A bi-weekly podcast about immigration in Berlin, Germany. Listen to hosts Bridget and Aleks interview a wide range of people about what drew them to Berlin, and the Kafkaesque experiences of their first Anmeldung and Ausländerberhorde visits. The podcast is mostly in English with some German and some humor. The podcast is not intended to provide legal advice but only to share the subjective experiences of individuals that have gone through the process of acquiring a visa here in Berlin. Send ...
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Turkish Diaspora Identities– minisode with Zozan
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This minisode is an outtake from the last interview we aired with Zozan, a Kurdish Turkish masters student in Sociology here in Berlin, at Freier Univiersitat. Our conversation explores identities within the Turkish diaspora. Zozan talks about her personal experiences with the 1st wave of Turkish immigrants – guest workers that migrated during the …
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Save a tree, don't move to Germany! –with Zozan
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In this episode we interview Zozan, a Kurdish/Turkish masters student at FU, in Berlin. We lament the trees that might be saved if Germany would just let go of it's obsession with printed documents and go digital! And we talk about some of the ways a Turkish visa application process is unique!Please let us know what you thought of the episode by jo…
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In this minisode, we take a break from bureaucracy and talk about that other thing Berlin has in abundance; Spätis. Is there a correlation between the abundance of bureaucracy in Berlin and the Späti culture? You be the judge. This is an outtake from the interview we released last week with Javi– in it, he shares more than his opinion on the best S…
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Become a Berliner With Javi
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Hosts Bridget & Aleks interview Javi, a Berliner of Mexican origin who has been on a student visa for almost a decade and is looking forward to applying for citizenship soon. Javi shares cautionary tales of the Kirchensteuer and housing missteps in his early days.Info for Javi's visa type is available on the Berlin website, here:https://service.ber…
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This minisode is a part of the interview with Zozan, a Kurdish/Turkish sociology student. In it, hosts Bridget and Aleks and interviewee Zozan stray from the main topic of German-Turkish bureaucratic conundrums to attempt a clarification of some recurring labels like “migrant” ”immigrant” and “expat” and differences in their German and English usag…
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This minisode is an outtake from the interview with Beensu Chilenga, which you can listen to in our first full-length interview episode “Berlin, Rude & Accomodating – with Beensu” we were inspired (distracted) by some dogs creating a racket in the Hinterhof and rant about the outdated German oddity which is the dog tax, or auf Deutsch: Hundesteuer.…
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Berlin, Rude & Accomodating – with Beensu
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Hosts Bridget and Aleks interview Beensu Chilenga, a new Berliner from Zambia about his bureaucratic adventures in acquiring a Language Learning visa/Sprachvisum and the equally enterprising process of switching to a Preparation to Study visa/Aufenthaltserlaubnis zur Studienvorbereitung. During the conversation, we touch upon a diverse array of top…
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Introducing the 1st season of Berlin Anmeldung Stories, a bi-weekly podcast on immigration in Berlin. Hosts Bridget & Alex interview folks about the Kafkaesque experiences of German bureaucracy. Mostly in English.Subscribe on iTunes or wherever you find your favorite podcasts– first full length episode drops February 2019! Also, please follow us on…
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