Außerdem mag der Berliner die Leute von außerhalb nicht so besonders. Die Brandenburger sind ihm zu ländlich, die Hamburger zu städtisch, die Rheinländer zu fröhlich, die Bayern zu griesgrämig. Mit den Sachsen verbindet ihn eine jahrhundertealte Feindschaft, die beide Seiten liebevoll pflegen. So stehen Berliner Fußballfans gerne volltrunken auf irgendeinem Bahnhof und brüllen lauthals in Richtung des vermeintlichen Gegners den beliebten Schlachtgesang: "Ihr seid nicht aus Berlin, nicht aus Berlin, nicht aus Berlin!" In Wirklichkeit ist dies vielleicht einer der friedlichsten Fußballgesänge überhaupt. Die Sänger denken "Ja!" und sind zufrieden. Aber die Besungenen denken auch "Ja!" und sind womöglich noch zufriedener.
Jakob HeinWer sich in Berlin als Immobilienmakler zu erkennen gibt, sollte sich nicht über die Frage wundern: "Und, kann man davon leben?" Denn es ist nicht so wie in anderen Metropolen, wo ein Mangel verwaltet wird und ein Immobilienmakler darum allein auf der Basis von Bedarf und Frechheit sein Dasein fristen kann.
Irgendeine eigene Geschäftsidee muss man hier schon haben, denn eine überteuerte, kleine Wohnung in schlechter Lage, wie sie sonst das Hauptgeschäft dieser Branche ausmacht, findet in Berlin auch noch das blindeste Huhn.
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The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.
Philip SingtonTags: time relativity berlin s-bahn
And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence.
Philip SingtonTags: police berlin 1930s crime-scenes
These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.
Anna FunderTags: history germany gardens berlin anecdotes anecdote berlin-wall
There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself the West. That idea, to my mind, met its materialist apotheosis in Berlin at the time of the Wall.
Perhaps I go into some sort of shock when I experience something deeply; I'm not sure, even at this ripe middle-age, but I have to admit that what I recall of Berlin is not arranged in my memory in any normal, chronological sequence. My only excuse is that Berlin itself was so abnormal - and yet so bizarrely representative - it was like something unreal; an occasionally macabre Disneyworld which was so much a part of the real world (and the realpolitik world), so much a crystallization of everything these people had managed to produce, wreck, reinstate, venerate, condemn and worship in their history that it defiantly transcended everything it exemplified, and took on a single - if multifariously faceted - meaning of its own; a sum, an answer, a statement no city in its right mind would want or be able to arrive at.
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Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love... It was a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn't always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love and endlessly forgiving because he made her feel that she was exactly where she was meant to be... Berlin made you like who you were when you were there, as if everything worth being a part of in the world - all those modern ideas about sex and art and women; all that possibility - was right there, in its dark, beating heart.
Whitney OttoIn Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be said, but a little quiet.
Luisa WeissTags: women cooking germany berlin working-from-home
When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?
Andrei ChernyTags: eisenhower berlin patton wwii-history
Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.
Andrei ChernyTags: berlin wwii-history
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