Events in Berlin

EastSeven made a top 5 for every day of the weekend!

Starting with friday…..

1.WALPURGISNACHT @ KULTURBRAUEREI!

Its WALPURGISNIGHT!!! expect anything to happen….you might see some witches walkby….

YOu can find a party anywhere….for instance at the

Kulturbrauerei:

…just a 5minute walk from our hostel….

8 Floors – 20 DJ’s & Live Band – 1 Ticket

Dress up as a witch and get in for free!
2.TRESOR CLUB

Klubnacht – Todd Bodine, Irie Electric, Dave Tarrida, Marcel Heese
Köpenicker Str. 59-73
10178 Berlin
U-Bhf Heinrich-Heine-Straße
3.DANCING INTO MAY AT PRIVATCLUB

Shut Up Club at the PrivatClub means Indie Pop, Rock, Emo, Punkrock, Britpop, Mixtape all night long – have fun!

PrivatClub
Pücklerstraße 34

4.FRIDA KAHLO RETROSPEKTIVE

From 30 April to 9 August 2010 Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau will be devoting an extensive retrospective to the important Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Born in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Frida Kahlo is one of the great identification figures of Latin American art. She stands out as one of the most famous female artists of the first half of the 20th century.
5.TEMPORäRE KUNSTHALLE BERLIN-SQUATTING – REMEMBERING, FORGETTING AND OCCUPYING

In squatting, Tilo Schulz and Jörg van den Berg articulate an exhibition practice which emphasizes the presence and the actual experience of the artwork in the exhibition in terms of display as art mediation. squatting brings together works of art that address remembrance in thematic and structural terms, as well as pieces thatdeal with experiences o f places, situations, and people. Hence squatting establishes a direct connection between the Temporäre Kunsthalle and its location (the Schloßplatz) as a place that is permanently exposed to ideological appropriations.

Party´s and events for saturday!

1. MAY DAY AT BAR25

Dirty Doering, Zander VT, Nicone, Philip Bader,Jake the Rapper, Red Robin, Marcus Meinhardt, Marco Resmann,danny faber,brian cares,Beaner, sven dohse + guests.

2.SPREEPIRATEN @ MARIA AM OSTBAHNHOF

Techno & House….

with:

Fritz Kalkbrenner

Alexander Kowalski

Thomas Weisheit

…and many more….
3.MYFEST! LABOURDAY PARTY IN KREUZBERG

1st May street festival “MyFest” in Berlin-Kreuzberg

all around Oranienstraße in Kreuzberg

enjoy live music, lots of food and beers
4.LIDO PRESENTS: AT THE SOUL INN

Soul-Funk-Boogaloo

damage:5€
5.GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN!

40 galleries, 40 openings, three days, three nights, feel invited!!!!!!

And last but not least our top 5 for parties and events this sunday!!

1.SUNDAY FLEAMARKETDAY

FLEAMARKET Mauerpark

Sunday is fleamarket day. Close to the hostel (500 m)you find the Arkonaplatz Fleamarket and the famous Mauerpark fleamarket. You don´t want to buy something – no problem you first of all go there to see all kind of urban subjects with hangover and even sober ones. Berliners go there – you should as well

2.ENJOY THE SUNSHINE IN THE BEAUTIFUL BERLIN ZOO.

It´s a bit expensive, but there are baby elephants to make up for this!
3.KAFFEE BURGER

Golden souls disko!!!

Soulkombinat (soul, funk,old-skool, nu-skaa)
4.OPEN AIR CINEMA KREUZBERG—PRESENTS:

AVATAR!!!!

Begin at: 21:00
5.GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN!

40 galleries, 40 openings, three days, three nights, feel invited!!!!!!

Have a great weekend in Berlin have a great stay at EastSeven Berlin Hostel

a movie starring friendly guests who stayed at the EastSeven Berlin Hostel

A guestbook is great. We got one at the reception, and quite a lot of guests leave us a nice message. It´s always fun to read this book.

Now we got the idea to do a more modern version of a guestbook, a video guestbook.

During check-out time we asked the guest to tell us about berlin or how they experienced the hostel. We filmed this, and then edited it in to a short and funny video-clip. It was such fun to do! Thanks again to all the people who went along with this crazy idea!

Here is the result! enjoy watching:

Vulcano Eruption

What a crazy situation. The Vulcano eruption on Iceland had, and still has, a great impact onthe  holidayplans of our guests.

It all started on friday, where lots of our friendly guests wanted to fly home, but simply could´nt. All flights had been cancelled.  Some of them tried to find a different way to get home, by train, bus or boat. But most of them stayed in Berlin, for at least one extra night. It was totally unclear when the flights where going to be allowed again, everyone hoped to be able to get a plane the next day….This wasn´t the case. At this time, on monday, still all aiprorts are closed.
Fortunateley, we had rooms available for these guest, stranded in Berlin, becuase we had a lot of cancellations on the other hand.
So sad, lots of peple who were looking forward to a lovely weekend in Berlin, had to stay home….
It is still unclear when planes will be allowed to go up in the air again.

Some guests are really happy to be staying some extra nights in Berlin at the EastSeven Berlin Hostel! An extended vacation, its nice.
Especially tonite as we will be preparing a free vegetarian dinner!!!

We feel sorry for all the travelers, stranded somewhere over the world, without being able to go home as planned.

We wish all travellers a safe flight home, somewhere in the near future!

EastSeven

EastSeven- Zu Deutschlands Bestem gewählt

Das Internetportal “Hostelworld” ernennt jährlich die besten Hostels weltweit. Die Abstimmung erfolgt dazu mittels Kundenbewertungen im Internet.

Weltweit gaben über 1 Million Teilnehmer ihre Stimme in 2009 für eine der über 23.000 zur Wahl gestellten und auf Hostelworld.com registrierten Unterkünfte ab und bestimmten dadurch die Sieger der “Hoscars”.

Das EastSeven Berlin Hostel konnte schon in den Jahren 2005 bis 2008 Preise von Hostelworld entgegen nehmen und freut sich nun ganz besonders über die Auszeichnung zu “Germanys best Hostel 2009″.

Folgenden Kriterien wurden bewertet: Sauberkeit, Mitarbeiter, Lage, Charakter, Sicherheit und Spaßfaktor.

Das Haus bietet 25 Zimmer mit Bettenkapazitäten von 1 Person bis 8 Personen an. Auf jeder Etage gibt es mehrere Badezimmer (nach Geschlechtern getrennt),  eine professionelle Selbstversorgerküche, ein Lounge-Wohnzimmer und ein angeschlossener Garten mit Grillplatz sind Breiche für die allgemeine Nutzung.

Der Wäscheservice sowie kostenloses WiFi-Internet und günstige Gästetelefone runden das Angebot ab.

Die Inhaber Jörg Schöpfel und Pierre Ammon des kleinen Hauses in der Schwedter Straße in Berlin stehen oft selbst bis in die tiefe Nacht hinter der Rezeption und kümmern sich um die Belange und das Wohlbefinden der Gäste.

… finding the Hostel in the centre of Berlin

You´re planning a stay in Berlin? well, you are more than welcome to stay at our place!! To make it easier for our guests to find our hostel we have now made a video with the exact directions from Schönefeld  SXF Airport via Alexanderplatz to the EastSeven Berlin Hostel at Schwedter Str. 7. With this video you can´t get lost!

So if you arrive at the Schönefeld Airport….
….you take the AirportExpress Train, also known as RB or RE, to Alexanderplatz and than the U2 subway towards Pankow. Get off at the 2nd stop “Senefelder Platz”. Walk down Schwedter Str. for 80m and find us on your right hand, the orange facade. Watch the video and hope to see you soon!

EastSeven Berlin Hostel featured in a local tvshow from RBB, television for Berlin and Brandenburg

Because of the New Years Eve all hostels, hotels and appartements in Berlin where booked out, also the EastSeven hostel. Lots of people from all over the world came to Berlin to celebrate a big new years eve party. on the 31st of december 2009 a RBB tv crew filmed at our hostel. They interviewed Nik at the reception, asking him about availability during new years eve.  And also they interviewed a couple of our guests at the lounge and hostel kitchen.
Check it out on the RBB-website, here is the link, scroll down and klick on the little ´screen`:

(sorry link is not available anymore)

Okay that´s all for now, we´ll keep you posted!

home-made mulled wine!

THE  HOSTEL NEWS of DECEMBER 2009

it´s almost christmas time and its really cold in Berlin…to get into the mood and to warm up a little, we now sell mulled wine (glühwein) at the reception. Everyday from 5pm on you can smell the glühwein from miles away, hmmm.
Do(n`t) drink too much, this stuff really makes you drunk…

Last friday there was a filmcrew at the hostel. They were from the ZIBB programm on RBB-Tv, a local channel.

Somewhere next week the EastSeven Berlin hostel will be featured in ZIBB, which is ofcourse really exciting.
They interviewed Jörg Schöppfel, one of EastSeven Hostel owners, and also a couple of our guests.

Today there is, as always on mondays,  the amazing free food party. It´s still a big surprise what our friendly cook Florian is going to cook  for us tonight. But one thing is for sure, it´s gonna be delicious and lots of fun. To join you need to sign up at the reception. Meet up with Florian and other hungry travelers at 7pm in the hostel lounge and kitchen.

Tomorrow there is the yearly Christmas party for the entire  EastSeven Staff….We will all eat together, Jörgs famous  ‘Grünkohl’, play a game of Wichteln, and of course we will be drinking lots of mulled wine, beer and so on….

If you´re staying in Berlin during the Christmas Holidays I would recommend to visit one of the many christmas-markets in Berlin, check out our Christmas-market-Blog for more detailed information.

For parties around christmas and new years eve check out the personal recommendations of the EastSeven staff ONLINE.

That´s all for now! See you soon in Berlin at EastSeven !

Berlin Brandenburg Gate

At the Brandenburg Gate on the 9th of november ….

…. dominos will feature in a live performance, which will include the designers of the Domino Action, politicians, contemporary witnesses and guests from all over the world. The former German Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and the Nobel Peace Laureates Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus and Mikhail Gorbachev will be among the guests.
Almost one thousand dominos have been designed by youths so far, most of them by pupils from Berlin schools. On international level, the co-operation partner Goethe-Institut has sent several dominos into the world which are designed by students as well as artists and intellectuals. This ‘Mauerreise – the wall in the world project’ aims to raise awareness of walls around the world that continue to exist.

In the context of the series of events called MUR|MURS|MAUER|ECHO by the Institut français, German and French students have been enabled to design a total of 15 dominos in workshops together with artists. On 9 November those dominos as well as those of the Geothe-Institut will become part of the performance at the Brandenburg Gate.
The ‘domino effect’ stands for many brave people as well as contemporary witnesses of the Peaceful Revolution in the late 1980s. The protests of some individuals had grown to a strong-willed but peaceful mass movement. The ‘Festival of Freedom’ on 9 November also wants to convey that the events of 1989 and the fall of the Wall not only influenced Germany, but also changed Europe and the world – “German history with a domino effect”. Already on 7 and 8 November, the Domino Gallery made up of around 1000 over-sized dominos will cover a route of around 1.5 kilometres from the Reichstagsufer via the Brandenburg Gate to Potsdamer Platz and will create unique images and impressions close to where the Berlin Wall once stood.

Further information: Hotline +49 (0)30-443 123 330, dominoaktion(at)mauerfall09.de and www.mauerfall09.de/dominoaktion

The Festival of Freedom will begin with an open-air concert at Pariser Platz by the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim. After the concert, the fall of the Berlin Wall will be symbolised by knocking over the designed dominos, which will be broadcast live in ZDF from 19.25 until 20.15. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend this extraordinary event.

Under musical direction of Daniel Barenboim the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Staatsopernchor (choir study: Eberhard Friedrich) play the following programme:

* Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act III
* Arnold Schönberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46 (Speaker: Klaus Maria Brandauer)
* Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 A major, op. 92, IV: Allegro con brio
* Friedrich Goldmann: Es ist, als habe einer die Fenster aufgestoßen (Fragment, 2009)

(tekst: mauerfall09.de)

Alexanderplatz station

S-trains chaos in Berlin, take substitute trains or ask our staff for help….

A lot of S-Bahn trains (similar to A-train) are out of order due to urgent security checks, but as substitute a lot more Regional Express Trains (RE or RB) are running from/to Alexanderplatz to the Main Train Station and Schönefeld Airport (SFX). The Bus from Alexanderplatz to Tegel (TXL) is running as usual.

If you need help with directions you could  just come ask our friendly staff at the reception, check the EastSeven directions on the website or check the BVG website for public transport in Berlin.

More detailed information about the current public transport in Berlin you can also find at www.vbbonline.de and the VBB call center (English spoken): +49 30 25 41 41 41.

We wish you a safe trip!