Just typical tastes of the Innenstadt. Germans love flowers (Germany is an extremely colorful country as flowers are everywhere, especially in window boxes of houses, appartments and stores), and a flower stand like the one above is common. The newspaper stand is a typical kiosk as well, with papers from around Germany and Europe sold. The most popular German paper is a tabloid called Bild Zeitung. It is an interesting paper that mixes the sensationalism of something like the National Enquirer with some real news (and often some topless women) to create an entertaining paper. Its news coverage is superficial (though sometimes they break big stories) and the paper has a conservative perspective. Bild is also known for its extensive sports coverage, especially for Soccer, Germany's most popular sport. The German word for 'soccer' is "Fussball," literally "football." While "American Football" has a small following among some Germans (especially teams like the 'Frankfurt Galaxy' and 'Duesseldorf Rheinfire'), they are puzzled by the fact we call a game football which really doesn't involve much foot to ball contact.
For the more standard and informative papers the most popular are the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Munich based Sueddeutsche Zeitung (my favorite), and the weekly Die Zeit. Berlin's Tagesspiegel is good as well. These tend to be read by a minority of more 'intellectual' Germans. While Bild Zeitung helps shape public opinion at the mass level, these other 'national' papers influence and reflect elite thinking. Der Spiegel is the most read weekly magazine, a superb news weekly that puts American weeklies like Time and Newsweek to shame.
Germans also, of course, have local papers. Like here in the US, it is typical for the local paper to arrive in the morning with all the news about what's going on near home, required reading for going through the day and chatting with friends and co-workers about local scandals and controversies.