especially for social media. and in our series one hundred german must reads we plunge into. oppressive tale of seemingly random injustice and impenetrable authority the trial. 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 well 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. i know. that's been. chosen for and. and

a regular woman is a true story i know grew up in the berlin district court spoke 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. day easy. for me i know it 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. used 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 their interest in her. but this interest eventually seals her fate. but it's best. to put. his clothes which. is eventually her youngest brother who i know i helped bring up who pulls the trigger. while 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 welcome a harrowing experience i think to say the least watching this that'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 think there's some marvelous acting right across the board in this film but i have to point out main accolades go to. chik playing i know. it's very nuanced performance stories very precisely told beginning with forced marriage attempts to become independent to have influence we see. in talk with us and he's trying to get france and documents. attempts to become independent and how close is this story to the real events of its very accurate indeed very lot of attention is being paid it uses the original locations they shoot on the streets were. lived they used 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. very well in the film even while the story with young's brother eventually killing him. does leaves you feeling incredulous but it did all happen exactly as who tried in this film and that younger brother was in fact convicted right he was convicted he's already served his sentence and has now been deported. now the director sherry horman she also made the film desert flower about the model wars dearie 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. who tempted to go why i paid

a very high price of the press release also quotes the muslim feminist seven access who meant the fact that many could 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 cherie horman is opening in theaters in germany on may ninth you're going to have a good reception i hope it does it will be interesting to see how it is received all right 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. a. good explosion lots of confetti. introducing john hawking erickson visual artist and self-proclaimed destroyer from norway. onslow studio he shoots

a new video almost every day showing him best in the dunes with the apparatus he's built himself. sometimes quickly and painlessly. but other times it takes several tries for it to paul. thank you. but he doesn't restrict himself to bursting balloons. in twenty eighteen he made a popular series of clips showing him smashing uncooked spaghetti with his head. thank you also incorporates things he's not keen on interest on such as a long talks and gym equipment which the self-confessed exercise painter signature but i think of. the like it 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 that's like that like street art or things like i got this means this is the worst ever. the fact that. many artists use social media to raise their profile and find a gallery to sculpt and performance artist young hakan erik's and these platforms themselves are the best exhibition space. has turned his back on the analogue off world even though he's done very well that. film. sort of frustrating for me that you make something on the up five for an exhibition space and then 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 how 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's the kids in a fixed position. send comments come ficken financed and that encourages young hakan erickson 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 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 but could you please just tell me what you choose to. in justice as 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 goes of kate as a loner he does have a lover but no friends on his thirtieth birthday to unknown men 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 kay 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 on our website at www dot com slash culture and on facebook. culture so until next time thanks for watching and choose. to.

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