With the cold and wet days we’ve just experienced one thing is for sure: Winter is coming. What am I saying it’s already here! The heatings are running, and we have to face it: We will all have to suffer through months of this now. Well, at least the ones among us that don’t escape to a warm island like scared chicken! The cold season in Berlin has only just begun and if you haven’t lost your mind yet, you could still lose it in the weeks to come, even though sometimes we get thrown a bone or two with a few rays of sunshine here and there.
For those of you who want to maintain their sanity in the Winter in Berlin our Blogfabrik colleague Sophia Halamoda, who also brought as the famous Berghain, Bürgeramt and Real Berliner comics, has created a fantastic comic: A Winter Survival Guide that also explains a lot of the secrets of the grey and cold seasons and how the real Berliner deal with them.
This comic, along with a whole lot of unpublished new material is part of the new book “Like A Berliner” – a collaboration of Sophia and us. You can order it here in our webshop.
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by Frank | Stories
Berlin is generally known as an easy going, relaxed happy place to have fun and take things slow. As much as we enjoy this reputation, it’s not all roses and unicorns here after all. We have our moments of struggles as well, some are Berlin specific and some are the same as in many other big cities in the world. It’s a part of life I guess. Sometimes you just have to stay strong.
The new campaign of the yogurt drink Actimel is all about these moments when people have to bite their teeth, make the best of it and stay strong. It’s quite a relatable sentiment, but as diverse as our world is, everyone gets to these moments quite differently. So the guys from Actimel asked us: when do you have to stay strong in Berlin? The question made us immediately think of the hilarious illustrated comics of Sophia Halamoda who showed us how to get into two of the most impenetrable institutions of Berlin: the notorious Berghain night club and the feared Bürgeramt. So we extended the question to her and together we came up with a list of some typical struggles that we face here in Berlin. We’ve all been there at some point! After the jump you’ll find 7 moments when you have to stay strong in Berlin.
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by Frank | Stories
