Jude Bell: Berlin and I Have Changed
Sunday, April 28, 2019

"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 70’s. Solo visits to East Berlin by way of 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 mysterious abandoned locales, and numerous visits to the luminous new capitol of Germany.