Interviewed by
Cornelius Pollmer
Evening dawns in the inner courtyard of Friedenstein Castle in Gotha. Deniz Yücel, who resigned as PEN President the day before, has just taken part in a PEN panel discussion and abused his pre-pre-predecessor Johano Strasser using all the rules of rhetoric. A last incident shortly before the interview. Another PEN member secretly photographs Yücel from the edge, Yücel runs over to the counterattack – liquid splashes on bib, glass shatters on floor, hand broom is used in a flash. Are we ready then?