Overview

• In a recent Zeit Online interview, Humpe describes her “lifelong love affair” with Berlin while lamenting its habit of making itself important.
• She praises the city’s lack of planning, saying its unpredictability is the very source of its appeal.
• Humpe reflects that her 1980 hit “Berlin” remains an accurate portrait of the city despite its omission of East Berlin streets.
• She recalls finding the Berlin Wall “mega” for shielding her from what she saw as West Germany’s narrow-mindedness.
• Humpe admits she once identified politically with the East German regime and considers herself to have been “a bit Communist” during her time in Berlin.