His sources of inspiration...
An interest in non-European cultures allows him to enlarge his personal horizon and brings him to a closer understanding of our own occidental traditions.
The idioms he collects in different languages help him to understand the mentality and the way of thinking of the different nations in the world.
For Claude Lenners, the game of chess is of fundamental importance. He likes to study the games of great champions and to work out "the best move". For Claude Lenners, composition and chess have points in common: the need for internal logic, the articulation and formulation of an intellectual process in time. Thousands of possibilities are imaginable; the chess player, like the composer, is constantly speculating about his own capacities, a fascinating activity, and a constant challenge to the intelligence...
He is very interested in speculative reflexions of contemporary sociology about the future of humanity. He is also intrested in any intellectual processes involving paradigmas which open up an infinite number of eventualities.