easy because i've got used to living the living and surviving together. peter's at the rate tasty elephant century, has been rescued in little times to see here. the elephant ninety's in the notes of kenya dealt so toby 25th on dw, the young, i believe writing always has to do with longing. dream like the nightmarish, the spun, the twisted off kilter. stranger isn't a great sentiment, great literature. i had to do it. ringback the, to bring the big months in the literary calendar and the frankfurt book fair is the

place to buy new reading materials. interesting authors. and a pause for author, martina after severe kicks off to be awarded. the german book prize for the novel of the in the beginning was sleep rest s the end of last night. marching at half, this novel takes place into wells during the day. you know, cuz for her seriously ill husband and at night she enters the strange well of the novice cameras. men who fake love on social media to fleece the victims of money every day life and adventure. 2 very different wells. he said, the district to play link one will couldn't exist without the other, you know, wouldn't want that either to leave in just one world, for example, only in the shadow or not will up with an estimate. martina have to as well as

literature and see it. so she's not just an offer, but also adults and performance. all text just like come main carrot. so the characters in her normal on names of the gods and type the parties, you know, and jupiter butler slaved by very, uh for the problems you know, gets involved with loves cameras from nigeria, but hide so true identity. she just saves those cameras, lies to the lawyers. so who's coming? who? good morning, my love. what have you 8 and today? take good care of yourself. i love you. i love you. i but the moments of real intimacy, real feelings in the kitchen, wells of m, o g's martina, half those novo talks about a complicated emotional situation and about the friendship is pawn shop

and about love, how the book about lo, mein was in, and global imbalances due by the english profession. and with this maci now have to, has created a change of pace that spans the wo. the 5 more novels made it onto the short list for the german book prize. let's find out more about them and meet their authors. there hasn't been, it has to be the head is because it combines so many different temperaments. i'm the one can tumble wildly through time and space with it sounds to have some kind of see where this book is. it's already of the kills and deliberately so with a know it's oh toy her as a companion, the 1st person to write to inbox on

a road trip through space out and find to see with the big i drove into the field modeling at my own speed and the grooves left behind my breaking was not accidental, but wonderful, precise and deep. and with that, i fell into a field of flowers and slend tights as many unexpected turns as it's on a case task and is by no means realism. somebody's got a great deal can be lost, which is something that you can also do. the dream lives, the nightmarish, the spa, i'm the twisted the off kilter. the strange so much fits in this beyond door, alongside so cold reality. the who do i need and as well when i'm the ted old enough dies. ready ready ready the fantastic and the every day and in between the family. martin thomas describes the west germany colored grandfather and the different grandmothers, one intact, the other damaged with great tenderness. not

a family novel more a family mosaic contest. only to it that way. the way it's written in the book, i wanted it that way, this flashlight like spotlight moment instead of direct to that these individuals. and that builds up on its own into something that's epic has her prose exuberant so radio and comforting the van to the mountains in place reach spectacularly for the sky today, a popular hiking area, but in 1991 it was the setting for the 1st by close of the eucharist off was so many germans, these mountains, australian city, familiar? that's because the famous winter to german weston's, west shops here and the 19 sixty's, the mountain range was a stand into the american prairie when clements my 1st had the story while

travelling in croatia, he immediately so it's potential duction and you'll be sermons in yugoslavia. part of my, the international production and the disintegrating dream of yugoslavia. that's great. sentiment is not, that's great literature can you does if i had to do it with the project. so this doesn't just set new standards in terms of scope and like to fail the stories crossfade, we find ourselves in a maelstrom of thoughts, dialogues, and memories. here, cinema is a magical place and the refuge, not least because the world outside is a vine, antoine. as well, and not on human. once upon a time there was a boy whose face was covered with chalk and looked like a like magic. and he met other people with white masks their faces under chalk and dust install. 1941, the boy of the losing his family. drawing the german invasion of outbreak, joins a group of partisans, independent, the mountains. yeah. as light to as an adult to join to west german film crew. that

is filming one is called mind when a 2 novels cowboy, as the villages called him, becomes an extra working for the germans of old people. come to like, seeking the 1980s, whether so young, near or not see who in a few years will join must and res fighting alongside creation. practiced in the balkans, so many characters, so many stories but was actually real and what's not. and why so much violence? divide defendant violence as of course, a permanent feature of human history. but for me, the projectors is also about love or about hope. what about being driven along with every time even got into a fight. the project has is a mountain of a novel that reflects the turbulent history of your she has, you know g d, gym and roots and lives in fairly thrown yeah. man. so but number

74 is written on her book for 74 genocide committed against the cds 74 years. and we are the ones who they did not kill. we are not for life. we just haven't been killed. that's the difference under shoot. run your altman researched in libraries, read and travel to northern iraq. to understand a search triggered by the genocide of the cds in a rock. in august 2014 the ceramic state terrorist networks kidnapped and slaved, raped and massacred filings in those weeks the, the before and there was an off task resumes and it's like a crack in time where you ask yourself, is this the end in this open searches for a language in the face of the unspeakable and mistrust woods, but continues to rights desperately securing traces and bearing witness. if i right,

how big i have seen this, the eye is a witness placed, it speaks adult and yes, it has no language. even on how can one express the full extent of this horror in woods, whose collins and waterfalls run your altman's journey. take such as the tents of a rocky refugee camps to your c. d relative to, to what sized families should combine. so experiences the with her life in germany, who is she co between the 2 polls most yet, cds to germany in 2014 years later, the phone just talk, recognize the mess across the cds as genocide. the book is an act of resistance against the 74 attempts to wipe out people the natural beauty of the bookcase, but it's not as a delay as it may seem because the walls pop back. i'm not, it's not just

a problem for young shepherd janice and his family the same time they're both very current fears and very old mystical fears. and i found that very interesting. i cannot until i have the money up because i don't have any answers myself as to how to deal with it sensitively as a society just tyson does extend that it was fine. the opinion is divided on the wolf, janice, who is more and more stories of sheep kennings in the neighborhood. and that being exploited by right wing naturally to stir up the local population within. i dropped some more research and it really is a big problem here in lower science any. and it's culminated here in this region. i think you would. but yeah, and this is like, but of the worries, his father's incipient dimension, the responsibility increasingly weighs on him for long, early as long as he lives he will have to do this work. otherwise they can just give up and sell the farm because a lot of 19 the landscape has he found his limbs. he has the tether go,

standing at the edge of his pastor, unable to go any further. and despite there comes a mysterious woman at p is, is she a ghost or is he losing his mind to smart guy? so i like go story. and i also like the idea that maybe there should be more ghost stories in germany because i think there are a lot of ghosts in the past here of difficult that. yeah, this can't stop thinking about the ghostly i publish. and he tells deeper into the less romantic history of the region which today is still an important location for the german arguments industry. with a legacy of full labor during the nazi era fund rose in from the north dispelling the peace of the countryside. it's gripping and you are the real, the childhood friends live in cost, so they've in the north of romania, in a remote mountainous region with vast forest and

a check that history in glimmer of light beer is rough. describes of friendship between live in colorado and romania under chesko in the 1980s. a life lived together under dictates a ship with its countless bands reprisals, unfulfilled dreams, and existence. so questions that the new who am on so to speak in a system that is not free and which i cannot think or travel freely. who lives grandfather conk, stand the restrictions and leaves football straight out. more and more people start disappearing often overnight with each person who left the sort of leaving group and with each person who stayed the hope of being able to stay, grew stronger. and then in 1999 the machine collapses, as opposed to opened costco in early twenties is one of the 1st to leave for mania . but left stays close to connected to his homeland landscape and the forest

years. right. so caught some sense of postcards asking when are you coming? they've joined, set for a trip for europe, but will they be as close as they were before? the story is told backwards, the narrative is a journey into the post of the cartoon. each of the characters reveal themselves selfish. i think rushing always has to do with longing because looming is also a feeling of belonging that you were perhaps lucky enough to have at one time in your life. dilemma often liked a story of friendship and the rules of memory and the search for identity and of possible new beginnings. italy is the guest of on our country at this year's frankfurt book fair. one of the interesting authors representing a country she herself is critical of is the malia, telling writer in java chicago for lens humbled forum is symbolic

of depression, empire, and european colonial history. and we are here to meet with some malia, tell him right. or each of us shake, go you for writing deals with questions of identity and with colonialism and it's ongoing legacy. although she was born in italy and has lived in rome all her life, her family comes from somalia. shay go tells their story in our new novel, cassandra in mogadishu, my families or over the ward off the civil war is why? yeah, the cassandra is in a so as selector that i wrote to my niece to explain my mom is that instead of generational conversation, what was it like when you were a p and colonial states took possession of more and more somali territories at the end of the 19th century and the italian fascist era under mussolini somalia was merged with ethiopia and eritrea to form the new colony of italian,

the east africa. i loved the titan boss, i know that it's tiny and so mine and my 2 countries has vis or more history and come on and this harder but of history and come on was his and no one bothered. many somalis have long repressed memories of this time. including some who collaborated with the oppressors. she goes, grandfather, for example, worked as a translator. my gosh, father, it was for a nice bottle for the colonizer. and he was the full one all for the types of generality and during the career and during the civil war. i don't know if i'm going to see any one of that was work for me. not as of today. the name little doubtful graziano. he is associated with the most serious war crimes committed by the mussolini regime on the african continent. somalia is one of the poorest

countries in the world. even after achieving independence in 1960, it never came to rest. since then, it has been plagued by numerous conflicts, corruption, hunger, and civil war. millions of somalis have fled, and now live all over the world. shall, by shade goes parents were among them. her father was once made of mogadishu and ambassador, and administer the following. a military coup, led by general c on body for parents, fled to the former colonial tower to italy. the shabba was born in rome, but she always felt a particular pain for which she says there is only a word and some only general meaning. in this, the somali, but is more than enough in this book is a, you know, a, in a picture of the situation of our source. and that is the way that we try to

survive to the civil war, to the timeline, to post tom over the civil war. even though she's never lived there, somalia is part of her identity says the java shape go. because the in from somalia is not just about trauma, but so much more there are many said in the book about me about our conversation about the people does it together or stay together and half the people are having now the people and we, um, the in down our intimacy. so i want to describe this most to them, for lack of, you know, joy in this school. and it's, it's a joy brought this war to the country is slowly recovering from its violent past. but poverty remains a problem. many somali, see europe as a beacon of hope and risk their lives to get there. but europe is sealing it. cell fox, the need another year. and so that way. so maybe i because i'm

after me, your pin. so i was born in europe and i, i won, the feudal became more and more open to the war. chava she go, writes for a global audience and hopes that readers will come to understand the history of somalia, a history that is closely linked to europe. then and now the, the peace prize of the german book trade is also awarded at the frankfurt book fair and award for personalities to ignite debate and highlight problems. this year, the prize goes to us polish publicist and historian, n applebaum, whose works include the deluxe and the lawyer of authoritarianism. the eastern europe expert is also one of the leading analysts of autocratic systems. we met her

just before the award ceremony in frankfort. has the west on the estimated the autocrats. what's ship the west have done differently? we should have understood a long time ago that trade with the autocratic world is not free of politics. for example, the russian gas trade with europe and especially the construction of pipelines, had a very clear political purpose. the point of building pipelines across the baltic sea was to avoid you crate and poland probably in preparation for the invasion of ukraine so. so this was not a decision that had just some, you know, it was just about money. it was also about politics. and i think we failed to see the war against you. crime began almost 3 years ago and there was no end in sight. do you have any idea how this war might end? the war's only over when the russians understand that ukraine is an independent country and they ceased to want the congress,

we are not yet treating this war as if it's our war. we aren't, we don't really understand yet the significance of what happens if you cry and news is i hope people aren't so short sighted as to believe that by not supporting zelinski the end of this war because they don't edit, they simply create a larger problem for themselves down the road. there is another one in the middle east and is there a chance to gets conflict under control? one of the most important players in the middle east is iran in his real. you also have a democratic forces inside his real netanyahu has partners and his coalition, who i would describe is extreme us who have who, who pushed the war in a, in a much bloody or direction then it should ever have gone. but, but, but it's also a war that will, you know, really only ends when there is, you know, when there is an acceptance of everybody's right to exist. people from threatened by migration, by inflation, by was by globalization. what kind of west do there is

a connection between people, sense of disappointment and the rise and growth of all talk per se, as well. you know, migration has, is, has, is, is partly of crisis because of the russian more in syria. and also because of the russian war in ukraine, inflation is high also, partly because of the russian war and ukraine and therefore higher, higher oil prices. so part of re establishing face in our political system and in our institutions is understanding where the challenges are coming from and, and pushing back against them. i mean, i'm not saying that all the challenges are external because they're certainly not. but that's a, that's an important part of the answer. the language of movement is really choreographer. hope the shift of boundary breaking dance company and their powerful production deep into the pit of your stomach, even before you understand it, you feel it rousing, intense energy sector who grew up in jerusalem was working with his london base

dance company. when he heard about the october 7th, thomas terrorist attack on israel. shortly afterwards, rehearsals for theater of dreams began, blah, blah, blah, blah, show top. so the more this becomes a big, the more this becomes out of service. so that moment is the math, which you can say, maybe it's just nothing. it's not really important. it's not really saving anyone. for me, the choice is to work was done. so it was meant to be the body where the moment with people with music we something that brings people together regardless of their background, regardless of their culture. 13 dancers, a diverse ensemble. it starts with a sound, a gesture of viewing everything in an open to what is happening in the world right now. chaos or, and crisis for me,

the creative process is a very or a process. it's about discovering a lot of things and taking things out of the books, my books, the dancers, books, the world, you know, letting everything influence us them. and then it's the job of organizing it i think and then space operates a little bit like dreams. very powerful imagery makes you feel a lot of scenes, mainly the fact that a lot of us have very similar games effect. and that's i would dream of very influenced by our culture. and it's very connected to what we are taught, what we are educated, and that's how the show was born. the 49 year old is in paris for the premier. he studied percussion here as a young man. it's one of the reasons he writes the music for his piece as himself. he has been working regularly with that task. we've done that building since 2015.

the fan base is large. so far, every performance has been sold out. the whole fest shesta has developed his own very recognizable dance language shaped by growing up in israel and the constant threat there. beyond sambal is at the very center like in exhibits. he says we're collective wellbeing is more important than individual needs. israel is a very extreme place. so are you are, you are, as you know, you are born into a reality that these conflicts to that is, that is in, in constant are adults inside and out all the time. everything is intense, everything is high. tension

there is nothing better than i've done space to express extremes of feelings of emotions. the options are we can be inside the world for me, the most powerful thing is understanding that it's a choice. how you are, is a choice of subjects that makes a choice himself. and the conciliatory one at that she gives the audience a moment of happiness, as if at a celebration everyone dances together. the, i believe the tween dance together. it makes a lot of things that really go away. it's still positive politics. you know, politics is the process of defining people and different groups and then starting to create the separation. and it's about control in our 20 because it's about love. it's about the opening up and it's about doing some things together. shesta and his ensemble have created a moving dance piece. theater of dreams reminds us of the power of

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