and in our series one hundred german must reads we plunge into. oppressive tale of seemingly random injustice and impenetrable authority the trial. well in two thousand and five germany was shocked by the murder of twenty three year old how to shoot a young turkish kurdish woman who had dared to leave a forced marriage and defy her strict muslim family while she was shot point blank in on the street by her youngest brother a so-called on or killing german director sherry harman's new film a regular woman tells the story a new and gives the victim back her voice. has been. chosen for and. and a regular woman is a true story i know grew up in the berlin district of course but but was sent to

marry a cousin in a forced marriage after fleeing the abusive marriage and returning to germany she begins to assert her independence. and they. believe her. for me i know is a kind of joan of arc of the berlin backyard. the because she was brought up in a strict religious family we don't need to say a strict muslim family we can say simply a strict religious family in a home with many siblings and she had the courage to say this cannot be my whole life. against the will of our family she moves out then a family she begins an apprenticeship as an actress and chooses her boyfriends. i know is eventually accepted back into the family circle because of the interest

in her. but this interest eventually see her fight. to fight. to put. on. his holidays which. is eventually her youngest brother who i know i helped bring up who pulls the trigger. well a regular woman just premiered at the tribeca film festival in new york and my colleague adrian kennedy has joined have seen the film adrian welcomed a harrowing experience i think to say the least watching that it's a very i knew. well way of telling the story with i know narrating it from beyond

the grave and that's why it's a very interesting device that proves very effective in the end i think i can say that some of us acting right across the board in this film but i have to point out main accolades go to. chick playing i know she's very nuanced performance stories very precisely told beginning with forced marriage attempts to become independent. in france we see her. in talk with us and he's trying to get her friends and documents. attempts to become independent and how close is this story to the real events of its very accurate indeed very long the tension has been paid it uses the original locations they shoot on the streets were. live they use the location for the

two it's also in suspense with documentary footage so we see the real life i know and that gives you confidence that they have captured essence very well in the film even while the story with young's brother eventually killing how. does it leave you feeling incredulous about it all happened exactly as who tried in this film and that younger brother was in fact convicted destroyed he was convicted he's already served his sentence and has now been deported to turkey now the director sherry horman she also made the film desert flower about the model wars deary so she seems to specialize in these kinds of stories certainly political issues that particularly involve women what do you think her intentions were in making this film i think she wants to present a picture of our you know as a strong woman. tempted to go why you paid

a very high price of the press release also quotes the muslim feminist seven access who meant the fact that many progressives would like to kind of sweep the story under the carpet because they don't want to be seen as anti muslim and they are all too willing to say that the number of killings in germany are insignificant and how what would those numbers be are actually twelve twelve killings in germany every year many on the punishments and thousands of forced marriages so i think the director is right when she says this is parts of our culture it's. in all cities and it's very important that we start talking about this topic certainly a topic that concerns many many cult countries i think estimates range from something like five thousand to twenty thousand women a year killed in all are related crimes worldwide so definitely something our regular woman by sherry horman is opening in theaters in germany on may ninth you

know people have a good perception i hope it does it will be interesting to see how it is received all right well thank you very much adrian kennedy for bringing us the story this time. well nothing is sacred for you. the norwegian artist has a radical approach to creation because in order to create his signature videos he goes about destroying everything from party balloons to simple pasta and even potato chips and his fans love him for it well meanwhile he's got over three hundred thousand followers on instagram but advises them not to try any of his stunts at home. good explosion lots of confetti. introducing young hawking erickson visual artist and self-proclaimed destroyer from norway. in these onslow studios he shoots a new video almost every day showing him besting buildings with the apparatus he's

built himself. sometimes quickly and painlessly. but it's other times it takes several tries for it to pop. thank you. thank. bast he doesn't restrict himself to bursting balloons. in twenty eighteen he made a popular series of clips showing him smashing him cook spaghetti with his head. thank you also incorporates things he's not keen on insists on such as a long talks and gym equipment which the self-confessed exercise hanka sometimes but thank you i don't have like a huge message and i kind of think that arc is enough for itself it's like art for

art's sake is you don't have to have this message in that and i really hate off just like that like street art of things like i got this means this is the worst ever i have the first of. many artists use social media to raise their profile and find a gallery to sculpt and performance artist young hakan erickson these platforms themselves are the best exhibition space. has turned his back on the analog world even though he's done very well that. you know it's. sort of frustrating for me that you make something on the up life for an exhibition space and they have to wait a few months to see if you get an exhibition and maybe like it was a year or two years to get the exhibition to takes too long so much time and i have to wait for too long. as soon as he has an idea he makes it happen.

it's his clips in the studio with a smartphone he kids in a fixed position a. the likes and comments come thick and fast and that encourages young hakan eriksson to continue posting his explosive images on the internet as. well from an artist who's the very definition of decisive to a writer who spent much of his life agonizing over decisions and not following through with things in fact because novels are so shot through with nightmarish uncertainty and bureaucratic oppression that the word kafka esque is often applied to those bizarre and impersonal situations where we feel powerless to control what is happening and the trial is a case in point yes your honor i plead guilty because you please just tell me what

i choose to. injustice is one of the most compelling themes in literature and it takes on an absurdist proportions and franz kafka novel the trial kafka wrote the book which he never completed after breaking off his engagement to a woman named lisa bauer at the time he was feeling a little defensive somebody must have made a false accusation against you as of k. for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. character joseph k. is a loner he does have a lover but no friends on his thirtieth birthday to unknown man come and tell him he's under arrest. for. when he appears for his hearing the court itself is just a strange it's not a real court house like this one but an attic in

a rundown apartment building years of k. believes there's a huge conspiracy against him. there's no doubt that behind all the utterances of this court and therefore behind my arrest and today's examination there stands a great organization and the purpose of this great organ. gentlemen to arrest innocent persons and start proceedings against them which are pointless and mostly as in my case inconclusive. scholars are still debating what the trial is really about is it about kafka's personal life religion politics or could it be foreshadowing of the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. but these are questions the author never wanted us to ask kafka himself didn't want the trial to be published fortunately for us after he died at age forty his friend ignored that wish today the trial is one of the most important novels in literary history.

definitely worth a read as is his famous novella the metamorphosis well that's all for this time but you can find more about those stories and many other things to add on our website at d w dot com slash culture and on facebook. so until next time thanks for watching and cheers.

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