list of guest musicians. but first springtime in leipzig in eats or eastern germany means that bookworms literally come out of the woodwork bookfair is the second largest in germany after frankfurt and one of its big events is the annual leipsic book award for european understanding. awarded on wednesday night to the russian american journalist author and activist mush i guess been a long time and very outspoken critic of russian president vladimir putin and his brand of strongman politics she was awarded the prize for her book the future is history how totalitarianism reclaimed russia which judges have said offers a persuasive lifeline in times when the flames of intolerance are spreading like wildfire here's what she says about her book. is basically. russia's future is shaped by its past and you might say that about any country but

what i mean specifically is that. the seventy four years of to tell it turns them shaped in an entirely different society than what we have seen elsewhere in the world and what we're seeing in russia or the consequences of the repeat of that society. very lucid and nalla says that book fair has also spawned a host of accompanying events including a four day reading festival and the overarching idea is to celebrate books the real physical objects with pages and the relationship between authors and their readers which these days is often cemented in the digital domain. the printed word has existed for nearly six hundred years but the medium is in crisis with the rise of electric media the bookcase may be a thing of the past. the younger generation so-called digital natives don't seem to

have much interest in printed books and in the stodgy style of many literary classics. but a new form of literature is finding an audience among the generations. there are no take instagram poet ruby core she's more than three million followers fans of her short mostly sentimental tax on love loss and loneliness. or advocates the man in the mask or the instagram poet recently signed a deal with german publisher de t.v. the hope is online stars will bring digital natives back to books. when the fun does one thousand our dream is to get these people who are interested in writing to join our world war at least to not lose them i'm choosing to. live. with nearly a million followers atticus has a built in audience his style of poetry pithy inspirational aphorisms is easy to market especially with that mask instagram definitely is

a great place for shorter shorter form poetry quotes in operation than epigrams which i really enjoy writing. and sometimes our longer and then i'll take a little parts of it and put that on insta that. publishers and booksellers are slowly developing strategies to attract younger readers but libraries are way ahead of them since two thousand and six the leipzig city library has meant poured life's a young literature jury these kids have spent a year reading and picked six favorites to present at the book fair so what makes them drop their phones and pick up a book and run from the bed when i haven't heard because you can travel to distant world and so you can see things you wouldn't otherwise see and i'm just feel free. so maybe books do have a future after all. well there was a time in germany when the. one of the nation's most revered men of letters but for twenty nine years or so now the poet has had to compete with simply the pioneering

electronic music project. carrying on in the tradition of innovators like tough to tangerine dream still has sold over seven million albums regularly tops the charts and fills concert halls and he's also an expert at sonic space with the help of an eclectic. and of course a furphy. join me in the studio. thank you for coming in new album out. congratulations it was recorded in. the studio the farm and sixteen tracks that you said are the essence of your experience in recent years how would you say that your music has evolved since the early days back in the late ninety's. i think it's important to somehow maintain your. to somehow. and somehow trying

to look into the with. in order to be able to feel but then again you can't really get rid of the experience you went through a knife and take it all with you yes you somehow soak it up in your your heart and i guess is the result of this kind of the positive of that and the experience that you've developed in an incredibly in flux type of lifestyle always in the search of those new experiences what do you look for first and foremost on an inspirational journey or are they arbitrary actually i don't look for anything but for that blank piece of paper so. every after every two i try to raise my mind to raise my memory basically in order to

start from scratch and to forget everything i learned in order to learn a new ok well one of your most life changing trips was obviously when you went to iran the first time back in december two thousand and seventeen as the first western pop musician to play there in decades and let's see what that looked and sounded like. first schiller it was the most unusual gig of his career a trip to iran in twenty seventeen. promised forty years since the islamic revolution no western pop musician had played there. it was all made possible due to an opening up in the arch conservative country following the election of president hassan rouhani. initially two concerts were planned but when tickets sold out in just two hours christopher phone dial and added three extra shows those two sold a total of twenty thousand tickets. to

concerts took place in the very center of power in tehran the great hall in the ministry of the interior. be. thanked dancing is forbidden for religious reasons but clapping and cheering is not. the applause began before the first note was heard and continued for minutes. it was a new and totally unexpected experience for sundials. thank you. thank you later the german musician described the shows as two hours of goosebumps it was he says proof of the primal power of music thanks to hours of those bombs and yet no dancing allowed how did the crowd even manage to hold back and how was that for you compared to european good you're inviting them to let go yes to be honest i didn't expect that so i

wasn't really sure what to expect but i certainly did not expect this this urge to you know show emotions and to somehow. yeah somehow let this music and let the rhythm sink in and. i felt an energy there obviously i mean in there maybe they were letting go yes it was very engaging for us on stage and so for the for the that just for the next for the next round of concerts we did in two thousand and eighteen i changed the setlist a little bit to include more and had to take songs even if somehow it a little bit daring because i wasn't so sure i didn't want to be the one you know who made the audience cross lines but but then again i could feel a certain stubbornness when it comes to you know moving into you know at least

dancing why sitting down and that somehow was a very interesting experience i can i can imagine why you invited you've been to iran several times since then and you invited the iranian musician pull us out i to play on the new album. let's show this beautiful color cover here and let's take a quick listen to one of the tracks that i personally really really enjoy berlin on .

yes i am master on the sun too of that instrument instrument how did you approach a collaboration like this did you know what you wanted ahead of time or did you just let it becomes wasn't spontaneous but i was very very grateful that the local for most of us to africa peary to me a lot with setting up this entire recording sessions there were also different person asas i worked with and so we spent a couple of weeks in trying to put together it's got to you and then i went back to iran for a week and we actually create at this from scratch basically and. obviously from the beginning it was very interesting because. it's not that everybody really spoke english fluently yet you know speaking the language of music was treaty an amazing experience it is very much universal in a way how does it work in your head as an electronic musician i mean does your own music get lodged in there like an earworm as we call it for days and days and days

or is there space for silence. well silence is very important and i'm not very good in listening music is the to music casually ok so so it's active listening yes it's either listening all being in silence basically and so when it comes to creating my own music most of the time it's better off unexpected occurrences so sometimes i have an idea and i try to pursue that path but eventually i get sidetracked or i realize that it doesn't work out the way i intended to and i try to keep myself open and now you've. and just to see and to follow follow the bread crumbs and to see where they lead me to which most of the time is a very different place than i intended to thank you very much because often dialin for bringing us all this back story to your new album going on tour in may tour in germany with modern stones an album of electronic poetry as you've expressed it

here yourself break a leg on tour and thanks so much for thank you very much for joining us here this evening because of thank you. well that does bring us to the end of the program don't forget to look up online in between shows and in the meantime from sheer luck christopher on the island and myself all of us from us here in berlin and.

enjoy the conflict zone with tim sebastian. my guest this week here in london is larger mills a member of the progress of european the search group which is consistently champaign for a tough deal with brussels last week grow mr mills changed his mode decided to support to resume raise agreements agarkar finally giving up conflict so for thirty minutes. with each passing day of the continuing conflict in syria more and more children fear their future may be fading away. with every classroom damaged or destroyed with every child witnessing the horror of war every family fleeing the violence and

we can't risk losing an entire generation of children to death fear and despair. because they are the future of syria. rooms. are always. symbol of a long come flicked in the philippines. between the muslims. and the christian population. when as fighters occupied the city center in two thousand and seventeen president to churches response was told. by the terrorists will never gain political game. the reconquest turned into tragedy. this is not the reason that this is not the kind of freedom that we want. how did we already become a deep way to islamist terror. as you know the sort of gun under more sitting as

a result of. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. philippines in the sights of bias starts april eleventh on g.w. . this is g.w. news live from berlin cerise i'm a weight's well e.u. leaders argue over a break that delay the british prime minister is in brussels and she hopes that the other twenty seven evil leaders will agree to give the u.k. more time to leave the e.u. several options are on the table we'll go live to brussels and we'll get you the big.