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We tracked the tents’ ex- pansion through satellite imagery — and explain how they could LENA MUCHA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES make the asylum process even Modern Love Prerow, Germany’s most storied nudist beach, where clothing has been optional since the 1950s. harder. nytimes.com/video The Podcast Should I Take Off My Clothes? By KATRIN BENNHOLD among the cherished traditions that have BERLIN — What you wear as a reporter faded somewhat since the Berlin Wall fell. matters. You want to blend in. When you Nudism had been a mini-rebellion against Here to steal interview the prime minister, you might a Communist dictatorship, and it also wear a suit. When you interview rioting represented the egalitarianism that now AUDIO your heart. youths, you definitely don’t. makes some Easterners nostalgic. But what do you wear — or not wear — “There wasn’t the social jealousy there is What’s the point of album cover when you’re reporting a story on nudists? today, because no one was rich and nurses art in a post-album world? This and engineers were paid the same,” said week’s Popcast features a conver- nytimes.com/mlpodcast I was still pondering this question when I arrived for my first appointment at a Thomas Bandelow, a 40-year-old teacher sation about recent trends in nudist camp south of Berlin. To my great swimming farther down the beach. “In an album art, from logo size to photo relief, the guy who gave me a tour, a retired economy of scarcity, everyone is equal.” resolution, and a look back at diplomat from former communist East In other words, everyone had to line up some iconic album art designers Germany, was fully dressed. (He later for the bananas in East Germany. But of generations past. admitted that he had put on clothes be- everyone could afford them. nytimes.com/podcasts cause I was a reporter from a United Nudity, too, is a leveler. And it, too, was States publication. “I know Americans are changed by reunification. a little prudish,” he said with sympathy.) In her childhood, Ms. Lorenz recalled, Things briefly got awkward when my everyone in Prerow was naked. Now it is guide introduced me to a fellow nudist, evenly divided between those “in textile,” who was sweeping outside his cabin naked to use nudist jargon, and those in the buff. and promptly offered us a cup of instant Gert Ramthun, an 80-year-old retired coffee. I had never shaken hands, let alone boxer, concurred: “Westerners are just had a cup of coffee, with a naked stranger more uptight.” I grew up in West Germany. I even re- before. When I interviewed him, I kept my NEWSLETTER eyes firmly fixed on his face. member the headlines about the “panty With the Well Family newsletter, My dilemma then came to a head in wars” in the years after the Berlin Wall get the latest news on issues Prerow on the Baltic coast, Germany’s fell: When West Germans started flocking including kids’ health, homework, most storied nudist beach. east to the Baltic Sea beaches where nud- adolescent development, college, After interviewing a few nude swimmers ism was the norm, several tense incidents relationships and more. while still fully dressed myself, I spotted a apparently developed. nytimes.com/newsletters large family — grandparents, parents and Western newspapers reported about children — running into the water together. “the naked terror against trunks and biki- They were perfect. Three generations. nis,” explaining how Westerners in clothes Naked in the sea. who dared to trespass onto nudist territory I really wanted that photograph. But it were “force-stripped” and had their cam- felt creepy to shout at them from the shore, eras taken. fully dressed: “Excuse me, um, can we We laughed at the time. But after my take a picture of your naked children?” encounters with more than a dozen nud- There was only one way to do this. ists, I am a little more skeptical about I stripped, dived in, swam over to the those accounts. Most nudists I met love the sense of community and equality that family and explained to them what we TV were doing. Would they be open to being collective nudity appears to create. One story in particular struck me: Chris- What happened to the Roy family photographed? this week? Catch up with The “No problem,” said Astrid Lorenz, 39, tian Utecht, the president of the Associa- tion of Free Body Culture for Berlin and Times’s recap of the latest episode who comes to this beach every year with of “Succession”: nytimes.com/tv. her two children and her parents. And then Brandenburg, told me that when his father- she asked me, “Are you a regular here, in-law died and his mother-in-law fell into a too?” deep depression, Mr. Utecht persuaded her to go to his nudist camp. I had done it. I was blending in. “She took a lot of convincing because she From that moment on, I found a new Contact the Newsroom worried about showing her body, which is level of openness in the people I inter- [email protected] an aged body,” Mr. Utecht recalled. “But viewed. Nudism, I discovered, was not just she has never been alone since.” Share a News Tip a quirky lifestyle choice. 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