Hallo. Sie sehen Interview Project Germany.
Heute treffen wir Betty Wulf.
Betty hat eine Tochter, die in London lebt.
Viel Spaß beim Interview.
I’m called Elisabeth Wulf, my friends call me Betty.
I’m 59 years old and I live in Holm,
in Schleswig-Holstein, Pinneberg district.
I was born in August 1951 in Püttlingen, in Saarland.
And, yes, my siblings …
I yet have a sister and I have a brother.
My mother is still alive, my father died very young.
As a child, I believed in God. The pastor, the chaplain also
would come to our house to visit, and …
You had discussions, and as a child
you would listen and have questions.
As a grown-up, not anymore.
The only thing that scared us as children was Christmas,
when Santa’s helper Ruprecht came.
And he always rattled his chain and that was the heavenly goat.
They told us children, and we were always scared
and hid ourselves. So that was something …
That influenced you as a child. That didn’t need to happen.
We loved dancing a lot.
Even all alone on the dance floor.
It were also these times of bubble curls, permanent waves.
This flower power, these clothes. Many clothes.
And these shoes, which are back today, with these platforms
all the way through, we had them back then.
Yes, that were the 70s, the years of ’68, 70s.
So I had conflicts with my parents, because I moved out, because I 
wanted to do something different, because I chose a different career.
Because I …
Moved in with a man, with a young man,
cohabiting. We weren’t married.
And that was something that my parents …
Couldn’t tolerate and I think they didn’t like it,
because of the neighbors, you know?
The good reputation. At that time you didn’t just
cohabit with someone, you got married.
And there were a lot of discussions and debates.
My parents also never visited me in Berlin.
My father didn’t want to travel through the GDR …
And, he didn’t put up with that.
And when we got married then …
Then I was allowed to come home.
But not before.
Nowadays many friends of mine already passed away.
I think you have to take life the way it is.
There’s no use in complaining today or alike and …
No. That my mother became a widow so early and let the
neighbors regulate her life, that upsets me more than anything else.
I don’t regret anything, actually.
One would do the same mistakes again.
I think. You’d fall in love with the same man again.
It was good that I left home.
That my parents didn’t agree, ok …
I don’t know. But it was ok. The time was good the
way it was. It also affected my parents and it …
Helped them change their attitude a little bit, right?
Both of my siblings stayed good at home. One lives on the right
side and the other on the left. And they never get out of their …
They don’t get out of their environment, right?
No, I’ve met many people in that time,
being all over the place and …
And great people, right?
There’s this saying …
I don’t know who’s written it: “Many people cross
your path, some halt and some move on,” right?
No, it’s all good as it is.
