As a five-year-old, actress Lisa Bitter was deeply impressed by the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago, on November 9, 1989. "My parents cried in front of the TV back then. As a child, I didn't immediately understand that it was emotional," Bitter told the German Press Agency. "It was definitely something I remembered as a child." Bitter grew up in Franconia, and the inner-German border with Thuringia at the time was not that far away.
Bitter plays the investigator Johanna Stern in the Ludwigshafen "Tatort" and studied cultural studies and journalism in Leipzig from 2005. "Even 15 years after reunification, those were exciting times," she said. "There was still a lot of empty space that was used for creative projects." Friends created temporary stories, exhibitions and concerts in empty apartments. "I didn't know this freedom to create in the city from Franconia. This social upheaval was extremely exciting at the time."
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