these places in europe are smashing wreckers. step into the venture. the treasure map forms modern globetrotters, discover some of your record breaking into. and now also in book form. the me, ah, the 1st ideas of identity word written in poetry, in what's happened between the points. a and point b, that gap could be fields with literature in the world is changing into what feels like a whole new one. the

climate change colonialism migration. the big issues about times. and just some of the topics explored by the 8 nominee for the german nonfiction fries this year. yeah, in portugal we meet young writes is not afraid to confront. the doc is chapters the big country's history. but both american novelists. jenny, also on the challenges of writing fiction in times of crisis. the melting icebergs causing floods thousands of kilometers away. wildfires caused by drought. the locust plagues. climate

change is here and has been for some time even if we prefer to not think about its effects. jenny, also novel weather is about life in the pre apocalypse. and what the threat of looming disaster does to people a huge success when it 1st appeared in the us in 2020. the book has this become popular around the globe. whether it tells the story of lizzie, a university librarian, who lives in new york with her husband and son, she obsessively reads nonfiction about climate change, and turns to buddhist wisdom for comfort. listening, listening to the people she meets. very concerned about the future and looking for alternatives. they auto facts and weird survivalist wisdom. tragic and very funny. at the same time, we ask jenny awful if it's fitting to use humor to explore such a serious subject. so i tried to make this

a different kind of novel that was going to tackle climate. so yes, she becomes really worried about the climate crisis as the book goes on. but in the beginning, i think she's in the situation that many of us are where we know this is happening . we look at it out of the corner of our eye, but we don't look at it to directly because we have so many other things that were taken care of in our present day life. i also was trying to see if there was a way to make it funny because you know, so much of the world of prepping and imagining disaster is actually sort of, strangely funny. oh, doomsday profits. have been around forever. but what shocked to also doing her research is that now it, scientists who astounding the alarm was startling to meet search a little more intimate and see that it was the scientists who were at this time.

and you know, science is by dint of their profession, tend to state things in a very even handed manner. they don't want to go beyond the data. but if you went into conferences and things where they were really talking, they were frightened and they were talking about where things. and then i felt like were coming through in the news. you know, whole cities that would be an habitable or temperatures, you know, in, in my lifetime and my child lifetime, that would be hard to survive in certain places. but what should and can we do writing weather turns jenny, also into an activist. she's involved with the environmental advocacy group extinction rebellion and has started a blog called obligatory note of hope to cite, provides and links to other groups. and she has inspiring stories of activists from

the past and present who believed in and thought for a better future. like, does he show a young woman who was executed for participating in the student led white boys resistance movement against the nazi regime? ginny awful is pinning her hopes on young people. they're the ones fighting for change in organizations like fridays for future. they also have the most to lose. one of the reasons i think, years ago, i started to think about writing whether was that i noticed that my students absolutely felt this and the throw away the ruin of the world. the sense that the world that was being handed to them was, was going to be terrifying, and many of them would, would write almost off handedly in their stories about how they might not have children or they way. and i could see, and also this rage, you know, which i think people my age might not, you know,

5 years ago have realized the rage of like how, how could you not you don't do more in whether these questions are matter of fact rather than doc the novel is a wonderfully funny book about a deadly serious subjects. after all, nothing less than the world as we know it is at stake. but jenny often hasn't lost hope, and what her read is to remain optimistic. two's. it was important to the writer that whether convey a sense that it's worth fighting for change. the i think if i have a role at all, it's to write as truly and as precisely as i can about what i see and feel in a particular moment in time. i think that writers are,

i don't think we're meant to morally instruct people. but i think we are meant to perhaps create a space for more empathy because i think that that's one of the great things about, about reading a book is that you get to enter into another world and explore it in a way that is sort of secret and interesting, and you get to wander around. thank you very much. bye bye. thank you so much. larry is novel about a terrifying subject. weighty issues were also explored in the book short listed for the german nonfiction prize awarded for the 1st time. this v 8 books nominated for the german nonfiction prize, standout among thousands of new publications. they educate and inspire thoughtful

conversations invaluable in the time of fake news and social media. they tackle new issues and timeless ones. right now, 80000000 people are displaced more than ever before, but refugees have always existed clean, a human history, less refugees tell their own stories, historian and last quarter quotes from letters, diaries, novels and poems. this is even gone. it's very important to look behind the story behind refugees as a whole and to see the individual, the individual. these stories are about the loss of a homeland then and now costs are shines of light on those who suffer that fate. in her book, also don described coming to germany from another culture. she's the child of iranian exiles, me a reflections of a barbarian. she explores the themes of home, exile and identity,

and what it means to grow up in a country that feels foreign. most times what i want to say is that foreign doesn't always have to be frightening or threatening, just because it's different unless don says that her other notes has only ever been an issue in germany. her book is a call to confront the fractures in our society for over 5 decades researcher hiking and has lived and worked on and off in africa. now she's written an autobiography that goes beyond the usual tropes list of how it was important to me not to focus on heroic accounts of ethnographic field work. and so, but on the other side, the english and human ization of an 8th hika and describes how misjudgments and chance have shaped her work as an ethnology and how she as a stranger, became

a research subject for african. ah, daniel lisa also wants to do away with cliches. by chance, he found some notebooks at obeying flea market the legal opinions of a people's court in which the crimes of the mouth cultural revolution were tried. mows long shadow describes how china the communist party, managed to preserve social cohesion and its own power, while still confronting the crimes. i have said she'd not be at the party, tried different approaches to deal with the injustice. is it caused? first of all, it didn't solve political issues, but supplemented them with social policies. as a kind of caring, dictatorship or dictate were for again. lisa book presents a nuanced picture of the people's republic of china, different from the country. we think we know in many

societies, ignorance or superficial knowledge, turn factual dispute into ideological sites. but where does fact end and opinion begin? the science journalist, my team, when kim uses wide ranging topics to show how scientific discourse works, where methods differ, and where there's consensus then via visa, if we could turn the strengths that science has to our social and political debate . we could really argue, constructively, all then arguing that could be fun again, in the lowest common reality. my tune, when can argue for more scientific spirit in social discourse. but is that enough, after all populace have the power to change the world? the pandemic has exacerbated many problems. what about the restriction of civil liberties? is democracy endanger?

in degrees of freedom, constitutional law expert christoph millis reflects on how to count that threat and what it means to be liberal today. limits angles. if we say we have liberal social order that's being threatened by authoritarians, we have to was what we're actually defending. looks at things like the common good europe and climate change. one idea connects all the observations for murder, both individual and collective freedoms, belong side by side in a democracy. what makes great literature, who are the great stylists, and who gets celebrated for breaking all the rules? michelle long aims to find out in the snake in wolf's clothing, the secret of great literature dealt with him and my poor d 6. and once you've read 600 pages, you have some ideas about what works, what you can do, and what you maybe shouldn't do. business ma, household selections don't come from the literary canon,

but from his own library. for him, it's about passion, as well as a desire to knock one or 2 great authors off their pedestals. the winner of the german nonfiction book prize was announced at a ceremony at the home vote for an inter lynn induction. the foundation said that culture and the promotion of reading awards the 2021 german nonfiction prize. you're going to have as well. the author himself seemed almost surprised that a history book was met with such enthusiasm to kind. so even my book is not about the president, it might be about a philosopher perhaps the most significant german philosopher. and he was about at the beginning of our present in the late 18th century, early 19th century. but it's a long way from hegel to the present,

a long way to columns in black beagle, the philosopher and professor gala did him plead hicho was always exploring new areas of science and questioning his own thinking. he taught his students in tubing in and berlin to do the same. he was a theorist to state and the rule of law energy, slavery thinker. he had a very great knowledge of european aesthetics and all these things. he was a very universal and complete thinker and competitive calibus prize winning book is about he goes world the world into which the philosopher was born in 1770 was in a state of upheaval. the american revolution was raging. the french revolution erupted in 1789. the montclair brothers invented the hot air balloon and james cook sailed around the world. hagar was one of the greatest

german idealist philosophers. it saying that the competitor didn't complaint against noir of it. the world was changing completely, and there was the impression that a whole new world was coming. part of haggle store it was devoted to the question of what would remain of the old world. what should be done with philosophy, religion, and art from before 1800. but he was also someone who had faith in this new world and the unrest that came with it. he believed it should be confronted with thought . and we were convinced can think of any kind of jurgen called the belief that reading hagar is necessary to confront all those today who are satisfied with simple truths his book makes the reader want to discover or rediscover the philosopher in time. now to travel to tortuga country with a troubled history and home to an exciting, young generation of writers, not afraid to explore its past and present

a problems with me, has been destroyed many times during its history by craig, by fire. yet here is where portugal is rise as a colonial power. less than half a century ago. it was the seat of power, of also retiring prime minister and so new the only way to salazar today the city has a population of some half a 1000000 including of the week out of those, my teens. one of portugal, my 1st vices, a journalist and screenwriter, he also writes, plays short stories and novels appreciate everything that comes from the external world or something that i, that i just see on the street top is film one ear. and that thing mostly is always important for my work because people say things extraordinary all the time. and people assessing all the time,

laughing and an altima to that, that comes from from life, can go to my work in one way or another. kind of those are, my teens, comes from allen tissue in the rural south of the country, if the poor region. but he describes people as proud and dependable. yet the suicide rate and alan tasia is significantly higher than in the rest of portugal. kind of those machines, explosive phenomena, and his w novel published in 2006. it became a best seller in fortune for belgium, into the vanguard of the country's literary scene, and was translated into english as a lab to die. he went on to publish full prize winning novels. they sent around people who struggle with the burden of history was seen, looked about d. r. mood did with africa for example of asia with our conquerors. but we do tried

to understand as a how little country did all this in the world and what's, what's our responsibility to tell the other to tell the world about this and to create, i think that's the main purpose, emotion and beauty with our writing. so it up to about age, read lots of portuguese literature growing up and go la until $975.00. it was a portuguese colony in its own tradition and how much was depressed me. i was here to be a fortune to speak very well. butcher is not to speak any of the african languages and not to mingle with the we mean and tradition and all the uses of, of african societies. but in me,

at the same time, there was the cool years the teeth about all those people that were near me. but i could not, and i could not know i could not speak, i could not mingle with them because it was not alone. the after and goal again, independence in 1975, civil war broke out and lasted until 2002. the advantage lead the country in the late 970. after independence, she settled in portugal, and goal is for new ruler. many africans from portuguese colonies did the same witnesses to adopt chapter in the countries past. the although she lived in lisbon for more than 40 years, have are still sees on go la hudden,

i'm cultural wellspring. she is honored in both countries as an and go and poet. she says, the poetry is the language that is best understood in the land of the 1st ideas of nationality. the 1st ideas of identity were written in poetry. there was, if i can say there was a wall of 1st created in leech to them in real in real only in the 1975 in the day of the independence. but before there were many, many poets that created be there to the create a representative and in the goal, and only

a dependence after a military coup in 1974 known as economy ocean revolution, which overthrew the author retiree and government established by some 40 is elia the oppressive regime, restricted freedom of thought, and did not tolerate descending, right to show se luis p show to was born that yeah, he's grateful. he never experienced that it pay to ship before the revolution during the state there ship. there was this obligation to write in, in a way that was social intervention is politically charged . because if you are writing about social events or, or directly about politics, your communicating with this, the political situation. but also,

if you are writing about trees or flowers, you are ignoring all this issues and you are also taking up was stand politically a show to is one of the most renowned portuguese writers of his generation. and also, one of the most internationally successful, his poems, travelogue, and novels have won numerous awards, stories and melancholy, steeped in gentle humor. his novel galvez is 2nd poverty stricken rules. seldom portugal. what they showed was born. it tells of love betrayal and passion, and the fight to survive. portugal is a small country in terms of surface, but it's a bit of a balance from my perspective. the development in your been areas in rural areas is very different. and in terms of rural inferior we've,

we face problems of population getting older and older and also the certification in this village that gives title to the novel on that period in, in the 8. this was more than the double. it's the size it us today. for example, the bookies writers is still rarely translated, but a few poets have nevertheless attained global fame. one is fernando and master, melancholy museum has been dedicated to him. another is joseph mago, who was awarded the noble prize for literature in 1998, the only portuguese vita ever to win. one of the most important literary prizes in portugal is named after him in 2019, this went to

a virtually unknown mighta. our phones to raise capital for a novel based on a true story. in northern portugal, a group of teenage boys befriended a lonely brazilian transsexual court. she's bad and tortured and left to die. the story haunted the young writer that was thinking and believable. and at the same time, it was really, really literally shannon challenge because what's happened between the point a point to be that gap could be fields with literature could be filled with a story that was based on the real one. but it was mine, it was another thing altogether. it was the literature. i least, i hope it is. although he'd be my things in childhood,

i phone to raise capital only publish his 1st novel in 2014. it's the story of a boy like his brother who has down syndrome. i just writes about things that i enjoy or seems that compels that compelling. so, and in a way, i have a lack of emotion imagination for a concrete thing. so i like to base my books on reality or to, to realities and anchor to, to my books. so that works well for me. so, i mean, it's just, it just, it just, i don't know if, if it will continue to be like that. but from my 2 novels, until now, it is what you go. fletcher reflects in tomorrow job history exists the wounds and vibrancy of the south. the also the sorrow and pain of the past and the weight of present day anxieties. it's high time, more people around the globe discovered novels and poetry from portugal.

ah, as french writer and lots of voltaire, one said, reading matches the soul. so let's all the more of it. join us again next week, until then i'll be t as in, i'm goodbye. the me. the news . the news

the the the, what's going on here? house of your very own from a printer. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. explains, delivers facts and shows what the future holds. living and the digital world shifts in 15 minutes long dw

green city, relaxing away despite record temperature's not a mirage. refreshing architectural ideas and innovative landscape planning are both cool and clever shillings in 30 minutes on d. w. oh, the news enjoyed when extreme again, well, be a couple weeks in burn in south africa when disability is more likely to lisa jobs in the black lives matter. china spotlight on racially motivated to leave things as married as being legalized in more and more countries. discrimination inequality

are part of everyday life for many why? because life is diversity. make up your own mind. you need for mines. it's about billions. it's about power. it's about the foundation of the order. the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe. china is promising. this is rich profit. in europe, there's a sharp warning you ever accept money from. the new super power will be dependent on in china's gateway. year starts july 1st on d, w. ah

ah ah, this is used live from berlin, a snap election aimed at healing national divisions in armenia. voters gave their verdict on a disastrous defeat in war and a prime minister who signed a way large chunks of bitterly contested territory. also on the program on world refugee day, we hear the stories of were hinge a muslim stranded in pakistan and struggling to get.