Participants
Anja Kootz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
I was born in 1977 in Waren/Müritz. I have been in Berlin since 1996 with a one year intermission, when I enjoyed living in New York City with a stipend from the DAAD in 1999/2000. I am majoring in American Studies and also have minors in German Literature and Cultural Studies.
I have never read anything more sad and beautiful than Eugene O'Neill's plays and nothing more revealing and elevating than Martin Walser's novels and essays. Both masterminds I admire for writing the unbearable bearable. They taught me to read.
I would not want to live without having seen Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant acting together in The Philadelphia Story and in Holiday. In general, Hollywood movies of the thirties and forties fascinate me. I am intrigued with the period of the 1960s, though I have not come to understand it much yet. Still, being melancholic while hearing Simon and Garfunkel songs and seeing Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde are only two reasons to spur my interest.
I hardly let a week pass without going to the movies.
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