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If i was an esoteric female genitalia I would say it was Karma.But as a rationalist I would rather just say you deserve it.And yes admin I am making a bit of an effort.xx
the problem is their is no discourse with Germans with each other.If a nationality is so fractured economically and politically then what chance do outsiders have?Honest to god Germans have had 70 years to get immigration into a coherent functioning culture.And due to a pervasive castrated terror change is impossible.It is in effect Nazi doctrine in reverse...The most astute forward thinking and imaginative will leave the rest behind.And that is the case for Germans.Incapable of foresight.bitter.and spiteful. No chance at all in contemporary culture.
Am I the only one who hates all these homeless punks in the Sbahn, with a beer in their hand and a sexual act dog ? People talking all day about work ? Strange vintage clothes ? Angry old people in the public transport ?
There was an interview with a german artist I think and he said, that Berlin has nothing to do with Germany ... there are soo many different cultures here OMG ... I don't want to sound like a rasist, but this city is broken up.
I definitely understand your point, but I can't agree with all of it. I don't think having people of different cultures is a problem, the problem is when these people 1. can't treat others with respect 2. are socially isolated and badly integrated, thus having their own corners and parts of the city and end up rivalling against other ethnic groups and have nothing to do with people outside their groups. I feel bad for the dogs of homeless people, and I really can't be mad at them either - if you look at Berlin's system, it's almost expected that people end up so miserable they just waste all their money on alcohol or worse, ending on the streets. And if they had enough financial resources, they just grow old and angry like those people in the subways. I'm sure you didn't mean to sound racist, but I really believe that this site wasn't made for people to hate on specific ethnic groups (whether German or anything else), but rather to give frustrated people a platform thats devoid of the pretentious hype thats going on in the city. I just think its important to differentiate and reflect on these things sometimes.
Berlin is just your broken dream...horrid...get out if you can its totally fucked....horrible ppl and no jobs ....just leave
Wow - even high profile artists think berlin sucks ass...which it does....a hellhole.....
yes Iam a high profile artist and off the record most of my non german high profile artists think the same. Problem is they are too weak minded worried that they will fall out of the media circus and use the Berlin artist poop to fool the dickheads from boring places in europe to make cash from them. Berlin is a boring ugly cold, idiot reason being why all of the very top Artists and Djs stay in America when they can or London, those that have been already making top dollar for a while before the social media hype. Dont get me wrong Berlin was once an ok place to go out and party and live there for cheap, thats all gone, there arent any real decent cheap places to live and the clubs most of the time are the same as any other city ive been too, and the Art scene is really Crap for a Capital so called Major European city its terrible. So go for 3 months in the summer, and make sure you have a return ticket to somewhere else.
Thing is if you broke down the so called scene down and those so called people running the music scene were sent back home to their pooping small towns in europe or back home to Israel, or other non important places they would be revealed to be the insignificant talentless trouble causing turds they are.
People really should post this page more on their facebook pages to give it a bigger audience. If i wasnt a high profile artist i would happily do it.
besides, a bigger audience =/= good/better. what's wrong with it the way it is now? i think the audience will eventually grow naturally when people search for this kind of stuff. why the rush? and no offense, but it really feels like this typical german capitalist thought of "more growth, more efficiency". don't you think this site's audience chooses itself?
Here's the truth about Berlin, which is a sick clown show of a city:
1. Cost of living being low... Yeah, might be lower than other cities, but the wages are really low, unemployment is very high. The city lives off of tourism but at the same time hates tourists. Natives still have that East German mentality. Be prepared to meet level 10/10 tools such as Marxist "expats" who complain about gentrification as if they somehow have native rights to Berlin or something.
2. Germans will call you a foreigner if you're brown, even if you were actually born and raised in Berlin. Germans invite hoards of immigrants to their country, then like to complain about it or call 2nd 3rd generation children of migrants "foreigners" This is the German way of being multicultural. This is why immigrants do not integrate. There are also probably too many of them for them to really "integrate". More like take over. Also, you can't speak like this in Germany, everyone is paranoid about stating the obvious because it might sound "racist". The German psyche is a radical combination of extreme xenophobia and extreme white guilt/nazi guilt.
3. At the same time, yes it's nice to have so much falafel and doner etc to eat (which btw, also gets boring) but large parts of Berlin will look and feel like Bagdad. Lots of thirsty ME & North African EVERYWHERE who have a staring problem. If you're female you have to constantly avoid accidentally looking at them, because they may take it as a sign of interest. Looks like a gender imbalance sometimes.
4. Really lame party scene. Believe me. Cheesy techno clubs with poop music, boring butt people, and most of the bars are mind numbingly boring. People go out and just sit around smoking and drinking, having no facial expressions, looking like a monotonous robot and hardly even smiling. few people are laughing having a good time or dancing. Most boring nightlife I've ever seen. Yes they do have some cool looking places but the people are so boring. Go to a few bars and clubs and you'll be thinking the same thing.
5. poop arts scene. Just a lot of really bad art everywhere, goofy people who enjoy the smell of their own farts because they cobble together some type of creative existence in Berlin, lots of pretentious tools.
6. poop startup scene. Lots of Macbook laptop toting techie Spock hipsters everywhere. Less annoying then the artsy types but the techie Spocks will get on your nerves as well.
7. It's difficult to meet anyone in Berlin who is laid back, funny, easy to talk to, warm and not boring, without a weird complex and not pretentious. If you do they're probably a tourist or haven't been in Berlin long.
8. Deranged homeless, beggars etc everywhere. You're going to encounter at least a dozen of them as soon as you step out. They're just part of berlin's gritty "sexy but poor" ambiance I guess, right up there with the smell of piss permeating everywhere, poop graffiti everywhere, etc. Berlin is a sick clown show.
9. I could write more but you get the idea.
Berlin techies aren't really techies. Most tech meetings never come back to Berlin. Soundcloud loses more than 30M every year and the best talent that arrives to the city leaves in 1 year or less. I just wanted to weigh in in that matter. The rest is true of course.
Holy Sh!t, 600 and 1 reasons plus several thousand comments, I am so proud of the BerlinHater community. Thanks to you all. Admin
Ha,Ha.I am lovin these latest posts.I just had a German friend visit me in my part of the world.Took him around town,took him to some fine Asian restaurants(Not that garbage they serve in Berlin..This was REAL multi cultural food)Then off to some top quality INTERNATIONAL art exhibitions(No German artists included).All he did was sulk,sulk sulk.But then he found something to make him happy.We visited my parents in their retirement village.A terrific community of old folk enjoying themselves in a fantastic complex. All he could say was that the door knobs were bad quality!! And this cheered him up! WHO THE fornicate NOTICES DOORKNOBS?...A GERMAN. fornicate I was glad when he broken off back to Berlin..where old people have to collect bottles from rubbish bins because nobody gives a fornicate for the poor souls.You gotta laugh or you wont stop crying..Cheers.xx
Today I was at the bakery and the person in charge asked me "today we have freshly baked doughnuts, would you like a Berliner?" Awful memories came back to me and my face showed fear so much that the cleric asked me "are you ok?" "Yes, I'm fine" I replied. while flashbacks of the city and memories of me venting on this website came back to me. freaking Berlin, it gave me PTSD.
Why do you all just complain? WHY DONT YOU LEAVE???
(I left 3yrs ago) Leave it to a Berliner to not understand the very simple concepts of 'Healthy Venting', 'Camaraderie', 'Commonality' or "EXPRESSION". Some of us need more than Vegan Powered Bicycles and crap Parks to feel apart of something. Isnt there a patch of grass in Grunewald calling you back home to the Shire?
Is it possible to find people that do not obsessively talk about techno parties, fake art (words like performance, installations etc make me mad) and other useless cr.ap? I could understand teenagers, but for fuck's sake i see people OVER 30 and 40 talking about the cool dj that is playing at BERGHAIN and they cannot miss.. Really? there is something pathetic and embarassing about this, i dont know why
I don't remember the last time I actually had real, genuine fun in this country. It feels like the only way people have fun here is by getting drunk, talking about politics (??? if masochism counts I guess?) or just making fun of each other and being nasty in general. They're like bitterness personified. And if you're not, don't you even dare showing the slightest hint of happiness. They'll go mad crushing you until you're just like them.
So true. Have you ever heard the word "schadenfreude"? This work exists only in german. Guess what it means? Basically, twisted/perverse/harm joy that derives from seeing others in pain. This is what is funny to them: people's suffering.
Those pricks have no sense of humor, they have no joy in them. They are in competition for anything and everything. They exist, they don't live. They don't have the most basic human qualities there are.
Those people make me sick to the stomach. I was such a happy person before moving to this hell hole, now I'm just sad and depressed.
Preaching to the choir on that one. I have never come across people who enjoy others' suffering so extremely anywhere else, save for Italy. Then again, I didn't get around too much there, but from what I experienced they had the same "European Assholes" syndrome. Like. Can't we just enjoy ourselves without comparing everyone to everything? One really shouldn't be AFRAID of showing positive emotion, or emotion in general. Christ.
We all know that house and it's antecedents stemmed from minority groups — African Americans, Puerto Ricans, homosexuals — and were, eventually, co-opted by white heterosexuals. It is sad to see that in Berlin and in many other cities in Germany house has become a snob (in the sense that only certain partygoers are welcome), segregated and xenophobic experience. The music scene thrived when Berlin when the city opened its doors back in the 90s to renegades from all over the world but today it's just sad to see that only welcomes "Berliners". I can tell you that because I've been long enough in the music biz to know what happened here and honestly I don't like what happened to the city. RIP Berlin. 1900-1999
oh and by the way I shared this on a forum about the city music scene and all I got was a link to this site plus some hate replies. Please share your music scene experiences in places like Reddit because others have similar concerns but they don't voice their concerns loud enough for fear of Berlin trolls.
Very true Berlin is done and poor bored people give up everything from far off places like australia and america to go to berlin thinking its a cultural paradise with cheap accomodation and open minded people ?. Occasionally you go to a smaller electronic music cub and its cool like Henrietta house, everyones welcomed in, the atmosphere, multiple rooms and music is all good. Forget BERGHAIN ITS ALL FUCKYNG HYPE NOW. Its really nothing special at all. I Would want the place to be full of all sorts of people but it isnt ?. Where are the Drag queens, the cool Gays, The Cool Black people and famous artists, nowhere to be seen the times I Have actually Dj´d there.
What is worse than a German?... a Berliner during the weekends