war against their own country but today many former i.d.f. fighters are regretful. in 60 minutes. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the book. is in germany to learn german why not come with him simple online on your mobile and free shop d w z e learning course nico speak german made easy. to me. the canady i write for children but adults are welcome to read my books too that makes me a bit of innovator every outcomes not just like children but i also live with that kind of with

a bit. of tension labyrinth this is some bird drama about fascism betrayal and magic by the mexican filmmaker guillermo del toro and it's clearly a focus favorite film. for the author it has all the ingredients of good fantasy magic depth as well as a clear underlying stance. when pierre moore del toro asked her whether she would turn his film into a book she hesitated at. 1st but then she accepted the offer and that turned into

pan's labyrinth the labyrinth of the fun. stuff. that was such a delightful experience and of course it was a crazy project yakked. i didn't think it could be done who would read a book based on a film they're always bad and the film is so amazing that i can imagine transforming it into words. bass when someone gives you an impossible task you have no choice right. it's wonderful to hear that things that look has expanded a universe of his film and i had to invent short stories to flesh out the plot and back stories for the characters if that's what he wanted and he didn't give me any instructions he didn't interfere with my writing at all that's highest. i'm committed and that's why. we met cornelia funk in hamburg the last stop on her tour of germany to promote the book she lived here with her family for

a long time before moving to los angeles in 2005 hamburg is also where her career as a writer began. we 1st met for nearly a phone call in hamburg 12 years ago just after the publication of the 3rd volume of her in cart trilogy that was the series that launched her international career she's meanwhile written more than 70 books they've been translated into 50 languages and have sold more than 26000000 copies. in cart was turned into a hollywood film the chico produced another unusual experience for the author. recently she fulfilled a long cherished dream and bought an avocado farm in malibu today cordelia funk is one of the most successful fantasy writers in the world she has fans everywhere and

not all of them are children and young people. if i saw it in any amount but i remember going to india and all of a sudden all these people between the age of 24 and 30 were asking if they could have me up to now and they thanked me saying that i was their child you can type in in out in there i have the same thing in germany of a venue how can that be in the city the reality is. india is so different because and yet my books are in fact shaped by german reality or american reality and not by reality in india it's for me it's a question that's still a big mystery how he was when i was in guadalajara mexico how i found myself weeping and one of the and in fact the reader is there understood exactly what i was writing about every question they asked me would build a depth of understanding that i've rarely encountered anywhere else on the land to me it seems like that in places or countries where life isn't always easy where

people are still forced to grapple with those big questions are guilt good and evil violence via all the existential questions you often find that people have a very profound understanding of literature and it was 1st in full it of a put their literature is not just entertainment. only a phone call got her start illustrating children's books more than 30 years ago she soon realized that she wanted to write to. a fancy out of many of those stories didn't match my pictures or were just very realistic at the time in germany fantasy was very much looked down upon its nature sitting phenomenon in germany we tend to distance ourselves from our history of fantasy or from e.t.a. hoffman of the grimm's fairy tales of one comes from making money and the doctors at the time writing fantasy was frowned upon and yet there's a long tradition in on endless very little english and i when i tell english journalists about this they say but your great fantasy storytellers such

a tale out 'd not all of her books are fantasy in 1903 she wrote the 1st while chick spoke about a gang of girls and their rivalry with a gang of boys and their encounters with occasionally aggravating adults. there are now 5 in the series and 3 have been filmed. in this one the girls and boys are now teenagers dealing with the emotional turmoil of romance. the film has been praised for taking the emotional lives of their young protagonists seriously as have the books. ghost hunters is a fantasy series about 2 boys and a girl who fight against who would have guessed ghosts it's also been adapted for the screen. you were ready for to go so. hands off mississippi which was published in german in 1997 and turned into a film

a decade later seems almost old fashioned by comparison. it's also about a gang of kids. once easy. to find a shady character lurking about the number on my machine and here. to show my 2 shooters we don't listen want to move since my. featuring a lot of slot steak and the delights summer scenery this is ranked among the best cornelia from the adaptations. i found. at the start of her career cornelia funke i had to write 3 or 4 books a year to support her family all of them were hit in germany.

international breakthrough came with the thief lord a fast paced novel about growing up and sticking together. the main protagonist is scipio the leader of a gang of orphans in venice who go through a bunch of adventures together. femina miss 100 child who has suffered abuse or deprivation reads a bit like. the floor and her other children tell me they never had a family up but they read the book and suddenly understood what it must feel like mine that a book has given the child a kind of safe space in a space they've never experienced but they can still find some of their own reality and a cunt that children don't want false illusions i can't take them seriously. if this is when i did letters like this from readers i realize i'm also talking about the terrible things of our world that has to be a part of fantasy writer god or. the thief lord was the 1st of cordelia focus books

to be translated into english that was in 2000 to 3 years later she was included on time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people alongside bill clinton nelson mandela and the dalai lama. she had one fans around the world and a few critics. a common fan but i received a letter from a young fan who said she'd love to thier flawed leave it in but why was there only one girl and asked me to and then. i felt really guilty. i thought look you've been doing the same as all women we like boys so we write about boys and turn them into the heroes of our stories. instead of saying i'm a female writer what and i have a female heroine of fish so i promised the reader that my next hero would be a girl and that was make in caught into that is sort of the hook as that happened

often you that readers young ones are older one is had made suggestions. or you this is yes for example in my chick series a reader grows asking to say she caught his father that happens every so often and it can be very inspiring and so on the readers get so immersed in the worlds i've created i often say that i hear my readers footsteps and heart beats and those worlds and sometimes i love them so passionately that they almost know more about them than i do as he has made a home of his. in-car turned cornélie a phone call into one of the world's best known fantasy authors. in 2008 the magical tale about maybe and her father moan was adopted by hollywood with a big budget and special effects to match. making and mohave an unusual gift they can bring fictional characters to life but

in return real people have to take their place that happened to make his mother who were not. and that night we were in the library. one of them a copy book we just bought. a car. for several chapters about nothing happened. and it appeared out of nowhere. book but fergus bend it working for a new book too. just figured. the boys brought them out your voice brought them out of the book and her mother went to. the top works. father and daughter set off to do everything to find her experiencing countless adventures involving lots of magic but violence to. didn't only want to write ripping book she wanted to send out

a political message. in one of the themes of in heart is fascism not the gang in the mountains they're not met v.o.c. they're fascists. they blackmail us without children they blackmail us with their husbands and our friends insist on them fight and that's what's most terrifying about dictators and fascism and they attack us using the things we're most proud of what we think of as our identity what we love most of us believe and they turn us into accomplices that's how fascism operate and that's what i depicted in incarceration intent and house but i didn't call it by its name because i thought it would be more timeless this way if the smartest idea was if there was supposed to be a 4th in current book coming i thought it was a trilogy and that it was over so it was published all good i thought so too probably because illustrating and painting have become more important to me again to get sort of sometimes i draw characters and don't know who they are and then they pop up in my books one is that

a new way of working is not yes it is quite new to at some point i realized oh man there is a new in cart but emerging out of this it's called the color of revenge and it's about the struggle between words and images which one is more powerful. it's not idea that's always fascinated me that's clear and it's found its way into encounters team what does it mean to write all written as they're sure and it's a nice way to engage with these ideas and what is stronger the word or the image that question is also explored in pan's labyrinth. the story is set in spain and 9445 years after the fascists won the spanish civil war. it is a battle between good and evil in a world full of violence and horror. of failure resorts to fantasy to escape reality like in in cart the characters and compass both come

alive and take her off to a magical realm and habited by a strange creature. the fallen sends her into dangerous situations that she has to master on her own just the film is a dark and terrifying world filled with all menace beauty. canadia funk has said she would only write the book if she was allowed to retain the film's horror. for the next and i said i'm not going to change anything in the story that i will not make it younger i don't censor it and i will not remove the sexual elements what war against women looks like also me and everything here i'm a put in the film and i won't play down the violence because it's the truth this is what violence looks like he doesn't remain to size it he doesn't trivialize over glorify evil that's why i had my again no doubt tara. in del toro's film there are some terrifying scenes like this one went off alien and counters and

i list monster in an underground room. after she eats one of the forbidding fruits the monster rises from its lethargy. its 1st victims are the fairies that are supposed to accompany and protect ophelia . a fairly good is said to be the next victim. the monster has it in for all the children of this world. is this new book still appropriate for a young audience with all the brutal scenes and the historical background of spanish fascism.

camellia focus says neither the film nor the book are intended for a specific age group. and she doesn't like being labeled as only a writer for children and young adults even though that can sometimes have its advantage. in mine and usually my english publisher once i put it very nicely canadia do you know what's the difference between an author for children and an order for grownups as i said we know that what's the difference he said the authors were children love the audience or and i think there's something else assisting about the adult book about art and what we found out sometimes they are really ugly

rivalries between also is i've never seen that in children's books if it hasn't got there is most solidarity what it's almost like a guilty there's a lot of love for the crohn's into that city and i think it's wonderful and human of will know about us and that's why i usually say yes i write for children but adults are welcome to read my books too you know that makes me a bit of a literary outcast just like children are right but i can live with that helps and that kind of could. only a fun cause sometimes feels that fantasy is under rated as a genre. i think that there is still a lot of misunderstanding what people say oh it's escapism or that readers want to live in another world cups or that's absurd because there is no other world to govern whatever we. even if it's another planet it's always an interpretation of this world and always a love letter to this world. why does this world is what feeds our imaginations what is the only source of inspiration. and this world is so multifaceted and

unbelievable that we can only express a tiny part of this magic. i was just think when sitting on a planet that speeding past a viable and there is an exploding sun above us somewhere so and there's probably a fly on the wall here watching us in slow motion. to proceed all of this is reality right i think that fantasy just makes that more apparent whereas realistic narratives tend to focus on human reality and often have to do with a very concrete historical moment of guns concrete in his talk of the moment because i know more one dimensional there are very one dimensional as i'd say we need to find a concept of reality that's a lot more multidimensional is especially at a time when we're destroying pretty much everything that's not human and humane and just think about it for a moment and you know what was here 15 years ago and what might be left 15 years from now. and our concept of time and space everything belongs together if we're to

really comprehend reality his fantasy makes it easier to ask those big questions what's big and important what's evil about what's good comedy you can bring the dead back as ghosts a way shakespeare did you can speak to all those aspects of existence the excess tens i'm sure i can. put nearly a bunker often works on several projects at once. but these days social projects are just as important especially her artist in residence program. she offers artists from all over the world a chance to stay at her farm for a couple of weeks. with a mind i've always wanted to live in a village together with all my creator friends i have lots of friends who make

animated movies or music or they write on the other many of my guests are friends so artists i know often guest and bringing them together i found is even more exciting than i had imagined it would be special and the whole thing got saved as i was. living in the united states was another of her dreams. came true for her in 2005 when she moved there with her family. but not quite a year later her husband unexpectedly died for nearly a phone call was left alone with their 2 children. however i always loved the u.s. even when i came here on my 1st but because i love how open the people are there and i love the conviction that you can solve any problem on. their way of seeing problems as a challenge not an obstacle that another day is still an enduring faith in the future that even if it's sometimes hard to find those days. and above all i love

the friendliness and everyday life and it's not insincere it's very true and genuine. and i've come to love being in a country of immigrants is that and it's such a colorful and diverse and culturally rich environment that i live in every day in los angeles and here $128.00 languages are spoken here and was legal and you never know what kind of life story a person might have to tell you about helium school safety management plan i wouldn't want to miss out on all of that. but american society has been undergoing major changes in recent years. the gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider . countless thousands are living on the streets. racists are growing bolder and flaunting their hatred in public.

african americans are trying to defend themselves against violence the protest often end in clashes. battle lines are being drawn and hardening. and since donald trump took office as president in 2017 the country has become even more divided. less good on america so what's good about america is of course that it has a very strong tradition of rebellion and not of a beauty and still thor's about it who has it right now the resistance is just as strong as the other side. both sides do exist but they do in germany now to it's here i don't want to vent here i said immigration is good that's you now at last germany will get a bit more diverse to alert us to is that i could hear that one side got very quiet while the other got a very loud and we have this polarization now all over the world to put it just on

the that there are all sorts of things you can do politically and at the moment i'm supporting the lawyers that are trying to protect and help the children the migrant children and the lawyers who are trying to reach the children and support them at this tear through to the i'd rather be putting my money towards environmental protection but this is what's needed in this political situation i'm very active politically active that's my only consolation upholds and then i also live in california the out of control state and federal state. california has introduced strict environmental standards for cars president trump wants them revoked opposition is also strong in california against the trumpet ministrations hard line immigration policy which include expediting the deportation of. argumentative immigrants especially from latin america. the battle is now out in the ohio valley for that california is fighting it and that's why i still like living here. in autumn 2017 cornélie

a phone call followed her dream of life in the countryside and bought a farm near malibu. it's hurt not so little slice of heaven she's got sunshine and green all year round as long as the bush fires don't come too close. i think i. can at last. and best of all here away from the big city she finds peace and tranquility. get ever returned to germany night it's been you know i'm not someone who goes back and you know i'm the kind of person who always goes forward and in 5 years i might be living in new zealand but i would never go back if i tried to explain it to children like this take a look at the world and how big it is when i spend 45 years in one single country life and that's not all that inspiring i should have tried out

a few more. and if i do i hope i'll have the courage and thirst for adventure to try out something totally different once again. in december 28th teen cornelia from could turn 60 she decided it was time to take stock to children who are now adults at a job she enjoys doing and one that's made her world famous how does she view her life and what may yet be to come if she's already achieved everything she'd ever hoped for. that's a victory so it was like this ok camilla it's the last act let's see what you're going to do now 1st of all you hate exercise but you're going to have to do it a bit to stay intact and then the fact that i'm living in the country now has dramatic. it changed my life. as the artist in residence project has brought so many changes to my life that is over for that's pretty exciting though the time has come to hand on the battles are to tell myself you've created an accomplishment so

much shop because you don't need to write a 1000 old books you need to pos on what you've learned so that others can take that test ovide that's when you have. a mind in which dreams have become a reality and a passion to share her good fortune and experience with others cornelia funk or a world renowned author from germany whose own story is still being written.

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