Interview mit Herta Müller und Liao Yiwu (2013)
Herta Müller and Liao Yiwu met for the first time in 2010, during a visit to Germany by the Chinese author. In this interview they speak about how they came to know one another and what influence life in a dictatorship had on their writing.
Interview with Fritz Kortner (SFB, 1957)
Until the end of 1956, Fritz Kortner worked on his staging of Hamlet in Berlin for the Schillertheater (premiere 13 March 1957). He was asked about this in an eight-minute radio interview.
Interview with the Cuban writer Amir Valle (2013)
In an interview on August 2013, the writer and journalist Amir Valle, who was no longer allowed to re-enter Cuba following a 2006 lecture tour in Spain because of a book he wrote criticising prostitution in his home country, spoke about his emigration to Germany. He arrived in Langenbruch near Cologne in March of that year as the holder of a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and was welcomed by a thick layer of snow – the first he had ever seen.
Interview with the exile researcher Claus-Dieter Krohn (2016)
As the author and editor of numerous studies on exile, the historian Claus-Dieter Krohn has made a major contribution to research into the history of exile. He taught Cultural and Social History at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg until 2007.
Interview with the Iranian painter Akbar Behkalam (2013)
In August 2013, the Iranian painter Akbar Behkalam gave an interview in Berlin. In it the artist, who has been living in Berlin since 1976, described the political and intellectual climate in Iran that moved him to leave his home country.
Interview with the Iranian writer Khalil Rostamkhani (2013)
The writer Khalil Rostamkhani served two periods of several years’ imprisonment in Iran as a dissident. In March 2003, he was able to emigrate to Germany with the help of German diplomatic efforts, among others by the then President of the German Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse.
Interview with the literary scholar Doerte Bischoff (2016)
The German philologist Doerte Bischoff is a Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Hamburg where she heads the Walter A. Berendsohn research unit into German exile literature.
Interview with the painter Agi Straus (2013)
From Vienna to São PauloAgi Straus (actually Agathe Deutsch) emigrated to Brazil via France with her sister and their parents following the annexation of Austria. There she finished secondary school, began working initially as a writer and illustrator of children's books and later studied painting, sculpting and graphics.
Interview with the photographer Hans Günter Flieg (2013)
Hans Günter Flieg, born in Chemnitz in 1923, emigrated with his family to Brazil in 1939. While still in Germany he had taken a private course with Grete Karplus, photographer for the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
Interview with the writer Gerhard Ortinau (2013)
In this interview given by the writer Gerhard Ortinau in Berlin on 1 August 2013, the Romanian-German writer first talks about the history of the literary collective Aktionsgruppe Banat. In 1972 Ortinau was a founding member of the political group of secondary school pupils and university students who wrote texts in the German language.
