very lucid and nalla says well the leipzig book fair has also spawned a host of accompanying events including a four day reading festival and the overarching idea is to celebrate books the real physical objects with pages and the relationship between authors and their readers which these days is often cemented in the digital domain. the printed word has existed for nearly six hundred years but the medium is in crisis with the rise of electric media the bookcase may be a thing of the past. the younger generation so-called digital natives don't seem to have much interest in printed books and in the stodgy style of many a literary classic. but a new form of literature is finding an audience among the generation zs. there are known to take instagram poet ruby core she's more than three million followers fans of her short mostly sentimental tax on love loss and loneliness. or advocates the man in the mask or the instagram poet recently signed a deal with german publisher di t.v. the hope is online stars will bring digital natives back to books. on the front mondays and now our dream is to get thes

in germany means that bookworms literally come out of the woodwork the leipzig book fair is the second largest in germany after frankfurt and one of its big events is the annual leipsic book award for european understanding. awarded on wednesday night to the russian american journalist author and activist mush i guess been a long time and very outspoken critic of russian president vladimir putin and his brand of strongman politics she was awarded the prize for her book the future is history how totalitarianism reclaimed russia which judges have said offers a persuasive lifeline in times when the flames of intolerance are spreading like wildfire here's what she says about her book. basically it's rough.

no signs of gloom and doom at the leipzig book fair despite the fact that a major german book wholesaler recently the clear bankruptcy overstock meant but this time the book fair is bigger and more international than ever. canada is making its debut here with publishers from across the country and they've brought along books in a wide variety of genres. the first time here i am so i think i like to think is open to public so it's interesting to get to me that there are readers i think it's also the place where i . the new book are really every year so it's good to be there and to feel that trend. readers can meet their favorite authors and then like in frankfurt stock up on books. this publishers trying to attract young readers with a selfie competition. a more serious note this year's book fair focuses on south eastern europe and the erosion of democracy and freedom of speech . germany's federal agency for civic education is sponsoring a series of discussions and book readings thirty years of change and young people then and now. a student you can mention do not know what's happening wi

but first springtime in leipzig can eat certain eastern germany means that bookworms literally come out of the woodwork the likes of book fair is the second largest in germany after frankfurt and one of its big events is the annual likes of book award for european understanding. awarded on wednesday night to the russian american journalist author and activist mush i guess been a long time and very outspoken critic of russian president vladimir putin and his brand of strongman politics she was awarded the prize for her book the future is history how totalitarianism reclaimed russia which judges have said offers a persuasive lifeline in times when the flames of intolerance are spreading like wildfire here's what she says about her book my argument is basically it's russia's future is shaped by its past and you might say that about any country but what i mean specifically is that. the seventy four years of to tell it turns them shaped in an entirely different society than what we have seen elsewhere in the world and what we're seeing in russia or the consequences of the repeat of that society. very lucid and nalla says while th

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leipzig city library has meant toward the leipzig young literature jury these kids are spending a year reading and picked six favorites to present at the book fair so what makes them drop their phones and pick up a book the one from the back when i haven't had because you can travel to distant world and so you can see things you wouldn't otherwise see and i'm just feel free. so maybe books do have a future after all. well there was a time in germany with. one of the nation's most revered man of letters but for twenty years or so now the poet has had to compete with simply the pioneering electronic music project. carrying on in the tradition of innovators like kafka tangerine dream schiller has sold over seven million albums regularly tops the charts and fills concert halls and he's also an expert at new sonic spaces. and christoffersen. has joined me in the studio. thank you for coming in new album out. congratulations it was recorded in. the studio the farm and sixteen tracks that you said the essence of. recent years how would you say that your music has evolved since the early days back in the late ninety's. i think it's important to somehow