🌤️ Guten Morgen, Berlin!
Here’s your quick update on what’s happening around the city on Saturday, August 23- from urgent alerts to stories in the subreddit. Let’s dive in.
🇩🇪 How the Senate cuts are affecting Charité
A one‑and‑a‑half‑year‑old at Berlin’s Charité waits for a donor heart as the hospital confronts a 25% cut to its investment budget and reductions in study places and midwifery training. Leaders warn the cuts—and a watered‑down federal hospital reform—threaten specialized pediatric care and research; officials say they will seek special funds while a new gene-and-cell therapy center nears completion. (rbb24, 4 minute read)
🇩🇪 How delivery services outsource their responsibility
Reporters observed in July in Berlin‑Neukölln cash payouts in envelopes to about 70 couriers linked to Fleetlery (a Lieferando subcontractor) without receipts, prompting questions about taxes and social security. Drivers say they had no contracts, were paid per delivery and pressured via WhatsApp by a manager who charged fees to access the Fleetlery app. Lieferando plans to cut 2,000 staff and expand subcontracting, raising concerns that outsourcing masks employer responsibility. (rbb24, 5 minute read)
🇩🇪 Weather: Will Keinemusik's tour finale at Tempelhofer Feld fall through?
Rain could threaten Keinemusik's open‑air tour finale at Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin on 23 August 2025: forecasters warn of a changeable weekend with clouds, showers and isolated thunderstorms Saturday (highs 16–19°C) that may disrupt the 13:00–22:00 outdoor sets; conditions improve Sunday with drier, sunnier weather (19–21°C). (Berliner Zeitung, 2 minute read)
⚡ Quick Hits
🇩🇪 Omissions in rape investigations (rbb24, 4 minute read)
🇩🇪 Berlin: Tenants' association calls for exceptions to the rent cap to be removed (Berliner Zeitung, 2 minute read)
🇩🇪 Berlin anesthesiologist jailed for over three years after patient's death (rbb24, 3 minute read)
🇩🇪 Berlin's Mohrenstraße may now be renamed on Saturday after all (rbb24, 2 minute read)
🇩🇪 Berlin university leaders recommend approval of controversial university contracts (rbb24, 2 minute read)
đź’¬ What Berliners Are Talking About (from r/berlin)
🗣️ "Schauspieler" die ihre Filme bewerben - Women report men posing as actors promoting films about sexual harassment—likely pickup artists.
🗣️ I love Berlin but not the doctors... - Many people love Berlin but share frustration about dismissive, rushed medical care.
🗣️ KIZ Tickettausch 23.08 zu 24.08 - Accidentally bought KIZ tickets for the wrong date, urgently seeking swap.
đź‘‹ That's a wrap!
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