Last Friday together with the Berlin Senate the Berlin Police presented the new Traffic Accident Statistic for Berlin. The good news: over the years the number of fatal accidents went down. The bad news: the total number of accidents went up. The main cause for accidents on Berlin streets are mistakes made when people make […]
On Thursday night German Police arrested two people, suspected of planning a terror attack in Germany. According to media reports the men had planned an attack on Berlin’s popular sight Checkpoint Charlie and/or on Alexanderplatz. The police however could not confirm such details. see also: German police arrest Algerian suspects allegedly plotting attack in Berlin […]
Last Monday’s fatal car accident in West Berlin’s shopping area between KaDeWe and Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church is only the tip of another iceberg. Two young men had been racing down Tauentzienstraße (continued from Kurfürstendamm) – crossing at least two red traffic lights – crashing into a third car and killing its driver. In 2014 alone […]
In January we had again something of everything: some wind, some rain, some snow – and some sunlight. The temperature went down to something like -12°C and up to around +12°C – not too bad, but also not really nice. Overall I would say: the Berlin Weather in January was “ok” so far. On the […]
I’m very happy to announce that I can give away two free tickets for the Festival Screening next Sunday evening at Sputnik Kino. No catch – no information collected, no email addresses harvested, no re-tweets necessary. Just send an email to till@nuberlin.com before 5pm Berlin time Friday January 22nd 2016 with “British Shorts” in the […]
What is the average salary in Berlin? View to the Berlin TV Tower - Photo: T.Bortels/nuBerlin.com
The Berlin office for statistics Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg have just released numbers about the Average Salary in Berlin (2015 Q3). And I must admit I am a little bit surprised about some of the details. Monthly Average Salary in Berlin in 2015: 2.953 Euro If you add all the number up – the average […]
It’s sad – very sad – but it is like it is: last Sunday David Bowie past away. Berlin and Bowie had a rather special relationship. One could probably say that the city had at least changed, if not saved him – and that he had also somehow shaped and maybe even saved the city. […]