leipzig commemorates a major protest march that was a turning point which led to the fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago. but we begin with the 2 winners of the nobel prize for literature one for 2018 and $1.00 for this year as well this is because it wasn't awarded last year due to a scandal within the rather secretive nobel prize committee so the committee has promised to be more open in the future and also less eurocentric however both winners this year are from europe the polish author or go to a car took for 2018 and this is one of the austrian author paid to handcuff. born in 1942 austrian writer pay to hunt has been a perennial favorite for the nobel prize the swedish academy with typical literary flora credit him with creating an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity

has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience among his best known novels is the goldies anxiety at the penalty kick from 1970 which was turned to a film by german director venders hunt go with vendors also co-wrote the script to german film classic wings of desire. but hunka is a controversial choice he supported serbia during the yugoslav war and even spoke at the funeral of former serb leader slobodan milosevic a man accused of genocide. the winner of the $28.00 team nobel prize for literature is polish author olga. her best known work is primeval and other times from 1906 the story 80 years in the fictional town of primeval exemplifies the qualities the jury

praised in the 57 year old author powerful imagination a literary style full of wit and cunning and her focus on themes of migration and cultural transitions. before becoming a writer worked as a therapist for challenge the. polish director of the holland adapted to car trips novel the literature nobel prize was not awarded last year due to a series of scandals involving this man john clode. the husband of one of the swedish academy members are know was accused of sexual assault and is currently serving a 2 year prison sentence for rape he was also accused of misuse of academy funds and of using his insider knowledge to bet on for the prize winners.

and joining me now. to talk about that a minute let's talk about the winners for what do you think of these 2 women's yeah it's interesting i mean you mentioned they are both europeans but i think you have hardly picked 2 more different writers i mean. chuck she's fairly young for a nobel prize winner she's just $57.00 which is quite young to win this type of award and she's quite she's also quite a bit of an activist she's she's known for being quite wild are known for her black dreadlocks and being an environmentalist and and her style as well is quite wild as sort of cosmopolis politan it's it's about characters switching between languages and cultures and she's very very political i mean she's a very sharp critic of poland's right wing government and even today she was today's announcement of the nobel prize to make a political point she said that the prize shows that despite problems with the mocker see in poland we still have something to say and is quite

a different kettle of fish yeah i know peter i'm very very much so he's only maybe to call one of the last grand old men of european literature i mean if it is more wild in her style is very buttoned down i mean his style he's known for these sort of alter objective pared down descriptions of characters even the characters themselves are sometimes kind of wild but very much a a restrained style. and i believe he had something to say though that. he said something a few years ago yes yes of course he kind of funnily years back he said that the nobel prize itself should be abolished didn't see the point of it probably feels a little bit different i was going to feel different did he have spoken to the press let's see what he had to say today about rights for the. one no it's not it's not the real. you know when i know i they they chose my work but not

to my nature is not the nature of a marina but all or as they say he won the nobel prize i did i don't like this this this expression which is the reading of a dense user you know it's a kind of strange kind of freedom i don't know. doma. if. you fly rule which is not the truth and you know. ok now how high respect is a right and we heard a bit about it in the report highly controversial for other reasons you know it's interesting again i say these 2 writers are very very different i mean if the culture is more an anti nationalist because gotten in trouble for being a pro nationalist particularly approach serbian i mean he spoke at the funeral of the last which the controversial serbian leader and former dictator of yugoslavia and he's been seen by many as being an apologist for for serbia nationalism so not

really the safe choice for the nobel not really the the p.c. choice and now off to the scandal. promised big changes how do you think they're doing yeah it was interesting because last year series of scandals they said they have they postponed suspended the prize last year because they said we've lost the confidence of the public we have to get it restored and they promised not only to make internal changes but also to make the prize more diverse to take it away from its sort of traditional male centered and euro centric approach but here they've given 2 prizes to european writers and one to one who's probably the most mail in euro centric writer you could you could think of so i think there's still a lot of work to be done done there but we'll have to see maybe maybe they will make changes maybe this is just the beginning but so far i think it's a work in progress now i do know that you're all of a favor does a canadian near 100 paying for. margaret atwood yeah yeah i mean she was often

the fan favorite i'd suggest that would obviously canadian writer huge bestseller also in the news of course because she just brought out the testaments her sequel to her famous handmaid's tale book i think she was the fan favorite. maybe she was a little bit too popular if you know the cool kids of the swedish academy is that maybe next year though now let me do you think do you think yeah do you think they feel oh this is too popular i'm sure it's interesting because the nobel prize tends to give their awards to sort of more of your writers they've got a couple popular ones a famously couple years ago dylan bob dylan which was a very very controversial choice maybe would has been punished for being a bit too successful she said sometimes that she's not deliberately a bestselling author that she's actually a literary writer but happens to sell a lot of books but maybe i would like to see the academy you know maybe occasionally pay to play to the crowd and pick a writer that people heard of scott thanks very much should just quickly mention

the page 100 because book short let alone for a while is one of the books featured in our series 100 joan must reads rhymes. everybody around the world associates the peaceful revolution of 1909 that brought about the downfall of communist east germany with this is city berlin the fall of the bubble in wall but the revolution actually got underway in the eastern german city of lights with demonstrations after monday prayers in the st nicholas church that the 1st major demo was 30 years ago on october 9th and the man who behind the scenes was hugely influential in these demos not being violently crushed was not the great conductor court or. like cic lights up the city celebrating the 30th anniversary of the peaceful revolution that led to the form of the berlin wall thousands turn out with candles it was here that back in 190970000 people gathered for a decisive protest that proved a catalyst for change this wave carrying from this they came from but

who went this way to get all over the east germany and then this power over the people could destroy could you know for you know. very war and then it went to a view only if it cation that this nation is united. or is the widow of cooked woman's or back then the man in charge of the light sycophant house orchestra the famous conductor showed immense courage negotiating with the communist authorities in order to have a bloodbath like him to thank that security forces drew back from a violent suppression of the protests every musician was so worrying about their to the teenager children and so they caught every monday on the street exactly like my

my my husband i don't think he had here i think rather he had more responsibility. heating up the responsibility that he has to overcome the fear. 30 years on that many light cigarettes turn out to march along the historical demonstration routes light installations eliminate the buildings along the way just as back then today's march followed prayers offered in the st nicholas church this was a focal point of the peaceful revolution many participants today were at the original protests and have concerns about the present day. my hope is that we remain watchful and wide awake we don't fall for false promises that we hold on to the things we gained through the events of that time when did i just know it doesn't it's very important that we carry the energy of this 9th of october

of the peaceful revolution into the present day it's important for young people to see that the seemingly impossible can become possible if people just act. joy it encapsulated in beethoven's 9th symphony one of the singers here is carolyn the daughter of the great conductor she feels a duty towards and is inspired by her father's actions. i have to write not to shut anyone else i will speak at the door of this home open to all sorts of people and to discussion going. and i believe we need to do this in the future. that we have spaces open for all citizens concerns. i think that would be something my father would have wished for and. those messages more relevant than ever the joy to have when it is shared by many but democracy and freedom have to be

defended in each new generation. and of course we will have full coverage of all. the celebrations surrounding the 30th anniversary of the full of the bulge in wool over the next month with lots of special programs goes the website at d.w. dot com for more information on but that's all for now though by. the.

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