Songwriter, singer, author: Maite Kelly: "I don't exist without stage and music. It's the place for me to meet people."

Whenever she's in Berlin, Maite Kelly drops by her favorite antiquarian bookshop on Gendarmenmarkt.

Songwriter, singer, author: Maite Kelly: "I don't exist without stage and music. It's the place for me to meet people."

Whenever she's in Berlin, Maite Kelly drops by her favorite antiquarian bookshop on Gendarmenmarkt. Then she looks for historical children's books, which occasionally find their way between hand-colored copper engravings, between color lithographs by Chagall or first editions by Goethe. Today she is lucky. "Wonderful," she exclaims after a short rummage, holding a children's book from 1948, a colorfully illustrated world from the darkness of the post-war period. 25 euros, is bought.

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