Harald Martenstein: How a go to to an Italian in Kreuzberg revealed the reality about Berlin to me | EUROtoday

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Some individuals declare Berlin had turn out to be boring. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was already in 2020, went the furthest Berliner Zeitung stated: “Berlin is the most boring city there is.” Worldwide even? I do not perceive why Ai Weiwei wasn’t given honorary citizenship in Hanover, which has thus far been thought-about probably the most boring metropolis in Germany no less than. The actor Henry Hübchen now principally lives on the Baltic Sea. But he does so as a result of he finds Berlin “neglectful”.

I requested myself whether or not I feel Berlin is boring or moderately uncared for. There are plenty of arguments for each factors of view. Is each potential? No. The uncared for is usually fairly entertaining. The boring stuff, alternatively, normally comes alongside freshly combed and tidy.

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