Herta Müller: ''I could never come back to Romania”

In April 2008, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature talked to the Romanian audience. Bucharest National Theatre has launched on DVD support a conference where Herta Müller calls in question Adrian Paunescu’s TV appearance and criticizes SRI.

Herta Müller, German writer born in Romania, winner of the Nobel Prize 2009, held a public lecture, in Bucharest, last year, on the National Theatre Conferences. She read the essay “E mereu aceeaşi zăpadă şi mereu acelaşi neică“ and answered public’s questions.

The DVD produced by the National Theatre contains one of the few recordings of Herta Müller’s voice in Romanian.

“When I left home, I felt like I was saved. I knew if I don’t manage to go, I won’t resist and go mad.”

This is the first sentence Herta Müller said in front of the spectators present in the theatre’s Hall “Atelier”.

He confessed “home is the place you can’t escape from and the place you can’t stand” and that she could never come back to Romania, because she was disappointed by the fact that many people have preserved the same structure they had been part to before the Revolution.

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