Berlin – for most younger people around the planet, nowadays the German capital amounts to the focal point of the contemporary hip and cool. Yet beyond the neo-bohemian gloss of the virtually infinite nightlife and the creative class’s sleekness in myriads of galleries and art spaces lies the other, the “normal” Berlin. And it is this still rather poor and transformative, staggeringly ordinary city that has become the obsession of Austrian-born, long-standing Berlin resident Florian Reischauer.

With the blog “Pieces of Berlin”, founded in early 2010, Reischauer has found his very own, unique perspective on one of the world’s most interesting and marvelous cities – and, above all, its inhabitants.