list of guest musicians. but first spring time in like they can eat certain eastern germany means that bookworms literally come out of the woodwork to leipsic book fair 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 i'm 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 my argument is basically. russia's future is shaped by its past and you might say that about any country but

what i mean specifically about. the seventy four years of to tell a turn is i'm shaped in an entirely different society than what we have seen elsewhere in the world and what we're seeing in russia no or the consequences in a sense the repeat of that society. very lucid and nalla says well the leipzig 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 a literary classic. but a new form of literature is finding an audience among the generation zs. there are known to 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. in the fondest dream is to get these people who are interested in writing to join our world war at least to not lose them i'm she's a. titan. 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. definitely is

a great place for shorter shorter form poetry quote aphorism than epigrams which i really enjoy writing. and sometimes 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 men poured the leipzig 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 come because you can travel to distant 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. 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 kafka tangerine dream has sold over seven million albums regularly tops the charts and fills concert halls and. sonic spaces with the help of an eclectic. and christa firth. has joined me in the studio. thank you for coming in new album. congratulations it was recorded in. the studio the farm and sixteen tracks that you said are the essence of. 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 world with. in order to be able to feel but then again you can't really get rid of the experience you went through in life 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 you've developed in an incredibly in flux type of lifestyle search of those new experiences what do you look for first and foremost on an inspirational journey or are they arbitrarily actually i don't look for anything but for that blank piece of paper so. after 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. for schiller it was the most unusual gig of his career a trip to iran in twenty seventeen. almost 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. and italy two concerts were planned but when tickets sold out in just two hours christopher fun dialin added three extra shows those two sold out a total of twenty thousand tickets. for. the concerts

took place in the very center of power in tehran the great hall in the ministry of the interior. b. . thanh singh 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 fun dial. 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 you 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 to you know show emotions and to somehow. yeah somehow let this music and let the rhythm sink in and. belton energy there obviously i mean in their way maybe they were letting go yes it was very engaging for us on stage and so for the president 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 their tactics songs even but somehow 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 enjoyed berlin .

i am master on this some too of that instrument the instrument that how did you approach a collaboration like this did you know what you wanted ahead of time or did you just let it becomes spontaneous but i was very very grateful that the local for most of us to africa piri to me a lot with setting up this entire recording sessions there were also different person i worked with and so we spent a couple of weeks in trying to put together is get to you and then i went back to iran for a week and we actually created 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 things issue i mean does your own music get lodged in there like an ear worm 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 naive. 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 a fun dialing for bringing us all this back story to your new album and going on tour in may tour in germany with modern stuff and an album of electronic poetry as

you 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 health 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 and island and myself all of us from us here in berlin and just.

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