Jan Klata's play, Transfer, which attempts to be a window into the Word of German and Polish refugees of Word War II has been accused by one of its' participants, 65 year old Guenter Linke, of being biased against Germans. Linke, who up until his recent falling out with the director was a part of the performance, wanted large fragments of the play removed.

"I was sick and tired of hearing about how the Germans were to blame for everything. The stage basically was set up this way - on one side you had the guilty people; that is, the Germans, and on the other side, the innocent people - that is, the Polish. The Christ of nationas. Every day! I couldn't sleep because of it." Klata tells it a bit differently: "Linke wanted to shut everyone around him up and force people to take his view of history. Maybe he should try dealing with his personal tragedy and look truthfully at his fate and the fate of his father, rather than blaming Poland for everything." The director notes that Linke had threatened to boycott the play, which would have put the performance into disarray, unless Klata agreed to the changes Linke was demanding. Matthias Lilienthal, the head of the Hebbel am Ufer, co-producer of the play, terminated Linke's contract. Linke accused Klata of playing censor and turning his play into a propaganda piece. "Klata treated us lik