Is this normal in Berlin??

lol no that's not normal. I've lived here 6 years and never heard a cleaner sing about poop. What part of town was this? Some of the public toilets at U-Bahn stations have attendants who'll knock if they're closing soon but they just say "besetzt" or "komm gleich wieder" not perform a whole song. Prob just some random guy who found a mop in the janitor closet and decided to be weird, happens more than you'd think in Berlin. Next time just ignore it or yell "warte mal" they usually leave you alone

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Yeah that's not normal even by Berlin standards. Sounds like some drunk guy found a mop and decided to be funny. Public restroom attendants here usually just knock and ask if you're done, they don't sing about poop.

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honestly that sounds more like a weirdo than a cleaner. maybe he was just messing with you, Berlin has its share of characters

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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