Summer time – love sorry: due to administrative failure, have a laugh love couples and young families anything to be in Berlin. Our columnist Gero Closing of a fear of a lasting loss of reputation.
Caution: A warning to all the lovers in the summer in Berlin!
To fall in love in the loose in La La Land style and land then finally, sometime before the altar, everywhere in the world, a dream. In Berlin it can be a nightmare. At the beginning of a drama. No, it’s not a ridiculous little drama. But a really serious Drama with the Berlin administration. Summer Time – The Pain Of Love.
Love could be so beautiful in Berlin – were it not for the months-long wait times at the registry office
The rhymes in Berlin. Long waiting times take in purchase in order to marry the sweetheart or loved ones. The registry office in Berlin-Mitte is the front-runner: queues, such as in front of the soup kitchen.
With Boxing gloves to get Married
The nubile camping already four o’clock in the morning in front of the closed Amtstüren. The marital Idyll.
And then the battle of the brands: “Spontaneously getting married in Berlin in mid-only, if it is six p.m. in front of the door and Boxing gloves has,” wrote a young woman on the Internet.
Queuing in front of the Offices: No unusual Practice for the citizens of Berlin
Who doesn’t like it, it needs to try somewhere else: A friend, the despair drove to New York. Because finally, he was able to marital his Sweetheart in a timely manner. Probably, it would be in the case of the Eskimos at the North pole or the Maasai in the plains of Kenya faster than in the center of Berlin.
Now the Registrar has surrendered. The open consultation has been abolished. Clean up my appointment booking on the Internet. No ugly scuffles. But think: The now virtual. The dates are already fully booked two months in advance. And after that, no.
Finally marriage is done: in a Berlin registry office
No question, this is bordering on marriage prevention. Whether as the twelve retired state officials to change something in it, which wants to reactivate the governing mayor now in a immediately the program as “helpers”? Especially since the Bundestag’s decision to “marriage for all” now also many gay couples join in the queue. Yes, getting Married could be more beautiful. At least in Berlin.
Battle with the Berlin bureaucracy
Whom it is not surprising that the state office middle of the Google Ranking gets one out of five stars. “This office is a Symbol of Berlin: Incompetent Employees are rude and slow,” we read and want to believe our luck. Finally, sufferers who understand our daily struggle with the Berlin bureaucracy. Balm for the soul.
Announced emergency measures to prevent the snake to stand on registry offices: Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller
It would be interesting to ask the readers of this column, where in the world is so loveless with love is dealt with. Send me an E-Mail to gero.schliess@dw.com.
I here is a statement: there is no place in the management-failure, with more System and thoroughness than in Berlin.
Because it is not only the young lovers, but nine months later, in the beautiful consistency of the young parents.
The fight for the marriage certificate of the fight for the birth certificate. Parents of newborns have to wait time up to four months on the birth certificate. That health insurance companies adjust your payments and also other allowances will be held back: the red tape over and neighs happily. And for the child that is equal to the first resilience for the privation of Berlin. Then, when Kita missing courses or school classes because of Overcrowding close. How about now in Neukölln, as the Lack of 100 school places was first noted shortly before the new school year.
Our columnist Gero Closing recommends that the Berliners: getting Married in New York or at the North pole could go faster
Actually, this looks like a bad Plan. It is always against the boys. But let’s be realistic: A Plan is the last the we of Berlin’s administrative trust.
But whoever abroad you can imagine? There, it could be surmised intention. And three times you should think before you come to Berlin. And here of the dangerous consequences of a Romance exposes. In the city of love-loose management.