In which country did David Bowie live during the late 1970s while creating his “Berlin Trilogy”? Germany. In August 1976, Bowie moved to West Berlin with Iggy Pop, seeking distance from Los Angeles’s drug culture and trying to regain control of his life and career.
Bowie lived in the Schöneberg district and worked at Hansa Studios, whose location near the Berlin Wall became part of the era’s mythology. The albums Low and “Heroes” were made during this period, while Lodger completed the sequence in 1979. Together they are known as the Berlin Trilogy, although Low was begun partly at the Château d’Hérouville in France and only completed in Berlin.
The records drew on German electronic and experimental music, including the influence of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Tangerine Dream. Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti were crucial collaborators, while Robert Fripp supplied the striking guitar parts on “Heroes.”
A historical technicality is that Bowie lived in West Berlin, then part of divided West Germany. “Germany” remains the normal and fair quiz answer.