Germany’s lively and diverse capital city is the perfect creative center for an international fashion intern to flourish. With hip, trendy neighborhoods, important museums and memorials, beautiful art galleries and green spaces, Berlin is a vibrant city that offers a healthy balance of work and play. Wandering around Berlin, interns have access to many different decades. But living in Berlin won’t keep you in retrograde, this increasingly modern metropolis offers cutting edge technological advances, fresh new design and fashion and a flourishing contemporary art and architecture scene. The new Berlin boasts modern architecture, unique cultural spaces and an innovative approach. This unforgettable city is unmatched in what it can offer those selected for competitive fashion internships in Berlin.
With internships in competitive roles, fashion interns will work among top industry professionals, and will get a better sense of what it takes to be a global business leader. Beyond the real-world professional experience, fashion internships in Berlin also offer young people the chance to network and work alongside creative and competent international professionals. Whether at their internship, professional networking events or out and about, these vital connections add an important dimension to the internship abroad experience.
Fashion interns in Berlin live in private bedrooms in a residence set up for students, young professionals and other interns on the program. The accommodation is located in safe and secure Berlin neighborhoods close to cafes, museums and public transportation. Set up in this pleasant accommodation within the city, interns will enjoy their time living the true Berlin experience. Moreover, Berlin is a highly international city, open to foreigners and with many in the city speaking English. Apart from a safe and intricate public transportation system, Berlin also offers an extensive city cycling infrastructure – a healthy alternative to the typical commute.
Berlin is the ideal city for young, enthusiastic fashion interns with open minds and a penchant for exploration. There’s so much to be seen and experienced in Berlin, offering up world-class art, live music venues, foodie enclaves and lively festivities. As an intriguing, international city, creative and innovative individuals from all over the world are drawn to Berlin. Berlin boasts a respectable art and design scene, along with fabulous museums like the Altes Museum, the painting gallery, Gemäldegalerie, and the New National Gallery or Neue Nationalgalerie. For night time fun, hip venues like A-Trane and Yorckschlösschen feature jazz acts that sizzle, while Le Bar and Junction Bar host an eclectic mix of musical styles. Berlin’s various cultural celebrations and festivals bring in lively international crowds. Events like the Berlin Circus Festival, the Berlin Festival, Stadtlichter, Sultans Fest and Oktoberfest are hard to beat. In terms of good eats, Berlin has a competitive culinary scene, whether it’s on the street or in a fancy restaurant.
Interns abroad have so much to see and soak up in Berlin. This historic city offers hundreds of cultural and historical spaces, including some 170 museums. You can see five of them on the same day over at the Unesco heritage site, Museum Island, which includes five different museums together on the River Spree, featuring Islamic, Hellenistic, Egyptian art and artifacts. On top of that, Berlin’s got many different outdoor spots that everyone can enjoy on a sunny afternoon. Beautiful green spaces like the Zoologischer Garten illuminate the beauty of the natural world. Europe’s most popular zoo, it features the widest array of species in the world. If animals aren’t your thing, get together with fellow interns and your picnic basket and head out to the city’s largest park, Tiergarten.
Berlin is a city that understands its history and is willing to share it with all its visitors – the good, the bad and the ugly. Preserved by numerous museums, memorials and monuments, Berlin’s past will never be forgotten, especially the tragedies occurring over the last century. Once heavily bombarded and serving as Nazi headquarters, the city notoriously split Easy and West, which can be better understood at the remains of the Berlin Wall. To learn more about the complexities of Germany’s history, fashion interns can check out the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German History Museum), the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) and the Glienicke Bridge.
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Photos
1. based on MBFW Berlin 2013 Lena Hoschek, by Patrick Raczek, CC-by-2.0
2. based on Berlin – Reichstags Kuppel / Dome of German Parliament Building, the Reichstag, by Reinhard Link, CC-by-2.0
3. based on Berlin Green, by Håkan Dahlström, CC-by-2.0