✍️ From the Editor

Hey Berliners!

Next Sunday, Berlin votes. The mayor isn’t standing, no two parties can form a government on the current polling, and the issue running through the campaign is housing rents, what gets built, and what happens to the big corporate landlords. If you have ever read the flats section of this newsletter, that is your rent on the ballot.

Most of you cannot vote for the state parliament. A lot of you can vote for your district council, which decides the parks, the playgrounds, and the cycle lanes on your street. It is worth ten minutes this week to work out which of those applies to you, and if you are voting by post, the online deadline is Tuesday.

Before all that: there is a World Cup final at the Uber Arena tonight. Germany beat the European champions by nineteen points on Thursday and play France in the semi on Saturday. By the time you read this, you will know whether they are in it.

Art Week also closes today, with a long table at the Kulturforum and most of it free, and at half past three, twenty-five people stand still among the Old Masters in the Gemäldegalerie for ninety minutes. More on that below.

Dr Yassir A Shuaib

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💰 Best Deals in Germany this Week

🚂 BahnCard 25 - €29.99, half price, September only

Deutsche Bahn has cut the BahnCard 25 from €62.90 to €29.99 in second class and €59.99 from €125 in first. Twenty-five percent off Flex and Saver fares for twelve months, it pays for itself at around €120 of ticket spend, roughly one return to Hamburg.

Two things to know. The start date has to fall in September, and the 30th is the last possible first day. And it renews automatically at full price unless you cancel four weeks before it expires, so cancel it the day you buy it, then decide next August. 👉 Get the BahnCard 25 here

🎮 Nintendo Switch 2
Nintendo put the list price up to €499 on 1 September. MediaMarkt is still under it. 👉 View at MediaMarkt here

♨️ Bosch Serie 6 heat-pump dryer, 9 kg
A+++ rated, Auto Dry sensor, Home Connect. The biggest-ticket saving is on the list, but delivery is extra, so it's only worth it if you actually need a dryer. 👉 View at MediaMarkt here

🎧 Sony WH-1000XM5
Thirty hours of battery, Hi-Res Audio, and the noise cancelling everyone else copies. 👉 View at MediaMarkt here

⌚ Garmin Venu 3
AMOLED, multi-day battery, and the sports watch people actually keep wearing.
👉 View at MediaMarkt here

📺 LG OLED65C57LA — 65-inch OLED
👉 View at MediaMarkt here

🍟 Ninja DualZone XL air fryer - €149 (was €229.99) · to 30 September
Two drawers, 9.5 litres, so you can cook two things at different temperatures at once. Part of MediaMarkt's SharkNinja September sale, which runs to the 30th across kitchen, coffee, and floor care. 👉 View at MediaMarkt here

⚡ Switch electricity and save
Finanztip estimates €200–300 a year moving off a basic-supply tariff, depending on consumption and postcode. Two weeks' notice; the new provider handles the cancellation. 👉 Compare here

🎶 The Week’s Lead

🗳️ Berlin votes next Sunday ⭐

On 20 September Berlin elects the Abgeordnetenhaus and the twelve district councils. Around 2.5 million people can vote.

Can you?
· German citizens from 16 both elections and the first Berlin state election at 16
· EU citizens from 16 registered here three months before the district election

The district vote is not the consolation prize. The BVV has 55 seats and decides parks, playgrounds, cycle lanes, libraries, and youth centers, plus a real share of the district budget.

Why this one is unusual. The sitting mayor isn't standing: Kai Wegner gave up the CDU candidacy in July over his handling of January's blackout and stays Governing Mayor only until a coalition forms. The CDU now runs Stefan Evers, Die Linke runs Elif Eralp, and the AfD runs Kristin Brinker.

Polling has Linke and CDU within a point or two, the AfD close behind, and the SPD facing its worst result in decades. A two-party coalition looks unlikely, so the shape of the next government probably won't be clear on the night. Running through all of it: rents, how much gets built, and what happens to the big corporate landlords.

Voting by post? The simplest option isn't the post. Every district runs a Briefwahlstelle where you can walk in and vote. Now take your ID and your Wahlbenachrichtigung.

· Online applications close Tuesday, 15 September
· Post, email, or fax until 15:00 on Friday the 18th
· Ballots must arrive by 18:00 on election day post three days ahead.

Two catches: the first and second votes are on one ballot paper now, not two. And an unsigned Wahlschein doesn't count.

🌤️ Weather

Rain this afternoon, a warm Tuesday, then one wet Wednesday and a dry run into next weekend. Wednesday is the day to plan around a 75% chance of rain against 10 to 20 on every other day.

· Today · 19°C / 14°C · rain from the afternoon
· Mon 14 · 19°C / 11°C · dry
· Tue 15 · 24°C / 11°C · warm and dry the week's best day
· Wed 16 · 19°C / 12°C · rain likely
· Thu 17 · 19°C / 12°C · dry
· Fri 18 · 19°C / 12°C · dry
· Sat 19 · 21°C / 12°C · dry

📰 City News

🎨 Art Week closes today

The fifteenth edition ends with Ein Tag im Grünen at the Kulturforum, 11:00–19:00 a long table on the Scharounplatz, live music, food, and architecture tours. The combined museum ticket is €12/€6, free under 18, and covers every museum on the square.

Positions closes at Tempelhof today, and Tag des offenen Denkmals runs its final day citywide.
👉 Programme here

🔒 The stolen data is out, and it's worse than the first thought

Rhysida published on 4 September after Berlin refused the ransom. Around 1.4 million records: employee files, pay stubs, scanned ID documents and material on power plants, fuel storage, emergency systems, prisons, and water treatment.

The way in was a phishing email, answered by one member of staff. Two Senate departments are affected: transport and building and housing. If you have an application pending with either, check it directly. The authorities say they'll contact people whose data was published.

🏭 Industrial Berlin opens up

The Industrial Heritage Festival runs to 4 October: around 100 events at factories, power stations, depots, and workshops that don't usually let anyone in. A Walk of Fame opens in Schöneweide, and there are tours of a closed hangar at Gatow, the old Kindl brewery, and a DJ night in the U-Bahn Museum. Some need booking.
👉 Full programme here

📍 Berlin Picks

🌿 Ein Tag im Grünen Kulturforum · today · 11:00–19:00 ⭐

Art Week's closing day, with the Kulturforum behaving like a public square rather than a row of museums: a long table on the Scharounplatz, music from young Berlin bands, food, and architecture tours including Scharoun's Staatsbibliothek. The outdoor programme is free; there's a reduced combined ticket for the museums, and under-18s go free.
👉 Programme here
📍 Kulturforum — U/S Potsdamer Platz

🖼️ Alternde Meister Gemäldegalerie · today · 15:30–17:00 · €14/€7 ⭐

Twenty-five performers of different generations from WestBam and Louis Hofmann, among them, hold a tableau vivant through the Gemäldegalerie, in dialogue with the paintings around them. Ersan Mondtag and Nadim Samman's Berlin vanitas. Ninety minutes. Contains nudity.

Included with museum admission, which makes a commissioned performance cost the same as any other afternoon in there.
📍 Matthäikirchplatz 4 — U/S Potsdamer Platz

🎭 everybody. Performance Festival Georg-Kolbe-Museum · today · 14:00–17:00 · FREE

Performance work on the body and how it's perceived in a sculptor's house and garden in Westend. Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Janne Kummer, and Lauryn Youden, with pieces at 14:00, 15:00, and 16:00. Quieter than the Kulturforum, twenty minutes away.
👉 More info here
📍 Sensburger Allee 25 — S Heerstraße

🏛️ Tag des offenen Denkmals final day today · FREE

More than 300 monuments and around 700 events across Berlin, under this year's theme of networks and infrastructure. Some tours need booking.
👉 Programme here

📍 Special Event of the Week

🏀 Germany play for bronze — today · 16:30 · Uber Arena

Germany lost the semi-final to France 64–86 last night, in front of a sold-out 12,650 with Dirk Nowitzki watching again. France led by seven at half time and took it away after the break; Germany gave up more than twenty turnovers to their five.

But that was the first World Cup semi-final a German women's team has ever reached, and it came after losing the opening game to Spain 53–83 and then winning four in a row — Japan, Mali, South Korea, and the European champions, Belgium.

They play for bronze today at 16:30. No German women's side has won a World Cup medal. The final follows at 20:00.

Marie Gülich, the captain, afterwards: "You're allowed to lose to France — look at them."

👉 Schedule, results & tickets here
📍 Uber Arena — S+U Warschauer Str.

🗓️ Events Calendar

SUN 13 · TODAY
· 🛒 Flohmarkt Mauerpark · 10:00–18:00 · free · cash only
· 🌿 Ein Tag im Grünen · Kulturforum · 11:00–19:00 · Art Week closes
· 🎭 everybody. Performance Festival · Georg-Kolbe-Museum · 14:00–17:00 · FREE
· 🖼️ Alternde Meister · Gemäldegalerie · 15:30–17:00 · €14/€7
· 🏛️ Tag des offenen Denkmals · final day · FREE · citywide
· 🎨 Positions art fair · final day · Flughafen Tempelhof
· 🏀 Women's Basketball World Cup · bronze 16:30, FINAL 20:00 · Uber Arena

MON 14 – WED 16
· 🏭 Industrial Heritage Festival · runs to 4 October
· 🎼 Musikfest Berlin · Philharmonie · to 23 September
· 🗳️ Tue 15 online postal-vote applications close
· 🕹️ Half-price arcade · Tue · noon to midnight · Electric Social
· 🌿 Türkenmarkt · Tue · 11:00–18:30 · free
· 🗣️ Language Exchange · Tue · 19:00 · free · Travolta Bar

THU 17
· 🍜 Street Food Thursday · 17:00–22:00 · Markthalle Neun
· 🎭 Mephisto opens · 18:00 · Berliner Ensemble · from €15
· 🎭 Farewell opens · 19:30 · Dock 11 · to Sunday

FRI 18 · POSTAL APPLICATIONS CLOSE 15:00
· 🗳️ Last day to apply by post, email, or fax: 15:00
· 🌿 Türkenmarkt · 11:00–18:30 · free
· 🔵 Bayern Munich v Union Berlin · 20:30 · Bundesliga

SAT 19
· 🏃 Parkrun Hasenheide · 09:00 · free 5 km
· 🥬 Winterfeldtmarkt · 08:00–16:00
· 🥔 Kartoffelfest · Domäne Dahlem · 10:00–18:00 · harvest your own · also Sunday
· 🎤 Gianna Nannini · Waldbühne · 19:00
· 🎭 Die Seherin opens · Schaubühne

SUN 20 · BERLIN VOTES
· 🗳️ Polls open from 08:00 to 18:00. Postal ballots must reach the Bezirkswahlamt by 18:00

🎬 Film

The open-air season ended last Sunday, and the autumn programme hasn't properly started. Two things worth knowing in the meantime.

The subtitle codes, which nobody explains. OmeU is what you want: original audio with English subtitles. OmU is original audio with German subtitles, which catches people out constantly. OV is the original with no subtitles at all. Germany dubs almost everything, so these screenings are the exception rather than the rule, but Berlin runs more of them than anywhere else in the country.

Where to find them. Yorck's cinemas, the Delphi Lux, Kino Central, Acud, Sputnik, and the Brotfabrik carry the most. Two listings sites let you filter by format rather than trawling each cinema:
👉 Cinematic Berlin, in English · OV Berlin

🎬 Down Under Film Festival — Moviemento, Kreuzberg · from Wednesday

Europe's main festival for Australian and New Zealand cinema, running since 2011 and all in the original with English subtitles. Quick Flicks, a programme of shorts from both countries, plays at 20:00, and Where the Waves Took Her screens at 18:30 with the director, producer, and the woman the film is about all present.

€13, €10.50 reduced, €7 under 15. There's also a €5 solidarity price if the full fare doesn't work.

👉 Programme here · Moviemento listings here
📍 Kottbusser Damm 22 — U8 Schönleinstr.

🎭 Performances

Alternde Meister Gemäldegalerie · Friday to Sunday · €20/€10
A Berlin vanitas for Art Week: Ersan Mondtag and Nadim Samman put 25 performers of different generations into a tableau vivant among the Old Masters. WestBam and Louis Hofmann are among them. Ninety minutes. Contains nudity.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Matthäikirchplatz 4 — U/S Potsdamer Platz

Glücklich die Glücklichen Berliner Ensemble · from Friday
The German-language premiere of Yasmina Reza's latest, directed by Oliver Reese.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Neues Haus, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1 — S+U Friedrichstraße

If you need English subtitles, the Maxim Gorki has them at every performance. The Berliner Ensemble marks its surtitled nights in the programme and recommends the balconies or the stalls from row 13 the side boxes have a partly blocked view of the screen.
👉 Browse the city's schedules here

🎵 Music

🎼 Musikfest Berlin — to 23 September
Berlin's main classical festival, at the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus.
👉 Full programme here

🎻 Sir Simon Rattle & the Berliner Philharmoniker — Thu 17 and Fri 18 at 20:00, Sat 19 at 19:00 · €28–89 ⭐
The former chief conductor is back with his old orchestra: de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat, Janáček's Taras Bulba, and the world premiere of Cathy Milliken's cor anglais concerto, written for the orchestra's own Dominik Wollenweber. A free introduction runs 45 minutes before each concert.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Philharmonie — S+U Potsdamer Platz

🌙 Late Night: Down Under — Sat 19 · 22:00 · Philharmonie · €25
Chamber music at ten at night: Brett Dean and Cathy Milliken, then Schumann's Piano Quartet. About an hour.
👉 Tickets here

🎸 Ty Segall — Mon 14 · doors 20:00 · Festsaal Kreuzberg · from €33.99
Sixteen albums of garage rock and the Berlin stop between Brussels and Hamburg.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Am Flutgraben 2 — U1 Schlesisches Tor

🎤 Gianna Nannini — Sat 19 · 19:00 · Waldbühne
Fifty years of Italian rock at the Waldbühne.
👉 Tickets here

🔄 Ongoing

📷 Anton Corbijn — Fotografiska · closes 20 September
Final week. Fifty years of portraits: Depeche Mode, U2, and Joy Division. Open daily until 23:00, which makes it the rare museum you can visit after dinner.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Oranienburger Str. 54 — U6 Oranienburger Tor

🎨 Cassirer und der Durchbruch des Impressionismus — Alte Nationalgalerie · closes 27 September · €16/€8
Two weeks left. Around 100 works by Monet, Degas, Cézanne, and van Gogh, built around the dealer who brought them to Germany. Tue–Sun 9:30–19:00, and with an annual pass there's still a €6 surcharge.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Bodestr. 1–3 — Museumsinsel

📷 Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter — C/O Berlin · to 3 February
Her first full retrospective in Berlin: more than a hundred photographs and videos across four decades, on race, gender, and class.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Hardenbergstr. 22–24 — S+U Zoologischer Garten

🖼️ Kreuzberg: Art and Migration Since 1960 — Gropius Bau · to 17 January
Sixty-five years of migration and the art it produced in one district. One ticket also covers the Gabriele Stötzer survey upstairs.
👉 More info here
📍 Niederkirchnerstr. 7 — U/S Potsdamer Platz

🛖 Markets this Week

TODAY
· 🛒 Flohmarkt Mauerpark · 10:00–18:00 · free · 500+ stalls, Bearpit Karaoke from 15:00, cash only
· 🛒 RAW-Flohmarkt · 09:00–17:00 · free · vinyl, vintage, bike parts
· 🛒 Flohmarkt am Arkonaplatz · 10:00–17:00 · free · the little brother of Mauerpark, and far calmer
· 🛒 Flohmarkt am Boxhagener Platz · 10:00–18:00 · free · Friedrichshain, surrounded by cafés
· 🛒 Trödelmarkt Straße des 17. Juni · from 10:00 · free · Berlin's oldest, from 1978 antiques, porcelain, books, and a craft market attached
· 📚 Antik- und Buchmarkt am Bodemuseum · 10:00–17:00 · free · around 60 traders selling books and antiques on the Spree
· 🍢 Thaipark · 11:00–20:00 · free · cash · The season ends this month

ALL WEEK
· 🍜 Dong Xuan Center · 10:00–20:00 · free · closed Tuesdays · Vietnamese food and textiles in Lichtenberg

IN THE WEEK
· 🌿 Türkenmarkt · Tue 15 + Fri 18 · 11:00–18:30 · free · Up to 180 traders, prices drop after 17:30
· 🍜 Street Food Thursday · Thu 17 · 17:00–22:00 · Markthalle Neun
· 🛒 Straße des 17. Juni · Sat 19 · from 10:00 · free
· 📚 Antik- und Buchmarkt am Bodemuseum · Sat 19 · 10:00–17:00 · free
· 🥬 Winterfeldtmarkt · Sat 19 · 08:00–16:00 · Winterfeldtplatz
· 🍢 Thaipark · Sat 19 · 11:00–20:00 · free · cash
· 🥔 Kartoffelfest · Sat 19 + Sun 20 · 10:00–18:00 · Domäne Dahlem · €4.50, €2 reduced, free under 4 harvest your own organic potatoes, historical machinery. Digging stops at 17:00

Sport

⚫ Hertha are top of the league. Union have one point.

Hertha have won all four of their 2. Bundesliga games, including 4–0 against Hansa Rostock and 2–1 over Magdeburg last Sunday. They're away at Nürnberg next Sunday at 13:30 on election day.

Union, meanwhile: 3–3 with Frankfurt, 0–4 at Leverkusen, and 1–3 at home to Schalke on Friday. One point from three games, ten conceded, and Bayern away on Friday at 20:30.

🏀 Bronze match — today · 16:30 · Uber Arena. Germany lost the semi to France. Final at 20:00. Full details above.

🏒 Eisbären Berlin v Herning Blue Fox — Champions Hockey League · Uber Arena
The Eisbären have won the last three German championships and twelve in total, and this is European competition at home. Their cheapest tickets are a fraction of what a Bundesliga seat costs.

🤾 Füchse Berlin v Veszprém — Handball Champions League · Max-Schmeling-Halle
Veszprém are one of the best club sides in Europe, and Füchse won the German Cup last season. Handball in a full Max-Schmeling-Halle is the loudest sport in Berlin.

🏃 Parkrun Hasenheide — Sat 19 · 09:00 · free
Timed 5 km, register once; briefing in English and German at 08:50.
👉 Register here
📍 Columbiadamm 160 — U8 Boddinstr.

😂 Comedy in English

🚤 Laughing Spree — tonight · 20:30 · The Floating Lounge
English comedy on a boat moored by the East Side Gallery. From €16.88.
📍 Mühlenstr. 73 — S+U Warschauer Str.
👉 Tickets here

🎤 Sunday Comedy Party — tonight · 19:30 · Oblomov, Kreuzkölln
English stand-up in a Neukölln bar. The earlier option if the boat isn't for you.

🎤 The Lineup Open Mic — Monday 14 · doors 19:30, show 20:00 · The Wall Comedy
Pay what you want. Sign up at 19:30 if you want to perform.
📍 Grünberger Str. 84 — S+U Warschauer Str.

🎤 Pro Comics F*cking Around — Wed 16 · 20:00 · The Wall Comedy
New jokes get their first outing, and old ones get taken apart. The comedians' own favourite night.
👉 More info here

🎤 The Cream of the Crop — Fri 18 · 20:30 · Epic Comedy Club, Mitte
Berlin's best English-speaking comedians back-to-back, no filler.
👉 More info here

🎤 Darkest Thoughts — Sat 19 · 20:00 · Monbijou-Theater
An improvised game show built from the audience's anonymous dark thoughts. You write them down; the comedians turn them into live comedy on the spot.
👉 More info here

🍺 LAUGH on TAP — Sat 19 · 20:30 · BRLO Brwhouse, Kreuzberg
English comedy in a craft brewery. From €16.88.
📍 Schöneberger Str. 16 — U1/U7 Möckernbrücke
👉 Tickets here

👨‍👩‍👧 Family Picks

🏛️ Tag des offenen Denkmals — final day today · FREE
More than 300 buildings are open; most shut the rest of the year water towers, machine halls, and workshops. The insides of things children usually only walk past.
👉 Programme here

🗳️ Mitmachfest for Democracy Day — today · 12:00–17:00 · Blücherplatz, Kreuzberg · FREE
Over fifty organisations running screen printing, an escape game, a bouncy castle, and sports stations. A week before the election, and free.

🚜 Erlebnis-Baustelle — Sat 19 and Sun 20 · FEZ-Berlin, Wuhlheide · ages 2–12
Children hammer, drill, screw, and build a wall, then knock it down. There is an actual digger.
👉 More info here
📍 Straße zum FEZ 2 — S Wuhlheide

🎨 Talentopia — Sat 19 and Sun 20 · Labyrinth Kindermuseum, Wedding · €7 · ages 3–11
A hands-on play exhibition about building, problem-solving, and working out what you're good at. Time slots at 11:00 and 14:30 book ahead. Indoors, which matters this week.
👉 Book here
📍 Osloer Str. 12 — U8/U9 Osloer Str.

🥔 Kartoffelfest — Sat 19 and Sun 20 · 10:00–18:00 · Domäne Dahlem
A working farm museum doing a potato festival. €4.50, €2 reduced, free under 12, including museum entry, and you can dig your own potatoes at €2.50–3.50 a kilo. Digging stops at 17:00.
👉 More info here
📍 Königin-Luise-Str. 49 — U3 Dahlem-Dorf

🎫 And one worth buying once
The FamilienPass costs €6 for the year and carries 500+ discounts for families with children up to 17. Available at any dm, any library, or from the Jugendkulturservice.

🍽️ Restaurant Pick

🍣 Nichi Getsu — Friedrichshain

A small Japanese restaurant in a former lamp factory on Rotherstraße, from the team behind Shiori, built around the Edomae sushi tradition.

Lunch is deliberately narrow: a chirashi bowl of aged fish and seasonal ingredients over vinegared rice, at €28, or €22 vegetarian. In the evening it becomes a nigiri omakase at the counter, €65. The room is light maple and clean lines with nothing decorative in it, which is the point.

The Tagesspiegel reported this month that evening tables are getting hard to get. Lunch is the easier way in.

👉 More info here
📍 Rotherstr. 16 — S+U Warschauer Str.

🛍️ Shopping Pick

🎧 Rough Trade — Neukölln

Rough Trade's Berlin shop, the only one in continental Europe, moved a block this month into a bigger space on the corner of Donaustraße and Ganghoferstraße. Same Kalle Neukölln complex, more room, and a purpose-built stage that holds 250.

Vinyl mostly, new and independent, plus books and hi-fi. They've run listening parties for Fontaines D.C. and Boards of Canada, signings with Bleachers, live sets from Peaches and Wunderhorse, and Paul Banks of Interpol DJ'd the reopening. The official launch party is on 8 October, with Dina Summer playing live.

👉 More info here
📍 Ganghoferstr. 10 — S+U Neukölln

🏠 Flats of the Week

All from the joint portal of Berlin's seven state-owned housing companies. The figures below are total warm rent, including the listed operating and heating costs.

💶 €279.35 warm — Schöneberg · 1 room · 22 m² · no WBS
Meraner Str. 45. Second floor of six, lift, balcony, cellar. The rent is this low because the shower is on the landing; the shared listing calls it a Singlebude mit Etagendusche. Free now.
👉 View flat here

💶 €485.52 warm — Köpenick · 2 rooms · 35.8 m² · no WBS
Parkstr. 8. Third floor of four, bathtub, built 1960. It needs painting, and they say so and they're offering something towards it. Available now.
👉 View flat here

💶 €540.15 warm — Marzahn · 2 rooms · 45.2 m² · no WBS
Allee der Kosmonauten 67, by Helene-Weigel-Platz. Seventeenth floor of twenty-two, lift, balcony, bathtub. Free from 1 November.
👉 View flat here

💶 €799.00 warm — Hellersdorf · 3 rooms · 70.3 m² · no WBS
Alte Hellersdorfer Str. 143. Ground floor, lift, balcony, bathtub. Seventy square metres for under €800, and no permit needed.
👉 View flat here

WBS is an income-based housing permit; far more households qualify than expected, so check the limits before ruling yourself out. These listings move quickly, so apply as soon as you see one you want.

💼 Job Board

Andercore — GTM Sales Associate · up to €100k OTE
The only role on the board advertising its own package in the job title, which tells you something. Go-to-market sales at a B2B materials trading platform.
👉 Apply here

DATATRONiQ — Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Kubernetes across edge and cloud for industrial AI. They have four roles open at once, which usually means a funded team building out.
👉 Apply here

Buena — Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)
Property management software, and one of the busier hirers on the board with four openings.
👉 Apply here

TELUS Digital — Quality Assurance Rater, German
Rating and reviewing AI output in German. Remote-friendly, no engineering background needed the rare role here that doesn't want five years of something.
👉 Apply here

Lassie — Marketing Intern
Pet insurance. One of 35 internships currently on the board, which is worth knowing if you're a student.
👉 Apply here

That’s it for this week.

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