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)