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Neukölln Mayor Franziska Giffey sees it all: Syrian refugees, established Turkish families, gentrifying hipsters, Middle Eastern crime syndicates and even the odd far-right politician inviting “war” over parliamentary procedure. This is the bonfire the 39-year-old with a twinkle in her eye has been tending since being elected in April 2015 to run one of Berlin’s […]
Published time: 14 Dec, 2017 00:47 A desperate plan to speed up the opening of Berlin’s infamously over-budget, behind-schedule airport calls for the use of a “prefab metal box” in lieu of the much-anticipated but incomplete main terminal. Under the plan, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) could open in 2020. BER Director Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, the fourth […]
Holger in’t Veld is smiling. About 6 feet tall, unshaven and with a black leather jacket, he’s every inch the Berliner. But then he departs from the regional script, just a bit, and reaches into his inner jacket pocket and says, “I want you to have this.” The this? About the size of an iPhone […]
Raed Saleh arrived in Berlin’s Spandau neighborhood at the age of 5; since then, he’s been watching his city change. While rents climb and affordable housing gets renovated or razed, cracks are growing in the reunified capital along economic, ideological and ethnic lines. Now, the delicate task of addressing this transition has fallen on the […]
