Neugier und Übermut

A ride through the Rocky Mountains with the grandson of Buffalo Bill, a tennis match with Arthur Miller, and a dinner with Bill Clinton - Ulrich Wickert shares stories of special encounters around the globe. "It must have been a Japanese fairy who instilled curiosity and audacity in me," says Ulrich Wickert. Born in Tokyo as the son of a diplomat, the journalist repeatedly met people who intrigued and moved him. For instance, Pujie, the brother of the last Emperor of China, showed him the bicycle routes of the former emperor in the Forbidden City, Bill Cody, the grandson of Buffalo Bill, persuaded him to join a ten-day ride through the Rocky Mountains, he played tennis with Arthur Miller on Dustin Hoffman's court, became the adopted son of Eugène Ionesco, the father of Absurd Theater, and received a peculiar invitation to a private dinner with Bill Clinton, thanks to the help of Ionesco's bodyguards.