What is your name?
Kevin Markus Junk

Where and when were you born?
On February 23, 1989, in Hermeskeil

What is your current place of residence?
Berlin

What is currently on your mind? Send us a tweet about your life (140 characters).
It's a digital cliché: having to write a tweet about your own life and not having the faintest clue where to start.

What are you proud of?
I feel uneasy around that word, "proud." People tell me that I have a proud personality, but I'm really trying not to be that way. I think of pride as a hindrance in life.

What are you ashamed of?
I feel really ashamed of the texts that I wrote in the past. A few years later you look back and realize how exactly you could've done a better job. I'll probably feel the same way about the things I'm writing now in a couple of years' time. It's a productive kind of shame you feel.

Tell us about an image that will never be erased from your memory.
I remember being in Japan, somewhere on the outskirts of Kyoto, still suffering from jetlag. So I took a walk at dawn along a river until I reached this little suspension bridge amid a forest that was just turning its colors to fall. The beauty of that very moment somehow took away all my fears of being so far away from home and cured my jetlag.

If you could choose one person to meet, dead or still alive, who would this be and why?
Susan Sontag. Definitely. Her essays have some of the most impressive analyses I know. Her novels, however, are rather horrible.

How would you express your personal spirit using three Emoticons?

What would have happened if the Berlin Wall had never come down?
I would have grown up in a terribly stale country. Germany's reunification marks an important history lesson on so many levels, which we should reflect upon more on this 25th anniversary. We are all part of the reality of this reunification, and we have to be more conscious about that fact. This implies for the people of my generation that we need to learn to have a more critical approach towards this subject despite the fact that we've never known any other reality for ourselves.