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Only a few weeks left until the start. Participating organizations and companies are in the midst of creative processes, developing their messages and stories in line with the theme "Creating Tomorrow" together with the festival team. Technicians prepare the extraordinary illuminations with unique precision for time and place, plan locations for the projection towers and …
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Otto Waalkes is not only an exceptional talent as a comedian and actor. He is also a painter. He studied art and his famous Ottifanten have already become part of (art) history. His paintings are cult. Not only the Ottifanten - also his countless other works of art.  It is worthwhile browsing through his gallery. …
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Not only Otto Waalkes and Udo Lindenberg enrich the 15th FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS with their art projections on the famous Bode Museum. The Festival of Lights is also especially pleased about two very special designs by international star guest Wolfgang Joop, who will once again wrap the Berlin Cathedral in new clothes.  Two of Joop's …
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Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe Water changes everything A life without clean water is hard for us to imagine. But for millions of people, drinking from dirty streams or puddles lurking in parasites and diseases such as cholera or typhoid is part of their daily lives. Every tenth person in the world has no access …
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Huge glowing European heart at Berlin Central Station on Europe Day offered a first preview of this year's FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS.  On the evening of 9th May, Berlin's main railway station presented itself with a huge luminous message on Europe Day. It also gave a first impression of this year's FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS, in which …
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For the ZDF New Year's Eve show "Welcome 2021" on Dec. 31, 2020 live in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the Festival of Lights team was commissioned to create the video mapping on the Brandenburg Gate during the 3-hour show. For the first time, there was a virtual projected firework display on the capital's landmark …
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