Update 23 August: Now it looks like this (it is not clear from the photo, but in the meantime, both gaps have become bigger): (And no, I have not contacted Hausverwaltung, and I am not going to. The usually do not believe me till somebody German makes the same complaint, and in any case, it was clear in some of the first Eigentümerversammlungen I attended that since I am not German, I have no right to an opinion. On the few occasions I plucked up the courage to speak, I was immediately interrupted.
Latest: Apparently, our Hausverwaltung is now pretending that they did not know about it. It has been there for months, so either they are lying, which, admittedly, is a favourite Berlin sport, or the “Hausdienstleister”, who comes here every week, is blind, in which case the car he arrives in must be autonomous.
Berlin really does not care what it looks like. Or perhaps it thinks that looking like a giant pigsty is cool.
For several months, there has been two large-ish holes in the ceiling of the entrance to our courtyard and front door.
It has been so long, that it must be a deliberate decision by our Hausverwaltung, Schön & Sever, not to repair it.
The result is that pigeons breed there, with all the mess that that causes, and I think the poor dead chick was already from the third brood this season – that is how long ……
