Can you believe that this bitch is 60 today? Oy... What a year to be a sexagenarian....

A collage!

I rose from off of the doctor’s slab.....

“And Now That It’s Gone, We Don’t Know Who We Are Anymore....”

[ Today officially marks 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell -- as well as 30 years since Hedwig’s divorce from Luther and 31 since the botched sex change and marriage that brought her to the United States.

Below are some of the resources that have been published in celebration of the event some of which will be worked into future writings on Miss Hedwig. (I haven’t abandoned this blog, I’ve just had other things going on in my life.) The quotes that I’m using to divide up the sections are quotes/paraphrases that come from JCM’s show The Origin of Love, which tells the story of the writing of Hedwig. Like VH1 Storytellers, if it went on the slowest roll out global tour.... ]

“1989. Who here remembers 1989?”

Berlin’s Cultural Legends Remember Where They Were 

‘I Was Sleeping When the Wall Fell,’ Berlin Wall Stories 30 Years On

Berlin Wall VR

Witnessing the Fall of the Berlin -- By Mistake

See the Berlin Wall Fall

“They called it ‘the end of history,’ remember that?”

Berlin After the Wall (Then and Now) (in pictures, 1992 vs 2019)

Germany Prepares to Mark 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall (timeline)

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall (in pictures)

Fall of the Berlin Wall: How 1989 Reshaped the Modern World

“I used to be obsessed with the Checkpoint: Charlie museum”

Tunneler Recalls 1971 Capture

Footballers Who Escaped From East Berlin

"Where she learns that the best things in life are forbidden. And nothing is more forbidden than the taste of POWER!!”

How East Berlin Stazi Harassed East German Punks (in pictures)

East German Schools Where Children Were Taught to Lie

“And Now That It’s Gone: NO! MORE! WALLS! NO!! MORE!! WALLS!!!”

Germany’s Leaders Mark the Fall of the Berlin Wall With a Warning About Democracy

No Wall Too High to Be Broken Down

He'd been having doubts for awhile.

How could he not?

Hedwig was beautiful -- she was a goddess -- but when he imagined living with her? What a life with her would actually mean?

Already he saw the little looks around town, the way people would gossip when they thought he couldn't hear....

The rumours he had heard about her past.

The truths that had fallen from her lips.

The truths about her person that he had ignored.

It didn't matter. He WANTED it to not matter.

What they said about her. What that meant about him if he was with her.... What it would mean for not just his budding career, but for himself if he chose her to be his soul--

Still. She was the most talented person he had ever met. Someone so far removed from the military strictness that he had grown up with. Someone...free. He wanted to be free.

He wanted to be happy. He wanted....

He didn’t know what he wanted.

Remembering the Berlin Wall – in pictures

Slade is a Tommy band. He discovered them when his father was stationed in Scotland.