Seriously, these bins are pretty sh*t at their job.
Doesn’t get any work done. (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
What a messy Punk!!!?! (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
He even turned up drunk!!! (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
“Kippendiener“ – actually means cigarette butt servant! But wtf?! Total failure! (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
Heart of Snow – Berlin Neukölln – (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
A Heart by Mother Nature – made me smile (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
Looks like people threw snow balls at them. (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
Locked Love – Berlin Treptow (Photo by Stefan Klenke)
During the years of walking around Berlin with my camera I noticed hearts everywhere in lots of different forms. I have a huge street photo collection of them. It’s actually my biggest collection of my many themes. It makes me happy that the symbol for love is such a popular theme in this city.
These are just a few of the very recent examples.
Translation: Our quarter – our streets (Berlin, Neukölln) Photo: Stefan Klenke
Homeless person sleeping in U-Bahn station Berlin (Lichtenberg) – Photo: Stefan Klenke
Translates as: “Rixdorf needs to stay dirty!“ ), Berlin Neukölln, Photo by Stefan Klenke
Translates as “Fight the capitalism!“ – Photo by Stefan Klenke
I just heard on the news that the rents in Berlin increased by 70%(!!!) in the last 10 years. The price is now around 10 Euro per square metre when it was just around 6 Euro a decade ago. The reason for this incredible rise according to the news was the increase in population. I was disgusted to hear this. I think the real reason is a system that supports greed and profiting on the needs of human beings. The system allowed house owners to raise and raise the rents without a healthy limit.
New Berliners who moved from other cities and countries where they already were used too expensive rents willingly accepted to pay those “still relatively cheap“ Berlin rents while the less fortunate poorer Berliners were pushed out of the city centres to the cheaper borders.
In a popular city like Berlin there will always be people who would still be able to pay for way too expensive rents. But still the problem is the system who failed to build cheap social housing and instead decided to cash in and build luxury expensive apartments for renting or buying and did not introduce an effective rent cap – and created another gentrificated unfair unequal city. This system is called Capitalism.
Berlin Neukölln – Colours like no other.
It’s a really grey and boring looking day today that’s why I was happy to see this colourful mix of street art and advertising posters at S-train station Neukölln this morning. Happy Friday, everyone!!! 😍😊
Well camouflaged
Can you spot the well camouflaged street observer? 😍
Graffiti on a house wall in Rixdorf area of Neukölln
Dirty corner at Hermannstraße station in Neukölln, Berlin
Having lived in Neukölln a few years I can confirm that it is in many areas a dirty place. A part of me feels it adds to the charme and undergroundy authentic vibe of the more and more hip district in the South West of Berlin. Another part is sad and angry that people chuck their rubbish everywhere disrespecting our environment.
The writing “Neukölln bleibt dreckig!“translates as “Neukölln stays dirty!“ I see it occasionally written on walls in the city; sometimes with Berlin, Kreuzberg etc. instead of Neukölln. I understand it as a angry cry for people who are scared of gentrification which is “cleaning“ up more and more areas and making the rents go up and up and thus taking away the home districts aka Kieze of people who cannot afford to live there any longer.
“Unsere Viertel – Unsere Straßen“ – “Our quarter – our streets“
The question is if these writings will in any way stop the gentrification or if it adds to the area being seen as cool and undergroundy and therefore attracts even more rich, boring people who want to feel cool and undergroundy.
Seen this little love bird in Neukölln Rixdorf tonight.
“One little bird at my door step singing sweet songs…“
