I come from East Berlin, from the former GDR. In addition, I was actually born in Stalinstadt, which is now becoming more and more famous as Eisenhüttenstadt.
Even though my parents would have liked me to do an apprenticeship in my hometown in the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost (what a word :-)), I was always drawn to Berlin and behind a camera. In 1989 I fled to the Federal Republic of Germany via Hungary and lived in Stuttgart and Konstanz. I studied economics and advertising, live in Berlin and work as an author and artist.
But you could also say it like this:
I am Woman, Mother, Sister, Daughter, Refugee, Stranger, Curious, Neighbor, Friend, Grandmother, Hostess, Storyteller, Human, Divorced, Artist, sometimes old, always young and mostly happy.
