Berlin Dating - Single Girls and Guys in Berlin, Germany

Berlin is both the capital and largest city of Germany. As one of the most important centers of culture, politics, media and science in Europe, Berlin is widely accepted as a world class city whose residents have wide ranging opportunities to live and love avidly.

Located in the northeastern part of Germany, Berlin is geographically embedded in the European Plains and this gives the city a temperate Oceanic climate with warm summers, cold winters and moderate rainfall throughout the year. Over one-third of the city is composed of lakes, forests, parks and gardens which impart a sense of space and greenery to the city. Among the best known of such natural recreational destinations in Berlin are the Berlin Botanischer Garten, the Tiergarten, Viktoria Park, the Treptower and the Volkspark in Friedrichshein. Many among these also embody an important sense of history like the last two which include memorials of soldiers who lost their lives in the Second World War. Berlin is also home to two of the largest zoological parks in Europe, the Zoologischer Park as well as the Tierpark Friedrichsfelde. The city’s temperate climate as well as its natural beauty spots provide a host of venues for young people to meet and hang out together.

One of the most important aspects of Berlin’s identity as a world class city is its rich and vibrant cultural life. The city is home to as many as 153 museums with the Museum Island being its prime cultural destination besides being designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Among the most important museums located here are the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Pergamon Museum and the Bode Museum. Some of the best known art galleries in Berlin are the Gemäldegalerie or the Painting Gallery, the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery, the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Deutsches Historisches Museum as well as the Bauhaus Archive. All these destinations are apt places for lovers of art and culture to meet and get to know each other.

Other than having a rich artistic heritage, Berlin has a thriving contemporary cultural scene. It is some to some of the best music trends in Europe, both classical as well as modern. The city in fact has as many as seven symphonic orchestras of which the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is globally renowned. There are five major opera houses and more than fifty theatres in Berlin. The city’s growing role in contemporary music trends was best symbolized by the announcement that the annual Popkomm, Europe's largest music industry convention, would move to Berlin after 15 years in Cologne. Soon after that , international music labels like the Universal Music Group and MTV also decided to move their European headquarters and main studios to the banks of the River Spree in Friedrichshain. Berlin’s pre-eminent position in music offers ample opportunities to its young people to come together through concerts and live shows.

Berlin also hosts some of the most colorful parades and cultural festivals in Europe. The annual Berlin Film Festival with over 430,000 admissions is today one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Some of the most high-profile cultural festivals include the techno carnival, Love Parade, the Berliner Festpiele which also includes the jazz festival JazzFest Berlin as well as other technology and media art festivals and conferences like the Transmediale and Chaos Communication Congress. All these events are highly popular with the youth of the city who not only come together to indulge their love for contemporary cultural expressions but also to interact with other like-minded enthusiasts. Yet another highly anticipated event in the city’s cultural calendar is the Karneval der Kulturen, a multi-ethnic street parade celebrated every Pentecost weekend. The popularity of such multi-ethnic events can be gauged from the fact that over 13.9% of the city’s population are of foreign nationality, originating from 195 different countries according to official statistics from December 2008. In fact Berlin has something for its same-sex couples as well and the annual Christopher Street Day is celebrated as the largest gay-lesbian parade in central Europe.

Besides being a favorite destination for culture enthusiasts across Europe, Berlin boasts of a competitive sports scene as well. Among the major sporting events hosted by the city in the past are the 1936 Olympics as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Annual tournaments like the Berlin Marathon and the annual ÅF Golden League event ISTAF for athletics and the Qatar Total German Open organized by the WTA are other treats for the die-hard sports fans of the city. Berliners are especially enthusiastic about football and fans of various teams coming together to watch the matches on huge video -screens have become an important aspect of the city’s social scene as well.

Students make a significant percentage of Berlin’s population as evident from the large number of educational institutions in the city. The Berlin-Brandenburg region has one of the largest concentration of colleges, universities and research facilities in entire Europe. Berlin has four universities and 27 private, professional and technical colleges (Hochschulen), and as many as 135,327 students were registered at the 31 universities and colleges in 2008/09, according to a report in the Der Tagesspiegel Berlin dated May 2010. The campus therefore features significantly in influencing dating trends and opportunities for the young people of Berlin.

Berlin has always been known for its vibrant nightlife. Throughout the 1990s, young migrants from surrounding countries, particularly those in Eastern and Central Europe, made Berlin's club scene the premier nightlife destination of Europe. In fact many former sites across East Berlin, particularly in Mitte, developed into venues for underground and countercultural gatherings. As of the today, some of the best known nightclubs in Berlin are Kunst Haus Tacheles, techno clubs Tresor, WMF, Ufo, E-Werk, the infamous KitKatClub,  Berghain, the Linientreu as well as SO36 in Kreuzberg which originally focused largely on punk music but now has become a popular venue for dances and parties of all kinds. All these venues offer the hip young Berliners ample opportunities to get together to groove and lead an active social life.