Herta Müller
Hertha Müller
An exclusive interview with Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller… What an honour! Thanks to the appearance of The womanizer and his wisecracking aunt we were allowed to interview her for HP/De Tijd at her home in Berlin – the only Dutch interview about her bundle of poetry collages. Standing at her lectern, she shows us how she creates her poetry collages, with cut-out words and pictures from magazines, newspapers and local folders. What started as a form of expression from necessity – using a typewriter was dangerous during the dictatorship, since it could be traced – became a necessary form of expression. An intense meeting with a person who is as gifted as she is damaged.