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Outdoor Activities
as African, Asian, and salsa, produced many of the world’s
try Brotfabrik, which also foremost musicians, so classical Germany is the ideal destination
has a café. music festivals are popular and for a range of outdoor activities,
Discos in Munich and Frankfurt take place in many German including hiking, cycling, fishing,
mainly cater, naturally enough, towns. To give a few examples, and sailing. It also has a number
for a young crowd and play there is a Bach Festival in June of winter-sports resorts with
music of all kinds: from chart hits, in Leipzig (see p515), while Bonn first-class ski slopes, the best
funk, and techno to heavy metal. (see p533) is the venue for the being in the Bavarian Alps,
Some have a dress policy. International Beethoven Festival which lie only an hour’s drive
from late September. Beginning from Munich.
in late July, Bayreuth (see p512) There is a tradition of great
Festivals and Fairs
hosts the annual Opernfest of horsemanship in Germany.
Germans love festivals and fairs Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Keen riders will find excellent
and this country probably has However, be aware that you facilities in many areas, as well
more than most other European cannot just turn up for a as the chance to attend
countries. The most famous is performance here – you will international competitions.
the Oktoberfest in Munich (see have to book tickets at least Tennis is the second most
p526), which is a huge event a year in advance or else get popular sport (after soccer)
that celebrates beer with two them with a package holiday. and there are several annual
weeks of drinking, from the last December brings a rush of professional tournaments. You
week in September. Not to be fairs. Many towns and cities, can play on the many public
outdone, wine-drinkers can including Berlin and Munich, courts, or find a hotel with its
enjoy a wine festival (Weinfest) stage a Christmas market own facilities. Golfers with the
in August in the Rhine-Mosel (Christkindlmarkt), but the one appropriate handicap can play
area and in October in the in Nuremberg is considered on most golf courses simply by
Rhineland. Germany has to be the most impressive. paying a green fee.
DIRECTORY
Booking Tickets Kammerspiele Jahrhunderthalle Berghain Bar
Maximillianstraße 28, Pffafenwiese, Frankfurt. 70 Am Wriezener
Hekticket Bahnhof, Friedrichshain,
Munich. Tel 069-360 12 36.
Theaterkassen Tel 089-233 966 00. 10243 Berlin.
Hardenbergstraße 29d, Komische Oper Tel 030-29 36 02 10.
Berlin. Tel 030-23 09 930. Schauspiel Frankfurt Behrenstraße 55–57, Brotfabrik
Neue Mainzer Straße 17, Berlin. Bachmannstraße 2–4,
Ticket Online Tel 030-47 99 74 00.
Frankfurt. Frankfurt.
Tel 01806-447 00 00. Tel 069-212 494 94. Philharmonie Tel 069-247 90 800.
∑ ticketonline.de Feierwerk
Volksbühne Herbert-von-Karajan- Hansastraße 39, Munich.
Theater Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Straße 1, Berlin. Tel 089-72 48 80.
Berlin. Tel 030-24 06 57 77. Tel 030-25 48 89 99.
Berliner Ensemble Prinzregenten- Jazzclub Unterfahrt
Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, Classical Music theater Einsteinstraße 42, Munich.
Berlin. Tel 030-28 40 81 55. and Dance Prinzregentenplatz 12, Tel 089-448 2794.
Cuvilliéstheater Alte Oper Munich. Tel 089-21 85 02. Jazzkeller
Kleine Bockenheimer
Residenzstraße 1, Munich. Opernplatz, Frankfurt. Staatsoper Straße 18a, Frankfurt.
Tel 089-21 85 19 40. Tel 069-134 04 00. Unter den Linden 7, Tel 069-28 85 37.
Berlin. Junction Bar
Deutsches Theater Bayerische Tel 030-20 35 45 55. Gneisenaustraße 18,
Schumannstraße 13a, Staatsoper Berlin. Tel 030-694 66 02.
Berlin. Max-Joseph-Platz 2, Jazz, Rock, and
Tel 030-28 44 12 25. Munich. Pop Quasimodo
Kantstraße 12a, Berlin.
Deutsches Theater Tel 089-21 85 19 20. Alabamahalle Tel 030-31 80 45 60.
Werner-Heisenberg-Allee Deutsche Oper Domagkstraße 33, Schlot
1, Munich. Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin. Munich. Invalidenstraße 117,
Tel 089-55 23 44 44. Tel 030-34 38 43 43. Tel 089-368 14 50. Berlin. Tel 030-448 21 60.
Waldbühne
English Theatre Gasteig Atomic Café Am Glockenturm, Berlin.
Kaiserstraße 34, Frankfurt. Rosenheimer Straße 5, Neuturmstraße 5, Munich. Tel 01806-57 00 70 (for
Tel 069-24 23 16 20. Munich. Tel 089-480 980. Tel 089-228 30 54. tickets).

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