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We left Germany when I was 11.

I was in Germany when the wall came down.

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

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

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