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| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4722 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 1 of 8 02 January 2012 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello all! Happy 2012!
I'm on the prowl for mags! Can anyone help me locate German magazines that are published in English and German online or in print? You know how a lot of North American magazines offer an option to subscribe to an online version of the print version; is that practice common in Germany? I want to subscribe by mail or online. I'm interested in literary, photography, art, culture/lifestyle, architecture, guitar, music, queer, green(sustainable) lifestyle, local Berlin mag about the local happenings, fashion and any other quirky magazines. Just so you get a taste of the type of magazines I love...here's what magazines I read in English: Monocle (love the variety of content and quality), hobo magazine (understated elegant/edgy writing style + content), Sublime magazine (eco-lifestyle), Cabinet (eclectic topics of an "abstract" nature)... Any recommendations? I'm lusting for some mag-reading but I'm still at the beginner stage in German so I need it to be published in both the languages! It's not harmful to read in this way as a Beginner, yes? Useful, yes? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5310 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 8 02 January 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Der Spiegel magazine has an English section that mirrors some of the German articles. They also have an English Germany Survival Bible with articles about Germany and Germans.
Since you also mentioned Berlin, you might find the (English) EXBERLINER magazine interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4722 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 3 of 8 02 January 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
Is Exberliner for expats? I'm curious as to the demographic...umm, look at this page http://www.exberliner.com/culture Hitler comics? I thought the word "Hitler" is never used lightly in Germany. Edited by blackverve on 03 January 2012 at 12:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6460 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 8 03 January 2012 at 5:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Indeed, Exberliner is for expats mostly, and many Germans are still afraid of being
perceived as treating Nazi topics too lightly, and a minority actually thinks that Nazi topics are being treated too lightly these days. Zitty is a Berlin magazine for locals. Taz (also online at taz.de) is an alternative newspaper based in Berlin, including a lot of the green and queer topics that are so big in Berlin, but I'm not sure about an English version. The hundreds of film festivals usually publish bilingual magazines, which you can pick up for free even... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4722 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 8 04 January 2012 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you for the viewpoints regarding Nazism. I always want to know what locals think about certain things so I can get a sense of what not to say when I go there. Zitty has no online presence? I wish I could read Taz. Are queer and green topics really big in Berlin? I always thought Berlin seemed open but there hasn't been a movement towards legalizing gay marriage so I presume it's not that open. None of the film fests would mail abroad methinks?! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6460 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 6 of 8 04 January 2012 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm happy to discuss this and other issues with you, but I think it goes beyond the
realm of this forum. Feel free to send me a private message. Where in Canada are you from? There appear to be parts of Zitty online at http://www.zitty.de/. If Taz.de interests you, how'bout using an on-hover dictionary? That way, even texts with 50% unknown words are manageable. Get it as a browser plugin or use the Web Reader at http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Reader.do . For film festivals, they don't mail abroad, but you can also read their programs online, for example the Berlinale (one of the most important film festivals internationally) will soon start posting this year's program at http://www.berlinale.de or I recently went to the Berlin Comedy Film Festival - bilingual film descriptions can be found at http://www.comedyfilmfestival.de/en/festival/films.html Gay marriage is legal in everything but name - a 2001 law introduced "registered partnerships" which are treated the same as marriages for almost all purposes. Germany's foreign minister Guido Westerwelle is in such a registered relationship, and so is Berlin's mayor Klaus Wowereit (one of the most popular German politicians), whose quote "Ich bin schwul, und das ist auch gut so" (I'm gay and it's good that way) is known to everyone. Berlin has long since been a particular hotspot for LGBT people. Check out the Christopher Street Day parade if you get the chance. The biggest concentration is said to be around Nollendorfplatz station, but there must be a sizable minority everywhere, as evidenced by the availability of gay video rental places within a walkable distance of any city apartment. Berlin also has a history of attracting pacifists, who got out of doing military service by moving to West-Berlin. The pacifist and green movement have significant overlap, so that explains some. Germany as a whole is rather environment-friendly, with the Green party currently predicted to get 16% in the next election even though their main topic (abandoning nuclear energy) was signed into law not long ago. They even got 30.3% in the district Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in the recent state elections - and would have gotten more if not for the new Pirate Party getting 14.7% of what would have mostly been their votes. Here's a nice article about Berlin http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1934459,00. html I love this city. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6460 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 7 of 8 05 January 2012 at 11:52am | IP Logged | ||
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"Ich werde ein Berliner" is a blog you might enjoy, which only slightly exaggerates the
kind of thinking / people you'll find in Berlin (note: Berlin is often the diametrical opposite of the rest of Germany). For a German version, get the book "Ich werde ein Berliner". Unfortunately the German isn't available as a blog and the English isn't available as a book. http://www.ichwerdeeinberliner.com/4-finding-an-apartment http://www.ichwerdeeinberliner.com/6-cafes Edited by Sprachprofi on 05 January 2012 at 11:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blackverve Senior Member Canada Joined 4722 days ago 40 posts - 46 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 8 05 January 2012 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Sprachprofi for all that info. I will be messaging you...I'm in Toronto. I only know a littl' bit about Berlin but I love it already...
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