eries me the germans rachel is going to tell us all about small talk just this. if you know what i mean then small talk is easy really. we begin with the go to medal which is an annual award given by germany's international cultural organization the institute there are 3 prizes and they often own germans who have contributed to the cultural landscape of fish country always awarded on his birthday august the 28th environment and i'll be talking about this year's winners with my colleague melissa holroyd but 1st this report about one of them a turkish writer though i. finally. got the train arrives at the garden train station i'm already over the age of 40 hard still excited i know from the footnote in our history books. was murdered in cold blood by an armenian on a burning street on march 15th 1921. born writer joanna can

listen historical and literary detective persecuted storyteller who moves between banks and fiction between languages and countries a camel is novels deal with historical violence state oppression and memory 4 of them have been translated into german the most recent one madonna's last dream is a literary search for traces from the nazi era. i started writing in germany. my wife my child and i were all tortured in turkey and we came here as damaged people. writing is my weapon. the only thing i can do. through writing i raise my voice against injustice. it's my instrument of resistance. they didn't. ready ready come i was. on in

1957 in our team in north eastern turkey as a member of the outlawed revolutionary communist party of turkey he was imprisoned several times in 1992 he received political asylum in germany although he's no longer a turkish citizen he's repeatedly targeted by the turkish state upon entering turkey and 2010 a candidate was arrested and detained for several months for his alleged role in a robbery in 1998 he was eventually acquitted due to lack of evidence in 2017 the long arm of the turkish state reached all the way to spain a country was on holiday at the time and at the request of turkey the spanish police arrested the writer in his hotel room in an autobiographical short story a calmly tells of his experiences with prison torture and psychological terror is in the clear but there are big issues especially after the failed coup attempt rights violations and the suppression of freedom of expression have increased enormously.

the. when it's had the biggest effect this is on writers and journalists. it's in the forest that you're here in the end it's turkey to lose it give it. a new force so many intellectuals to leave the country will end up at a dead end. job on a candle is an exiled writer whose work plays out between germany and turkey through his commitment to civil society and his writing he has called for the genocides of the 20th century against the armenians and the jews to be examined repeatedly. to says dealing with the past is the only way to prevent it from repeating itself. the whole roy colleague is here to tell us more melissa as we've seen dawn writing a straight lot of tension between berlin and ankara but in. he's getting

a prize for cultural understanding doesn't seem to add up yeah certainly. his arrest that did come as a result of his work and his and his writings did cause a strain in tensions between germany and ankara particularly his arrest inspiring. you can see him here getting his medal but these other writings that we heard about in the piece to do with the armenian genocide and also the holocaust also do contribute to cultural understanding and take a stand a very strong stand against discrimination and violence speaking and writing the truth even if they are uncomfortable truths still helps in addition to his writing a country is also involved in plenty of work that encourages dialogue between different cultural groups so in 2002 he started giving turkish german guided to is in a form of gestapo prison in cologne is also spoken to groups of turkish young people about the persecution of jews and the national socialism and is lectured on anti

semitism in the immigrant society and he started his rising after going into political exile yeah that's right most of his work yeah that's right he says that he says that being in exile in germany actually gave him the head space and time to produce most of his work to write and get through his own experiences he writes from his own experiences a lot of the time even something as unimaginable and awful as being tortured got him interested in violence and that by the state and ultimately led him to write judges of the last judgment about the armenian genocide what about the other 2 winners who are ok so there's mongolian nc rose on he worked for several years as a photographer but today he's a publisher and a bookseller and a political journalist through his articles and interviews rosen campaigns for the modernization of the mongolian education system and for freedom of expression there . finally someone who lives in exile like don't want to come and this is the the

asas sure international yes she's in rainy and boring woman who is of she's a visual artist who lives in new york city she's been banned from even visiting iran for the past decades her work often has a melancholic feel and she says that this she said in an interview that this is partly due to the fact that she is separated from her home country she works with film video and photography her artwork is highly stylized and minimal it centers on the contrasts between islam and the west the lives of muslim women and dictatorial regimes public life and private life work also looks authentic witty and modernity and the borders between the say these subjects and how they affect each other how they bang up against each other she says herself that she doesn't want to make political obs bought over the years her work always seems to return to the political. she's better known internationally and the other 2 and she's actually won lots of big awards isn't as well as the go to medical that's right she's won

loads of big awards in 1990 was awarded the venice biennale is golden lion for her film turbulent she's also women of color from the 1990 s. was one of her 1st big works that was very well received and is still shown around the world here we see impressive large format black and white portraits of muslim women neshek contrasts femininity violence and poetry some of the women there we saw wearing the should or others have firearms and their their hands and faces are all inscribed with persian calligraphy 50 mm of this year's go to medal by the way is poetry in truth and i think she really hits the mark ok melissa thank you very much tony is right there she is recipients of the go to medal. now we come to meet the germans were very investigates the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the locals and today she's looking at something that is very prevalent in the english language

but not in. small talk yes there is a kind of small talk adjustment but it's peppered with sometimes so is it really just small talk to explain the noises of what are joking about his rachael with well with more details. yet you know i'm saying it is. great. the germans don't even have the right word for it a german english dictionary describes it as a. superficial conversation out. germans do get very public when english speakers greet them in the street with how's it going and then walk on by without actually expecting all of them but that doesn't mean the germans don't have their own version of the key difference is that when germans engage in chit chat they want facts they want numbers they want statistics so you arrive somewhere by car else where people might casually it was i don't

really care about the answer. but a german won't let you get away that's easily but ask how long the drive took and how many roadworks you came across that ask you which route you took and expected to answer with names and even motorway accidents. if your journey was long enough they might even wipe out one of their favorite questions how much did it cost to fill up your time it's just a thing when germans return from holiday they'll be eager to tell you about 3 things the beaches the fair prices. you should always do some basic research before entering a social situation in germany. people have to talk about news and politics but you should also have the numbers of. common inhabitants of your home town out. to where you live your german conversation on the measurements as in how big is your apartment in square meter the best place to be ready but the average price per square meter of living space in your area of the city. let's see how good the

germans are in german small. i just might try just. trying to get the mental. groups to try to. meet people. hundreds has come of this sort of response into 2 months and you'd move. up to the search because when i spotted it was. tough even if i did you would call. him. as a draft. and one other very important topic that you have to muster in order to smalltalk in germany as a brit i thought i had this topic down but it turns out the germans can give us a run for our money i'm talking about. specifically complaining about the weather

it's too hot too cold too wet to snowy it's too. weather is the word for susceptibility to the weather is better. and the germans will blame the changing weather for all sorts of ailments and a final tip to german small talk practice draft. whatever context be in a proxy or in the office germans absolutely love to talk about drafts and the various stages of entering the room a classic scene one german walks into the room and says here's the stick is it sticky and here they decide it's time to. get the room and. then someone else will invariably walk in and say oh this seat means there's a draft skull pointed me around the neck grumble about getting ill and close the window. german windows even have a special air and position. the hinge technology must be really strong to cope with the constant opening and closing so you see german small talk is easy really drop

the niceties know your numbers and have a strong opinion as a kid nation see you next time i'll feed us in. the ole i facades of meat germs can be found on our website at d. w. dot com slash culture as are all sorts of stories all the arts and cultural things are around the world but that's all for this edition thanks for watching and join us at the same time tomorrow if you can't for myself and all the crew here in berlin and.

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