I was already a bit of a rebel in East Germany when I was young, but I became a bigger rebel later after the wall came down, and I went to study in Berlin. That's where I met my ex-husband, an Australian musician in a band. I didn’t speak much English in those days and he didn’t speak much German but we made do. In 1995, we visited his home town of Gulgong, near Mudgee, for 3 months. I looked like a punk rocker so it was a bit of a culture shock, for me as . . .