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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How many episodes does Berlin Briefing have?

The podcast currently has 1,396 episodes available.

Berlin Briefing episodes:

September 08, 2017 08.09.2017
- Police want to make Alexanderplatz safer
- Mitte playgrounds closed because of rat infestations
- Pro-Tegel initiative loses in court
- 1800 crayfish caught in Tiergarten
- Mosquitos heading inside for autumn and winter
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September 07, 2017 07.09.2017
- Police search Yaam Club
- Keeping Tegel open is unreal option, legal evaluator says
- 600 election posters vandalized - AfD affected most
- North Korea terminates contract with city hostel
- Marketing debacle leaves hundreds of fan outside concert venue
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6min
September 06, 2017 06.09.2017
- Berlin is most dangerous German city
- 40.000 sign Volksbühne petition
- Man hit and dragged along by S-Bahn
- Supposed WW2 bomb turns out to be gas bottle
- Car rental Robben & Wientjes sold to competitor
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September 05, 2017 05.09.2017
- 500 Million Euros promised by Merkel to fight city air pollution
- 31-year-old was beaten and tied to a tree
- Berlin prison in Moabit gets new boss
- Brandenburg’s pastafarians go to federal constitutional court
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4min
September 04, 2017 04.09.2017
- Petition for more video surveillance about to start
- Construction work on the U7 starts on Monday
- Satire party takes over right-wing Facebook groups
- Scottish independence activists rally held in Berlin
- Air Berlin employees go viral
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7min
September 01, 2017 01.09.2017
- Simon Wiesenthal center may include mayor Müller on anti-semite list
- Air Berlin Updates
- Police searching for arsonists with posters
- Lollapalooza approved under conditions
- Union beats Hertha in secretive friendly
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5min
August 31, 2017 31.08.2017
- Tear gas leak at Tegel Airport - four injured
- Rain is driving rats out of their holes
- AfD expells Jannik Brämer
- Louisiana crayfish in Tiergarten to be caught
- IFA starts on Friday
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6min
August 30, 2017 30.08.2017
- 1.5 Million Euro paid to victims of Breitscheidplatz attack
- Every fifth Berliner threatened by poverty
- Air Berlin cuts long distance connections
- BVG has data security issues, according to protection delegate
- S-Bahn surfers cause outages on Ringbahn
- World War 2 bomb defused in Spandau
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6min
August 29, 2017 29.08.2017
- 10 percent of Berlin’s small businesses educate apprentices
- Senate plans to buy “Haus der Statistik”
- Hell’s Angels want to demonstrate in Berlin
- Woman finds newborn baby at her front door
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4min
August 28, 2017 28.08.2017
- Federal loan for Air Berlin not authorized yet
- Geisel supports ban of left-radical media platform Indymedia
- Hepatitis C - Police search for first aid responders
- Marriage for all puts software in trouble
- Berlin football teams faced frontrunners
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5min

FAQs about Berlin Briefing:

How many episodes does Berlin Briefing have?

The podcast currently has 1,396 episodes available.