The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

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What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially when they use their drive, determination and talents to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse behind the proverbial curtain of creative people's minds. Each guest answers the same 35 questions that were first popularized as a parlor game by French novelist Marcel Proust about a hundred years ago. But these questions are timeless, and you’ll quickly find yourself thinking with our guests, rather than about their answers. Be moved, entertained, and inspired to do good yourself when you listen to our guests tell us what they love, fear, and hope for in these oral portraits of great minds.

June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality t…

July 1, 2023

Proust Questionnaire 38

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

Hosted by Uli Baer

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Ricardo Alberto Maldonado is a poet residing in New York City who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His first collection of poems, The Life Assignme…

October 24, 2022

Proust Questionnaire 37

Zandra Rhode

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Dame Zandra Rhodes is an English fashion and textile designer who has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities such as …

December 30, 2021

The Proust Questionnaire 36

Haaz Sleiman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان) is a Lebanese actor who has appeared as Tarek in Tom McCarthy’s 2007 award-winning film The Visitor, for which he was nomina…

July 8, 2021

Proust Questionnaire 35

Calvin Sun

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

The Proust Questionnaire hosts individuals who make a difference in various ways. Meet Calvin D. Sun, M.D., an emergency room physician who's worked a…

March 12, 2021

Proust Questionnaire 34

Kasi Lemmons

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actress and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 19…

January 28, 2021

Proust Questionnaire 33

Cécile David-Weill

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Cécile David-Weill is a French American author who is born and based in New York. She published her first novel Crush (Grove Press, 1997) under the na…

December 30, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 32

Daniel Kehlmann

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated in…

December 11, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 31

Maurice Samuels

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Maurice Samuels is the author of several books: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France; Inventing the Israel…

November 25, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 30

Ori Gersht

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Exploding flower arrangements, meticulously staged scenes of beautiful destruction, haunted landscapes, still lives brought to their sublime end as if…

November 18, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 29

Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Today's we're speaking to a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, …

November 2, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 28

Samantha Boardman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Samantha Boardman, MD, is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical College…

October 23, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 27

Alice Wu

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Alice Wu's debut feature, Saving Face, is a three-generation romantic comedy set in today's Chinatown in Queens, New York. Wu won the Visionary Award …

October 22, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 26

Miranda Penn Turin

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She wa…

September 18, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 25

Jeremy Harris

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Jeremy O. Harris is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting …

August 31, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 24

Christine Coulson

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

What happens in museum when the crowds have gone? Christine Coulson's exquisite book, Metropolitan Stories, imagines the inner lives of the artworks …

August 21, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 23

Sameh Zoabi

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Sameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap …

August 18, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 22

Miriam Bridenne

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Miriam Bridenne is the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, the French bookstore housed in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City…

August 14, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 21

Hugh Evans

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian, co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, a Global Poverty Project. At 14, Evans spent t…

August 11, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 20

Maira Kalman

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira ha…