Nena Page #4

- O, who cares.

- Give them my regards.

- Stupid f***.

- Are your parents separated as well?

- Yes. But not far enough.

Thank you.

- Want some?

- Just a tiny bite.

Chew.

Dad?

- Theo, do something.

- Don't panic.

One, two, three.

Are you okay?

Knight to E7.

And?

Uncomplicated.

Stupid, you mean.

Pawn to C6.

No, I mean uncomplicated.

And?

And...

He's going to break your heart.

He can't. You already did that.

Sorry.

Okay.

Pawn to B5.

Oh, no. Bishop, bishop.

To touch is to move.

- Check.

- Yes.

One... Two... Three.

Are you alright?

Hi, professor. Nice wheels.

Hey, Carlos. What are your ambitions,

apart from a new colour for your hair?

- Electrical engineering.

- I say.

Ormaybe installation technology.

- Where does that get you?

- You can go into plumbing.

Orboth. Like my granddad.

He was a plumber and an electrician.

- Are you alright?

- Everything under control.

- It's slowing down.

- No, it's not.

Yes, it is.

Cramp.

Break it, why don't you.

I think it's out of juice.

What now?

You push.

See. It works.

There, in the desert,

in the middle of the night...

after exactly 40 days,

I met my Maker.

Back in Germany, I...

Back in Germany, I quit my job

to follow my calling.

- Berufung?

- Calling.

Right.

That's great. A calling.

Yes. Wonderful.

He bought it, you know.

From the municipal council.

For one German mark.

- But what...

- He plays at being a vicar.

In a highly decorated Reformed church.

Does he get people in on Sundays?

What?

Was that a stupid question?

I think that the extraordinaty success

of the novel...

is a result of Goethe's authentic writing.

The fact that he worked

his own experiences into the stoty.

Except that he failed to take

the final step of committing suicide.

Authentic is not necessarily

autobiographic.

Here, suicide

appears to be much more...

the embodiment of the fundamental

right to freedom...

that no authority can take away

from people.

- O brigkeit?

- Authority.

He wrote it in the space of one month.

A person who's had more than his share

of suffering...

is capable of unbelievable feats.

And in Dutch?

At meal times, we converse in German.

You do.

What was that?

You converse in German.

She doesn't.

And why?

One needs to know foreign languages

to know about one's own.

- Says who?

- Goethe.

- Goethe?

- Yes.

I thought you made it up yourself.

Goethe? What was it that he sang?

Isn't that Goethe?

...his proposal to the refugees

to return to the GDR...

to be allowed to leave over the next

few months, was received sceptically.

While yesterday over 150 GDR

citizens left the German embassy...

today their number

totalled no more than 50.

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