0️⃣1️⃣ Key Changes in January, New Holiday and Flights + More Germany's News in English, Jobs, Housing Offers and This Week's Events in Berlin
Hello dear IWBies ✨
Happy New Year! 🥂 I hope you had some time to recharge and dream up exciting plans for 2025. This year, we’ve decided to number each newsletter by the week of the year. It’s a simple change, but it’s one that will help both you and us keep track of the weeks as they fly by. A little reminder that each week holds its own potential—and now it’s all there, easy to see.
Get ready for inspiring content, real stories, and countless opportunities to grow together. Let’s make 2025 unforgettable, shall we?
It’s good to be back! With love,
Bruna your IWB Team 💖
PS. But if you are feeling generous and would like to support all the work we had this year to keep IWB running, subscribe to our membership for only 1€!
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As immigrants, it's important to stay informed about what's happening in Germany. Here are the most important news updates you should be aware of:
🇩🇪 JANUARY 2025: The Key Changes in Germany in this first month
🤩 Good news! Berlin has a new one-off holiday, plan your long weekend!
✈️ New flight routes in and out of Germany in 2025
😤 TK to double additional contribution rates in 2025
🏀 No layoffs here! This store is about to open 60 new stores in Germany
🎄This is how to dispose of your Christmas tree in Germany
🖥️ Germany launches online portal for visa applications
😡 New Germany's gymnastics abuse scandal: What you need to know
🎙️ ARD backtracks on hiring host accused of sexism
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👉 Week from the January 6th to the January 12th - Berlin is a city full with events to suit all tastes. Here are some highlights that we think you and your friends would enjoy:
💦 Sex & Sekt - Couple's Edition, on the 9th
🪴 FREE and big plants sale on the 10th
👩🎤 Soon it will be Bowie’s birthday and death’s anniversary. Check out his tribute show on the 10th.
👀 Deep Dating (Ages 29-49) Berlin, on the 11th
🤭 EXPATS in BERLIN - English Comedy SHOW (+FREE Shots)
😻 Meet People Social Berlin - Cultural International Party, 10th Jan
🎤 Our dear Žana Fejzić presents The Comedy Social: A Professional Showcase
👩💻 Startup Mastery: Leveraging Lean Startup , Agile, and Design Thinking
🐶 Desensitization Workshop for dogs in a big city, on the 11th
🐣 Fertile & Fabulous in 2025, on the 7th
💃 ATR PARTY- Cumbia + Reggaetón at Lido, on the 11th
👉 For more events during the week, check out our Instagram Stories! ✨
🍑 FLINTA ONLY: Technical Kiki for Sex Toys, on the 12th
📀 Sky-Bar Warmup - Free Entrance - Jazzy Electro, on the 7th
🎵 The Music of the Soudtracks: Hans Zimmer & Others
🍕 Talk & Pizza: Cracking the German Rental Market (FREE Pizza & Drinks!)
🍸 FLINTA & BIWOC Apéro Club, on the 11th
🎙️ FREE Karaoke Night at Electric Social, on the 9th
🪩 DJ Workshop for beginners: 1-on-1 sessions with DJ BERKITA
🍿 30 years of "Ghost in the Shell" and “Vertigo” on the 10th and 12th
📝 Writing with Others: Express Yourself, on the 12th
👗 Fritz Charity Flohmarkt, on the 12th
😍 👉 Our next event: IWB MeetUp & Egg Freezing & Fertility Firechat with Ovom Care
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IWB, with +39k members, is a very active community. Given that you might not have time to catch up on everything and some good posts may get overlooked, here are a few highlights from our group, from the last week:
🧗♀️ Looking for bouldering friends? Check out this post!
☀️ “Can you recommend some places and facial treatments for Melasma?”
💔 “My boyfriend just broke up with me, so I’m feeling very alone right now. I could really use some support from other women if anyone has time to talk or would like to meet up.”
💰 New year and you want to start investing your money? Check out this post!
🏥 “I wanted to ask all the freelancers that are here: what health insurance do you have?”
💪 “Strategies for taking action against antifeminist comments online”
💞 “I would love to have feedback from Gen Z girls here (born from the late 90s to 2011) about dating and flirting.”
🤬 “Always report discrimination you face (language, racial, sexism, any kind).”
🤗 Have you seen this super cute post?! Super nice to start the year with this vibe!
🥰 Trying to find new and reliable friends, when your current friends are always making you feel left out
We know finding a place to stay in Berlin is a hard tasks, sometimes. That’s why we gather, every week, some links that might help you - from women to women:
“LAST MINUTE FLAT availability with Anmeldung”
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“I am renting my 65 sqm, 2 room apartment in Friedrichschain for ~2.5 months.”
“One year sublet, apartment in Mitte with Anmeldung.”
“I am looking to sublet my apartment for 5 months starting any day of January 2025”
“We are looking for a new third flatmate to join our homely alt-bau flat share in Moabit”
“Subletting my beautiful room in Pberg,central location, with 2 male LGTBQ roommates”
“My girlfriend is renting out her fully furnished, sunny two-bedroom rooftop apartment for the month of January.”
“Beautiful and cosy 60 qm 2 room apartment with balcony in Friedeichshain at Weberwiese”
“Offering my lovely furnished apartment in Alt-Treptow for short-term rent for six months”
“I’m subletting my cozy 51m² flat in Wedding from January 24th to March 14th”
“My boyfriend and I are subletting our lovely flat for two months”
“I will be subletting my 1-room apartment in Friedrichshain, 2 min from Boxhagener Platz.”
“Due to last cancellation I will be renting my lovely flat from 4th of January (days can be flexible) for 3 months”
“I am looking to sublet my apartment for 7-8 months”
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A big reason why ppl move to Berlin is to get better lives. That’s totally connect with our work life. Check out these opportunities, we need more women in ALL fields:
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Check out what our IWB team is reading, or find it interesting and wants to share with you:
😍 So amazing to see intelligent women from different generations being vulnerable in a roundtable discussion
⌚️This company will pay over $90 million for the ones who were spied through their gadgets - are you one of those people?
🍿 The 15 Shows We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2025
We are very happy and proud to get msgs like this, thank you! 💖
To run IWB, there’s a group of 6 women, mostly women of color, taking care of different tasks to keep the whole IWB project running. As we continue to grow, our responsibilities grow as well, and we are basically doing this job that takes a lot of our energy, time and mental health for free.
”You give a little, you take a little”
Our ✨dream✨ is to keep supporting the community of women* in Berlin as much as we can, with events, helpful resources, support groups… and in return, we would get at least 1€ from each member that got something positive out of IWB. We host over 36k people right now… even if we got 20k every month, we could hire immigrant women, pay them fairly and find a small whole in the middle of the patriarchal, capitalist system that usually underpays women.
Let's be the change we want to see and not reproduce outdated and harmful systems 💖
To motivate people to support our work, we are giving back some cool perks!
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✅ Facebook Anonymous post, as much as you want
✅Telegram Group divided by Kiez and other topics
✅ Your name on the new IWB “Thank you!” section
💖 Monthly discounts with bars, restaurants, services…
For 10€/Month Subscription:
✅ Facebook Anonymous post, as much as you want
✅Telegram Group divided by Kiez and other topics
✅ Your name on the new IWB “Thank you!” section
💖 Monthly discounts with bars, restaurants, services…
💖 Access to ALL our IWB events for free
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Wishing you a fantastic week ahead! 💖
Warm regards from the IWB Team
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