ways and with a new album take tempest is creating a story. now this book i'ma all belonging in english is an illustrated memoir written by nor a cruel and covers a subject germans have been preoccupied with fall over 70 years the cost of the nazi era what it is to be german today knowing that past generations were responsible for the holocaust you also has traced our own family history and discovered unpleasant truths i'll be talking to just a moment. illustrator north lives in brooklyn new york she left germany 16 years ago but she hasn't fully left her homeland behind it was here that she really began to grapple with the question of what it means to be german that led her to examine her own family's history and capture the stories in her pictures . her investigations focus on the question of guilt and

innocence that was formative for cold sense of home and for her identity as a german the more time she spent abroad the greater her interest grew in finding out what her family had done during the nazi era. for instance he drew swastikas in his school notebook joined the s s and was killed in combat at the age of 18. or her grandfather villi a driving instructor what did he see in 1938 when the synagogue across from his office was set on fire. these and many other episodes are collected in koch's book titled high might in german and in the u.k. belonging in the us edition it's an illustrated diary chronicling years of research that incorporates historical documents momentos photographs and drawings. of the school curriculum in germany teaches pupils about the atrocities committed by the nazis. kook felt that was important but as she worked on her book she

realized what was lacking was a way to move from a purely critical view of german this toward something positive. note our new home in brooklyn is also home to many jewish families should remain sensitive that her being german may be troubling for some around her and sometimes tries to hide her accent. in the past she felt a kind of general guilt for what her grandparents' generation of germans had done. after uncovering her own family's history she hopes her book will encourage others to ask uncomfortable questions to. joins me now thank you for coming. i want to ask you about this inherited guilt as it were i mean a good illustration for anyone who's not job and is when i read you talk about going to a yoga class and there's a a movement that entails going up like a new immediately feel sort of. that it's the hitler salute i mean is that

something for all germans or is that a german living abroad to say a constant for all germans but i think i was the only german in that class and i just couldn't do that movement and i think it's just so deeply embedded in you but of course as a german amongst known germans it sinks in much more in a way much more confronted with your country's past. but why if you were born in the 19th seventies long after the war indeed not the 1st generation after the war why so much responsibility for the past i do think that when you live abroad you notice how much about yourself is actually impacted by your past and you realize that you are a product of the past and of your country's history your concept for it yourself from it and i think that really rang true for me i've been living abroad all in all for 20 years and i think i was often also confront it was negative stereotypes. as

a german abroad and i just realized that i needed to go back into my family history and confronted in a different way than i had been confronting it in school but in your book as well a german tourist says to you it's about time germans feel confident about their country again. is it hasn't germany done enough to memorialize it it has done a lot think it's never enough i mean memorialization all memorializing is always going to be important both of level and on a personal one but that doesn't mean that we have to feel guilty as drummond's i do think though that we need to replace the term guilt with responsibility i think we need to continue to look back at our troubled past and think about especially now that generation who experience the world war 1st hand both on the perpetrator side and the victim side. it's changing to a large degree we have to rethink again how we teach the subject in school and how we think about it. but i i don't think we should feel guilty in fact i think we

should learn to love our country instruments and to demonstrate that love but i do think we need to continue to memorialize your best as an illustrator and memory is highly visual. and indeed the entire book is illustrated could tenuously was that your plan always yes exactly because memory is such a visual thing i think we think in images we also associate more with a lot of images and i just it seemed natural to me not to separate the 2 also i do think that we that images like not that many other mediums can provide direct access to the past it's such a visceral experience when they're off to make some you or have your illustrations and you have real photos real documents yes and i included those. documents that i

phone because they taught me so much about experiencing the pasta what experiencing the past must have been like for the people who held these documents in their hands you know 70 years ago and so i decided to to mix up my own instructions with documents and photographs of the very end of the book you mention about the rise of the far right in germany very briefly i'm afraid are you worried about the future of this country and worried about the future of this world in general because i think it's a movement that's not only pertains to draw me obviously but as a german i'm most concerned about what's happening here and i think it's a movement that has been overlooked for a long time or maybe not wrecked fully recognized and it's it's a reason to this office and i think we need to we need to really think about what we need to do as drums to defend on democracy thank you very much for being with us your book is now in paper paperback it's also called belonging in the u.s. i recommend it to anyone who wants more about the german psyche and i was going to

thank you so much. the jewish franz kafka was one of the major figures of 20th century literature and although he was born in prague in the czech republic he wrote in german now after the legal battle the national library in jerusalem has just unveiled a previously unseen trove of your 1st handwritten manuscript a drawings. 95 years after franz kafka his death it's believed these papers will finally give scholars greater insight into the man behind masterpieces such as the metamorphosis . busy paul the writings by cover that we have now in our custody will be digitized and bill be opened for the public good by. the story spans a century and 2 continents or was a little known author when he died aged 40 in his hometown of prague before he died he gave his papers and unpublished manuscripts to his friend max bode whom he

instructed to burn them. against kafka's wishes published manuscripts which went on to become works of world literature including the trial america and the castle when the nazis invaded prague fled to tel aviv taken kafka's papers with him some donated to public archives others he asked his secretary to donate instead she sold some some were stolen from her and sold on to germany and the rest she left in swiss and israeli safety deposit boxes for her daughters. it took a decade of legal proceedings and rulings from israel's highest court for the national library to reunite the documents ending a saga some have called downright tough cats. for british performance poet kate tempest it's all about the spoken word she's paved a very individual career for herself raging against modern society

a new album the book of traps the lessons continues in that main writing of a bricks it britain but there's also a new found tendon is there as well. as hot. heads. against the. this was. there is nothing we're. going to have best as the star of europe spoken word seems. to be my. fate. these are the faces she's talking about the faces of deptford south london the working class neighborhood to tempest grab and that's because the people here are trying to this is where my life is played out the this

is the 2nd. for some of the most incredible encounter is that have ever happened to my daughter. as a teenager kate tempest dropped out of school to focus on reading shakespeare and listening to music at 16 she entered her 1st poetry slam at a community theater called the which became her support network and 2nd home. these days her powerful songs fill whole concert halls not just in london but in l.a. and paris too. we are clamoring for that if. nothing comes to me the dead in that time in the shadow of streets but i just like still systems to. business is good and there's plans every night and the council for one. well. under stress and some taxes i feel the cost of it pushing my body accomplish my hands into

a standstill think you can see it this is a tempest sings about society's numbness without ever becoming known herself. again and again and again. then. her new album the book of traps and lessons confronts britain's problems with nationalism racism and police brutality is. my friend. take off his wrists. don't beat him in never. he hadn't done a thing but when they came of course he ran huge and they were bruno then he said nothing he bit his new bride and some of her new songs tempest even dares to write of happiness and love solidarity and empathy and feelings she brings her adoring fans saying jane's smile green. for kate tempest it's all about. connection

with herself and the world. definitely an office to watch out for very determined individualistic conformists backgrounds office edition of arts and culture up more all the website of course the t.w. dot com slash culture for myself and all the crew the umbrella and bob barker not. the front.

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