounds, etc. Friday, 21 July A guided tour of the Palais Charlottenhof in Potsdam. This Palace
Activity Highlights in June 2023
Summer is here, and we have plenty of activities to get us out enjoying the summer city and the countryside! Get Out and Explore Friday, 9 June We will enjoy the beauty of the Botanical Garden, now in full bloom. This is also our last chance to visit the Art Nouveau Mediterranean Greenhouse, which was built many years ago and will be closed soon for restoration during the next two years. Friday, June 16 Get a good inside view of the pink parliament house (the Landtag) of Brandenburg, with a guided tour of this spectacular work of rebuilding in
Activity Highlights in May 2023
So many ways to enjoy the spring! Join us for activities from book discussions to posture improvement exercises to explorations at the outer edges of Berlin. Get Out and Explore Tuesday, 9 May See Chile and a bit of Peru in the photos and videos of a member who was recently there—a great diversity of settings, from street art in Valparaiso to nitrate mines in the Atacama desert (the driest nonpolar desert in the world!). Friday, 12 May We will visit Alexandrovna in Potsdam, a Russian-style village named after Czar Alexander I and built to house the singing soldiers who
Activity Highlights in April 2023
Spring is coming! A variety of activities are on offer, from a hike through the cherry blossoms, to museum visits, to an English afternoon tea--and much more! Get Out and Explore Friday, 14 April See the special exhibit, Sonne, Quelle des Lichts in der Kunst/ The Sun: Source of Light in Art. Taking Monet's painting, "Impression, Sunrise" as its point of departure, the exhibit brings together a variety of sunlight-inspired artworks from antiquity to the present. Sunday, 16 April Join an English-language, behind-the-scenes tour of the Berliner Ensemble, the famous theater founded by Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. We'll have
Annual General Meeting 2023
Another year has come and gone, and it was time for a little celebration! A volunteer organization needs a lot of support from its members, and we enjoy taking this occasion once a year to thank not only incoming and outgoing Executive Committee members, but also those members who do not hold office but who eep the wheels turning in the club. They organize events, they work with social media, they welcome new members and help out when fellow club members have questions or difficulties with Berlin life. So here we are: Last year's activities have been summarized, the financial statements have
Activity Highlights in March 2023
Besides our Annual General Meeting on 20 March—the highest highlight of the month!--the Club offers many opportunities to get out, see the city, and make and maintain friendships. Get Out and Explore Bröhan Museum Sunday, March 5 Did you know that March is the European Month of Photography in Berlin? Share in the events by coming with us to the Bröhan Museum for a look at Andreas Feininger’s evocative black-and-white photos of New York in the 1940s. Monday, 13 March Join a guided tour of Tempelhof Airport, providing an in-depth look at the historical and architectural background.
Activity Highlights in February 2023
Overcome the February blahs! Join us for a visit to an artist’s studio, a hike through southwest Berlin, a lunch or book or language group … So many opportunities to get together and enjoy! Get Out and Explore Monday, 6 February Follow the fascinating history of the artworks now in the Liebermann Villa, in the exhibition, “When pictures speak: Provenance research on the Lieberman-Villa collection”. From 1933 onwards, many of these pictures were stolen, taken into exile by their owners, or sold under the most difficult circumstances, and only slowly, later, found their way to their present home. Saturday,
Activity Highlights in January 2023
Get the New Year off to the right start by joining old friends and new for a tour, a lunch, a walk, a chance to polish your language skills, to talk about new books, or just to relax with a coffee and crafts or games. Get Out and Explore Tuesday, 24 January A guided tour of that classic Berlin landmark, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, including both the new church building and the memorial hall in the old tower. Our special tour will let us visit the gallery between the spectacular blue windows, which is not normally open to the public.