with our series one hundred german must reads this time with a disturbing powerful novel by austrian author and. and a feast for the taste buds for the eyes and ears a musical dinner in france is the latest in general bending performance ours. well as a leading figure of the guard in russia kiffin said of a break up has made his name directing plays and films that challenge the status quo he's critical of everything social norms the church and of course the kremlin but i made a lot of enemies and in two thousand and seventeen he was put under house arrest supporters said it was an attempt to gag a critical voice that said it but any cover continued to work against all odds. rendition of ferdy's classic new book which premiered in hamburg this past march it

was directed by karylle setterberg he called from a distance using human speech sticks to exchange information a slave course laments their lost home but in this update the original hebrew slaves have been replaced by actual refugees from syria and afghanistan the director puts the refugee center stage in an operation called for freedom. is considered an own form to rebuild among russian directors his work is too great just political and is always good for a headline. his radical productions and remakes of classics some conservatives. the. twenty twelve he was appointed director of the state funded local center which he turned into one must face the voters.

was the director's working reputation extends well beyond brushes borders set of running is known for his modern make lives of classic productions like the hilarious barber of seville at the school i'm sure open twenty sixteen. was the time and as a film director his latest film little summer tells the story of two soviet rock stars in the one nine hundred seventy s. but things took a turn for the worse when an opus twenty seventeen karylle center brownie called was taken into custody of accusations that he had been involved in embezzling state funding for the charges he denies. and i'm delighted to welcome thomas also my are here to the studio a well known director here in berlin currently working at the shop in the theater and of course a friend since many years of kenya's set up but on the cover is there also have thanks so much for coming in how surprised were you when you heard the news of his

release today it was very sobrante surprising to me because i was reckoning that will get worse and anyway it's not the end of the story it's all there will be still the trial so we don't know there's still a lot going on he's he's just been allowed out of that very tight situation and you've worked with him many times in the past you started the petition calling for his release back in two thousand and seventeen tell us a bit more about that and about him. as a person well last time i met him and in moscow i asked him how things are going and you told me well the question is if i already missed the last train to leave russia though he knew that he was threatened he knew that his work was challenging a political sorties and he was aware that might be a danger off of the legal. something going on against him. yeah

now it was five hundred forty nine days that he was on the house arrest and i don't most fun years almost two years and i'm really looking forward to for my first telephone conversations and to hear how everything's going but he signed today at the court that he's not allowed to leave russia so distil. some threat a lot and a lot of restriction obviously on his movement now his movements but but above all his communications were extremely limited for that for very nearly two years no internet no e-mail no telephone and yet he's been so very productive as we as we saw in the report there how did he do this and we really yeah i was surprised how he achieved to do this but he has a good team around him in you as an elaborate faithful and he looks at the videos of the ricos loops and then gets a device gives notes on what he saw and he prepares like this the next rehearsal

and this is how we did i think it was reproduction unbelievable an opera in hamburg at the state at the hamburg offer that just opened that is the book which we saw in the thing that just premiered last one. the film need to will also just want to prestigious award in russia just last week i believe the need award. what's your feeling on the whole thing just respect of the court actually might be influenced by all the attention no not at all because he had a lot of attention even before he got a lot of prizes before he was already a highly decorated artist it was in russia really on going all of the test it was just continuing all maybe some of the wards he was given to woo to support his case and to defend him against assad tease so i don't think that there is any connection i i would guess that they were aware that. everything they had they

tried to bring up against him was ridiculous and for example they said that he never did use the money for the midsummer night's dream production and they were not aware that this production even went abroad and went to a festival so i would say provable that he was actually provable that he yeah i would say that they kind of became aware it's. there's nothing against him ok well kitty has said it but i think of a pusher of boundaries who is going back to work very soon we hope at that most girls go theater we will definitely not a bald now but in russia in russia i keep our eye on that story thanks very much from one of the lens resident pusher of boundaries to less thank you for having me thanks so much for coming in q. well she was one of the signatories on that petition fourteen instead of any cause for release nobel prize winning author and feeding yelling neck of all street she's best known for her for roche's exploration

of things like gender oppression and female sexuality and many autobiographical details flowed into her nine hundred eighty three novel the piano teacher the first of her novels by the way to be translated into english and certainly not for the faint of heart. sex. what happens when we don't get any or when we don't get the right kind. freud said sexual repression is at the root of most human problems well you know free to delhi next book the piano teacher there are a lot of problems piano teacher erica is in her late thirty's but she still shares a bed with her controlling mother erica's only private life is cutting herself spying on strangers having sex and frequenting peep shows then she meets

a charismatic twenty five year old student named by. erica would trade anything for her last use and climber would like to trade his youth for experience the young face of a young man simmer softly under street lights and illuminated store windows next to him the pianist shrivels a piece of paper burning and a stove of lust. erica tries to pull him into her masochistic fantasies but it turns out he plays the role of sadist much too well. nobel prize winner and the next novel is graphic brutal and disturbing and he won't be able to put it down. when top chefs work their color marry magic it can get pretty loud but that usually

doesn't really matter because the guests don't hear what's going on in the kitchen anyway when it comes to the dinner that we are about to experience it's quite different because in this case all the cooking noises come together to form a kind of a color narry symphony. shaft taking a relaxed approach to his work. he's not distracted by the drama. of earth three musicians. that's because in this show in the french city over. the chef is also making music with his kitchen utensils. through the summer is my feel more like a chef from a stump but i'm also a musician there's actually i'm both simple to do.

the creative force behind the musical dinner concept is the sux oftenest the project was inspired by her own life experience. i grew up in restaurants it was owned by my grandparents i always found the restaurant noise fascinating so the daughter wants to make people more aware of the connections among the senses hearing taste and smell and kate a kind of edible music chef cooks while the musicians perform. rowdiest to authority propose most of the food for the one hundred guests attending the show of the main course is a fish shoe

a popular dish in southern france it's made with octopus leaks onions and potatoes even as he's preparing the food the chef gets into the rhythm of the show i. don't pick the moment. i always hear a kind of music when i'm working in the kitchen everything you touch whether it's the dishes or a pot on the stone. it makes a certain kind of musical sound. when i'm making french fries for example because of the noise reminds me of a prove it through a movie troupe and said the. time now for the second part of the show. which has its own. sound. the musicians now double as waiters and provide the gas. and drink. just

about every show is sold out it's an evening that sounds as good as it tastes. a feast for all the senses indeed heart time is up but you can find more on those stories on our website at www dot com slash culture in the meantime all the best from us until next time and for now.

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