Berlin Briefing

By Abby Ross Menacher, Albert Menacher

We curate local news stories from Berlin (mostly reported in German) every weekday morning and report them back in a succinct five to ten minute summary. In English.... more

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The podcast currently has 1,396 episodes available.

Berlin Briefing episodes:

February 02, 2018 02.02.2018
- Referendum for more nursing staff
- Lütke Daldrup's pension payment is legal
- Exterminators going high-tech against rats
- Mayor Giffey condemns cowardly arson attack on Neuköllner bookseller
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6min
February 01, 2018 01.02.2018
- Increasing attacks on BVG employees
- Two smugglers arrested in Berlin
- More unemployed in Berlin - but smallest increase in decades
- Grocery discounter Aldi Nord wants to enter housing market
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5min
January 31, 2018 31.01.2018
- Airport chief Daldrup receives two salaries
- Petting zoo sheep stolen and slaughtered
- Portraits on Schloßstraße in Charlottenburg show Holocaust survivors
- Berlinale will screen movie in prison
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7min
January 30, 2018 30.01.2018
- Zweckentfremdungsverbot: 8000 apartments permanently rented out again
- Over 2000 young Berliners receive aid because of drug addicted parents
- Lost property auction today
- Information needed on October attack in Pankow
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7min
January 29, 2018 29.01.2018
- After cutting 7000 jobs: Siemens plans to build new facilities in the USA
- Massive reconstructions planned around Funkturm
- AfD politician on trial for defamation against homosexuals
- Michael Wolff will read “Fire and Fury” in Berlin
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7min
January 26, 2018 26.01.2018
- Berlin's judges overburdened with asylum cases
- "Freezer Killer" trial coming to an end
- Overload of anti-terror work
- Kurfürstenstraße: District surveying local residents
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7min
January 25, 2018 25.01.2018
- Mayor Müller advocates for release of Deniz Yücel from Turkish prison
- Senate wants to strengthen political education in schools
- Court process against driver of human-trafficking truck
- Music store damaged by fireworks will re-open
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5min
January 24, 2018 24.01.2018
- Police searching for Ubahn driver
- 80 meters of the Berlin Wall still standing
- Railway to use more ICE Sprinters
- One third of foreign workers are cheated on their wages
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5min
January 23, 2018 23.01.2018
- High profile drug trafficking trial starts this week
- Thanh receives life imprisonment
- Berliner/Branderburg organic eggs mostly originate from factory farming
- Student employees to go on three day strike
- Bassy club has to close
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8min
January 22, 2018 22.01.2018
- More illegal waste reported online
- Child abuser employed at elementary school for several years
- Four fire fighters injured by electric shock
- Young migrants need support at school
- Two grocery stores robbed
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6min

FAQs about Berlin Briefing:

How many episodes does Berlin Briefing have?

The podcast currently has 1,396 episodes available.