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This podcast could change your life. Before she died, Maisie Hitchcock and I had one last conversation about zombies, East German architecture, rationality and joy despite cancer. Hear her final inspiring interview, weaved between a sample of her best moments from more than a decade of co-hosting Radio Spaetkauf.
How To F#€k Up An Airport
What went wrong at BER? Berlin's unfinished airport has been in construction for over 11 years, cost have blown from €1 to €5.4 billion, and there's no end in sight. It's a story of incompetence, corruption and Berlin's general inability to get it's act together. On this series, Radio Spaetkauf explains the BER disaster fail-by-fail.
Radio Spaetkauf - The Berlin News Podcast
Radio Spaetkauf is Berlin's English-language news show, keeping international residents informed about local politics, public transport, urban development, culture, bicycles, bars and more.
Rent Freeze - Berlin's Rental Revolution
This is an experiment. What happens when an entire city of 3.5 million residents stops paying rent increases for the next five years? Rent Freeze is a podcast about Berlin’s rental revolution.
Articles
Exberliner: Rolling back on cycling infrastructure: Berlin’s war on bikes begins
Motorists are steering politics in Berlin. Cyclists fear they’ll be driven off the roads. Is the new government backing Berlin into a car-centric future?
Berlin car drivers can’t believe their luck. After years of trundling behind entitled cyclists, they’re being restored as the apex predator of the urban jungle. The new CDU government used drivers’ rights as a wedge to win big outside the Ring at the last election, and now they’re rewarding their motorist voters....
https://www.exberliner.com/berlin/berlins-war-on-bikes-begins/
Exberliner: “What have you done to my Berlin?”: Political chaos and exploding aquariums
Guest politics columnist Joel Dullroy is back in Berlin after a winter away and wonders what's become of the city since the last election.
Berliners, you’ve got some explaining to do. I go travelling for half a year and come back to this mess? The Christian Democrats have taken charge of the city, climate change protesters are being treated like terrorists, rents have gone up yet again. A falafel sandwich costs €5. And you blew up the aquarium! I can’t even trust you with the pets...
Lola Magazine: How To Fuck Up An Airport
Millions over budget and years overdue, Berlin's new BER airport is a disaster
BER is the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption and Berlin’s general inability to get its shit together.
How did the capital city of efficient and frugal Germany manage to fuck up an airport so spectacularly? The project was plagued with hubris, miscalculation and mismanagement right from the start.
https://lolamag.de/feature/current-affairs/how-to-fuck-up-an-airport/
Exberliner: Berlin’s failed rental revolution
How Berlin went from cheap rents to a housing crisis, saw its rent cap defeated and what will happen next with calls for expropriation.
BER is the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption and Berlin’s general inability to get its shit together.
How did the capital city of efficient and frugal Germany manage to fuck up an airport so spectacularly? The project was plagued with hubris, miscalculation and mismanagement right from the start.