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Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

My friends often tell me how very German I still am.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

In Germany I am not so famous.

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.