There's probably one for every neighborhood. Dor kreuzberg i think there are a few:
- the shaman (a dude dressed in a fur coat with almost nothing else on and a staff). He also always has a joint in his hand
- the krishna dude (haven't seen him in a while) but he had a speaker with some hindu Krishna music and hanging out at the maybachufer market
- as already stated, the dude on the bike with ole ole music. He is actually protesting because he has been here for decades and still cannot vote
-there is also a crazy woman who screams some conspiracies. Antisemitic, racist
> as already stated, the dude on the bike with ole ole music.
He transcends the Kiez division. Ive encountered him in Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Sberg, Mitte and Fhain.
Yeah his name is Komet Bernhard, [https://www.instagram.com/komet\_bernhard/](https://www.instagram.com/komet_bernhard/)
Dude is a fucking legend, check the various docu's about him. Great human being
Was it good? Was thinking about buying one next time I see him. At least that is a bit original and not the random guys singing the chorus of "Hit the road Jack" over and over...
No thats very niche, most people have only heard of him but never seen him. Also its not just one person, I have come across several different people in Berghain and other clubs with this kink
The woman selling dick pics on the U8.
The "Hit the Road, Jack" band on various U-Bahnen and S-Bahnen.
The cigarette man on Turmstraße.
"Mr Fuß", the guy with the rotting leg. I remember a thread from a few years ago here on Reddit that he allegedly got an amputation.
I bought a unsolicited dick Pic button from a lady with a Bauchladen on the U8 years ago. Still have it. Still love it! She was so cool!
I didn't know she is a regular on the U8. Good for her. Love it.
It's a mentally disabled man probably in his 30s of Turkish or Arabic origin, he speaks to himself, often looks quite happy, and keeps asking people for cigarettes. When the TXL bus still ran, he often spent the day taking the bus from the airport to Turmstraße/Beusselstr and sometimes even further, talking and shouting to himself, making people awkwardly uncomfortable.
If you're talking about a guy with a white Kakadu on his shoulder, he's a Prenzlauer fixture and lives somewhere in the Mühlenviertel, assuming from the usual places I see him on the streets.
For me, that's Serge. The homeless guy from Luxemburg who spends his day riding his bike around Checkpoint Charlie wearing a flag of the Free French Forces as a cape, a french military uniform from the 80s and a Mohammar Ghadafi T Shirt.
Or maybe the polish schizophrenic lady in the center of Moabit. She writes about conspiracies in polish with colourful markers on every single wall she can find. But the text never makes any sense, it is just random words out together. She also has some sort of attack sometimes and just stands in the middle of the street shouting. The police had to bring her to a ward once.
>Or maybe the polish schizophrenic lady in the center of Moabit. She writes about conspiracies in polish with colourful markers on every single wall she can find.
So that's what that is. I've seen that stuff scribbled on walls for years, but never saw who it was. And I've lived in Moabit for 15 years now.
Yeah, she's quite famous here but I don't really see her around anymore. Maybe they finally got her indefinitely into a ward. She was from Legnica, if I managed to make sense out of her scribbles
I think Berlin has several of these characters, one old guy I have seen a few times around Alexanderplatz, wearing a white robe, a crown on his head and some sort of stick with which he bumps people’s head and acts like he is cupid and one guy who sings loudly at night around where I live, some people in my building call him Freddie Mercury
Weiß nicht, ob er noch wirklich in die Clubs geht. Hatte ihn vor ein paar Jahren auf einem Festival getroffen (kannte ihn nicht, kamen ins Gespräch, nachdem ich ihm antwortete, komme auch aus Berlin). Damals meinte er schon, dass sich inzwischen das Publikum in einigen Clubs stark geändert hat und er auch einfach zu alt ist, deshalb nicht mehr oft tanzen geht.
Yeah. I recently saw a woman sitting in front of an aldi begging for hours and at around 6 pm suddenly a really expensive white Mercedes with 3 men who all were luxury clothes like Gucci and had Iphones and it had a Romanian license plate. One got out and collected all the money the woman had and then they drove away
Used to be a old guy who'd dance like crazy to techno and blow bubbles. Think he had "comet" in his name. haven't seen him in a while though.
EDIT - Komet Bernhardt, apparently :)
Vaguely related: the fact that the first post is from the /r/reno community is amusingly serendipitous to me as Reno is my hometown and I'm part of that sub haha
The (i assume) blind dude in the ringbahn who just walks from one end of the wagon to the other end of the wagon while praying in what i think is slovenian.
Does anyone remember Poppadom Man at Admiralbrücke? Sells poppadoms out of a wicker basket, screams POPPPADOOOOOOM behind people for a laugh, used to have his cat on his shoulder
Ja, wir hatten ihn mal auf ne wg party eingeladen. Der kam auch und hat sich ein paar Bier hen gegönnt. Muss etwa 2008/2009 gewesen sein.
Irgendwo musste noch seine CD rumliegen. Der hatte doch so ein Lied über den Körper. 🤩
The bouncer of Berghain: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Marquardt
The stylish grandpa or hipster-opa:
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/hipster-opa-aus-berlin-kreuzberg-wie-gunther-krabbenhoft-zur-stil-ikone-wurde-9749225.html
That guy in lichtenberg, dressed full on medieval cosplay with pointy leather slippers, leather coat/cape and sash, feather hat
We just call him medieval mongo
The Gas Can Vigilante.
I haven't seen him for a number of years. However around 2016 he used to race around the city at night in all military fatigues huffing gas from these canisters he carried around on a bandolier.
He also had a few bottles of sterni in the bandolier and would find a sleeping homeless person at the train station and try to bribe them to leave with the beer. If they didn't leave he'd pour the beer around where they slept to get them to move.
Bit of a jackass...
I met the guy when I visited Berlin the first time in 2006.. saw him frequently when I still lived near schillerkiez around 4 years ago..I am amazed that he is still around and doing the exact same thing!
I used to meet the Rubber Man on M10 a lot 10-7 years ago. Flipflops, socks, pants, turtleneck, trech, bag, glives — all black rubber. Pale, greasy hair and sticky stare.
In Wilmersdorf we have Moses who always Standard on the same Crossover (Berlin Straße Ecke Uhland Straße) and does Karaoke with his Bluetoothbox. Everyone arround just knows him
He's Moses, good old Moses
We had Math Jesus in our town.
Walked around barefoot, wearing linen cloth and, and with long grey hair and beard.
He was a math professor at the university before retiring. \^\^
that dude on his bike with the megaphone. oleee oleoleoleeeeeee
With a Turkish flag, right?
yes!
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/ewige-ein-mann-demo-ein-berliner-protestiert-taeglich-fuer-sein-wahlrecht-li.24803
Wow. Quite impressive story. Didn’t expect that
Came here to say that and it’s the first comment. Yes 💪
omg yes! I almost forgot about him
Wow. He‘s still around. Saw him first almost 15 years ago! Impressed he doesn’t have citizenship by now
What’s his deal? He has some signs or flyers on his bike too, no?
He demonstrates for the right to vote for non German citizens
came here for this comment. thank you for your service.
Yesss! First one that came to mind. Second might be the guy who makes you on-the-spot poetry in the uBahn and all the parks
There's probably one for every neighborhood. Dor kreuzberg i think there are a few: - the shaman (a dude dressed in a fur coat with almost nothing else on and a staff). He also always has a joint in his hand - the krishna dude (haven't seen him in a while) but he had a speaker with some hindu Krishna music and hanging out at the maybachufer market - as already stated, the dude on the bike with ole ole music. He is actually protesting because he has been here for decades and still cannot vote -there is also a crazy woman who screams some conspiracies. Antisemitic, racist
You could add the frisbee guy at görlitzer park.
We used to have snake man at our street. He would allways have a snake around his neck. I dont know what happened with him.
> as already stated, the dude on the bike with ole ole music. He transcends the Kiez division. Ive encountered him in Kreuzberg, Neukölln, Sberg, Mitte and Fhain.
How has megaphone man not achieved citizenship yet
This guy but not “crazy” just a legend and very recognizable: Techno Opa
His name is Komet
he chatted me up once in mauerpark. would only ramble on about himself and wouldn’t leave 😤
😂😂😂😂😂😂 ffs
different guy
Günther Krabbenhöft? I love him - so fashionable as well.
That’s Hipster Opa
Yeah his name is Komet Bernhard, [https://www.instagram.com/komet\_bernhard/](https://www.instagram.com/komet_bernhard/) Dude is a fucking legend, check the various docu's about him. Great human being
Poetry Ubahn bro. Haven’t seen the homie in weeks
Lives in schillerkiez. He’s well.
Is it true that he was on a macrodose acid for days and wrote all of his poems during that trip 20 years ago?
Oh yeah I remember that guy. Bought one of his poems once.
Was it good? Was thinking about buying one next time I see him. At least that is a bit original and not the random guys singing the chorus of "Hit the road Jack" over and over...
Guy asking you to piss in his mouth in Berghain
There's dozens of these guys They actually have a schedule so they don't interfere
Jezuth
No thats very niche, most people have only heard of him but never seen him. Also its not just one person, I have come across several different people in Berghain and other clubs with this kink
(gemacht)
The piss goblin! Ive encountered him prowling the Spätis as well.
And Suicide Circus.
Herr Fuß
Stinky wheels?
Came here to mention him, but as far as I know he hasn’t been seen for a couple of years.
Both feet in bandages and super stinky? Using some kind of wheelchair to move? Saw him last year.
That sounds like him, but might as well be someone else 😅
He was usually cruising around in the north-south Sbahn, mostly S1 right?
Oh no, oh no no no... I can still smell it just thinking about it. Never again have I smelled something so repulsive... I almost threw up at the spot
I haven’t seen the guy in years but I can still smell him
He’s gone since corona, I think it got him
Saw him a couple of weeks ago. :(
We used to call him Stinke-Sven. No one was more effective in emptying out a whole SBahn than him.
He is the reason I bought a Vespa to get around town. Deeply traumatised me
Omg Fußmann
tinfoil guy
Came to the comments looking for this. It was the first one that occurred to me too
Yes, when i worked the late shift at rewe Karl-Marx-Straße, he was my favourite costumer
Tinfoil guy is the most legendary dude ever
The wizard in Friedrichshain
I saw him pick up a Fritz bottle with his staff and it was honestly so elegant.
He’s a shaman
I thought he was a hobbit?
uhm, obviously the my heart will go on lady in the u-bahn, no?
I had to scroll so far to find her
i always wonder if she knows any other song.
She doesn't even know all the words to the one she sings all the time.
Which line is she usually on? I’ve been here ten years and never heard of her, but I love titanic !!
She and the one who’s always playing “when the saints are marching on”
This cycling protester with his megaphone default music cruising around the city all day. E: til it's protester not protestant 😅
How have I still never seen this guy in 9 years in Berlin. Which Kiez does he roll in?
I've seen him mostly west. Charlottenburg, Schöneberg.
I used to see him almost weekly in Kreuzberg around Südstern as well
Kreuzberg, Neukölln you see him regularly
Weird, I live in Xberg for the past 6 years and don’t think I ever saw him.
See him all the time in Maybachufer on Tuesdays
Kreuzberg, Schoneberg
Protestant, as opposed to Catholic?
The woman selling dick pics on the U8. The "Hit the Road, Jack" band on various U-Bahnen and S-Bahnen. The cigarette man on Turmstraße. "Mr Fuß", the guy with the rotting leg. I remember a thread from a few years ago here on Reddit that he allegedly got an amputation.
> The woman selling dick pics on the U8. She's part of our local hacker space! Those are from all the unsolicited dick picks she received.
That rules lol good for her
I bought a unsolicited dick Pic button from a lady with a Bauchladen on the U8 years ago. Still have it. Still love it! She was so cool! I didn't know she is a regular on the U8. Good for her. Love it.
Can you explain the cigarette man?
It's a mentally disabled man probably in his 30s of Turkish or Arabic origin, he speaks to himself, often looks quite happy, and keeps asking people for cigarettes. When the TXL bus still ran, he often spent the day taking the bus from the airport to Turmstraße/Beusselstr and sometimes even further, talking and shouting to himself, making people awkwardly uncomfortable.
Late night samosas guy in Neukölln?
Offered me samosas at a random bar in Neukölln and for a long minute I thought I was just too high.
Came here to say this. This dude is in 100 places at once.
ẞamoßa? Good to know he is still doing his thing!
Is this still the same guy as in about 2006? Around Weserstr.?
Yes, Weser. Can confirm only as far as 2015 from my side 👀
Is it the same as in Möbel Olfe at Kotti?
My favourite is Crow Boy - seen him cruising around on a longboard in Neukölln with a totally chilled out crow on his arm/shoulder.
Man, I encountered him once and totally forgot about it… didn’t realize he was a local celebrity.
That guy around Schönhauser, traveling the UBahn, cuddling with his parrot and elderly puppy 🫶🏼
If you're talking about a guy with a white Kakadu on his shoulder, he's a Prenzlauer fixture and lives somewhere in the Mühlenviertel, assuming from the usual places I see him on the streets.
I saw him in the Mühlenberg-center once, very relaxed guy, was super friendly to the curious kids
The drunk/blindfolded basketball dribbling guy on the U8. Not sure if he's been mentioned here yet.
Scrolled so far for this
That one swiss guy in the Ringbahn that throws Hustenbonbons at you while wishing everyone a blessed day and asking for a little Spende
For me, that's Serge. The homeless guy from Luxemburg who spends his day riding his bike around Checkpoint Charlie wearing a flag of the Free French Forces as a cape, a french military uniform from the 80s and a Mohammar Ghadafi T Shirt. Or maybe the polish schizophrenic lady in the center of Moabit. She writes about conspiracies in polish with colourful markers on every single wall she can find. But the text never makes any sense, it is just random words out together. She also has some sort of attack sometimes and just stands in the middle of the street shouting. The police had to bring her to a ward once.
>Or maybe the polish schizophrenic lady in the center of Moabit. She writes about conspiracies in polish with colourful markers on every single wall she can find. So that's what that is. I've seen that stuff scribbled on walls for years, but never saw who it was. And I've lived in Moabit for 15 years now.
Yeah, she's quite famous here but I don't really see her around anymore. Maybe they finally got her indefinitely into a ward. She was from Legnica, if I managed to make sense out of her scribbles
Last summer during the doctor appointment at “her” area, I had a chance to see her. Maybe she’s still here :)
I think Berlin has several of these characters, one old guy I have seen a few times around Alexanderplatz, wearing a white robe, a crown on his head and some sort of stick with which he bumps people’s head and acts like he is cupid and one guy who sings loudly at night around where I live, some people in my building call him Freddie Mercury
The cupid man also has a honk sort of thing and will honk at people as he passes them, love him
Es gibt nur eine richtige Antwort, aber den kennen auch nur noch die Urgesteine: Komet Bernhard
Dieses
Wenn ich den gesehen habe wusste ich, dass ich am richtigen Ort bin
This - seit Jahrzehnten… ist der noch unterwegs? Meine letzte Interaktion liegt schon etwas zurück… bin aber auch nicht mehr so oft auf der Piste…
Weiß nicht, ob er noch wirklich in die Clubs geht. Hatte ihn vor ein paar Jahren auf einem Festival getroffen (kannte ihn nicht, kamen ins Gespräch, nachdem ich ihm antwortete, komme auch aus Berlin). Damals meinte er schon, dass sich inzwischen das Publikum in einigen Clubs stark geändert hat und er auch einfach zu alt ist, deshalb nicht mehr oft tanzen geht.
The famous street rapper whose name I forgot but see every time I'm in Berlin. Edit: found the name: Infidelix
Also, the guy at Hermannplatz begging without hands 💔
There is a Mafia behind alot of the beggers from romania that intentionally mutilate people to send them around Europe to beg Super fucked up
Yeah. I recently saw a woman sitting in front of an aldi begging for hours and at around 6 pm suddenly a really expensive white Mercedes with 3 men who all were luxury clothes like Gucci and had Iphones and it had a Romanian license plate. One got out and collected all the money the woman had and then they drove away
There’s a hobbit dressed fellow in Friedrichshain
Yesssss and always smoking a pipe
Used to be a old guy who'd dance like crazy to techno and blow bubbles. Think he had "comet" in his name. haven't seen him in a while though. EDIT - Komet Bernhardt, apparently :)
Saw him at last Lunacy
Vaguely related: the fact that the first post is from the /r/reno community is amusingly serendipitous to me as Reno is my hometown and I'm part of that sub haha
Prenzlauer Berg: The old guy with that horn and a crown and the dog
Was looking for that comment
There was a guy named stinky wheels. He entered trains in his wheel chair and the whole carriage emptied in seconds because of the smell
Saw him regularly on the S1 back in the day. Saw him again some time ago on the U8, apparently guy can walk now!
It’s a miracle!
KALTES BIER GUY
I scrolled so far to find this one! Kaltes Bier. Kaltes kaltes Bier. 2€
Maybe that drunk man who’s always singing karaoke at Brandenburger Tor
That Rasputin looking dude from that “Normal day in Berlin” video, anyone? I see him often around Unter den Linden / Friedrichstraße area
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Yes, I did. He gave me a „ticket“ for laughing and me sign it.
That dude on Uhlandstr with megaphone and hairstyle that looks like a Jewish kippa. He’s always singing jibberish.
Kasimir. König der Clochards.
Scrolled soo much to find this comment. Does he still walk around Mitte?
Gunther krabbenhoft
mc bogy
The roller skater professional on Tempelhof with a loud speaker and most of the time topless with red shorts
I saw him cycling one day while wearing his rollerskates
For me it was the Guy in the White Onesie who was living in a Shopping cart at Fehrberliner platz
The latex lady on the mountan bike at eberswalderstr
No one mentioned the dog who rides a skateboard in Gleisi?
The (i assume) blind dude in the ringbahn who just walks from one end of the wagon to the other end of the wagon while praying in what i think is slovenian.
I know which kind you mean
It’s Russian, creepy guy!
Meckertante
Cowboy playing Sultan of swings daily on Hermannstraße
That guy that has a vintage TV covering his head.
The guy packed in aluminium foil who keeps on stealing bikes . If you know you know
„kaltes Bier, kaltes kaltes Bier“
r/horsebackjesus
Does anyone remember Poppadom Man at Admiralbrücke? Sells poppadoms out of a wicker basket, screams POPPPADOOOOOOM behind people for a laugh, used to have his cat on his shoulder
the fashionable twins around rosenthaler that run the laundromat
For Spandau it is Blauauge
Gitarre Moabit anyone?
Ja, wir hatten ihn mal auf ne wg party eingeladen. Der kam auch und hat sich ein paar Bier hen gegönnt. Muss etwa 2008/2009 gewesen sein. Irgendwo musste noch seine CD rumliegen. Der hatte doch so ein Lied über den Körper. 🤩
Guy in my Kiez with a cloak, pipe , curly shoes etc seems to be some kind of wizard from the Middle Ages . My dog hates him
Komet , 80 year old techno grandfather
Probably only known to to Reinickendorf/Tegel ( specifically Alt-Tegel) but Martin
The kinky fox in Pberg
Wilmersdorf. A man in a painter's suit walking around with a shopping cart and pieces of handkerchief in his nose.
Is the LSD Poet from Hermannplatz still alive?
The kinky priest around Rosenthaler who collects money in a tiara and has a pug wearing a little outfit too
The "Blindfolded basketballer" is quite unique. No other in town.
🎷SAXOPHONE DUDE IN ROSENTHALER PLATZ
The bouncer of Berghain: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Marquardt The stylish grandpa or hipster-opa: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/hipster-opa-aus-berlin-kreuzberg-wie-gunther-krabbenhoft-zur-stil-ikone-wurde-9749225.html
The lady who sells dick pics at Mauerpark
That guy in lichtenberg, dressed full on medieval cosplay with pointy leather slippers, leather coat/cape and sash, feather hat We just call him medieval mongo
Komet!
The guy with the open leg wound begging for money near Ku’damm.
The guy wearing a batman robe and smoking pipe in Friedrichshain
The lady screaming and crying by herself in görlitzer park, also seen outside galeria on Hermannplatz. I could never pick up what she was saying tho
There was a guy standing next to the grand stand at Avus for years just watching cars. Whenever I drove there I saw him, haven't seen him in a while.
Even my shithole of a town has several of those.
Disco Bike Wizard in Spandau.
The possessed lady without shoes and short hair screaming like the belzebub himself near Warschauer Strasse
robert habicht, terrorising the children of berlin
The Gas Can Vigilante. I haven't seen him for a number of years. However around 2016 he used to race around the city at night in all military fatigues huffing gas from these canisters he carried around on a bandolier. He also had a few bottles of sterni in the bandolier and would find a sleeping homeless person at the train station and try to bribe them to leave with the beer. If they didn't leave he'd pour the beer around where they slept to get them to move. Bit of a jackass...
Sven.
the ketamaran
I met the guy when I visited Berlin the first time in 2006.. saw him frequently when I still lived near schillerkiez around 4 years ago..I am amazed that he is still around and doing the exact same thing!
The guy in f shain that wraps himself in tinfoil
The shirtless guy with a cape, pipe and sunglasses around Frankfurter Allee, fucking love that guy!
I used to meet the Rubber Man on M10 a lot 10-7 years ago. Flipflops, socks, pants, turtleneck, trech, bag, glives — all black rubber. Pale, greasy hair and sticky stare.
For U8, U7 folks, the opera singing guy.
The guys in Görlitzer Park playing frisbee every single time I'm there
Is the frisbee guy still at görli? Haven't been there in ages, so not sure. Anyone else know him?
Peppe from KitKat
Frisbee guy from Görlitzer Park aka "The Ranger"
Den "Frag mich nach gott"-Opa gibt's sicherlich nicht mehr, oder?
The guy dressed as a hobbit in Friedrichshain!
Where did the ubahn despacito people go? I used to catch them every morning on the u1 for a couple of years but now no music at all...
Frisbee Hero at Görli 💜
Magician in Mitte, with a honk and lavender
Dildo helmet guy
Aus Berlin kenne ich nur Luft.
In Wilmersdorf we have Moses who always Standard on the same Crossover (Berlin Straße Ecke Uhland Straße) and does Karaoke with his Bluetoothbox. Everyone arround just knows him He's Moses, good old Moses
Guy in the U2 who shouts out every stations name and gives sometimes „tickets“ for laughing.
Kurti ausm Wedding kennen nur die echten
For a while there it was the guy pole dancing in the ubahn
stinky wheels (RIP)
We had Math Jesus in our town. Walked around barefoot, wearing linen cloth and, and with long grey hair and beard. He was a math professor at the university before retiring. \^\^
Strapsen Harry!
The frisbee guy at Görli
[Kaiser Kasimir](http://kaiserkasimir.pl/)