photo: Lena van Ginkel
Sadly, this is the last Strange Magic story we have left for you. We would like to thank again the Sophiensaele for being such an amazing partner once again. It was pleasure to discover so many different Berlin realities through this small contest and for us it was somehow like discovering our city through a different set of eyes. On the one corner we could invest in new sexuel experiences we had never thought of like in the story Happy Kater. On the other corner there were strangers crying their eyes out like in the phone-booth. Finally in this last story we follow the protagonist while encountering a mysterious laugh. So enjoy our last story by Lena van Ginkel in the German version of this article.
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photo: Eylül Aslan
Our second to last Strange Magic story is the protocol of a sleepless night in Berlin by author Jannis Klasing. About wandering around in our flats in Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte or wherever we live, unable to find rest, tormented by all kinds of thoughts . Read about this nerve-wrecking night in the German version of this article.
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photo: Eylül Aslan
The next story from our Strange Magic series is probably the most sexual one. And sure, a lot of Berlin’s magic has to do with the sexual intrepidness and insatiable appetite of the inhabitants. Did we call Berlin a slut? Several times! But did we ever tell you how the slutty daily live of the Berliners look like? Not so much for now. Thankfully the story Happy Kater submitted by blogger and author Kevin Junk introduces innocent souls like us to the dark waters of the gay piranha pool that is Möbel Olfe on a Thursday night and the morning after. To read his story, you have to continue in German.
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photo: Anabel Bossart
Since we opened our Strange Magic of Berlin call for submissions to English and German participants it was delightful to see that we got submissions in both languages. The next story is in German from Anabel Bossart. Anabel is an immigrated Appenzeller girl in her twenties. She’s a student of North American studies in Berlin, works as a newsletter writer for a museum in Mitte. In her free-time she loves to roam about the city to discover its marvels. Her blog documents her often curious findings in photographs, but most importantly it contains many little anecdotes about life as someone coming from the equally strange other side of the fence. Enjoy her happy point of views on Berlin in the German version of this article.
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After a first quiet funny, a second very surreal, the third story by Irina Dumitriu is somehow the most emotional one of the 10 we choose to be part of the Sophiensaele Booklet. Irina Dumitriu comes from a far away land and has been living in Berlin since 2005. By day she (theoretically) plays with atoms and molecules in a Physics Institute, by night she listens to music, dances, writes, reads, draws, listens to more music, sleeps. There’s not much beyond that. And I hope you will fall in love with this story that feels like a breeze of rainy Berlin November.
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illustration: Mi Lewicz
Everybody in Berlin has some sort of crazy neighbour, right? And there are plenty of stories about them. The next submission of our Strange Magic series is exactly about meeting the new neighbours. The author, Yonatan David Weizmann, is an Israel-born writer living in Berlin since 2009. His works include radio dramas, short stories and magazine articles, and have been published in both English and Hebrew. He is currently an Masters student at Oxford University’s creative writing program. He also plays the trumpet and looks better with a beard.
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Our first story to start our creative publishing collaboration with Sophiensaele is from the quite famous Adam Fletcher. Adam Fletcher is a 30 year old, bald, Englishman. He spends his days creating largely unsuccessful products for The Hipstery. He’s the author of the online blog series and Spiegel bestselling book “How to be German/Wie man Deutscher wird” from C.H.Beck. Read his hilarious open letter to Berlin:
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