diff --git a/wortschlucker/templates/nodes/brainstorming.html b/wortschlucker/templates/nodes/brainstorming.html
index 5fdc3a8..45f12dd 100644
--- a/wortschlucker/templates/nodes/brainstorming.html
+++ b/wortschlucker/templates/nodes/brainstorming.html
@@ -5,17 +5,19 @@
       xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/">
     <xi:include href="../layout.html" />
 
-	<?python
-	
-	#text can be creole-encoded, see http://www.wikicreole.org/imageServlet?page=CheatSheet%2Fcreole_cheat_sheet.png&width=340
-	title = "Brainstorming Online"
-	content01 = unicode("""
+    <?python
+    from creoleparser import text2html
+    
+    #text can be creole-encoded, see http://www.wikicreole.org/imageServlet?page=CheatSheet%2Fcreole_cheat_sheet.png&width=340
+    title = "Brainstorming Online"
+    # creoleparser seems to require "utf-8" encoded strings - unicode does not work (this seems to be a bug)
+    content01 = """
          dieser mehrzeilige Text ist HTML-escaped und kann Umlaute enthalten.
-         Falls er <Umlaute> **enthaelt**, dann muss die Datei utf8-codiert sein und der Text
+         Falls er <Umlaute> **enthält**, dann muss die Datei utf8-codiert sein und der Text
          muss in unicode verwandelt werden (unicode(foo)).
-         """)
-	from creoleparser import text2html
-	?>
+         """.encode("utf-8")
+    content01 = text2html(content01, encoding=None)
+    ?>
 
 
     <head>
@@ -23,12 +25,12 @@
     </head>
     <body>
         <h1>${title}</h1>
-	<div class="post">
-	
-	${Markup(text2html(content01))}
-	</div>
-	${poll_new_small()}
-	
+    <div class="post">
+    
+    ${Markup(content01)}
+    </div>
+    ${poll_new_small()}
+    
     </body>
 </html>
 
