I have prepared something here.

A few cards with questions.

Harold Staun

Editor in the feuilleton of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper in Berlin.

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Oh, how nice, a game is about to start!

I stole that.

You did the same thing in your new interview series “#undwarumbistduhere”, I really liked that.

The topics should look familiar to you.

So now, zack, I'll take you!

(

pulls a piece of paper

).

Oh God, "Forgiveness"!

Such a serious topic.

You can do it again.

"Responsibility".

hmm

The episode hasn't aired yet, what was your question about it?

I have to think for myself, I think: whether responsibility is something nice or not.

You asked 20 questions "about the big issues in life" to 20 friends and companions, well-known ones like Bettina Rust or Martin Brambach, but also your housekeeper and a pastor.

Did you actually answer all of them for yourself?

The moment you ask it, you begin to answer the question yourself.

But because I spoke to all the people, something completely different happened.

I really didn't dare to dream that I would be answered so comprehensively.

This made many questions superfluous for me, I didn't really expect that.

How did you come up with this project?

In this lockdown fatigue, I just felt like doing something nice.

I found it striking that there were no more real conversations at all.

You weren't at all happy to meet someone, but exactly what happened that we all have to be very careful of.

During the lockdown, you actually always had the feeling that you had to have a ready-made opinion about the virus, about vaccination, whether you cut off contact with certain people and so on.

I didn't want to rant from morning to night, because then I can't sleep at night.

And then these issues came about quite naturally.

As an actress, I'm always interested in finding out the truth of a person.

That was my goal in these conversations: How do I get to the real point?

If you ask the right questions,

people go inward, take a walk within themselves.

That's different from asking: What do you think of the current measures?

They talk about happiness and indifference, about security and solidarity, about truth and humor.

As timeless and general as these questions are, it becomes personal if you answer them honestly.

Were there also people who said: That's too intimate for me, I won't go along with it?

Angela Merkel did not take part.

And Frank Walter Steinmeier.

Of course, I wanted politicians to be there.

They both turned me down, but for good reasons.

They had so many requests that it wouldn't work because of justice.

I was lucky that the others trusted me.

You also learn a lot from the way you edited and staged these interviews.

Through the hesitation, the pauses that luckily you didn't take.

It's not often on TV that you can watch someone think.

The cut is of course very manipulative, it always is.

I didn't have to stage the breaks.

The nice thing about this completely self-determined project was that I could dare to let it happen.

Of course, I had also offered this to broadcasters, but the editors always want to have a say, but it was too late for that.

Now it feels very good that I did it myself, together with my producer Dietlinde Stroh.

Like Off-Theater, but the good part of it.

And it's going great.

You said that as an actress you want to make people visible.

What exactly do you want to make visible?