A matter of chance. You know somehow and so every home is a happenstance on youre born somewhere driven out of there donate your kidney to science over here look at lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. Act to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has an enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts a birth happens somewhere fun and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. Travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the train a river in bosnia when he visits his grandmother and records her memories the book looks back at titos yugoslavia and its collapse in the 1990 s. Nationalism and war forced the family to flee from it because. I dont hes wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and to file a stories that way there but the present always dips into the past of if we took the same route today my mother and i would have ended up standing in front of a barbed wire fence somewhere in hungary thats hard its hard. Chance to come to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. A gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. Because we could be anything there we could be anything and everything in the stories we told there and there were hardly any conflicts it was like an unwritten rule not here maybe someplace else but not here in this stony shit place with chance and its his readers join in Decision Making in the end the book becomes an adventure novel turning like a relay tweel between fact and fiction. And congratulations to him staying on a literary topic its time for our series 100 german must read this week a book by the man or just won this years nobel prize for literature of the austrian right into pita hands hes come on the quite some criticism since then because of his political beliefs but his literary talents im not in question more about his book sure. Well from ah very own literary talent mr David Leavitts hotel bars are a great place to hang out when youre feeling as and with people who are going to be back and. Bring. In sort whether or long farewell by peter hunka a young austrian gets to know the hotel and hotel bars of america during the u. S. His exwife who stalking him or if he were one following her. Either way he keeps hitting the road discovering what german speakers called that one because. The land of unlimited possibilities from coast to coast he takes in a dense tangle of cliches and cultural references but mostly obsessed with himself. What was more important for memory was the brief moment when i really thought i wasnt there anymore today i interpret that feeling not as a desire to vanish from the face of the earth but as joyful anticipation of a future when i would cease to be the person i was at that moment its very much the same now when every day i tell myself that im one more day older and that it must show its got so i really want the time to pass and make me old that no one over 30. In the book came out in 1972 austrian author page 100 was making way of the off of european literature had become famous with his play of spending the audience and in general offending people has been a pretty big theme of his career but this book short letter long farewell is more introspective is the europeans wistful look at the us but the country and the mess and it being a foreigner there can teach him about himself. Now he is considered a musical genius plays numerous concerts worldwide every year and studies of the renowned mozart tayo Music Academy insults in australia whats robert exceptional about this particular fellow is that louis keller is just 12 years old and is the youngest of a pupil to study kind of me you discover the piano when he was 6 and says he fell in love with the instrument a new immediately that he wanted to become a concert pianist. One day ahead of his concert additional power festival. Is hard at work for her sing. The youngest of 3 children in the u. S. Lives in the state of carinthia in austria. He was a quick learner from an early age and skipped a grade in school. He also knew exactly what he wanted from piano lessons. Together for months and he told the teacher play this for me now play it again ok i can already play that so you can go as it is constantly push him away so were really grateful to his teacher for his immense patience and at least seldom did what he was supposed to at the conservatory hes always been that way wanting to do everything on his own in school too he always wanted to learn Something Else that the others werent doing and thats what he did home. On this but i dont. Believe this is Musical Development progressed rapidly and he was soon taking part in music competitions found winning awards. Media coverage and t. V. Appearances followed and unusual situation for the parents of this child prodigy suddenly in the public eye. Im funny he says when a kook. Its a strange feeling of the beginning you have to get used to it of a myth that with time you learn how to deal with it we keep our eyes and ears open all the time we assess situations and when we realize that somethings happening or somebody expects things that on ok we intervene and say sorry but we dont want this just. Silly ass has a busy life traveling to concerts and competitions while still attending school and studying of those ites book. 20 minutes of soccer with his dad then its back to the piano. For state and i need money i dont get it when people say youre so busy you have no free time music is free time why shouldnt it be music or something beautiful theres nothing wrong with making music right malted of. The head of his appearance of the chopin 1st of all ileus is her son careful and hes a perfectionist. You have always got to be prepared and there could always be a part that doesnt go as well and being im never fully satisfied with myself but i actually should be. That preparation and kluges going over the piece mentally up until the very last moment. When every s. Plays his technique is close to perfect but whats more important is that he feels the music. Vampire monsters and mummies dont really exist of a well i havent met any yet except the movies but the script writers who dream them up often inspired by real scientific discoveries thats the subject of an exhibition at the Natural History museum in los angeles called the Natural History of horror after all the most famous monster of them all was created by a Mad Scientist called dr frankenstein. The money a milestone of the horror film genre on its release the 1930 it shocked audiences and was a Box Office Hit for Universal Studios british actor Boris Karloff played the high priest in hotel was buried alive success bond several sequels and remakes the real life inspiration for the iconic horror film with the archaeological discoveries of the 1900 centuries when largely european let expeditions plundered egyptian art of including mummies. Are actually the films are essentially inspired by the natural and physical world and the imagination that people have to create stories based on real things. Track you know the vampire is another invented character. But this exhibition demonstrates that epidemics such as cholera inspired author bram stoker to come up with his story in which any bitten by a vampire becomes one. And the classic story of the Mad Scientist frankenstein also turned into a Universal Studios blockbuster dr Victor Frankenstein so together parts of cadavers and brings the resulting creature to life with the help with electricity not so far off from experiments being carried out on animals at the time. We have. Her fatality correction collection from a really kind of showing the early Electrical Work that was done to try to get you know really reenergized animals and bring them to life. And then theres the creature from the black lagoon from 1954 the 1st 3 d. Monster movie in cinema history. It tells of the terror unleashed when scientists go digging around where they probably shouldnt topic with added relevance in light of current. And to. Make people stop and think a little bit about you know what i can do and do you know. And you know whats your conversation with happening today about our friend right here and. 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