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A pile of magazines is again building up. The fight goes on, regardless, to review, to compile, to process, to share.

Today, it’s the turn of a selection of four unusual magazines, all published in a language that I don’t understand. This means that I can’t tell you how well they’re written or how successfully they match image and design to narrative. They all, however, contain plenty for the linguistically challenged to enjoy.

First up, the third issue of Der Wedding. I mentioned this magazine a while back, without actually having seen a copy.

Now that I have, I still think that it is, as far as I can gather, a bit like Karen in that it shares tales of everyday people and places, in this case however all from within one of the poorest areas of Berlin (called Der Wedding).

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Der Wedding is an annual magazine about an everyday Berlin suburb. It’s also a conscious antidote to the trendy, hipster side of the city.

Just as Karen is “made out of the ordinary”, Der Wedding is, according to German magazine gurus GuteSeiten, “dedicated to the topics, events, items of everyday life and small stories that can be found right on the doorstep.”

It’s also rather lovingly designed too – images here borrowed from GuteSeiten, who have more on their site, as do Slanted.

Though I don’t speak German, it looks like a keeper.

UPDATE: GuteSeiten just gave Der Wedding their inaugural ‘mag of the year’ award at a pop-up magazine event in Berlin.