"Tell me what you love, and I’ll tell you who you are!”
Anne-Sophie Mutter answered Marcel Proust's questionnaire with utmost candor.
My most important character attribute
I am an optimist, and idealist.
The quality that I like to see in a man
Intuition, sensitivity, humor, a strong will, energy
The most important quality in a woman
Sensitivity, the strength to enjoy life in all of its facets.
Your friends’ most important qualities
The genuineness of their friendship
My greatest weakness
Impatience (but I seldom show it)
My favorite pastime
Spending time with my children
My dream of happiness
That’s my secret!
What would be the biggest tragedy for me?
To be a bad mother.
What I would like to be
I’m getting there…
The country where I would like to live
Where I live now: Germany and Austria
Favorite color
Red
Favorite flower
Lilly of the valley
Favorite bird
Nightingale
Favorite author
Oscar Wilde, W. Somerset Maugham, Thomas Mann, A. Tschechow, Heinrich Böll
Favorite poet
Rainer Maria Rilke, Homer, Else Lasker-Schüler
Favorite literary hero
Philemon
Favorite literary heroine
Baucis.
Favorite composer
Everyone I play
Favorite painter
Paul Klee, Franz Marc, W. Kandinsky, Gotthard Graubner
My heroes in real life
The Dalai Lama and all champions of human rights.
My historical hero/heroine
Mozart, Gandhi, Mother Theresa.
Favorite name
Arabella, Richard, the names of my children.
What I hate the most
Religious fanaticism
Historical personalities whom I despise most
Hitler, Stalin.
Military deed that I admire most
None.
The reform that I admire most
All of those that have not yet been completed: equality for women, abolition of racial separation, ban on child labor.
Natural talent that I would like to have
To be able to wave a magic wand and have nuclear weapons and powerplants that threaten our planet disappear
How I would like to die
Without noticing a thing
Current spiritual orientation
A life without music is a life in error.
The fault for which I have the greatest tolerance.
Those that arise from deep love, because these are not real faults.
My motto
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.” (William Blake)
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