My itinerary to Marcel Iancu

Mein Drehbuch trägt den Untertitel Ein Requiem. Denn ich wollte zwar mit meinem Film den großen Marcel Iancu porträtieren – aber auch das kollektive Vergessen beklagen, dem nicht nur er, sondern das moderne Bukarest insgesamt anheimgefallen ist.

The itinerary which took me to Marcel Iancu was quite lengthy! It started back in 1998, during my second staying in Bucharest (the first time I spent there a few days was in 1993, as a guest of the Romanian Union of Writers).
This time I was hosted by my friend (and later wife), Cristina, and her parents, in the former Uranus neighbourhood, not far from the People’s House. During the many strolls I took in Bucharest in the weeks to come, I started to “read” the city: historically, politically, literary, aesthetically. Yet I lacked knowledge on the history of architecture and soon realised that, in its absence, my “reading” of the city was limited.
It so happens that I ended up in a family of architects, my father-in-law