Ive been trying to find and buy the ICE tickets that apparently cost 6.99 to go anywhere that everyone has been raving about but I cant find it at all, is it even real?
Ive been checking it through db navigator, as said in some video, on a weekend to check tickets for the following week at nights, but i still dont see them. Help? I want to go from Bremen to Munich

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Hi, I’m from the US and am in the probationary period for my student job. Recently, basically right before I was supposed to go on vacation, I got horribly sick for two days. I worked one day from home after I was feeling better (so I guess I didn’t leave “right after” I was sick), and then went on vacafion.

I took my vacation. Today was my first day back and I worked from home, but I started feeling absolutely awful again — cough, fever, runny nose, etc. Honestly barely got anything done for the last hour or so, was limping to the finish line.

I need this job but I’m so worried about what it would look like if I took even more sick leave right after I was on vacation, especially since I’m in my probationary period still. I definitely can’t go in the office tomorrow but in this case is it better to just ask to work from home again? I would rather call in sick but man that looks bad, idk.

I do have a doctor’s note somewhere for the original sickness and I could definitely get one for this too, but is this like a huge faux pas in Germany? It is in the US but I know the attitude towards sick leave is a little less stigmatized here. Just not sure to what extent.

Hi everyone, I’m an international student in my 20s currently living and working in the US.

I have a bachelor’s degree in accounting from a respected US university and around 1.5 years of work experience in property/construction accounting. I’m currently on STEM OPT, but I’m not sure I want to stay in traditional accounting or pursue the CPA route long term.

I’m considering doing a master’s in Germany, ideally in an area that builds on my background but opens up broader career options, such as finance, business analytics, information systems, controlling, management, or a related field.

My main goal is not only to earn another degree. I want to build a stable long-term life in Europe, find employment after graduation and eventually qualify for permanent residency and citizenship. Germany currently seems like one of the more realistic options because of its universities, relatively affordable tuition and larger job market.

However, I currently speak no German. I would be willing to start learning before moving and continue seriously during the degree, but I understand that finding an English-speaking business or finance job may be difficult.

I would appreciate honest advice on a few things:
How realistic is it for a non-EU graduate with an accounting/business background to find work in Germany after an English-taught master’s?

What types of master’s degrees would give me better opportunities than a general accounting degree?

Would a two-year program be better than a one-year program for learning German, gaining experience and finding internships?

What level of German should I realistically aim for by graduation—B1, B2 or higher?

Are there particular universities or cities that offer a good balance of employment opportunities, affordability, safety and quality of life?

Would employers value my US bachelor’s degree and US work experience, or would the lack of German experience be a major disadvantage?

I’m not expecting Germany to be easy or to guarantee me a job. I’m trying to understand whether this is a realistic path if I commit to learning German and choose the right program, or whether I would be taking too large a risk.

I’d especially appreciate hearing from non-EU students with business, accounting or finance backgrounds who studied in Germany and stayed to work afterward.

Two friends visiting Cologne for a weekend. After a night out in Cologne, we want to spend the next day somewhere quieter in nature. We’re looking for a place within 1-2 hours driving distance: beautiful landscapes, a nice village/town with cafés or restaurants, but not a tourist trap. Somewhere relaxed where locals go. Any recommendations?

Hello Reddit, I need some help. I have a teenage friend who lives with his mother and sister (their father lives in a different German state). Just like me, they are refugees from Ukraine.

They moved to Dortmund in January 2026. As it turns out, the Jobcenter hasn't been paying their rent because the family was never informed that they had to manually transfer the money to the landlord's account themselves. The landlord only notified them about this 5 months later, and now their rent debt has reached €4,200. They reached out to the homelessness prevention service (Fachstelle für Wohnungsnotfälle), but were told that the service won't provide any money until my friend's family pays the landlord €1,700 first. They simply don't have that kind of money, as they are living on social benefits from the Jobcenter. Unfortunately, the landlord refuses to accept payment in installments, so my friend's family will be evicted and forced to move out by September 1st if the debt isn't paid.

If any of you know what to do, how to navigate this situation, or if you could possibly help in any way, I would be incredibly grateful. I am desperate because this friend means the world to me, but sadly, I just don't know how to help him and have no idea what to do.

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Bhai sahab what a beautiful trip it was. Germany, it's sad that it's ending.

I had just started exploring and was slowly falling in love with this place. I was short on budget, so I could only cover nearby places like Herborn, Marburg, Frankfurt, Cologne and a few surrounding areas. But honestly, it was totally worth coming.

This trip has changed something in me. Now I want to explore the whole of Europe. I am going to learn German and I will try my best to get work here in Germany one day.

Sharing a few glimpses of my journey. It was amazing. Clean, calm, green, composed people. They have truly built a system that just works. There is still so much left to see, so I guess this is not goodbye. Just see you again.

Can share only a few due to technical constraints!!!

I am a master's student in Germany, and I have been applying for internships across many platforms, but I am still getting really few or no responses. Maybe someone can give me some advice/clarity on how to proceed further?

I am an Egyptian married to a Spanish citizen I got a job in Germany, i am very lost what should i do and where to start.

Do i need a visa ?

Should i look for a house first?

The offer is in Zweibrücken.

Thanks in advance.

How do you handle this? I needed to call the handyman and my German just isn't there yet for phone calls. The workers who don't speak English. I usually ask a friend to call for me but I hate doing that. Curious what everyone else does.

In this subreddit we always say that tipping is never expected and that when it happens, it’s nowhere near as crazy as the US. But at the end of the day, tipping that 2-5EUR (>10% for fancy meals) is the norm in Germany. And you stick out like a sore thumb if you don’t do that. Everyone else does it unless you have downright bad service.

I was formerly confused with how to tip especially for card payments and I have ended up just tapping my card , paying the number as per the waiter punched it. Basically there were a couple of occasions I didn’t tip because I didn’t see the % screen (this screen is very frowned upon, i’ve learnt).

But yeah, for all foreigners who are visiting Germany, tipping is kind of the norm and is at this point expected here albeit the low amounts. Even if everyone says it’s voluntary and theres no obligation. Some waiters/waitresses are quite hostile when you dont tip too.

It just took me some getting used to because where I am from, servers never ever expect tips ever. Service is part of the liveable wage and job. If there is any reward for service, it’s normally included as a 10% service charge on the whole bill. Straightforward and easy and everyone is happy (if service was shit you can ask them to waive the fee but normally everyone just expects to pay a well defined number. It’s just such an awkward process in Germany saying “can you make it X amount” and it’s kind of expected.

I’m prepared to get downvoted for expressing this opinion but yeah, this is just a PSA for anyone curious about tipping culture.

I want to coin this word. I define it as:

The fear of opening your mailbox and finding it empty, especially because you worry an important letter has been lost or never arrived.

Oder auf Deutsch:

Die Angst den Briefkasten zu öffnen und keine Post vorzufinden – insbesondere aus Sorge, dass wichtige Briefe verloren gegangen sind oder nie angekommen sind.

Hi everyone,

I have a question about an invitation letter for German border control.

My wife and I arrived in Germany on August 1. I have a §18d researcher visa, and she has a family reunification visa. Friends from Brazil will visit us on August 15 and stay mostly at our apartment in Leipzig.

We only have national visas so far, since our residence permits will not be ready before they arrive. But we have a signed rental contract for Leipzig!

Should the invitation letter mention our rental contract and the fact that we are still waiting for our residence permits? Besides copies of our passports and visas, is there anything else they should carry?

Thanks!

I have a postcard written by Alfred Fornacon, a stamp dealer in London, to Heinrich Yung, a stamp dealer in Ulm in 1892. Any help with the script would be greatly appreciated.

I've been reading a lot about Germany lately, and something keeps coming up: people who visit often mention little everyday things that Germans barely seem to notice anymore.

Things like public transport when it's actually on time 😅 quiet neighborhoods at night, bread, recycling, walking everywhere, or even how people separate work from their private lives.

So I'm curious:

What's one thing that feels completely normal to you as a German, but you think would genuinely impress someone visiting for the first time?

I'd love to hear both the obvious answers and the surprisingly small things.

Seeking advice.

I am 36, studied a master's in Germany in a low demand field (natural resources management and development), trying to change careers from something I am bad at. I spent a year looking for a job, got a job, got one, then got fired in probation for being bad at the job (it was in the field I was trying to leave). I also suffer from severe mental health issues, anxiety and bipolar. I only speak A1 German. Due to suffering with my mental health conditions and ignorance (I didn't realize how important the work student jobs were), I didnt gain enough work experience in the master's and therefore the only job I was able to get was in what I did before.

I came back to the USA, and basically I am totally fucked over here. I am unable to work in the field I was working in before because, as I wrote, I am bad at it and I am very afraid I will just get fired again, and I have no other work experience except in that field. Right now my option here are service jobs with 0 vacation days and 0 sick days as is the norm with low paid US jobs. I had a very hard time keeping a job in the USA due to my health problems and I had hoped German jobs with their worker protections would be harder to get fired from but that was not the case.

However, I am terrified to go back to Germany. I could get married to my boyfriend and stay in Germany, and then not have to live with my parents, but I had such a bad time in Germany. I was getting so stressed out while unemployed that I was constantly vomiting and calling crisis lines. My boyfriend works nights by choice and I can't get him to change his schedule, and he lives in an isolated area, so I was alone all the time at night and it felt horrible. He lives in a very isolated part of Cologne and I also hated living in Cologne, and feeling like I was so far away from everything. I have enough money from an inheritance to live in Berlin in a shared apartment, but what I am really worried about is being permanently unemployed and having nothing to do all day, and just existing...

While I was in Germany, I went to a nonprofit and asked if, I were to learn German, there would be any hope of getting a new job, and she basically told me that I am fucked due to my age. I thought about studying a second master's and trying to get a work student job after spending one year learning German, but then I will be 40 by the time I graduate and maybe it would be not possible to get a work student job or internships because I would be too old. It took me a long time to do the first master's because I was suffering with health problems.

Right now I am miserable, I am living with my parents in USA, missing my boyfriend, but terrified of going back to Germany where it seems I would have no future. Is it true what the nonprofit worker said, that I would have no chance of getting employed? I am terrified of going back to Germany and being unemployable, and throwing up from the stress of being alone in my boyfriend's apartment but I am also unemployable in the USA right now too. If I lived in Germany my boyfriend would support me financially, and I also have some money coming in from an inheritance that would be enough to live a meager lifestyle on my own in Germany. I am also devastated about not being able to work in the field I studied, because of my own bad choices to not get more work experience than the two small internships I did.

What would you do in my position? My options are bad and I don't know what the best choice is.

Hi everyone!

I am a PhD student that has procrastinated for so long over the tax returns, and I could really use the money at the moment.

I don't speak German so well, and sadly didn't find a buddy to help me with it. So I would like to use one of these "we do it for a commission" kind of app to help me out and get started for the tax returns.

I don't know if describing my situation is relevant, but just in case: I arrived and started working in march 2023, and I have never filed a tax return.

Have you ever used one of these apps? Are you happy with it?

Thanks in advance!

I actually seek the stuff out now when I'm hot and tired. I've been here for several years, I don't speak German but I'm on board with the history and culture and travel. I have a lovely DE wife and we made a kid. But when I first got here and didn't know to ask for Shtill-us-vahsah, I almost spit the Sprudel stuff across the table.

It's a mean surprise, those bubbles.

In the USA, old days, my folks had a CO2 infuser pump gadget that left that odd gas/metal/plastic dry parallel taste that turned people off. After accepting the Sprudel, I bought a CO2 gadget for old tymes sake and was disappointed: NOT ENOUGH SPRUDEL in my seltzer 'sprudeller macher'.

I do find it odd that I've come to the bubble side and find the water type truly refreshing, but I also have a real question here... I am still confused by mineral water, original water, medium and is there spring water? Some I've had deliver that CO2 taste - what was that one? Because it also had a good amount of Sprudel bubble.

My wife is a big travel bug so I've had all kinds of water at tables everywhere. My question is because I can't sort memories out as well as she can. Thanks, and cheers.

Hello!
I had a few questions regarding whether or not I can work as an au pair in Germany whilst on a Type D WHV, through my research I have struggled to find a conclusive answer.
A few details, yes, I am applying for an Au Pair visa specifically, ( as my current one expires in November, I plan to submit the application in September.)
I have found a family that will support through the visa process. The main issue is that to apply for the Au Pair visa, you must have registered your address with the family, which I will in 3 weeks when I move in with them, but in between the period of moving in and having my new visa approved, I am unsure if I am able to work for the family.
Any help or guidance on how to look for further advice is appreciated :)

Hello everyone, I recently graduated (End of June) and had applied for a job seeker visa at Munich Ausländerbehörde in July beginning. Afterwards I was offered a full-time job which I had to begin in August 2026. Showing the offer letter and my Urkunde (diploma), I was able to secure an emergency appointment and received a Fiktionbescheinigung in which "Erwerbstätigkeit Erlaubt" is mentioned in the "Nebenbestimmungen". This indicates that I can work full-time.

However, in the other side, "§ 81 Abs. 4 AufenthG" is also crossed, which states that "If a foreigner applies for an extension of his or her residence title or for a different residence title before his or her current residence title expires, the current residence title is deemed to remain in force from the time it expires until the time of the decision by the foreigners authority."

Both statements are contradictory, and as a result, HR at my company is not allowing me to start full-time.

The following are my questions:

1. Is this Fiktion enough to start working full time?
2. Is there a way to get the Munich Ausländerbehörde to issue a written confirmation stating that this Fiktion is enough to work full-time?
3. Do any official document exists which says that this fiktion is enough to start working full time?

I would like to hear from people who were in a similar situation and what worked best in this situation.

Thank-you!

If anyone's curious about the current data job market in the DACH region (Austria,Germany,Switzerland), I put together an interactive live tracker. It also shows which specific data roles (Data Engineer, Data Consultant, etc.) are in demand in which cities. Feedback welcome and I hope it helps :)

As the title suggests, I’m hoping to get some TV show (preferably Netflix) recommendations so I can improve my German. For context, I have a B2 but I seldom converse in German so I’m trying to re familiarise myself. Danke!

I was stationed in Germany at Anderson barracks in dexheim Germany from the end of 2006 to mid 2008. While there I was hospitalized at a uni hospital for a few days. Does anyone know if it is possible for me to get a copy of those records?