we'll find out about. me. frank said singh is best known internationally for his science fiction novel the swarm where nature starts punishing humanity for its misty needs 1st published 15 years ago it now seems rather prophetic when you look at the current situation with climate change however right now frank said singh has put down the pan picked up the guitar and has abuse it project called taxi galaxy tell me why after this. scene in his helmet on stage in front of an audience he likes to entertain but also to shake people up in 2009 the author presented his thriller limit it's a mix of science fiction crime story and science like his most popular novel the swarm published in 2004 the bestseller about a threat from the depths of the ocean has been translated into 27 languages and made its author who study communications studies a very rich man. but chatting has still clung to

a lifelong dream since the age of 15 he's wanted to be a rock star so finally at the age of $62.00 it's time for music and sexy but this time to punctuate sing has created a story for his audience one that like a spaceship transports them into an unknown world. shattering worked on his tax equal access project with several renowned musicians his great idol is david bowie shifting public personas have impressed and influenced the are. joined by the man who scared the living daylights out of me actually. well thank you ali successful all over the world as the north. so has it really

been a lifelong dream actually to do music i mean would you rather have a hit album than a bestseller no it wouldn't really compare because i'm a very lucky guy to be so successful with my books but actually i started as a musician you know at the age of 14. 15 i started to play the guitar and the very reason was because i had a poster in my bedroom showing suzi quatro. you know i remember she's on your website where she is exactly exactly and through all the love over role and i thought about how to meet her in order to enrich in her private life so that was the reason i thought they have to do that and i love also you have to become a rock star yourself i started to play guitar synths on make music ok you know i have to say i thought famous author indulging themselves too but i realized listening thin time album this is no self-indulgent whole this is a serious project and indeed i noticed it says written by and

a range by frank said but you know when the violins come in you was that all in your head or was that a process in the studio which learning by listening and learning by doing so what did we do when we were young the had all these bands when i went to school and off the words we try to sounds like our big heroes so what we did was listening to the records again and again and again to find out how they did it or i went into a concerto classical chart to just have a look when what what are the violence in this do what are the other musicians doing and so on sets things on the off to do it and you do even more actually mean there's a reference to star trek in texas. you know design is done by you all the illustrations if you're as an illustrator really be doing everything yes yes but it's my honor. thing of creativity is that if you're really creative you're

potentially everything your rights are you an act for your painter and then it's just a question and what you're really good and which you are not good but the understanding of creativity to me. is a whole so icons do anything else or are being creative let's just head right now a little bit more of taxi glassy. so. you don't. go. you.

know i was quick mention in the lyrics of richard branson yes. would you actually like to go into space i would yeah i would. and i'm afraid of flying oh yeah so i'm waiting for the space elevator because another plate of elevators heard of it that it's going to be a very big it's a rope which takes you up to thirty's thinks 1000 kilometers height then it's like an elevator and you go up it sounds like science fiction actually. it is writing is a solitary occupation yes music is a collaboration is completely the opposite did you have any not only not in the beginning. honestly on. i'm a guy who loves to be among people a love to meet people i love to to to to be in public and sit in the cafe a on a restaurant. and so far this is the only thing i don't. i like about writing is

that for such a long time i sit there in the room of course i meet a lot of people in my head but that's not the same so what happens is when i write books that i have to do with language. i have to deal with construction story constructions and then every 3 or 4 hours i need to break and do something totally difference for example playing guitar and this is how i wrote the songs they came up by chopper and then i went down in the cellar room i have a studio on my solo. started to play it's played everything guitar bass keyboards sang my best friend's drummer so we had a song and then i added musicians to musicians you know you all so much you're appearing on d w in about a month's time on the 30th of november for you don't know the date but you actually did appear in a program night groove old english night. come together and jam what was that

experience like working with the mob you're talking we took the call to provide consent yeah indeed yes it's called it's not approved it's called so much nicer by the way in english well it was that they just all they had seen the video of the project and so meanwhile i had a band from the german down because i couldn't through with the band i have on the album because they are musicians playing like my carson the former a keyboard player of the david bowie which is a great on or i have tony levin on the bass guitar but he's in boston the other one is in los angeles so you know you were the only one i was the only one of the originally is sitting in cologne and i can just tell people they could see the on nov 30th and offer you know what it was where i thought it was grateful i just want to walk to a couple of things. you know what you're famous for now oh i thought it was going to be a lot of people was going to be filming a little bird told. just before the program are you just going to be

a series it is it is it can you tell is that it will been trying for years to film it as a blockbuster we just couldn't get the money to go so i must have been 5 years ago i thought well why not make a serious because a serious something totally different 1st of all it's the age of serious at the moment. in a serious you can told the story in a totally different way more like a play so you can much much more figure out that the character is and what they do and you do not need so many special effects and that was the idea for 5 years i've been preaching go to everybody else why don't make a serious now we'll do it together with creative most amount of game of thrones frank bolger and we're sitting together. yeah this is very exciting do you have a date when it might be out yes yes do you know the date when it went will be about

i got you wrong no i don't know but when we're lucky at the moment we are working on the outlines which means that for each episode you need 10 to 15 pages which is what is all about and then we get the scripts back from the scripts roger that at the moment i think we can start to film in spring which would mean 2021 ok. good luck with the music thank you very. much. the frankfurt book is upon us and every year it features a guest country and its literature this year it's norway and the city of baghdad is a particular literary hobb the country's greatest playwright henry games and spent formative years at the theatre that and there's a continuing literary tradition said to be helped by the long scandinavian winters continues of of course to reading and writing and there are other strange attributes to bag as local writer thomas explains.

thomas asked that all writes about every day ordinary experience and about his home city. the music scene is very good literature that scene is very good because it is just feeling of despair and being in close to him between 7 mountains and i like i really like the people. and the mentality i like the language the way they speak very very cruel and harsh and very very very annoying and very insulting very arrogant i hope that. they are going is proud of its arts and culture scene which includes the writers academy where young authors from across the country come to hone their craft and world famous writer karl overcook knows god was one of the school's 1st students in 1908 and told us as was his teacher. these days canals god lives in suite at the café where he used to meet up with other budding writers is still not fashionable hangout

a. poet heading back organizes regular readings here. tonight he's presenting you know i'm polity of work by 12 local poets. we have to do something i mean it rains all the time there's $300.00 days of rain a year so you have to do something we have to we have to sort of. that starts there are a solution i guess towards depression. going crazy and we we we we have to. be creative to survive. survive in a country whose people have a pretty good standard of living thanks to the oil that's been flowing from norway's offshore oil fields for almost 50 years even future generations will benefit due to wise government investment of the profits yet many norwegians are of 2 minds about the exploitation of oil reserves we know that we live from this for

so. few which is bad for the whole globe and this or my my child is living from this. growing up. surviving on this money i think a lot of the right. that sit more on fracture that sings music project toxic effects on our website dude or a dot com slash culture i'm not so from a fanatic. we leave digital traces everywhere all the time and they are always on our online trail companies hackers do you know minors. because for them our data is literally a coal mine. made in germany and 30

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