word from memory. is already concert performance performances even though he hasn't finished his studies that's because 12 years old . and horror movies that kompany 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 frank book fair which starts on wednesday and is intended to draw attention outside germany to office 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 of the age of 14 as a refugee from the bosnian war. want to know where

a person comes from mean is it a matter of genes or birthplace or is origin just a measure of children's. you just saw how every home is a happenstance on you're born somewhere driven out of their donate your kidney to science over here look at lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. just to fight on their origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in all trouble facts being a birth happened somewhere fun and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. travels home to his birthplace vision on the banks of the drain a river in bosnia 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 it because. i don't we wanted to

look at my own biography and of my family and to find the stories that were there the 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 in hungary that's hard it's hard. chance to came 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 stony shit place with chance and it's 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 a literary topic it's time for our series 100 jumping must read this week a book by the man who just won this year's nobel prize for literature of the austrian right into peter. he's come under quite some criticism since the announcement because of his political beliefs but his literary talents are not in question more about his book sure. well from ah very own literary talent mr david leavitt's hotel bars are a great place to hang out when you're feeling as and with with people who are going to be. coming. in sort whether on long farewell by peter hunka or young austrian gets to know the hotel bars of america during the us to escape his ex-wife stalking him

or if he were one following her. either way he keeps hitting the road discovering what german speakers called that one because i'm. in the land of unlimited possibilities from coast to coast he picks and a dense tangle of cliches and cultural references but mostly he's obsessed with himself. what was more important for memory the brief moment when i really thought i wasn't there anymore today i interpret that feeling not as a desire to vanish from the face of the earth but as joyful anticipation 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 so i really want the time to pass and make me older that now when over 30 at 1st. when the book came out in 1972 austrian author paid to hunt was making way of the all fantastic of european literature could become famous with

this play of spending the audience and in general offending people has been a pretty big theme of his career but this book short letter long farewell is more introspective it's a european's wistful look at the us both 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 spoke in australia. exceptional about this particular fellow is that ellis keller is just 12 years old and is the youngest of a pupil to study kind of me he discovered the piano when he was 6 and says he fell

in love with the instrument and new immediately that he wanted to become a concert pianist. one day and if his concert additional power festival. is hard at work for her sing . the youngest of 3 children in the u.s. lives in the state of carinthia in austria he was a quick learner from an early age and skipped to grade in school. he also knew exactly what he wanted from piano lessons. together mazzocchi 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 and that's what he did home. and this one from. the earliest his musical development progressed rapidly and he was soon taking part in music competitions found winning awards. media coverage and t.v. appearances followed and unusual situation for the parents of this child prodigy suddenly in the public eye. i'm funny when a kook. it's a strange feeling of 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 say sorry but we don't want this. silly ass has a busy life traveling to concerts and competitions while still attending school and studying at those sites book mateo 20 minutes of soccer with his dad then it's back

to the piano. for state and i need money 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 is nothing wrong with making music right malted of. the head of his appearance at the chopin festival only has his person careful and he's a perfectionist. you've always got to be prepared and there could always be a part that doesn't go as well and being 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 s. plays his technique is close to perfect but what's more important is that he feels

the music. vampires monsters and mummies don't really exist while i have yet except the movies but the script writers who dream them up often inspired by real. scientific discoveries that's the subject of an exhibition at the natural history museum in los angeles called the natural history of horror after all the most famous monster of them all was created by a 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 the high priest in ho-tep with buried alive that success bond several sequels in being 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 money. and actually the film starts actually inspired by the natural and physical world and the imagination that people have to create stories based on a real thing. dracula's a vampire is another invented character. but the exhibition demonstrates that epidemic such as color inspired author bram stoker to come up with his story in which anyone can buy 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 frog herpetology correction collection from a really kind of showing the early electrical work that was done to try to see you get you know really reenergized animals and bring them to life. and then there's a 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 out of relevance in light of current can. it made people stop and think a little bit about you know what science can do and you know. and you know it's

still a conversation that's happening today about reading writing and you know. the core team from an unusual new perspective scientific 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 cultural my web sites at g.w. don't call them slash culture but not so for now no ice for watching i'm.

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projects around the world like to use the protect the climate boost clean energy solutions and reforestation. using interactive content to inspire people to take action global audience the environment series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. where the real power resides. i come from there lots of people in fact more than a 1000000000 pieces of wood launches democracy to me that's one reason i'm passionate about people and aspirations and they're going to send. such a mission the book is righteous in blood and onto the floor of the sun in one and i remember thinking at the time if the barley in bulk and forward anything can happen if people come together and unite for a cool. head i do the news that often confronts difficult situations more conflict between design stuff i see despite my job to confront it does he does on policies

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