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Seventeen questions

for Erdoğan Atalay

by Fabian Riedner

Interview published by Quotenmeter.de on April 21, 2010: "17 Fragen an Erdogan Atalay"

Link to original German article è here

The leading actor of "Alarm für Cobra 11" took his time for Quotenmeter.de's questionnaire.

Where were you standing ten years ago ?

On the set of "Cobra 11", but back then still childless.

Where do you see yourself ten years after now ?

Never in my life I have given much thought to the future. I find it already difficult to respond to questions about what is to come within the next weeks, but generally speaking: I would like to have my own story plots adapted for films.

Name an outstanding person of the 20th century ...

Mahatma Gandhi, because he achieved to rescind all class differences and to unify a society for a moment after all.

From what luxury good could you most easily abstain ?

The actual question is how to define luxury goods, because what I can abstain from, I won't have it in the first place and as a matter of principle I don't need those other things at all...

Your favourite reading ?

"Tales Of A Thousand And One Night", Marc Aurel, National Geographic, Geo, Geo Special, Bill Bryson's "A Short History Of Nearly Everything" and of course "Peterson & Findus" and likewise the books of Astrid Lindgren.

Which TV series you consider underestimated ?

By all means "Alarm für Cobra 11".

Where are you most likely to be met in your leisure ?

At home, in the playground, in the cinema, in the swimming baths or in the toy section of a department store.

Tell us about your greatest success ...

When my daughter was born in good health, that was my greatest success.

Which instrument you always wanted to learn to play ?

I would like to know how to play the piano and the guitar and also saxophone and the violin.

What hobby do you practise in your free time ?

I enjoy scuba-diving very much.

What kind of food did your mother prepare in the most perfect manner ?

My mother bakes the best hazelnut gateau in the whole universe as far as we know it.

Which political decision would you like to be able to make ?

Raising the basic Hartz-4 charge set (the benefits people are entitled to receive in Germany after having been unemplyed for more than one year) and all minimum wages.

By which song do you want to get waked up in the morning ?

By none at all.

What bank holiday is the the one you can put to use at least ? Why is that ?

I can put every bank holiday to good use, even though I have to work on the most of them anyway.

Who was your hero when you were a child ?

Batman.

Are you an example ?

That is for others to decide. You can impossibly say that about yourself because you know your weaknesses.

With whom would like to spend a day ?

With my daughter.

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Translation by Joachim Schulz - so many thanks !

Online April 26, 2010