100 german must reads a novel that just couldn't get published in german until it 1st became a bestseller in america. lucian freud was one of the most celebrated portraits just of all time and throughout his life he regularly painted self portraits to these give a fascinating insight into his psyche especially when you consider his words when asked if he was a good model for himself he said no i don't accept the information that i get when i look at myself that's when the trouble starts while now as an exhibition featuring all this trouble at london's royal academy of alts. exposed yet imposing the great painter lucian freud put himself to canvas as the embodiment of his own unmistakable style realistic bold unflinching.

a new exhibition at london's royal academy of arts assembles a chronology of self-portrait spanning freud's life and career from age 16 to his early eighty's. it's an extraordinary journey through both his process of aging the development of the artist from a young boy to old man but also you really get under the skin of his practice and how he developed as an artist the changes in his painting the style the technique. by meticulously charting his own image lucian freud places himself in the company of the great masters of self-portrait rembrandt and bingo. this drawing fred made of himself as a student shows the young artist in shock or is it ecstasy a few years later his 1st major self-portrait fashions him as the great painter he hopes to become. born in 1922 in berlin as the grandson of psychoanalysis pioneer sigmund freud lucian and his jewish family fled germany to

britain the year of hitler's rise to power. for its mature self portraits reveal a painter confident in style who depicts himself playfully you're a leader. or in self marking. he sometimes uses a mirror placed the viewer level below his imperious figure. it's as though he's trying to. pitch himself against his developing technique and also in older age he was incredibly unsentimental he used to say that he wanted to paint himself to death and he has this extraordinary unflinching scrutiny on to his own aging flesh and seems to be really preoccupied in how to surrender this capture this and translate this into page. it's an extraordinary painting that on the one hand so this seems to suggest the frailty and the vulnerability in terms of his aging body but also his gesture his holding up his palette knife it's sort of quite victorious. body and his body of work unify the physical with the

psychological that's what made him a master. incidentally lucian freud was the world's most expensive living artist at the beginning of this millennium and speaking of expensive art this old painting was found in a kitchen in france recently it had hung above a cooking hot plate would you believe for decades fortunately it was spotted by an auctioneer who was conducting a house clearance it's called christ mocked by the 13th century foreign time artist who way and has just spent 24000000 euros at auction in paris and to think it nearly went into the bin. next week will be the 30th anniversary of the fall of wall so today we begin a series featuring artistic people from the former east germany telling us about their personal experiences or suspicious night for the actor matches fry hoff

november the 9th $989.00 saw the premiere of the film he starred in coming out which was a milestone in so many ways his own coming out and the fact that the official east german film company a day for it made a film about gay people. off the bio top the walking through the city i've often caught myself looking at the ground around me and thinking here at the latest they have shot me. for 41 years germany was a divided country from 1961 until 1909 a wall even split berlin into the western half was part of democratic west germany the eastern half belong to communist east germany. guarded its borders zealously anyone who tried to escape was arrested or shot homosexuals were often harassed and denounced. who played the lead in the 1st east german film about homosexuality

coming out the film had its premiere in east berlin exactly on november 9th 1909. cannot social order a movie goer exiting the cinema was really euphoric and said this entire country needs a coming out. my whole place filled a closeted gay teacher the film tells the love story between him and a man called mathias. due to popular demand the film was screened twice at its premiere so those involved were unaware that history was being made at the berlin wall the only heard rumors. the number of people who were kept looking. out of then we saw how car they was full of cars heading west towards one car after another all driving towards the west with the with. only after the premiere party at around 4 am didn't go to the border crossing which was here on bonham

a street he saw with his own eyes that the border was open. to buy the goods to pry open because you can walk freely across the bridge but i only went to the middle where the white line was which marked the real border line and i said somebody pinch me i just can't believe that i'm really standing here on this white line. on nov 9th 1909 this border crossing was the 1st through which thousands of east germans entered west berlin freely without control. for me so i thought of it with all the wall my world got bigger a whole lot bigger and i really enjoyed that but there were always moments standing on the wrong or on a boat in niagara falls when i get teary eyed i just can't believe that i was actually standing there. coming out won a silver bear at the 1990 percent international film festival in west berlin director hina cottle thought long and hard to make the film. was

a life that won't go but it was a big relief that this film could finally be made after so many years we all celebrated that as a huge victory with lindsay who filed. the fall of the will mark the end of his repression as a gay man living under the east german regime offensive as this quote the money officially the state couldn't legally take action against gays though attempts were made and with the advent of hiv aids they naturally stepped up the controls for the east german state feared the contagion. through this all for those that even considered interning gays at camps and conducted more raids. so you can only be glad of the wall fell i mean tyler come on move was and that such perfidious ideas were never realized. if you can because it's in this it would it were legal and this was it for me. i hope still tours the world with coming out he aims to be a role model. for the smooth if there's

a for me and i simply stand there and say look at me i'm going i'm 60 i've lived my life i had a love life. and for that i'm very grateful when the president when i was even able to get married and have a charming husband. who was not enough alone the night when the 9th and the 10th in november 1909 was a very important moment in my life got a real turning point for life this is you know maybe there was a time when you also had the feeling you were witnessing world history being made. it's something i sincerely wish everyone could experience and we'll have more stories about how office from the east experience nov the 9th 989 coming up this week and next week on d w there are lots of special programs marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall including one about an art work which is a kind of flying carpet containing wishes from $30000.00 people from around the

world now it's time for 100 german must reads featuring the best german books that are being translated into english and today a bit of an exception because the nazi on the balboa by ed got his in the rot couldn't get published in germany but was actually rejected 60 times by publishers here because the fictional protectionist is a nazi who appears to get away with murder it was 1st a success in america in the early seventy's eventually being published in its original german in 1977 to know that here in boston to make talks. ok it's not really that bad but making jokes about nazis was taboo here in germany for decades even if the person making the joke was a holocaust survivor. and. author and holocaust survivor ed got his i'm not pissed off

a lot of people here in germany with this book the nazi and the barber it's the story of 2 young friends son of a prostitute whose father is who knows but definitely arion and his buddy finkelstein the son of a jewish barber now if you went by stereotypes you'd probably get the to make stuff up. my friend it's it was blonde and blue i had a straight nose and finally shaped lips and teeth i on the other hand marks sure it's illegitimate the pure area and son of mina should have had black hair frog eyes a hook to nose bobus lips and bad teeth. its father kind finkelstein teaches the 2 boys about jewish traditions and how to cut hair now this is important because everything that marx learns from his buddy's dad will later save his life. first though moxon joins the s.s.

and becomes a mass murderer he possibly even kills his own friend it's sick after the war marx gets away with his crimes by pretending to be it's a big talk about chutzpah. not the max emigrants to israel and opens a barber shop there disguised as a holocaust survivor but he's haunted by his lies and his crimes the darker the subject matter the more wicked the authors humor has been once novel tackles anti semitism the holocaust the stuffiness of post-war germany and israel's early struggle to survive. when he wrote it in the early 19th seventies no german publisher would take the risk of printing a nazi satire when the book did come out eventually in germany there's a lot gave a public reading here at this berlin bookshop the next day the windows were smashed in eventually the nazi on the barber became

a global bestseller but even today we need a lot of dark humor to enjoy. and you'll find reports on the other 99 drum and must reads on our website at b.w. dot com slash culture so you can take a choice something every test that's it for this edition thanks for watching. out for the.

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dear antonia tears a sea of distance opposite us i'm sitting on a terrace in twilight it's peaceful my 3 grandchildren sleep untroubled as our time when i was in france is age germany was split in 2 and remain divided for decades and it just might be anonymous when your mother was born in 1969 the wall was already 8 years old you know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in a dream unified germany a wonderful time time a time of great joy. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history. live in. our family and us starts november 6th on d

w. this is t.w.a. flight from berlin argentina starts this time to come back to lift the country out of its economic crisis. russia is a likely to be short lived president elect alberto from not just now has to pull the country back from the brink of default also on the program. brussels grounds for your carry i'm not a postponement of his departure from the european union this time to the 31st of january prime minister boris johnson wants m.t.v.

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