When interviews go wrong...

[bimo]

Watching an interview from the Leipzip book fair where you can see the interviewee (looking uncomfortable and somewhat distanced right from the start) getting increasingly uncooperative with each ensueing question. Not good? Right? Even worse if the interviewer happens to be a professional journalist possessing an academic degree in German

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[diotimah]

Incredible! And quite sad, really. Probably Looks as if she had no genuine interest in the interviewee, hadn't done her homework, and was just making something up.

So, you visited the Leipzig book fair, I take it? Wow! I'd love to check it out sometime myself.:)

[bimo]

So, you visited the Leipzig book fair, I take it?

Oh, no. Just watching some videos taken at the book fair, I'm afraid. Among the interview sessions I watched was also the one with Michael Ballhaus that SelenaK wrote about. It's amazing what you can find on the internet these days. If I had actually been in Leipzig, I would have made sure to pay a surprise visit to Selena ;-)

[diotimah]

Oh, no. Just watching some videos taken at the book fair, I'm afraid. Among the interview sessions I watched was also the one with Michael Ballhaus that SelenaK wrote about. It's amazing what you can find on the internet these days.

Oh, absolutely! I just had a look.:) Would love to travel there in Person sometime, though.:)

If I had actually been in Leipzig, I would have made sure to pay a surprise visit to Selena ;-)

Of course! As it happens, I actually paid her a surprise visit in Bielefeld (of all places ;) ), a few weeks ago. I attended a conference on disability and human rights there, and, when randomly checking out what was on in the evening, came across her reading.:)