🌤️ Guten Morgen, Berlin!
Here’s your quick update on what’s happening around the city on Friday, August 22- from urgent alerts to stories in the subreddit. Let’s dive in.
🇩🇪 Berlin KitKat club confirmed: Woman raped at sex-positive party
Berlin’s KitKat Club has confirmed a woman was allegedly raped by a stranger at a Monday party in early September; staff called police and she was taken to hospital where a vaginal tear was recorded. The club—known for sex-positive events—said it was "deeply shaken" and will introduce publicly visible awareness teams at every party and strengthen security, while acknowledging no measure can guarantee complete safety. The woman has filed a criminal complaint. (Berliner Zeitung, 1 minute read)
🇩🇪 New rent inspection body finds dozens of suspected cases of usury
Berlin’s new rent-review office, launched by the Senate in March, found rampant overcharging in Q2 2025: of 95 contracts reviewed, 93 exceeded local reference rents and 61 met the threshold for suspected rent‑gouging (≥50% above). One 2019 case showed a 150% excess (19€ vs allowed ~8€/m²). Rent gouging can be criminally prosecuted; the rent-brake generally limits new rents for pre‑2014 flats to 10% above comparables. (rbb24, 2 minute read)
🇩🇪 More and more people in Berlin earn one million euros or more a year
Berlin’s number of annual earners of €1 million+ has tripled over a decade, rising from 494 in 2012 to 1,491 in 2022; they earned €3.7bn and paid €1.4bn in tax. Growth outpaces Germany overall and officials say reasons are unclear; concentrated in Charlottenburg‑Wilmersdorf; meanwhile poverty risk rose from 15% to 19%, widening inequality. (rbb24, 2 minute read)
⚡ Quick Hits
🇩🇪 Renaming of Mohrenstraße: first signs already up (rbb24, 2 minute read)
🇩🇪 Palestine protest camp at the Chancellery is evacuated: This is the reason (Berliner Zeitung, 2 minute read)
🇩🇪 A100 extension to be opened on August 27 - protest announced (rbb24, 3 minute read)
🇩🇪 Hellersdorf: Drunk man insults children and attacks them with firecrackers (Berliner Zeitung, 1 minute read)
🇩🇪 First container village for refugees to close: What remains after ten years? (rbb24, 8 minute read)
💬 What Berliners Are Talking About (from r/berlin)
🗣️ What happens to refugees when a concert is playing at Tempelhof? - Refugees at Tempelhof endure concert noise while organizers offer free tickets and hotels.
🗣️ Scammed by Door-to-Door GASAG salesman? - Thread warns about aggressive door-to-door GASAG sales and urges immediate contract cancellation.
🗣️ Secondhandläden, die nicht wahnsinnig überteuert sind? - Community recommends curated thrift shops, Vinted, and richer neighborhoods for quality finds.
👋 That's a wrap!
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