2026-05-17
35 分钟And welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today was born in East Berlin and grew up in West Germany inside a family shaped by exile,
political conviction, surveillance, rebellion and long silences about the past.
She is one of Germany's most acclaimed contemporary writers whose work has consistently explored
how private lives are shaped by history.
Her latest work is Worlds Apart.
Julia Frank, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Hi.
It's such an honour for us to have such a great German writer in the studio with us.
You've come here from Berlin today to do the show.
We 're so grateful and we ca n't wait to find out more about you,
starting from what you remember about your earliest years being born in East Berlin.
Oh, I do remember a lot.
It's not only because of my later diaries, but maybe because of my twin sister.
I have an identical twin, and both of us were very close in our early childhood, and we created a memory together.
And it was always like a competition from what perspective we are.
Memorizing certain events or feelings, emotions.
And this is a very interesting topic as well,
which is also an inlay of My Worlds Apart because memory works so different and it always depends on the perspective.