A Passion for German

By Geert Lovink, June 22, 2006 at 3:12 pm.

Today I did a second interview with Krystian Woznicki from the website and email newsletter Berliner Gazette, this time about my passion for the German language, the global position of German and my serial residencies in Berlin. Needless to say the text is in German. The way the Berliner Gazette works is that it sends you questions, then takes them out once you have answered and slightly edits the text so that it becomes one piece.

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