Those desiring swift growth require the fight breeding ground. The VENUS has developed to become Europe‘s largest event in the sector within only 13 years because of the fact that Berlin provides the perfect climate which has always enabled good ideas to gain in significance all over the world.

Berlin is the home of many television and radio stations—international, national as well as regional. The public broadcaster RBB has its headquarters there as well as the commercial broadcasters MTV Europe, TVB, FAB, N24 and SAT.1. German international public broadcaster Deutsche Welle has its TV production unit in Berlin. Additionally, most national broadcasters have a studio in the city.

Berlin has Germany‘s largest number of daily newspapers, with numerous local broadsheets (Berliner Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel), and three major tabloids, as well as national dailies of varying sizes, each with a different political affiliation, such as Die Welt, junge Welt, Neues Deutschland, and die tageszeitung. In addition, several weekly papers publish here, and Berlin has three alternative weeklies focusing on culture and entertainment. The Exberliner, a monthly magazine, is Berlin‘s only English-language periodical. Berlin is also the headquarters of two major German-language publishing houses: Walter de Gruyter and Springer, each of which publishes books, periodicals, and multimedia products.

With three opera houses, more than 150 theatres and stages, around 170 museums and collections, numerous performers, artists, sculptors, composers and musicians who have chosen to reside here, Berlin is the city of culture, events and trends. Events with histories going back decades such as the Internationale Funkausstellung (International Radio Exhibition) also take place here - in fact, it is the largest consumer electronics exhibition in the world.

People say it is the mixture in Berlin which continues to inspire creative souls. A typical example is the Hackesche Höfe which were built in 1905, newly. Renated in 1995 and now include accommodation, culture and retailing at very close quarters. With several bars, restaurants, a cinema, the Hackesches Hoftheater; a disco which also stages jazz concerts, galleries, fashion, jewellery and antique stores, the area covers a total of eight Berlin court yards and has become the centre of Berlin‘s city culture.

The Potsdamer Platz interprets this Berlin mixture in a completely different style. The centrepiece is formed by the arcades on Potsdamer Platz offering an exclusive shopping experience on three levels. The Debis Center has attracted two office buildings as well as the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the musical theatre, the Berlin Casino as well as the Cinemaxx and Imax cinemas. Star architect Helmut Jahn has created a glass monument in the form of the seven building Sony Center nearby. 180,000 square metres provide space for offices, apartments, shops, a film house and the German Film- und Fernseh-Akademie (Film and Television Academy). The remainder of the historical Hotel Esplanade is also to be found here as a very special kind of listed building: it disappears behind the glass of the Sony Center.

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