Questionnaire:  David Bennent, actor

This questionnaire, which the writer Marcel Proust  filled out  twice in his life, was a popular society play in the salons of the past.  We go on playing it – a little bit shortened:  cheerful and delicate questions as challenge for spirit and humor.

Probably he cannot hear the name "Oskar" anymore.  But that part in Volker Schloendorffs filming of Guenther Grass ' "the tin drum", with which it debuted as a twelve-year-old boy in 1978, made him famous:  David Bennent is a nature talent, that never visited a drama school, but has an actor as  father s - with whom he performes together as he also does with his sister.  Hardly a considerable director, in whose ensemble it did not appear:  Patrice Chéreau or Peter Brook.  All get this nature talent.

What is the largest misfortune for you?  War. 

Where would you like to live?  In the Greece of my youth. 

What is the perfect terrestrial luck for you?  Peace. 

Which errors excuse you earliest?  The seen. 

Your dearest novel heroes?  Tristan and Isolde. 

Your favourite figure in history?  Jesus. 

Yourr favourite heroines in the reality?  Rosa Luxembourg. 

Your favourite painter?  Jean Michel Basquiat. 

Your favourite composer? J.S. Bach. 

Which characteristics do you favor with a man at most?  -

Which characteristics do you favor with a woman most?  Understanding, love! 

Your favourite occupation?  Planting plants and maintaining them. 

Your main characteristic?  To be impatient. 

Your largest error?  Impatience. 

What would you like to be?  What I look for. 

Your favourite color?  Black. 

Your favourite flower?  Lily. 

Your favourite bird?  Swallow. 

Your favourite writer?  Too many; at present Heiner Mueller. 

Your heroes in reality?  The brother and sister Scholl. 

Your favourite names?  Anna, Maria, Tassos, August. 

What do you abhor most?  Hate. 

Which reforms do you admire at most?  Permanent ones. 

Which natural gift would you like to possess?  Heal.

 How would you like to die?  Fast. 

Your present state of mind?  Floating.

Your slogan?  We are nothing what we look for is everything.  (Friedrich Hoelderlin)