There’s no way I could have survived in the U.S. But anyway, I stayed on because rent was so cheap in relation to what I could make translating. But I wish I’d done zoology or geography or sociology or something else interesting. I went to Tübingen on a student visa and eventually got a doctorate in Media Studies. I first came to Germany as a tourist in 1983 and immediately started learning German, but I didn’t live here until 2000. What is your relationship to Germany? Why did you decide to stay? I get aggressive after a couple of days fighting through crowds. I don’t live in Berlin simply because I don’t like living in big cities. The people coming to Berlin are not coming here to be hippie freaks. What is your take on the city and why did you choose not to live in it?īerlin is also changing! People are getting sleeker and fluffier every day. In your first novel The Wallcreeper y ou describe Berlin as an ugly place where nobody is “sleek or fluffy”. At a lot of festivals they try to get a really diverse group of writers and then they have nothing to talk about! Very promising about this festival is that it has a theme they’re getting together writers with an interest in nature writing. The best ones are the ones where the writers have something in common. What are your thoughts on literature festivals?
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