Star Wars Identities, the original Star Wars Exhibition traveling around the globe, was held at the Odysseum in Cologne. Over 200 original Star Wars costumes, models, props, and pieces of artwork were exhibited to discover up close (many of them for the first time) and a unique interactive identity quest allowed you to design your own Star Wars Hero.

R2-D2, Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon, Anakin’s full-sized Podracer and other favorites, like Yoda, Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Princess Leia, Stormtroopers, and Darth Vader, the collection features all six Star Wars movies as well as the ongoing television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

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In 2015, the world’s biggest trade fair for interactive games and entertainment, the GamesCom, got even bigger, with 345.000 visitors from from 96 countries and took place in Cologne, from 05. – 09. August 2015.

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On its tour around the globe, the the World Press Photo exhibition took place from 5 June to 28 June 2015 at the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin, celebrating its 60th anniversary and featuring over 100 award-winning photographs in 8 different categories.

This year, World Press Photo received 97912 pictures from 5692 photographers around the world.

A complete gallery with all picture and descriptions can be found at worldpressphoto.org.

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Iranian Stencil Artists Icy And Sot created a new Mural, a Portrait of an unknown girl from Brooklyn to the people of Berlin, as part of the new Project, M/7 „Persons of interest” by Brooklyn Street Art and Urban Nation at Bülowstraße 7 in Berlin.

“The 176 piece stencil had taken about 10 days for them to cut back in Brooklyn and the brothers methodically sprayed their missive to Berlin’s people over the course of 5 more days. This, their largest mural ever, was enormous and peaceful and an incredible act of discipline, determination, and dedication to teamwork.” –BSA

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For the fifth time now, Irish (and Non-Irish) locals in Berlin celebrated their annual public holiday with a big parade and live bagpipe music (provided by the Berlin Pipe Company), with lots of green and lots of beer. The St.Patrick’s Festival Berlin was launched in 2011 with a 150 people strong parade which has grown over the years to over 2000 participants in 2015.

Every year, the Society of German Nature Photographers (Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen – GDT) invites professional and non-professional photographers from all over Europe to join the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The competition aims to illustrate the high quality and specific style of European wildlife photography through excellent pictures from Europe and all over the world. It also seeks to promote awareness for nature conservation through the means of photography.

Right now, the winners of the 2014 Photo Contest can be seen at Berlin’s Central Station from 10.03. – 19.03.2015.

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The biggest Premiere during this year’s Berlinale took place on Friday 13, 2015, the World Premiere of Cinderella, a retelling of the classic fairy tale about a servant step-daughter who wins the heart of a prince, with actors Lily James, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett and Stellan Skarsgård, at the Berlinale Palast in Berlin.

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Fifty Shades of Grey, the first installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy, celebrated its movie premiere today, February 11, during the International Film Festival, the Berlinale 2015.

E.L. James, author of the 2011 erotic romance novel and Sam Taylor-Johnson director of the 2015 movie adaption, together with her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson as well as main actors Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson walked the carpet in front of the Zoo Palast in Berlin.

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Robert Pattinson and Dane DeHaan (together with his wife Anna Wood) were back in Berlin, accompanied by Alessandra Mastronardi, during this year’s Berlinale. This time, for the World Premiere of LIFE on February 9, at the Zoo Palast. The movie, directed by Anton Corbijn, is about a photographer for Life Magazine who is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.

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Another World Premiere was held during this year’s Berlinale on February 8, Knight of Cups with actor Christian Bale who plays Rick, a slave to the Hollywood system. He is addicted to success but simultaneously despairs at the emptiness of his life. He is at home in a world of illusions but seeks real life. Co-actress Natalie Portman also walked the carpet at the Berlinale Palast in Berlin.

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