see if you go 4 months i'll just. play right all for all of these and with a new album take tempest is creating a story. now this book i'ma soul belonging in english is an illustrated memoir written by nor a crook and covers a subject germans have been preoccupied with full over 70 years the da past 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 in 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. col 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 the 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 mountain german and in the u.k. belonging in the us edition it's an illustrated diary chronicling years of research that incorporates historical documents the mentos. photographs and drawings.

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. know how kook's new home in brooklyn is also home to many jewish families to 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 been is when i read you talk about going

to a yoga class and there's a a movement that entails going up like that and you immediately feel sort of. that it's the hitler salute i mean is that something for old germans or is that a german living abroad. i can't speak 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 in that if you were born in the 1970s the war indeed not the 1st generation of 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 yukon's. print 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 confronted with 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 has germany dumb 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 tunney feel guilty as drummond's i do think though that we need to replace the term goal 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 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 are that images like not that many other mediums can provide direct access to the past it's such a. so experience when they're off to make some they you you have you'll get

a stray sions and you have real foes as real doctrines 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 on you know 70 years ago and so i decided to to mix up my own illustrations with documents and photographs at 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 tains to drama 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 to more about the german psyche and things and i 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 done belt previously unseen trove of you'll firsthand written manuscripts 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 the writings by cover that we have now in our custody will be digitized and bill be open for the public good by. the story spans a century and 2 continents go 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 mark. whom he instructed to burn them. against kafka's wishes board published the manuscripts which went on to become works of world literature the trial america and the castle when the nazis invaded prague fled to tel aviv taking 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 kafka ask. 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 the main writing of a bricks it britain but there's also a new found tendon us there as well. heads . against the. this was written. there is nothing we're. going tempest is the star of europe spoken word scene there is lots to be my. face. these are the faces she's talking about the faces of

deptford south london the working class neighborhood she tempest grew up in the she calls the people here who try to this is where my life is played out the this is the set. for some of the most incredible encounter is that have ever happened to my daughter. as a teenager kid 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 albany which became her support network and 2nd home . these days her powerful songs fill whole concert halls not just in wonder but in l.a. and paris to. is no. longer than we are going to be for that if. nothing comes to me the dead in the days in the sky the streets but it still mean if systems to work in business is good and

has plans of the night and the council has to for one. well. understand why some excess i feel the cost of it pushing my body accomplish much and since ok so i'm still thinking how can i see if 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 and so forth. my friend. they cuffed his wrists. they beat him in never. he hadn't done a thing but when they came of course he ran humid and they were bruno then he said nothing he bit his new guys 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 james smile green. for kate tempest it's all about. connection with herself and the work. definitely an artist to watch out for a very determined individualistic 4th bareilles office edition of awesome culture up more all the websites of course it did up to dot com slash culture for myself and all the crew here in berlin.

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