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Horror and disbelief on Sunday evening on facebook!
Yeah, we gave Merkel a second term! What seemed to be fun last week at Picknick (throwing around an FDP sponge, picture below), just became reality. The Tigerente, a popular German toy, is about to come in form of a black and yellow coalition.
I didn’t want to write about the elections, but some people were left highly surprised, even appalled, after the first results were published. My first thought was: What did you expect?? But to be honest, actually prepared for anything, I was a bit shocked, too. More after the jump.
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by Suz
on September 29th, 2009
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Seeing myself in the Berlin nightlife as an individual again, you realise a lot of unspoken things. For instance, most conversations you have on a night out in the town with strangers are consistently bullshit. Why is it that Berliners are not able to make pleasant smalltalk? Are they too afraid of not being intellectual enough to start a conversation with something other than: Hey, what’s up? Or are they not able to string decent bla-blas together without staring at your tits or your dick and unmistakably just wanting that “one thing”? More bla-bla thoughts after the jump.
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by Claudio
on September 28th, 2009
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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!
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by Claudio
on August 26th, 2009
in Madhouse Berlin, Stories
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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.
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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
in Madhouse Berlin, Stories
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I recently saw a disturbing 19th Century quote on the U-Bahn-TV which was a line from a song by Austrian composer Franz von Suppè that went: “You are crazy my child, you better go to Berlin!” How convenient is that? Since the 19th Century, Austrians and probably the rest of Germany have been spreading their propaganda to drive crazy people to Berlin. There must be some international conspiracy led by pharmaceutical multinationals wanting all the crazy people centralised here in Berlin, so as not to “contaminate” the rest of the population. It’s bad enough that we have the aliens here, now we have the nuts to be worried about as well.
We’re lucky enough that a big part of our iHeartBerlin.de office are psychologists – even if a lot of them are in need of psychiatric help themselves. Well, as one of the “healthy” ones, I am declaring war on this entire nuthouse! Therefore, starting today, I will start disclosing all hidden psychiatric disorders that Berliners have and I promise you that there are more than enough skeletons in Berlin closets to uncover.
So under the title Madhouse Berlin you’ll find the shocking truth about Berlin’s crazy inhabitants, which will hopefully entertain rather than scare you. By the way, I believe this city would be so much less appealing without it’s nutty inhabitants.
by Claudio
on June 22nd, 2009
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I love art. I really do!
A random evening in a smooth gallery in Auguststrasse where I went to see the work of just another young and “extremely” talented artist. That’s what the gallery owner said at least. I really love art and I’d love to buy some. But, like many people in Berlin who are aged between 18 and 35, I am quite short of money and the cheapest canvas of that evening cost more than 2.000 Euros.
Arriving at the gallery I met some friends I knew from Berlin’s nightlife who just came from another exhibition but weren’t able to tell me what was shown there and by whom. However, they are not as much into art as I am. They visit exhibitions for a single reason: grabbing as many free drinks as possible before going out to the clubs. They remind me of a swarm of bugs; the way they entered the room going directly to the bar without taking any notice of the exhibited paintings. I call them gallery hoppers…
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by Suz
on May 6th, 2009
in People, Stories
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photo: volvidejapon / flickr.com
A piece of art will bring people together, but it will divide their minds. It will be noticed by some while others will walk by. Some will understand and others will shake their head. It can be made by a plan or it can happen by accident. It can be created with new things or assembled of old.
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by Frank
on September 2nd, 2008
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So, our first double-pack of Berlinstories is finished and online, but we still have one extra outfit and some making of photos from the photo shoot for you to see. This dress by S’nob was one of our favorites, but it didn’t really fit to the story. If you missed our two part story about the Rigaer Strasse, you can check them here and here. Also take a closer look at the heated cultural debate going on in the comment sections of both articles. More photos after the jump.
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by Frank
on August 11th, 2008
in Fashion, Friedrichshain, Stories
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I find it hard to believe that this city and its places can be loved just for what they are. No. I think the love for a place only comes with a story or an event that takes place there. That makes the love to a place so much more fragile than to a human being, because every idiot can just march in and leave a bad memory. Of course I am talking about my beloved Rigaer Strasse, that I already wrote about a while back. Here’s to the tragic end of the story.
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by Dina
on July 31st, 2008
in Fashion, People, Stories
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