%0 Journal Article %T On a question of Koll¨¢r %A Joerg Winkelmann %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We show: If a bounded domain in a Stein space covers a compact complex space, it must be smooth. This give a negative answer to a question of Koll\'ar. Furthermore, we deduce some related results. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1044v2