Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“It is, as you can imagine, a genuine problem: I would never put up with less. It is a rather complicated problem,…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life,…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“To think of how many times I have carted a lingering drunk out of my house in a wheelbarrow and leaned him…

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer