FRANKFURT, Germany—2009 Nobel Laureate Herta Müller caused an explosion of flash bulbs as she made her way to The Epoch Times booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week.
The shy author demonstrated a dignified demeanor during the media blitz as she greeted Chinese dissident author Bei Ling now living in the US, Zhong Weiguang, residing in Germany, and Editor-in-Chief of Epoch Times-Europe Lea Zhou.
“I am happy to be able to somehow support them in one way or another. If I could use the [Nobel] prize to somehow offer them sanctuary…I know, all dictatorships are alike in their dealings with human beings. Individuality is immaterial; no individual is permitted his or her own say.”
Müller, raised in Romania under the Ceausescu regime, knows what she is talking about. She refused to work for the Securitate, Romania’s secret police, and thus lost her job in 1979. To this day, she warns and exposes incidents of the Securitate.
“I always emphasize how fortunate I was to have survived living under a dictatorship,” she said. Müller indicated her conviction that the Chinese dictatorship can fall, adding, “It is lamentable if a human life has to perish before this happens. I have many friends who could not witness the toppling of the Ceausescu regime.”
