After a weekend surrounded by Germanisten of all stripes, I found that I wished we'd been speaking more German. I have the feeling that my language skills are getting rusty, so now I have a question for you: what's your favorite German-language, talk-heavy podcast or radio show? If I can't have conversations, I can at least take steps against forgetting what it sounds like...
Rochus wonders why no one’s mentioned this feature in the SZ mag. It's a compilation of descriptions of everyday racism in a variety of communities in the east, including Berlin. It's unnerving to read, even if you've been Ganz Brav and haven't been ignoring the occasional coverage of racist attacks in the papers, and even if you're not so stubborn/willfully ignorant as to think that those are the only such instances. The small sample in the SZ invites us to consider the scope of the problem beyond these interviews.
As a sort of aside: is it really better in the west? I was caught off guard by that last section. [Edit: the whole point of the article is to demonstrate that this is a specifically eastern German problem.]