studies that's because 7012 years old. and horror movies that can't be true often inspired by real scientific discoveries an exhibition in los angeles looks into scary science. the german book prize is awarded by the german publishers and booksellers association to the best german language novel published in the last year it's just prior to the frankfurt book fair which starts on wednesday and is intended to draw attention outside germany to all things writing in german winning book will almost certainly be translated into english this year's winner is such a stunning shit who came to germany at the age of 14 as a refugee from the bosnian war. want to where a person comes from mean is it a matter of genes or perth place or is origin just

a matter of chance. you just saw how every home is a happenstance on you're born somewhere driven out of there donate your kidney to science over here look up lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts of birth happened somewhere fun and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the drain a river in bosnia when he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at tito's yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. nationalism and war forced the family to flee from eviction under. i don't we wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and to find the stories that way there but the present always dips into the past if we took the same route today

my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of a barbed wire fence somewhere and hungry that's hard it's hard. chance took him to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. a gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. because we could be anything there we could be anything and everything in the stories we told there and there were hardly any conflicts it was like an unwritten rule not here maybe someplace else but not here in this. place with a chance and lets his readers join in decision making in the end the book becomes an adventure novel turning like a relate wheel between fact and fiction. and congratulations to him staying on the literary topic it's time for series 100 john one must read this week

a book by the man who's just won this year's nobel prize for literature of the austrian . he's come on the quite some criticism since the announcement because of his political beliefs but his literary talents i'm not in question more about his book sure. well from averill talent mr david leavitt's hotel bars are a great place to hang out when you're feeling as if whiskey glass is going to be back and. in short letter or long farewell by peter hunt a young austrian gets to know the hotel and hotel bars of america touring the us to escape his ex-wife who stalking him or and he's the one following her your way you keep hitting the road discovering what german speakers call it that that wouldn't be a good guy in

a land of unlimited possibilities from coast to coast take pengo of cruise favorite cultural references but mostly he's obsessed with. what was more important to her memory with a brief moment when i really thought i was there any more today i interpret that feeling not as a desire to vanish from the face of the earth but enjoy the patience of a future when i would cease to be the person i was at that moment. it's very much the same now when every day i tell myself that i'm one more day older and that it must show it's got to i really want the time to pass and make me older so that no one over 30 effort. in the book came out in 1972 austrian author paid to hunker with making way of the off on 10 heap of european literature to become famous with his play offending the audience and then general offending people has been a pretty big theme of his career but this book's short letter long farewell is more

introspective if europeans and wistful look at the u.s. for the country and the mess and what being a foreigner there can teach him about himself. now he is considered a musical genius plays numerous concerts worldwide every year and studies of the renowned mozart tayo music academy insults book in austria. exceptional about this particular fellow is that a lady is calla is just 12 years old and is the youngest of a pupil to study kind of me you discover the piano when he was 6 and says he fell in love with the instrument a new immediately that he wanted to become a concert pianist.

one day ahead of his concert additional power festival. is hard at work for her sing. the youngest of 3 children in the us lives in the state of carinthia in austria. he was a quick learner from an early age and skipped a grade in school. he also knew exactly what he wanted from piano lessons. together for months and he told the teacher play this for me now play it again ok i can already play that so you can go as it is constantly push him away so we're really grateful to his teacher for his immense patience at least seldom did what he was supposed to at the conservatory he's always been that way wanting to do everything on his own in school too he always wanted to learn something else that the others weren't doing. yes and that's what he did home went on this but i don't

. believe his musical development progressed rapidly and he was soon taking part in music competitions found winning awards. media coverage and t.v. appearances following an unusual situation for the parents of this child prodigy suddenly in the public eye. i'm funny he says for an acoustic is a strange feeling at the beginning you have to get used to it that with time you learn how to deal with it we keep our eyes and ears open all the time we assess situations and when we realize that something's happening or somebody expects things that on ok we intervene and say sorry but we don't want this. to leave us has a busy life travelling to concerts and competitions while still attending school and studying at the sites book. 20 minutes of soccer with his staff then it's back to the pm. until i don't get it

when people say you're so busy you have no free time music is free time why shouldn't it be music is something beautiful there's nothing wrong with making music right. after the. head of his appearance of the chopin festival ileus is for her sing careful and he's a perfectionist. you've always got to be prepared there could always be a part that doesn't go as well and i'm never fully satisfied with myself but i actually should be. that preparation includes going over the piece mentally up until the very last moment. when every yes plays his technique is close to perfect but what's more important is that he feels the music.

monsters and mommies don't really exist today while i have yet except at the movies but the script writers who dream them up often inspired by real scientific discoveries not just the subjects of an exhibition the natural history museum in los angeles colds the natural history of horror the most famous monster of the mole was created by mad scientist called dr frankenstein. the mummy a milestone of the horror film genre upon its release in 1932 it shocked audiences and was a box office hit for universal studios british actor boris karloff played a high priest in ho-tep who was buried alive that success found several sequels in

phoenix the real life inspiration for the iconic horror film where the archaeological discoveries of the 1900 centuries when largely european led expeditions plundered egyptian artifacts including mummies. actually the films are actually inspired by the natural and physical world and the imagination that people have to create stories based on a real thing. dracula the vampire is another invented character. but this exhibition demonstrates that epidemic touch of color inspired author bram stoker to come up with his story in which anyone bitten by a vampire becomes one. and the classic story of a mad scientist frankenstein also turned into a universal studios blockbuster dr victor frankenstein so together parts of

cadavers and brings the resulting creature to life with the help of electricity that's not so far off from experiments being carried out on animals at the time. we have a prog herpetology correction collection from a really kind of showing the early electrical work that was done to try to get you get you know really reenergized animals and bring them to life. and then there's the creature from the black lagoon from 150 for the 1st 3 d. monster movie in cinema history. it tells of the terror unleashed when scientists go digging around where they probably shouldn't the topic was added relevance in light of current. i think advances. made people go up and think a little bit about you know what science can do and you know. and you know it's a conversation that's happening today about creating. your. core

scene from an unusual new perspective we're trying to think expertise. to this day i don't understand the idea of paying to be scared out of your wits to watch a movie but i know i'm in the minority small stories for matson culture on our website at g.w. don't call them slash culture but not so for now i guess for watching i'm. trying to.

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is g w news live from berlin tonight in northern syria how close is a showdown between the turks and the syrians turkish forces have advanced deeper into syria in their campaign against the kurds pulling down kurdish flags. the kurds have turned to president assad for help meaning a face to face between the turks and the syrian army is now possible also coming up angry catalogs protesting after spain's supreme court finds the politicians who pushed for independence guilt of the ditch.