Madhouse Berlin

photo: Bierlos on flickr
Madhouse Berlin: Therapy session nr. 7
You carnivorous maggots in human form, you insatiable grasshoppers with legs instead of wings and eyes instead of aerials. Your chewing tools are brutal as they devour this town in which we live. Your greed is eating away our stores, our work, our flats. Where we would be undemanding, you want to tear the last fling of flesh from the ribcage of this town… Your illness is the megalomania. The type-size 42 on your newspaper will soon be telling you, that without another Alexa, a bigger O2World, and a higher hotel bunker you won’t be happy any more with Berlin. Your god’s names are MAXI, MEGA or SUPER. I call you the Insatiables.
Read on in German for more superlatives.
by Claudio
on May 31st, 2011
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Madhouse Berlin: Therapy Session Nr. 6
For some of you Berlin might be a scary place to live. You try to find something good in it by reading this blog but it just won’t help? You should know that those fears are not causeless at all. So listen up closely my dear patients. Moving to Canada is not the only option left for you. I have gathered some good advise for all of you afflicted by a terrible Berlinophobia. For that you have to read my few thoughts on phoenician demons, meat, stone and human fear in German after the jump. Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on November 2nd, 2010
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Madhouse Berlin: Therapy Session Nr. 5
This city makes us hungry. And now when the resources are getting thinner we have to give up humanity to encounter the beast in us. But are the lacerating beasts the ones to blame? Or are we the sickos who just stand there and watch like once upon a time in a fairy tale with a girl named Kitty Genovese. Or was her name Kitty Jo? Just can’t remember. For more of these thoughts and more carnal photography read on in German.
by Claudio
on August 6th, 2010
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photo: Shirin K. A. Winiger
Madhouse Berlin: Therapy Session Nr. 4
Some new readers of us may wonder what this bullshit here is all about. I started this little series of articles last summer but had no chance or no spirit to continue them properly. But here I am writing about some serious problems a lot of Berliners have and don’t even really know about. Some of you may think of it as a bad habbit, but I am telling you that cliché-thinking is more than that. Why I think you should better cure your serious malignous disease and how to protect yourself from these people out there after the jump.
Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on May 25th, 2010
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clocks by Stefan Strumbel
Madhouse Berlin – Therapy Session Nr. 3
You think the Ku Klux Clan is scary? Well, then you’ve never met the Cuckoos Clan here in Berlin. The members of this clan are the scary cuckoo’s children. These people prefer to find an easy way into your nest rather than building one of their own. Tips on how to recognise them, classify them to ensure that us little birdies still get our life-supply of worms and more funny clocks from Stefan Strumbel after the cheep!
Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on August 26th, 2009
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Illustration: Fernando Vicente
Madhouse Berlin: Therapy Session Nr.2
The Problem with “Aunt Agony” or self-help columns is that even the cool ones deal with the topic of love. So here we are and before you start telling me about your evil ex-boy- or girlfriend who broke your heart fucking the much younger and horny trainee, you should know that this time I want to focus my attention on a certain kind of Berliner who is unable to love. This inability may be one of the most dangerous infections and so to warn all you innocent virgin readers how not to end up in a world of senseless promiscuity and sex crazed-addiction, I collected some useful insights for you after the jump.
Read on – Weiterlesen »
by Claudio
on July 3rd, 2009
in Madhouse Berlin, Stories
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Photo: America’s Next Topmodel
Madhouse Berlin – Therapy Session Nr. 1
Talent Vomiting – cited as one of the most rare psychiatric diseases around the world – is very often found in places like Berlin. Others have already described it as Multitalent Disorder or even as Multitalentose, meaning the profusion of too many talents, but these are not the right terms I would use to describe this particular ‘Berlin problem’. When other cities would enjoy an opulence of abilities and talents and thrive from it, in Berlin it just gets wasted. This ‘ability’ to expunge is what I will call Talent Vomiting from now on as indication for such talent waste. Find out more about this repugnant disease after the jump.
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by Claudio
on June 26th, 2009
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