Everyone wants to go to Berlin, but "it can't be the beauty," as Peter Schneider writes about his chosen home. Destroyed in the war, torn apart by the wall, a symbol of German reunification. An eternal construction site, inhabited by Arabs, Swabians, Russians, Italians, and even real Berliners, who are called Polatschek and proudly display the famous Berliner Schnauze. Berlin authors take the S-Bahn, would love to keep their old-style apartments, visit Prenzlauer Berg and Prinzenbad, collect city furniture, brave the wild boars at Flughafensee, and even dare to go to Neukölln at night. They just prefer not to take the bus. Featuring some unpublished texts by Fatma Aydemir, Jurek Becker, Wolf Biermann, Volker Braun, Jan Peter Bremer, Tanja Dückers, Günter Grass, the GRIPS Theater, Annett Gröschner, Durs Grünbein, Katharina Hacker, Christoph Hein, Monika Maron, and Thomas Mel.