In the latest production of Rimini Protokoll there are again experts. But the main actor is the audience, which guide 200 avatars through a game of life....
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The Dutch author Hans Maarten van der Brink lists a number of contradictory reasons why his compatriots might give Geert Wilders their vote in June. Ai Weiwei defends his heavy surfing habit. Die Welt prints a reportage on the first ever critical edition of the Koran, coming to you from Potsdam. Mircea Cartarescu explains why he's too old to write poetry. And the taz and the NZZ report on reprisals against writers in Iran.
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Having been apprehended on his way to the lit.cologne, Liao Yiwu sends his German readers a song for the dongxiao. Die Welt describes Ryszard Kapuscinski as a partisan writer who was prone to self-censorship. In the NZZ, Martin Pollack explains why he won't be translating the Kapuscinski biography into German - not becuase of its truths but because of its tone. The pianist Krystian Zimerman explains the difference between volume and dynamism. The FAZ bemoans the influence of the collector in today's art market. And Gunter Grass has opened his Stasi file.
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