Andrew Bulkeley has reported on Germany for a variety of publications including Bloomberg, The Local, the Exberliner, Monocle and Handelsblatt Global. He is also an award-winning bilingual comedian. He studied literature at Colorado State University and joined the English Edition as editor from August 2020 till September 2021.

And now we both live in Berlin. It’s weird how biographies can overlap but lead to such different lives.

Meet rapper Black Prez, who isn’t just recording and dropping albums. He’s also acting as well as moderating YouTube videos for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg.

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Bezirke

+++ Pressure on the unvaccinated +++ Masks in schools +++ Club trial +++ Bunch of stats +++

Wednesday's corona news in 60 seconds

+++ Corona in schools +++ Vaccination rate +++ No more restrictions for some? +++

Monday's corona news in 60 seconds

+++ Intensive care occupancy up +++ Zoo asking for support +++ The stats +++

Friday's corona news in 60 seconds

+++ No more free tests +++ Antibody therapy +++ Stats +++

Seven weeks later the police asked for the public's help in finding the 43-year-old. The man with reddish-blond curly hair had gone missing. Then, on 8 November, a dog came across a completely skeletonised bone in a wooded area along the Buchholzer Graben near Schönerlinder Chaussee in Pankow.

The defendant likely met the victim online. Tracking dogs and a witness led investigators to the suspect's door. He's been silent ever since.

Suspect in cannibal murder goes on trial Tuesday

Pankow

The two men, aged 22 and 25, are suspected of killing their 34-year-old sister in Berlin on 13 July, according to the release. The suspects then allegedly packed her body in a suitcase and took a train to southern Germany, where they buried their sister's body.&nbsp;

Body discovered Thursday in Bavaria is likely that of the suspects' sister. She had been missing since mid-July.

Two men in custody in suspected honour killing

+++ Incidence up more than in 2020 +++ Charité boosters +++ James Simon park closed +++ Stats +++

+++ Back to school +++ Corona test costs +++ A couch and some vaccine +++ Stats +++

Thursday's corona news in 60 seconds

- Masks till 2022 |Club trials | Health insurance bonus? | Stats -

Palast der Republik

*** Controversy over kids *** Weekend policing costs *** Stats ***

Tuesday's corona news in 60 seconds

The city's favourite (and only) hexagonal airport netted €9.3m in 2020, according to the annual report of operator Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH (FBB). Still, the figure is just a fraction of the €130.9m it pulled in in 2019.

The pandemic has hammered air travel around the world. Tegel just barely remained in the black in its final year as a Flughafen.

Tegel profitable until the end

Urbane Mobilität & Reisen

Officers detained a 49-year-old man during a protest of Querdenker (opponents of corona restrictions) and while looking at his identification, the man complained of tingling in his arm and chest Sunday afternoon. Officers immediately administered first aid but he later died in hospital.

About 600 people were arrested over the weekend during protests or as officers broke up a party. Same problems, different date.

Police taxed amid demonstrations and parties

+++ Shots for kids +++ Tests for travellers +++ the stats +++

Immigrants hoping to be naturalised in Pankow must wait up to 6 months for confirmation that their application has been received while those in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg have to be patient for a measly 10 days.

The process takes up to two years in Pankow. But just  four months in Mitte. Why?

Want to become German? Hurry up and wait.

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

Ahead of me on the path was a slower cyclist on one of those creaky bikes everyone thinks are from the Netherlands – a Hollandrad –&nbsp;but which in my neighbourhood are often just East German Diamants with three layers of spray paint, one for each time they were stolen and re-sold. I glanced over my left shoulder and, with no car near, moved a few centimetres into the road and passed the Hollandrad.

Our columnist had been trying to help save the environment by commuting by bike – but an outraged driver had other plans.

Rad rage

Berliner Zeitung: How did you come up with the idea for Infarm?

Israeli Osnat Michaeli is co-founder and chief brand officer at Infarm, a Berlin start-up that installs grow houses directly at grocery stores and restaurants.

Meet the founder of Berlin's indoor farming start-up

+++ No. 1 +++ The forced vaccination conundrum +++ The stats +++

+++ Vaxx capacity +++ Merkel wants 85 per cent +++ Money for mobile air filters +++

Wednesday's corona news in a minute

+++ Bus buying +++ New indicator +++ France upping restrictions +++ The stats +++

+++ Incidence up +++ Money for immunity +++ Booster shots +++ The stats +++

The No Nipple is Free Until All Nipples are Free demonstration will begin at Mariannenplatz at 12pm Saturday. It is being organised by a group calling itself Hedonistic International.&nbsp;

Local officials say arguing about topless sunbathing at a kids pool is a "bad example".

Topless protest set for Saturday after woman ejected from Berlin park

Environmental officials from Brandenburg, the leafy state that wholly surrounds Germany's capital, are investigating Tesla for building a holding tank for a toxic coolant without a permit, Tagesspiegel reported Wednesday.

The Gigafactory is being built under a slew of temporary building permits. Environmentalists are not amused.

Environmental watchdog inspects Tesla site for coolant tank

Brandenburg

The Senat - as Berlin's government is known - Tuesday heard a report on police activity in the capital while passing the new fines. The cops last year issued more than 473,000 tickets in "resting traffic", the German euphemism for non-driving related automotive offenses. Meanwhile, the public order office (Ordnungsamt) issued 1.9 million tickets.

Politicians are also making it easier for officers to tow cars parked in the wrong place. Driving's still cheap in the German capital though.

Parking illegally is finally going to be expensive-ish in Berlin

+++ Germans want freedom +++ UK no longer high-risk +++ Biontech v Delta +++ The stats +++

Andrew Bulkeley

“Bin ich Ami oder deutsch? Das ist die Frage wohl”

Wednesday's corona news in 60 seconds

Monday's corona news in 60 seconds

Friday's corona news in 60 seconds

Wednesday's corona news in 60 seconds

Suspect in cannibal murder goes on trial Tuesday

Two men in custody in suspected honour killing

Friday's corona news in 60 seconds

Thursday's corona news in 60 seconds

Wednesday's corona news in 60 seconds

Tuesday's corona news in 60 seconds

Tegel profitable until the end

Police taxed amid corona demonstrations and Mitte parties

Monday's corona news in 60 seconds

Want to become German? Hurry up and wait.

Rad rage

Meet the founder of Berlin's indoor farming start-up

Friday's corona news in 60 seconds

Wednesday's corona news in a minute

Monday's corona news in 60 seconds

Friday's corona news in 60 seconds

Topless protest set for Saturday after woman ejected from Berlin park

Environmental watchdog inspects Tesla site for coolant tank

Parking illegally is finally going to be expensive-ish in Berlin

Tuesday's corona news in 60 seconds