New in Berlin: What to Read, Watch and Listen

The websites, YouTube channels, and podcasts that helped us settle in

I wrote a version of this post a year ago, and I still follow all of these creators. They continue inform, entertain and help me navigate our new life. If you’re a reader who saw this on my old website, I’ve added a few more to the list since then.

I’ll do a follow-up post next week with my essential list of social media accounts to follow.

Here goes:

All About Berlin 

Nicolas Bouliane has “made a career out of documenting German bureacracy,” and I, for one, am very grateful.

This is basically the Bible for any non-German moving to Berlin (and for some Germans as well). Nicolas covers everything from applying for your visa, to opening a bank account (something you will need to do literally everything else), to explaining SCHUFA, to finding an apartment, to registering in your district and anything else you can think of.

In our case, we got bad advice from the relocation agency hired by my husband’s employer. To be fair, they are based in Stuttgart, not in Berlin.

But if he had followed their…