Exberliner Issue 167, January 2018
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CONTENTS<br />
<strong>Exberliner</strong> <strong>167</strong> – <strong>January</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Special: Trains<br />
Regulars<br />
What’s On<br />
06<br />
Save the world: see it by rail!<br />
Why environmentally conscious<br />
Easyjetsetters should abandon the<br />
skies and hit the tracks<br />
08<br />
Locomore’s bumpy ride<br />
The birth, death and resurrection of<br />
a Deutsche Bahn alternative<br />
10<br />
Trains on the brain<br />
Trainspotters, collectors and steam<br />
train enthusiasts tell us about<br />
their obsessions<br />
13<br />
Railway romance never rusts<br />
Eisenbahn-Romantik remains the<br />
number-one train show in the world,<br />
even without its host<br />
14<br />
How German trains saved Jewish kids<br />
One Kindertransport refugee<br />
tells her story<br />
16<br />
Confessions of an U-Bahn driver<br />
An anonymous BVG employee<br />
on why “Weil wir dich<br />
lieben” is a lie<br />
18<br />
Controllers out of control<br />
With corruption and assault rampant,<br />
who’s keeping Berlin’s ticket<br />
checkers in line?<br />
21<br />
Underground love<br />
Can the BVG help you find your<br />
U-Bahn crush?<br />
22<br />
Moving you, watching you<br />
Surveillance, police presence and<br />
facial recognition are being stepped<br />
up in our transit stations<br />
24<br />
Endstation Grunewald<br />
The Gleis 17 memorial turns 20<br />
03<br />
Konrad Werner<br />
The best lack all conviction<br />
04<br />
Best of Berlin<br />
New Year’s resolution edition<br />
50<br />
Berlin bites<br />
Upscale Italian from a Russian celeb<br />
chef and a fake meat taste test<br />
52<br />
Save Berlin<br />
Dan Borden on heartless<br />
Hauptbahnhof<br />
53<br />
The Gay Berliner<br />
The end of toilet sex?<br />
53<br />
New comic!<br />
Introducing Instabunnies<br />
26<br />
Time to transcend<br />
A Transmediale/CTM preview<br />
28 .............................. Film<br />
32 ........................... Music<br />
37 ............................. Stage<br />
40 ................................ Art<br />
44<br />
Events calendar<br />
46<br />
The Berlin Guide<br />
Berlin’s most authentic French bistro<br />
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