Berlin Apartment Construction 2015 - Photo: T.Bortels/nuberlin.com
Recently the Berlin Bureau of Statistics have released numbers and figures describing the Berlin Apartment Construction in 2015. And since I find the numbers quite interesting I had a closer look and I’ll try to sum up some of them. Continue reading
Watching the video (vimeo.com) and reading the lyrics for New Order’s song Singularity I must admit that I don’t really know why the band decided to have Eighties West Berlin footage as a ‘back drop’ for the video. But maybe that’s just me. And on the other hand I also must admit that I do enjoy seeing Eighties footage from West-Berlin anyways and always – even if the footage shown in the video for Singularity is already well known from last year’s B-Movie – Lust and B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin 1979 – 1989.
Yes, of course – I know – Joy Division do occur in the movie. And the film actually follows Mark Reeder (wikipedia) who moved from Manchester to Berlin in 1978 and who basically brought Joy Division to Berlin, building a musical bridge Manchester and Berlin. And so it seems the band does somehow recall their early Berlin days and pays tribute to their Berlin audience from the Joy Division era – and their Berlin mentor Mark Reeder. Nice.
If you haven’t seen B-Movie – Lust and B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West Berlin 1979 – 1989 yet: go see it! It’s really worth watching – even if you haven’t been in Berlin in the Eighties. And it’s now actually finally available on DVD: b-movie-der-film.de7see also:
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 a turn – causing over 10.000 accidents on Berlin streets in 2015 alone. Runner up with nearly 6.000 accidents is what I would call selfishness: people either ignore the right of way, or they just don’t care.
Most of the traffic accidents (over 70%) are (of course) caused by cars – or actually car drivers. The number is even higher when we look at the number of car drivers involved in traffic accident: over 75%.
So if you happen to visit Berlin please be careful. Even though Berlin may look and feel quite relaxed, there is a lot of bad things happening also – traffic accidents being one of them. Please be careful, take your time – and also look after others. Only because the traffic lights are green doesn’t mean you are actually safe. Thank you!
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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.
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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 Berlin saw over 3000 traffic accidents caused by speeding – and 52 people got killed in traffic accidents. That means that on average every week one person gets killed on the streets of Berlin.
In the recent years Car Racing continued to be quite a common problem in Berlin. Mostly young men driving across the city a high speed – in 2014 some 38 special speeding tickets were issued for illegal racing.
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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.
Sunshine on Oderberger Stasse Prenzlauer Berg
On the weekend it may however become a bit stormy. Some warm air is meeting with some cold air. Temperatures are expected to be slightly above 0°C – rain and winds will probably dominate the weather condition on Saturday and Sunday. Well… Have a nice weekend then!
PS: Feel free to check this weather map of Deutscher Wetterdienst / German Weather Service:
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 subject line.
And this is what you can expect:
Sun 24.01. 22:00 / Sputnik Kino
For further information about the screening please feel free to visit the festival website: http://www.britishshorts.de/programmEN.html?id=392006930982179000
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.
If you add all the number up – the average salary for full time employed, part time employed and marginally employed employees (men and women) the total gross salary would have been 2.953 Euro in the third quarter of 2015. That would equal a yearly gross salary of 35.436 Euro – about 1,9% more than in the third quarter of 2014.
However, when you take a look at the details of the salary report, there are actually some small ‘surprises’ hidden. Or at least to me it was a bit surprising to learn that also in Berlin men and women are still not equal – female and male employees are not paid equally. And while the average salary for both men and women has risen, it has actually risen just a bit more for male employees – and a bit less for female employees. So the inequality in payment of male and female employees seems to continue for now – the gap widens.
But let’s have a look at the bare numbers. I won’t go too much into detail, since the report is just a bit too detailed for my taste – so here are at least some of the ‘key figures’ numbers from the Berlin office for statistics:
| average monthly gross salary in Berlin | change compared to Q3 2014 | |||
| Full time, part time and minor employment | ||||
| total | 2.953 Euro | + 1,9 % | ||
| men | 3.325 Euro | + 3,0 % | ||
| women | 2.588 Euro | + 1,1 % | ||
| Full time employment | ||||
| total | 3.656 Euro | + 3,8 % | ||
| men | 3.858 Euro | + 3,9 % | ||
| women | 3.357 Euro | + 3,4 % | ||
| Part time employment | ||||
| total | 1.957 Euro | + 2,5 % | ||
| men | 1.798 Euro | + 4,1 % | ||
| women | 2.014 Euro | + 2,0 % | ||
| Marginal employment | ||||
| total | 335 Euro | + 6,2% | ||
| men | 340 Euro | + 6,5 % | ||
| women | 331 Euro | + 6,0 % |
Please feel free to download the full statistics report here:
www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/pms/2016/16-01-15.pdf
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