http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1731.html
Frankfurter Rundschau 17.07.2008 Romanian-German writer Herta Müller writes an open letter to the head of the Romanian Cultural Institute, Horia Patapievici, protesting about his invitation to two former Securitate members to participate in the Berlin Summer Academy. "The ICR will do irreparable damage to its reputation by presenting itself in Berlin with these people, and German participants will be used to boost the image of informers. How will ICR employees introduce the Romanian participants to the other Summer Academy guests: Andrei Corbea-Hoisie professor and long-time Securitate agent, and Sorin Antohi who for years was a guest lecturer at European universities with his fake PhD and his fictitious publications and who had been an informer since the age of 19? And what will they tell the German press? Or more to the point: what won't they tell them?" Der Tagesspiegel 17.07.2008 Writer Richard Wagner is similarly critical about the invitation of the two former Securitate members and writes: At the Summer Academy the talk will be of "cultural exchange, of the influences, and not least the research methods. As if nothing had happened. Or at least as if it was irrelevant. But it is not irrelevant, either Germany or Romania. No sooner have people started to confront the past than they fall back into collective amnesia. But if removing camouflage is nothing but an obligatory exercise with no consequences, then people like Antohi and Corbea-Hoisie have it good. But without binding values, democracy is worthless."
