I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.