Berlin and I Have Changed
"I spent my 50th birthday in Berlin because I wanted to be in a city that had changed as much as I had."
Jude's passion for Berlin spans four decades: her first visit to the divided city was during a Fulbright-sponsored study at the Universität Hamburg in the 70s. Solo visits to East Berlin through the infamous Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") at Friedrichstrasse Station followed. She visited Berlin yearly, staying in a pension in the home of an older survivor of the WWII bombing of Berlin, and was in East Berlin just days before the fall of the Wall. She spends her visits wandering the chaotic reunited city, exploring mysteriously abandoned locales, and making numerous visits to the luminous new capital of Germany.
Finding My Place in the World
Inge Schaefer Horton was born in Hannover, Germany, and grew up in Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia during, and after, World War II.
After graduation, Inge studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Berlin, where approximately 10% of students were women. After graduating as a Diplom Ingenieur in 1965, Inge worked at the TU Berlin as a Research Associate and wrote her first book, Early Modern Architecture in Berlin.
Oral History and Poetry Reading
October 23, 2011
Angelika Quirk was born during World War II, in Hamburg, Germany. Her childhood was spent in this metropolis, a city flattened by war and ravaged by hunger. German culture, along with the Angst of post-war experiences and working through the trauma of the Holocaust, impacts her poetry.