His ninety five thesis document was a rejection of the pope and what luther considered to be a corrupt Catholic Church which he felt had betrayed its face he luther and wanted to save it thus began five hundred years ago a schism within the Christian Church and the rise of the reformation it was a revolution new things revolution five hundred years of practice and ism are being celebrated in germany throughout the year events including this major exhibition at berlins martin. About luthers global legacy well have more on that in a moment and well talk to an author about writing a luther novel in two thousand and seventeen but first we travel to where it all began five hundred years ago to the heart of this years celebrations the city of witan bowed about an hours drive south of berlin. Luther described a city at the edge of civilization. Martin luther would have been amazed at whats become of his quiet little bit and back. This year its the spiritual and artistic epicenter of events surrounding the quince and tenor of the reformation. Exhibitions are giving visitors to rittenberg a double dose of Martin Luther. The al gore steel and antics of the centuries Old University has ninety five treasures on display. A simple. Candy exhibition includes objects littering new or even held in his hands some of them are things he created such as his writing. His own book there are also works of art that depict the world at the time of the reformation. Of tying. The exhibition in witan bags from a prison stands in stark contrast and the apple god of boxing glove to symbolize the monk who sparred with the Catholic Church inside the art objects are behind bars. A central theme is individual freedom prized by luther and now endangered in the digital age. Internet i think you tell us and thats. Connected with the entire world through the internet and digital networks. So we can have dialogues across all bogus. But at the same time we need to the monist says each of us sitting in our own and cells you might say. Sculptor marcus loop out is a convert to catholicism he shows luther as a belligerent but abused rebel. The russian born jewish artist yuri god genco has an ambiguous relationship with Martin Luther. Here hes portrayed the nazi era rush bishop looked fake mourner who envisions a synthesis of the protestant religion and national socialism. Cosies that is following from luthers anti semitic statements which the nazis were only too willing to use in their propaganda. To me. It creates a certain dilemma to see luther glory by some much and hear people say he was so important for german and he translated the bible. But he had some ugly sides and for me those living much larger than the good things he contributed. Has also joined in to dismantle the great reformers image in a video produced especially for the exhibition the own phone terry blow of germanys art world presents different views of luther ranging from agitated to neurotic. Fail to do away with all religions or even say it in for a facet and call for it all religions must be gotten rid of. That would have been his obligation to reform something that was not reformable its a mistake and its cynicism. Such ransley fans of luthers shaking their heads to the exhibition at the hour christy him is called ninety five people it looks at figures who have a specific connection to Martin Luther. Martin luther kings as the name of course. And theres the english king and Church Reform ahead. Less obvious might be swedish author astrid linger and she puts on. Of luthor into her characters by castle there is a line from carlson on the roof that was unfortunately not reproduced in the translation us whenever something goes wrong for carlsen he says its just a worldly thing thats based on a quote that luther formulated. From. Back at the old prison louisa shirt has dedicated her work to the women of britain barack is famous as Martin Luther shrewd wife catalina farm boy the artist hopes to change that with this plaque for example it commemorates a nine hundred eighty seven general strike that never actually happened. To hopes it will inspire the people of britain back. To stand down by three i might wonder why they dont know anything about this general strike what does it mean for what could have meant for the history of women in east germany or all of germany. What would it mean if i took part in a general strike today if i didnt agree with certain political conditions and first amendment. To the black unveiled on the edge of town is certain to mean confusion fake history as an incentive to learn about real history. Tens of thousands of tourists are coming to visit back every month virtually all of them because of Martin Luther and his theses. That might be most astounded by the freedoms these people take for granted all the powerful machines they have created. In the avalon god exhibition the robot lab artist group demonstrates how a machine can write out the entire bible and nine months but no machine can interpret it for the masses like Martin Luther didnt. Martin luther five hundred years ago the rebellious monk redefined what it meant to be a christian down to the smallest detail of daily routine much of what was considered typically protestant back then has come to represent what is typically german now industriousness social welfare taking joy in work reading serious music but also selfdenial and submission to authority. Luther the saint the superstar the outlaw the enraged citizen and also an antisemite so who are we talking about when we talk about luther. Margin luther is a superstar in his adopted home of it and barack. There is luther schnapps. Luther bread and of course luthers bible. His image is everywhere. But the reformation he started five hundred years ago we were greats way beyond the towns boundaries. The seismic events litter set in motion changed the entire world. But what made them possible in the first place. I would think. With across the mood or perhaps better the spirit of the time everything he said and thought was already in the air so what he needed was a great voice a voice like a trumpet and the ability to fascinate people. It was an age of robber barons and serfs when witches were burned at the stake and the devil was omnipresent the church exerted a huge influence on peoples lives life in medieval didnt bear was anything but cozy as can be seen from this huge panorama created especially for the anniversary. The dominant mood of the time was doom and gloom there was famine and. The peasants revolt wasnt confined to the f. Fifteen twenty five for generations there had been uprisings that were massive asleep put down. Many fear judgment day was imminent and preachers like johan tuttle exploited that by selling indulgences in places like you to a bog where five hundred years later and some shadow ministers to the Catholic Community he says people thought indulgences would shorten their time in purgatory. In the middle ages was closely tied to ideas of the last judgment expected to be about in hell and wanted to try and a tone for their sins. They were afraid. Well and others saw a Business Opportunity in exploiting. This way and it wasnt just an odd religious idea it was a financial policy. The aim was to siphon money out of the german region out of saxony interior and and send it to rome to Fund Projects such as simple peaches cathedral. Then suddenly an iconic image of western christianity luther nailing his ninety five theses to a church door in bag he was protesting against the sale of indulgences and the doctrine of clerical infallibility. And. At this point he was just addressing an abuse of authority. He didnt necessarily think it should lead to the establishment of a new challenge. Could i could even imagine he would have v. M. And he rejected any such idea. That. Luther believed christians should assume more individual responsibility for their actions no one should be able to buy a clean conscience he translated the bible from latin into german so that everyone could understand it and the newly invented Printing Press helped him spread the scriptures in the for an ocular. Despite the christian schism and some shadow is excited about the anniversary and the chance to meet with lutheran colleagues he thinks both churches today recognize more things that unite than divide them. I dont believe we are celebrating it nor are the lutheran celebrating it. Rather we are commemorating the split in the church and hoping to do what we can to overcome it. One thing the two churches already share in this jubilee year its a love song just the way luther would have liked it. Luther was a voracious reader and an extremely prolific bestselling author at the height of his fame three times as many books were published in germany than in france and italy together most of them written by luther he was aided by goodman back snoo book Printing Technology without which he would have never become so popular know all the reformation so successful the anniversary celebration is also a. Having an effect on the modern book market dozens of musicology books have been published but what i find more intriguing is the question of how you might go about writing a luthor novel nowadays. They loot a novel of the year is even galileo penned by fairy didnt know hes a muslim but hes extremely well versed in the bible he lives in kill in luther st of all places and invited his there to talk about his latest work. So im older whose parents moved to germany as socalled guest workers is one of the countrys most eloquent novelists in his work he dissects german ness delves into other worlds in the parks hes looked at the lives of german migrants and islamists and now hes taken on the protestant superstar. Very dense imo you know what inspired you to focus on the historical figure of Martin Luther. And this time meister that is a master of the german language. As it in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. I lived in mossad out of a working class neighborhood of munich duty and one day i was browsing in the local library and when i came across the luther german bible. I didnt realize what this big book was and i hardly understood a word but its a fiery language fascinated me because it was so different to the jargon spoken in the neighborhood where my sister and i grew up this is in the manifesto of folks luther continues to fascinate him evangelium focuses on luthers time at the viper castle in fifteen twenty one where he translated the bible into german in a frenzy of work haunted by visions of the devil. In the novel luthor is guarded by a fictitious mercenary who is also the books first person narrator. He scratches rooms as if picking the saviors. With the whimpers and sacrilege and thats the long shot here is nights work in the torture chamber where he promises to tame the vipers and this event of his beast they have a change dog in the yard howls at the shadows of clouds passing by at all in the german god cleans the fear from our hearts thats why i protect their attic at rock n roll. So you get. That instead of a monster of language and you created an entirely new language for even one strong crude and the rest of this how did you do that conclude that i saw by these oh my novel i relied on the power and the beauty of the german language which gives it if i need on my never assume that not everything could be expressed in german on the contrary and so on that in eating time and as a writer shift and he says its my duty to torture myself. And feel i read the original books and the bible or you know travel to the historical location season its been on the show but that wasnt enough discussion about this and he so like luther. To us that i fasted luther used to get up at three am to attend masters so i got up at three as well for that you might consider that particular silly but you have to remember that writers are ridiculous figures core clear and. You also to amend the readers of your novel with seven it is a moses with blood splattering everywhere on the border an unborn child is cut out of a womans womb out of superstition and spirit which doesnt say sin is this you would journey into a medieval madness. I did a while to get citation and i wanted to depict all these things. And i wanted to describe all these things and like to underline and acknowledge Martin Luthers remarkable achievement built again and he struggled and was way outside his comfort zone for that yeah yeah hot culpably shell he also severed physically and he could have and he was exposed to all these disgusting circumstances most of any time and i want to expose readers to that do. Ill skits it. Neatly it says they shouldnt have the feeling of the author is leaving something out. And high above us owls only i want them to actually feel what it was like thats the leisurely one please say he see he leaves i will say not because i like to torture my readers who go myself me. But because i want to portray luther and his times so authentic like decent side beats of that citation and so it was important for me in some of the scenes. To provide a glimpse of the harsh german late medieval reality and im funny this isnt that sidewalk or are you driving across germany giving readings and interviews. The five hundredth anniversary of the reformation doesnt ever imagine you become a looser ambassador a little bored shaft a bit here. Im not a lutheran bastard. But i really enjoy going from city to city like you and i dinner and a monk thats reading from my novel and thundering out this heavy medieval german toy. But also done anything when i read it literary salons or book shops and get some people are quite surprised. They look at me wide eyed and say how could you write this youre from and they want to say youre muslims and what theyre doing a polite youre from a different culture mentions wow where do you get this from quote to or dont now that i havent see this then and then we get involved in deep theological conversation its something i really enjoy that ish and so for now ill keep on preaching is dark but uplifting message could be the. The clear for portrait after their thanks for talking to us yeah it was a pleasure thank you. In germany today only sixteen percent of the countrys protestants say they go to church regularly and south korea that figure is an impressive eighty four percent so what has become of the reformation over the centuries and around the world here at the martin go piers bar in berlin a major exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the real world of protestantism for instance to africa. An exorcism driving out the devil its a central tenet of faith for lutheran communities in tanzania these photos were taken in twenty sixteen. Days using the most nice and near photograph you want for i always photograph a close range and try to be within the group of people put myself inside the situation so i was actually in the middle of this exorcism as all the time some of the time i was kneeling over the possessed person so that the exorcists was standing over me and basically shouting in my ears and that was really strange. Was on. An exhibition in berlin petaca for karsten hein traveled with the bishop around tanzania to photograph exorcism rituals five hundred years after the start of the reformation were paying a call on the second largest Lutheran Church in the world. Its six million members consider themselves the modern true lutherans. Was your vote at home is what i expected to see was how the lutheran religion our religion has shaped Africa Africa perfect but when i was there i became aware of how much the religion has been shaped by tanzania it became clear when talking with tanzania and bishops that their understanding of faith healing through healing through prayer that is the core of their religiosity of faith ireland which could be it so its learned in care that you dont really use the two dollars mark the luther effect exhibition marks the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation asks how protestantism has affected other denominations and religions how people from different cultures have adopted protestant teachings visitors enter through an installation based on the schism the reformation caused in the Catholic Church sections devoted to tanzania sweden the u. S. And korea show how extremely heterogeneous protestantism is globally. The film secret sunshine for example shows how the number of Free Church Christians has been on the rise in south korea since the one nine hundred fifty s. Today evangelicals account for twenty percent of the population. In. The middle distance in korea its mainly the presbyterians and methodists whove been there since the late nineteenth century. But the great protestant boom didnt occur there until after the country was divided when christians fled from the north so it was actually a migrations and. The title of the show might be considered misleading because the exhibition is only partially about luther it also looks at the fragmented heritage of many reformers such as strongly calvin and. The United States for example was a promising country for christians looking for. Home where they could worship as they pleased even today there are active anabaptist communities such as the amish and mennonites whose radical doctrines reject technical progress and modern values. In addition to the lutherans the evangelical churches are also doing well in africa. The exhibition shows that luthers doctrine of faith wasnt the only one to spread beyond hero. Siding for the who show that it was also the reformed churches the anglicans toys and we take a look at catholics to reagans this in for wednesday the anabaptists said the basic course that emerged in the sixteenth century and then spread around the world to sweden the United States tanzania and korea. Whats happening in the us is also interesting from a political perspective as seen in footage of iraq Church Services in the deeply religious bible belt the exhibition gives us a better insight into the evangelicals in the heartland of america the proponents of creationism and the prolife and anti abortion activists spinoffs which litter cannot have possibly envisioned. This exhibition in berlin is one of three Major Special exhibitions in germany marking the five hundred anniversary of the reformation the other two are as weve seen in witan belak and at Vauxhall Corsa where luther translated the bible into german and is said to have thrown his inkpot at the devil. And by the way luther never did visit. Thats all from twenty one for a special Anniversary Edition theres no on facebook. Dot com slash culture until next. Week young entrepreneurs eager to tackle the challenges in our series founders. In this official lots of concrete too little space to. Detail for dental travel to hong kong. To talk about cities of the future africa the second part of the series. Down does valley thirty minute d. W. Film the something nice when i ask him to daughters or dealing with any of that and they killed many civilians with him in the us coming including my father why the things that i was a student i wanted to build a life for myself. 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