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The NEW fat and fabulous Exberliner: Out now!

Exberliner just got bigger! Our new format, coming in at 100 pages, includes new sections plus a focus on film for the Berlinale.

Exberliner is putting on 40 extra pages! Subscribe now to get more culture, food, reportage… and brand new content: 

Check out our new ‘Berlin with Brats’ section with tips and strategies on how to do Kita, toddlertainment and parenting in the Hauptstadt

Need help navigating the bureaucratic jungle of Germany? Frau Dr Astrid Streber answers all questions and concerns in our brand new ‘Expat Survival Guide’! 

Show your wit! Submit your caption ideas for our New Yorker-style ‘Cartoon Caption Competition’ and win the organic trademark EXB tote bag!

Plus: podcasts, test drives… and a note by the Editor-in-Chief on why we still love print and why the new fat & fab EXB makes for great bathroom literature! 

Get prepared for the Berlinale with our insider’s tips, film picks and exclusive interviews from each section of the festival! Plus: we meet the faces of experimental filmmaking, the blogs, zines and podcasts cinephiles love and what it’s really like making a film for the first time!

NEW!

Test Drive – Our intrepid reporters subjected themselves to seven weird massages

Cartoon Caption Competition – Think you’re funny? Our readers submit their wittiest caption

WTF Berlin – Jacinta Nandi womansplains what it means to be a Rabenmutter

Fashion & Lifestyle The latest in design and street style, plus the BVG’s diver’seat’y fail 

Under the Cobblestones – Look below the surface of the HKW, where Magnus Hirschfeld operated the first Institute for Sexual Science 

Disruptive Minds – We catch up with artist Sean Vegezzi about New York’s floating jail, ahead of Disruption Network Lab’s Smart Prisons conference.

Berlin with Brats – Super-mum Anna Gyulai Gaál on Kita nightmares and tips for a tropical outing during the cold months

Expat Survival Guide – Frau Dr Astrid Streber answers your questions and concerns, plus a notary’s guide on how to start a business 

Podcasts – Louise East pulls out her earbuds and shares her favourite Berlin pods for expats

Letters to the editor – Our readers weigh in on food, art and throwing food at art from our last issue 

FILM SPECIAL

Berlin Film Metropolis – The newest, biggest, smallest, best cinemas? Berlin is the city of cinematic superlatives – we’ve got the stats and facts

How to make a documentary – A first-time filmmaker on how to do it when you don’t know what you’re doing

Sinema Transtopia – Berlin’s newest Kino is doing something very different 

Faces of experimental filmmaking – We meet the hermits and anarchists who make up the analog scene

Screen zines – The podcasts, blogs and zines Berlin’s film freaks love

BERLINALE 2023

The Bear essentials – Iran and Ukraine, the return of the Germans and the age of documentaries: the trends and highlights at this year’s Berlinale

Competition: Exclusive interview with Emily Atef plus Q&As with filmmakers across all Berlinale sections 

PLUS

Give museums back to the people! – Stadtmuseum director Paul Spies on breathing new life into Berlin’s stuffy museum culture 

Best of Berlin – A new museum, a sex-positive stroll and mystical tarot readings

AND the latest in Stage, Film, Music, Art, Books, Travel, Food and Politics!

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