of norway's young innocent who is making a name for himself with destructive performances done 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 . 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 court spoke but was sent to turkey to marry a cousin in a forced marriage after fleeing the abusive marriage and returning to germany she begins to assert independence. day easy. for me i know it's 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 this comes. against the will of our family she moves out and

if 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 most of us could put. in a touch. it is eventually her youngest brother who i know i helped bring up who pulls the trigger . 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 unused. 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 some marvelous acting right across the board in this film but i have to point out main accolades go to. schick playing i know. it's very nuanced performance stories very precisely told beginning with forced marriage attempts to become independent to have france 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 long the tension has been 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 that gives you confidence that they have captured essence very well in the film even while the story with young's brother vinci killing how. does it leave 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 he's now being 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. who attempted to go her own way but paid a very high price of the press release also quotes the. feminist seven s. 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 well there 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 our cities and it's very important that we start talking about this topic certainly a topic that concerns many many 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 know it'll have a good reception i hope it does and 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 all 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 john hawking ericsson visual artist and self-proclaimed

destroyer from norway. onslow studio he shoots a new video almost every day showing him besting balloons 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 but he doesn't restrict himself to bursting balloons. in twenty eighteen he made a popular series of clips showing him smashing on the cook 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 hanka signature meant thank you i don't

have like a huge message and i kind of think that there 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 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 hoppin erickson 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. you know it's. 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

a year or two years to get the exhibition and takes too much time and i have to wait for too long. as soon as he has an idea he makes it happen. he shoots his clips in the studio with a smartphone he secures and if explicit should. send comments come think and fast and that encourages young hawk on ericsson to continue posting his explosive images on the internet. from an artist who is 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 but could you please just tell me what tuesday. justice is one of the most compelling themes in literature and it takes on an absurdist proportions in france 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. in character joseph case 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 the use 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 organization gentleman 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 isn't 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 at d w culture so until next time thanks for watching and she just. the.

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