work 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 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 frank book fair which starts on wednesday and is intended to draw attention outside germany to authors 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 us where

a person comes from mean is it a matter of genes or birthplace or is origin just a measure of children's. sense of every home is a happenstance on you're born somewhere driven out of their market or 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. use to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts of birth happened somewhere on and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the tree no 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 was wanted to

look at my own biography and of my family and the final stories that way where 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. often 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 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 a literary topic it's time for our series 100 german must read this week a book by the man who just won this year's nobel prize for literature of the austrian right into paid to hunt 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 short letter well from ah very own literary talent mr david leavitt's hotel bars are a great place to hang out when you're feeling at and with with people after going to be. in short letter or long farewell by paper hunka or young austrian gets to know the hotel bars of america throwing the u.s. currency paper ex-wife stalking him or if he were one following her.

either way you keep hitting the road discovering what german speakers call it that's step one but i'm. in the land of unlimited possibilities from coast to coast he takes in 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 is 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 said no one over 30 at 1st. when the book came out in 1972 austrian author paper hunk i was making way of the office of european literature could become famous with his 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 europeans wistful look at the us but 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 in south spoke in australia. exceptional about this particular fellow is that lewis 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 ahead of his concert additional power festival. is hard work for her sing. the youngest of 3 children at least 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 too much so 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 and 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. in this. at least 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. from 1.61 a kook. it's strange feeling of the beginning you have to get used to it of them 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 is just. silly as has a busy life traveling to concerts and competitions while still attending school and studying of the sites book matteo 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's nothing wrong with making music right more to the. head of his appearance of the chopin 1st of all only as his her her son careful and he's a perfectionist. you have always got to be prepared there could always be a part that doesn't go as well and behind 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 is 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 as i well 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 1930 till 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 it successful and several sequels in phoenix the real life inspiration for the iconic horror film where the archaeological discoveries of the 1900 centuries when largely european lit expeditions plundered egyptian artifacts including money. are 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's a vampire is another invented character. but did 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 all turned into a universal studios blockbuster dr victor frankenstein so together parts of to divers 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 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 time. it made people stop and think a little bit about you know what science can do and do you know they and you know

it's your conversation that's happening today about. the core team from an unusual new perspective with scientific expertise. and. 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 most stories from arts and culture on our web site at g.w. don't call them slash culture about so for now thanks for watching i'm. going. to.

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