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About Susanne

berlinsights as tour operator, coach and guide walks through Berlin like a flaneur, as berlinsights director Susanne was told the other day along her new features and ideas shared. A true-born Berliner, she adores Berlin's people, lakes, museums, business ventures, ideas and more. Together with her creative team of guides and friends, colleagues and clients, Susanne never gets bored, loves being in town besides international consultancies or local (ad)ventures.

Phone boots in Africa

Togo

Phone boots in Africa, having virtually disappeared throughout the West-African region, can no longer be discovered along Lomé streets. In their beauty and persistence hardly compatible with today’s vital mobile phone market of striving young people, literally everybody is „mobile“ today. Kiosks have hence lost their purpose. Abandoning stone-like stability has been a decade-long path, and has replaced quick wins for unemployed youth:

La boîte téléphonique en Afrique ne se voit plus dans les rues de Lomé, ayant quasiment disparu dans toute la région de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Pas réellement compatible dans leur beauté et perséverance avec le marché de la téléphonie mobile d’aujourd’hui, les jeunes sont tous „mobiles“ virtuellement. La raison d’être des boîtes téléphoniques n’y est plus. Le ‚longue marché’ d’abandon de ce qui paraît durable a remplacé l’approche gagnant-gagnant pour la jeunesse en chômage:

 „Maintenant avec les chinois, tout le monde achète le téléphone.“

(témoin p.30)

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Winter in Berlin 2014

Winter

Jonti-01. . . does not feel cold these days! And even less so for berlinsights creator Susanne who just moved to Lomé, Togo in West Africa, to assist German Development Cooperation at 29 degrees to get youth into jobs! Quite a jump for her, as courageous as Jonti from New Zealand when visiting Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial lately! While he left for completing his studies, the Togoan people will sharpen their vocational skills and their technical and social education systems towards more and better jumps to make their upgrading efforts sustain! You will read in dialogic inquiry, every now and then, about the people of Togo! Continue reading →

Hindu Temple Berlin, September Opening

Autumn

This is the first Hindu temple created by the Hindu community in Berlin:

http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/erster-hindu-tempel-berlins-oeffnet,10809148,24237668.html

berlinsights paid an extended visit to Berlin’s first Hindu temple inaugurated in Neukoellen/Britz in September 2013. It was a sunny day with hundreds of visitors from nearby and abroad, both contributing to making teh atmosphere special!

 

The floating garbage collectors

Summer

Muellboot-SpreeChased-away trash like bottles, broken bikes and dead dogs in plastic bags: this is only some of the environmental waste thrown into the rivers of Berlin. An impressive analysis of garbage items is collected daily between the Landwehr canal and the river Spree. With yearly 450 tons of things thrown without care into the waters of our city, the two municipal employees Richard and Waldemar do their back-breaking job on a motorized Catamaran, eight meters long and one of three such floating garbage collectors. They do not complain, they just do their job.

excerpt from taz, die tageszeitung 19.08.2013

„L’ordre règne à Berlin“

Summer

berlinsights in August reads books like „L’ordre règne à Berlin“ de Francesco Masci: 2013 (Ed.Allia, Paris). While in Berlin, You can find it at the French bookstore ZADIG, Linienstr.141. Masci lets us discover Rosa Luxemburg with:

Eure »Ordnung« ist auf Sand gebaut. Die Revolution wird sich morgen schon »rasselnd wieder in die Höh’ richten« und zu eurem Schrecken mit Posaunenklang verkünden: »Ich war, ich bin, ich werde sein!«”

ROSA LUXEMBURG: “Die Ordnung herrscht in Berlin”, in Die Rote Fahne Nr. 14, 14. Januar 1919

Among our hidden places downtown Berlin, we spent some time at the new coffeebar & mediashop friedrichstr.215 in 10969 Berlin (stop U6: Kochstr.). Open since November 2012, management, food and beverages are decent (see foto) – enjoy!”