“Lohengrin” – again with Matthias Engelmann and for the first time in Lviv, Ukraine. The theatre is magnificent, the city a charm and the head of the house a doer, hard-drinking and eloquent. I had him to thank for the fact that the stage finally saw the light of day as you see it in the photos. A crusher for the arts, who in the exuberance of feelings sometimes makes a finely twisted doctor from Hamburg a German ambassador and asks for financial support for his theatre. Each toast, a “Hura, hura, hura,” and then the vodka knocked back – with more than twenty sayings a drunken premiere evening.