ANNA KOBER (Alejandra Hoyos)
I was sitting in the window table at the old coffee in the corner of Helmut Platz, when i felt someones eyes right above me, i turn and there she was, with her brown sharped eyes, looking at me, studying me, as soon as she realize i notice her, she took a picture of me and stood up.
Since that moment i became obsessed with her, i try to run after her but it was too late, while i paid she was already gone. For couple of day I looked for her uselessly, until one day, thas less expected day i saw her again, looking through the coffee`s windows with her old 70`s camera in her hand. I felt alive, not that i wasnt alive before, but seen her again was so unexpected, it felt like a dream coming true.I followed her, i took some time, it was definitly her, brunette hair till her shoulder, skinny, with her wierd look, it seems like 50`s glamour have met nowadays geek style. After a while she got into an old building in Pappelalle, i wait for her outside for about 2 hours, then a man came out, left the door open so i let myself in. Ones inside i reach the third floor, I heard her voice, there she was, i knew where she lives, it was time to sleep (22:30), I left the building feeling happy about finding her again.
Next day i decided to wake up early, go to her building and find out something else about her. But ones there i saw an opportunity i couldnt let go, there was a flat for rent right infront her window, i took it immediately. I realized i was becoming a stalker, but i couldnt care less.
Her name is Anna, she was born in West Germany in 1976, she moved about five years ago to East-Berlin, at first because of her studies of Communication Design at Potsdam University, now because of her jobs, job that actually she seems to hate, at her office she`s absent-minded if she is not reading an old detectives magazin.
The most important things in her house are her dog, Lila a silver whipped, one copy of Otto Dix Portrait of Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, her cameras and her old movie collection (Blake Edwards, or Alfred Hitchcock films like Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany`s, Rear Window).
Although she`s a lonely girl is common to see her out in the washed up coffees of East – Berlin with her friends, all lookalike, really geek style. She goes out with Lila and her cameras and takes lots of pictures; she is certainly a Detective lover.
Wednesday: She did laundry yesterday, her flat looks more messy than ever, but she`s wearing clothes i`ve never seen before, as always she took for breakfast a cup of coffee and two vollkornbrot toasted with butter and honey, she left five minutes late for work, I take my wild guess, she´s not so excited about going to work.
15:30 She`s home early, maybe she was missing Lila pretty bad, i follow her through my window to the park, and waited till she walked Lila back.
The nice part of the evening, getting dress for dancing, so funny watching her put Roísín Murphy record and dance with herself for hours.
Lonely life she´s living, false life she lives by taking pictures and study others. By now i have no doubts; she should have been born in another place, in another time.
Its already late, I will do just like she, go to sleep…. Good Night Anna.