Please Exit the Bus Here: Stories from a female Berlin bus drive

Vibrant, big city life – aboard a double-decker

Travelling by bus in Berlin is one person’s hell and another’s heaven. But it always holds a few surprises in store. Susanne Schmidt used to be a bus driver. Today, she still loves to travel by bus – but only as a passenger. She takes us aboard the M19 from the Villenviertel in West Berlin, along Germany’s most famous shopping street in Charlottenburg to a kebab shop in Kreuzberg. Along the way, Susanne Schmidt describes the people she encounters. With a loving eye and keen observations, chock-full of real-life encounters and unforeseen surprises, this book describes situations that seem familiar to us, sometimes more so than we would like.


»Susanne Schmidt is a keen observer of public behaviour in Germany.«
Ursula März, Die Zeit