Norman Ohler
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They were cheap drugs.
But I think the most important thing is that they let you find yourself maybe, or lose yourself, you know?
Also possible, you know?
I grew up in West Germany, and this was during the Cold War.
And
Berlin, the walled-in city was always like a big fascination because there was a wall.
There was actually a wall in the city preventing people to move into another part.
And I was from the West, fortunate enough to be from the free West.
So I could travel to Berlin and I could leave.
I could look at it.
And I always loved Berlin.
I thought it was beautiful.
very vibey place.
And then when the wall came down, I was still in school, but I like immediately got into the car of my parents and drove there.
I wanted to see how it came down.
And then Berlin really in the 90s became a place that was very attractive to me.
And I moved there then in the 90s.
I was first living in New York.
I wrote my first novel in New York.
And I loved New York before Giuliani became mayor.