Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

St. Hedwig's Cathedral is Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

The Kurfürstendamm is home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at its eastern end on Breitscheidplatz.

Berlin's executive body is the Senate of Berlin ( Senat von Berlin ).

The office of Berlin's Governing Mayor is in the Rotes Rathaus ( Red City Hall ).

Berlin is subdivided into twelve boroughs ( Bezirke ), down from 23 boroughs before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform.

Irving Berlin's " This is the Army, Mr. Jones " performed by men dressed as women in 1942

It has been suggested that this is at least partially due to Berlin's proximity to the front, and that for an opposite effect, New York's geographic distance from the war spawned its more theoretically-driven, less political nature.

He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

Heydrich was buried in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof, a military cemetery ; the exact location is not known — a temporary wooden marker which disappeared when the Red Army overran the city in 1945 was never replaced, so that Heydrich's grave could not become a rallying point for Neo-Nazis.

In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future.

It is not clear yet if Berlin's senate will decide in favour of The Lefts proposal.

Creativity is Berlin's future.

His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman ( although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women, displaying a pleasant voice ).

Napoleon passing through the Brandenburg Gate after the battle of Jena-Auersted ( 1806 ) The Gate's design is based upon the Propylaea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece and is consistent with Berlin's history of architectural classicism ( first, Baroque, and then neo-Palladian ).

The only track to make it on to a full Berlin release is a cover of Marilyn Manson's " The Dope Show ," which is included on Berlin's 4play album as well as the Marilyn Manson tribute album Anonymous Messiah ( 2001, Vitamin Records ).

* In 2011, the Berlin Court upheld the City of Berlin's decision to not register the marriage of two homosexual men, which is in contradition to the 2009 ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court that demanded full marriage equality for gay persons.

Today, Humboldt University of Berlin's Winckelmann Institute is dedicated to the study of classical archaeology.

Later Berlin and Cölln were united into one city ; one of Berlin's modern-day boroughs is Neukölln, named after Cölln.

Berlin's name is recorded in Latin language documents as " Berolina ".

This was composer Irving Berlin's first complete film score since 1930 and he negotiated a unique contract, retaining the copyrights to the score with a guarantee of ten per-cent of the profits if the film earned in excess of $ 1, 250, 000.

Berlin's history has left the city with a highly eclectic array of architecture and buildings.

Morris has played in over fifty countries at nightclubs and parties, and particularly music festivals such as the Full Moon parties in the Mojave Desert, Glastonbury Festival, Rainbow 2000 and Mother SOS in Japan, Chillits in Northern California, and Berlin's Love Parade.

A subplot follows Peter Falk, who has arrived in Berlin to make a film about Berlin's Nazi past.

Berlin's work on liberal theory and on value pluralism has had a lasting influence.

Checkpoint Charlie has become one of Berlin's primary tourist attractions.

The bust of Nefertiti has become " one of the most admired, and most copied, images from ancient Egypt ", and the star exhibit used to market Berlin's museums.

Nefertiti has become an icon of Berlin's culture.

She has lived in London since 1992 when she was invited to play Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun.

Kreuzberg has emerged from its history as one of the poorest quarters in Berlin in the late 1970s, during which it was an isolated section of West Berlin to one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the now reunified city.

The Humboldt University of Berlin () is ( together with Technical University Berlin ) one of Berlin's oldest universities, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin ( Universität zu Berlin ) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities.

" Linie 1 ", a musical performed by Berlin's Grips-Theater, is set completely in stations and trains of the Berlin U-Bahn ; a movie version has also been produced.

Friedrichshain is a part of Berlin's borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, and like Kreuzberg across the river it has its own distinct character, with the result that the new double name is hardly ever used outside government administration.

A founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900, the club has a long history as Berlin's best-supported side.

He has thus far ( co -) edited 15 volumes of Berlin's writings, as well as the first 2 volumes of a 4-volume edition of Berlin's letters.

Berlin's police commissioner Graf Helldorf only verbally reprimanded Krützfeld for doing so and, partly in consequence, Krützfeld has often mistakenly been identified as the rescuer of the New Synagogue.

An important critique of value-pluralism has been advanced by the philosopher Charles Blattberg, who was a student of Berlin's.

Jeff Berlin's bass playing is somewhat similar to that of Jaco Pastorius, though Berlin plays a fretted bass and has stated his distaste for Jaco imitators.

Since the 1970s, Jeff Berlin's career has been primarily as a sideman to more well-known musicians, but he has also released several solo albums.

In an interview with CNN, Berlin's lead vocalist Terri Nunn said that the tribute was necessary, commenting that " she has influenced a lot of people ", adding that " Live to Tell " is the only song from Madonna that she would touch.

In live concerts, she has received standing ovations from enthusiastic audiences, such as in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2006 concert in Berlin's Waldbühne Amphitheater, with a full attendance of 25, 000, and in Los Angeles at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 to a sold out audience.