Other entertainment in Germany
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Cafe Kweer
Bremen's gay scene is, like the city itself, relatively small but friendly. The lesbian scene is very small and centres on Cafe Kweer, part of the information centre for gays and lesbians. It becomes a lesbian cafe from 9pm every third Saturday of the month, and from 3pm to 6pm each Sunday (with football screenings if Werder Bremen happens to be playing). Other events are also held here for gays and lesbians, so it's worthwhile checking out the website.
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Staatstheater
Nuremberg's magnificent Staatstheater serves up an impressive mix of dramatic arts. The renovated art nouveau opera house presents opera and ballet, while the Kammerspiele offers a varied program of classical and contemporary plays. Tickets are available at the box office or by calling [tel] 231 3808. The Nürnberger Philharmoniker also performs here.
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Schützenhof Beer Garden
For a drink with sun and a bucolic view, head for this delightful beer garden about 500m south of the Käppele chapel on the east bank of the Main. The main ingredients are ultra-fresh - listen for the farmyard animals protesting to the rear - and the beer (try the Balthasar Neumann) is served with a donkey-shaped Brezel (pretzel).
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Stone Im Ratinger Hof
After a stint as a techno temple in the '90s, the venerable Ratinger Hof has returned to its rock roots and is now the 'it' place for lovers of indie and alt-sounds. Depending on the night, tousled hipsters, skinny-jean emos and sneaker-wearing students thrash it out to everything from noise pop to neo-garage to indietronics.
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Bräustüberl
Bräustüberl is the monks' beer hall and garden. There are seven varieties of beer on offer, from the rich and velvety Doppelbock dark to the fruity unfiltered Weissbier. The place is incredibly popular, and on summer weekends you may have to join a queue of day-trippers at the door to get in.
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Anaconda Lounge
The living room of hormone-happy hipsters, this designer cave is great for chilling or launching a bar hop. Strong drinks, kick-ass music and complexion-friendly decor further loosen inhibitions. Insiders fuel up for the long night ahead with cheap pizza from Harlequino next door (ok to bring inside bar).
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Rösterei Fuchs
The aroma of freshly roasted coffee fills this small, chic place, which roasts its own coffee in-house, and also sells beans (ground or unground) as well as gourmet chocolates. At the very least, drop by for an espresso, which comes with an individually wrapped chocolate-covered coffee bean.
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Andorfer Weissbräu
High on a hill 1.5km north of the Altstadt, this rural beer garden attached to the Andorfer brewery serves filling Bavarian favourites, but the star of this show is the outstanding Weizen and Weizenbock ales brewed metres away. Take bus 7 from the ZOB to Ries-Rennweg.
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Staatstheater Braunschweig
Staatstheater Braunschweig is the historic venue for classical music, theatre, dance and opera. Tickets range from €7 to €38 depending on venue, performance and seat. The tourist office also sells tickets, or turn up an hour before the event for rush tickets.
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Bautzner Tor
Probably the last GDR-era dive in Dresden to survive ungentrified, this dimly lit but strangely atmospheric museum piece is a nostalgic blast from the past. Food is definitely wallet-friendly and the excellent beer (cheapest in town) is brewed locally by a guy called Lenin.
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Café Mezzo
Inside the Pavillon, this classic bar and cafe used to be a student hang-out, but today Mezzo gets a balance of ages. It's popular any time of day (including for breakfast), but doubles well as a place to warm up in the evening before moving on to a club or performance.
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Hövel's Hausbrauerei
This is a brew-pub for the 21st century - rustic yet infused with a touch of style. The menu is custom-made for hardcore meat lovers (try the suckling pig or the roast pork knuckle) washed down with the libation of choice, the tasty house-brewed Bitterbier.
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Staatstheater 'Kleines Haus'
Staatstheater 'Kleines Haus' is the second of four performance spaces. Tickets range from €7 to €38 depending on venue, performance and seat. The tourist office also sells tickets, or turn up an hour before the event for rush tickets.
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Apollo Kino & Bar
This cavernous basement joint does double duty as an art-house cinema and a sweaty dance club for the student brigade. Alt-sounds rule on Mondays, salsa on Tuesdays, but on other nights it could be anything from dancehall to disco, house to power pop.
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Hotel Shanghai
Electronic-music fans invade for ravetastic nights in this unpretentious joint where DJs spin in a lotus-shaped console, while you dance beneath Chinese lanterns. When your legs need a break, plonk down into a red leather booth and scan the crowd.
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Hüftengold
Rumour has it that when the boss fell pregnant, she named her other baby, this lounge cafe, Hüftengold (love handles). Bag a log stool in this retro sylvan wonderland for cocktails, chill-out grooves and cosy evening chats by candlelight.
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Spitalgarten
A veritable thicket of folding chairs and slatted tables by the Danube, this is one of the best places in town for some alfresco quaffing. It claims to have brewed beer (today's Spital) here since 1350, so it probably knows what it's doing by now.
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Landbierparadies
A less than inspiring exterior and a spit 'n' sawdust, all-timber saloon detract little from the incredible wellspring of obscure country ales pulled at this pub. Some 'brands' are only available here and in the village where they are brewed.
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Hafenklang
A collective of Hamburg industry insiders, including Jan Drews, present established and emerging DJs and bands, as well as clubbing events and parties. Look for the spray-painted name on the dark-brick harbour store above a blank metal door.
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Augustiner
This popular fairy-lit beer garden and restaurant (meals €8 to €16) is ideally located in the heart of the city. The sprawling garden and cavernous interior is a fine place to leave your beer glass ring and pack away some gorgeous grub.
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Pawlow
Generations of bon vivants have followed the Pavlovian bell to this northern Altstadt institution. A cafe in the daytime, it morphs into a DJ bar at night with electro, punk and '60s sounds heating up a chatty, boozy crowd.
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Wagenhallen
Swim away from the mainstream at this post- industrial space near Eckhardtshaldenweg U-Bahn, where club nights, gigs and workshops skip from Balkan beat parties to poetry slams. There's a relaxed beer garden for summertime quaffing.
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Generations of Dortmunders have partied at this legendary club that recently moved to new digs near the Dortmunder U. Catch tomorrow's headliners live in the big hall or get down to a 'Happy Feet' inducing dance mix in the club.
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Weinstein LeBar
This is as unassuming a wine bar as wine bars should be: soft music, candlelight and as many as 50 wines by the glass, including some hard-to-get bottles from the nearby Saale-Unstrut Valley. A basic snack menu is available.
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Café Weiss
Drunken students and punks, hip-hop dudes and glammed-up divas - all love this grungy, borderline sleazy dive. The bartenders can be gruffer than billy goats, but they pour a stiff vodka and lend change for the jukebox.
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