Commitment in the neighborhood in Berlin: Where politics is sleepy, initiatives are often more awake – Berlin
What would Berlin be without its persistent neighborhood initiatives? Where politics is slow and sleepy, citizens are often more circumspect. Berlin’s committed people are not deterred by the administration’s mentality, nor by the official ping-pong, the shifting of responsibility back and forth. They boldly stick to what they think is good for the neighborhood and therefore what they want to achieve.
There are two examples in our current district newsletter from Steglitz-Zehlendorf: For ten years, a school community on Ostpreußendamm has been fighting for safe routes to school. But apart from announcements, nothing has happened so far. Now there was an on-site appointment with new announcements, new hope – and, to be on the safe side, the reservation of new, permanent protests if nothing changes (more here in the newsletter).
Residents have been pointing out the pollution and silting up of the forest lake in Zehlendorf for just as long. The outflow waterless stinks again and again, but when it comes to administration, the lake rests quietly. Now, however, the politicians even dared to get into the boats and onto the water with the residents and promised improvement here too (more on this in the newsletter).
We report and see if words are followed by deeds.
And here are the topics from the current Tagesspiegel newsletter for Steglitz-Zehlendorf:
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- Whiskey with green hydrogen: A visit to the museum with up to 50 percent alcohol
- 23 years ago he prevented a clear-cutting by the Düppeler forest: Today the former Zehlendorf district mayor Klaus Eichstaedt is concerned with the rising energy prices
- The War in Ukraine and the Southwest
- “We no longer have trust”: More safety for school children on Ostpreußendamm demanded
- Waldsee concerns: almost an idyll above, two meters of stinking mud below — the city council wants to ensure that the lake is cleared of mud
- Kreiselbauherr in distress: buyers jump off, million-road
- Health comes first: Start the campaign days “Together on the road”.
- Triathlon: Florian Seifert is the BerlinMan, Anja Leuendorff the BerlinWoman of the year 2022
- When the steam locomotive rolls twice: The station of Lichterfelde-West turns 150
- Groove and give: the women’s wind orchestra Berlin plays for the children of the Luisenstift
- Colorful air shows: kite festival in Potsdam
- Wolfsburg versus Zehlendorf: season opener of the B-Junior Bundesliga
- Flea market and family festival: neighborhood bazaar in Rothenburgstraße
- Both want to play in the second division: Union footballers win against Viktoria 2-1
- Discussion with explosive force: Senate considers the Grunewald explosive site indispensable
- Boris Buchholz writes the newsletter
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The Tagesspiegel newsletter you can order here for freerecently celebrated their six year anniversary and they are available for all twelve Berlin districts, with more than 268,000 subscriptions. In it we inform you once a week in a bundled and compact way about what’s going on in your district. We also let the readers have their say in the newsletters, after all nobody knows the Berlin neighborhoods as well as the people who live there.