Of course, East Germans had children, they fell in love, and the grass was green and the wind was blowing. It's 40 years. It's a generation. There wa….

Mainly I got to know about the atmosphere in the East Germany and how people felt, because I never experienced it physically. You can't talk, because….

The GDR people found love at the workplace, and the West is always telling stories about finding love when work is over and you have your free time a….

I didn't understand the concept that there's a state that won't allow its people to leave or come back whenever they want to, by saying, "It's becaus….

That is an amazing experience, because we with director Christian Petzold know whenever we criticize each other, it's for the best, and you don't fin….

In 1995, I went to Berlin to acting school, which was in East Berlin. And I decided to live in the east, because I thought if I go to West Berlin, I ….

We really have a close friendship with Christian Petzold, which means we can be more frank and open towards each other, always with total respect. Bu….

I was 14 when the wall came down, so I only ever knew about the GDR or experienced it as a kid. I lived very far away from it, and you only ever thou….

I was very sensitized for what went on inside of the East Germans. Obviously, the first thing was that they were happy that they were experiencing de….