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• And when Berliners talk incessantly about their dreams of a Weltstadt, or world city, the German thirst for a civilized, cosmopolitan norm is palpable.
• Given the wide popularity of the turbocharged Barenboim, this would be a blow to Berlin, which sees culture as central to its ambitious plans to become a " Weltstadt " _ a world-class metropolis.
• Its growth in recent years suggests that Berlin, for all its dreams of being a " Weltstadt " or world-class city, will never enjoy the dominance over Germany that Paris and London exercise over France and Britain.
• But however the city masks its ambitions, the notion of standing at the center, of being a " Weltstadt " _ a world city _ midway between Stockholm and Venice, Paris and Moscow, is very much of Berlin : an extravagant idea regularly summoned from the boggy plains of Prussia to provide a beacon in an often featureless sea of provincialism.