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Luke Troynar is a part-time wordsmith, part-time musician and semi-aspiring member of the workforce.

Brianna Summers has a fondness for inventing words and excels at Denglish. The two former Melbournians now live in Berlin.

Here they take turns blogging about the cultural idiosyncrasies between Germany and Australia. 

Bicultural Urbanite Brianna
 Fanning fears: Do draughts make us sick?

Bicultural Urbanite Luke
 Wings of Desire, Still Beating in Berlin

Bicultural Urbanite Brianna
 Drudgery and Drama

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<i>Currywurst</i> snack stand in Berlin, the birthplace of the spicy, saucy, German sausage speciality. Photo (detail): © picture-alliance / imageBroker / Karl F. Schöfmann

Celebrating the currywurst
 The curried sausage, an icon of German cuisine

In addition to roast pork with dumplings, a pork joint with sauerkraut, and potato salad, no list of German national dishes would be complete without the humble currywurst or curried sausage. The spicy snack was invented 70 years ago.

There is now a third gender category in Germany: ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’. Photo (detail): © Adobe / Stockwerk-Fotodesign

Intersex
 Gender diversity

At the beginning of 2019, population registers in Germany were amended to include a third gender category. The option box is headed ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’, and it was introduced for a dual purpose: to remove the burden from parents faced with deciding an intersex child’s future and to show that being different can also be normal.

Market-stalls in Glebe. © Laura Wrobel

Sydney
 Paradise for Vintage Shoppers

Laura Wrobel loves vintage clothes. As soon as our editorial intern has landed in Sydney, she is already hot on the heels of trends and flea markets.

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'Never Look Away'. © Sony Pictures

Berlinale Bloggers 2019
 Turning complex history into a neat picture

Filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck crafts a pseudo-biography about celebrated artist Gerhard Richter and is nominated for the 2019’s best foreign-language Oscar. But while applauded overseas, ‘Never Look Away’ is marked by controversy in Germany.

Small bars prove that bigger isn't always better. © Photo detail: Corridor Newtown

Nightlife Sydney
 The rise of the Sydney small bar

Sydney’s nightlife is changing. More and more people are giving up on the big, characterless pubs of the past in favour of smaller, more intimate alternatives.

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Art and Social Media
 The Artists of Instagram

Instagram, the widely popular image based social media platform, known for its celebrity selfies, food bloggers and ‘insta-famous’ brand promoters is also being used by artists around the world to great success. The site is launching careers, keeping artists relevant, and changing the way audiences engage with the art world.

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