After I have announced that I am a newcomer here – in Berlin you remain a newcomer, even if you arrived 34 years ago and two native Berliners have now contributed to the local demographics – I try to make up for this with Berlin activities, dear guests, something Berlin to offer and boldly go where otherwise only tourists go.
I met visitors from Hamburg on the terrace of Motel One at Breitscheidplatz. There’s an almost all-round view and the tower of the memorial church ruins is close enough to touch. The fact that his clock was correct filled me with defiant pride, because that is rather the exception in Berlin.
At the Charlottenburg town hall, for example, measurements are currently being taken incorrectly, as my colleague Cay Dobberke reports in his newsletter, which seems harmless compared to the clock meltdown in Berlin 25 years ago: “Winter time is too early: BVG clocks are wrong” (Tagesspiegel).
BVG computers had sweated “that the winter time this year did not start on the last weekend in September, as was previously the case, but four weeks later on October 26th”. Consequence: “The tickets validated in incorrectly adjusted machines lose their validity one hour early.”
After all: “Inspectors are instructed to be accommodating.”
Here are a few more topics that you will find in the current newsletter for Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from the Tagesspiegel:
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- Donation boxes for Ukraine: employees of the district office help war victims
- Hotel and restaurant in a former women’s prison
- Corona update: Due to the falling number of infections, the obligation to test in schools could soon end
- The fountain season has started – but not all fountains are bubbling
- Restaurant opened in the Halensee outdoor pool
- New shop for picture frames
- Public W-Lan planned in official buildings
- Free tickets for architectural tour at Ernst-Reuter-Platz
- We are giving away concert tickets
- Fence protects swans at Lietzensee
- The clocks at City Hall are wrong
- Writing the newsletter: Cay Dobberke
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The Tagesspiegel newsletter, which you can order here free of charge, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and is available for all twelve Berlin districts, with more than 262,000 subscriptions. In it we inform you once a week in a bundled and compact way about what’s going on in your district. We also often let readers have their say in the newsletters, after all nobody knows Berlin’s neighborhoods as well as the people who live there.
