Joel Dullroy
Journalist | Videographer | Podcaster
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.
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 is Berlin's English-language news show, keeping international residents informed about local politics, public transport, urban development, culture, bicycles, bars and more.
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.
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/
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...
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/
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.