And the continent of africa on the move stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series food for god. D. W. Dot com or go. Hello and welcome to a new edition of ops twenty one. This is its literature im intentionally messing with you its the best german language novel of the year will be announced at the upcoming french first book fair we meet the six contenders for the coveted german book prize for. First we had to San Francisco and an exhibition showcasing contemporary muslim
fashion that explores the fusion between faiths and Fashion Modesty and maternity. Is america ready for the show. When the do young museum in San Francisco announced contemporary muslim fashions two years ago the idea immediately sparked criticism dedicating an exhibition to muslim fashion given the current Political Climate in the us is a bold move but the museums director at the time maps whole line and choice courting controversy i think i know so its for life for them. On the one hand theres islamophobia criticism at the front and. On the other theres also criticism from feminists who feel the exhibition celebrates the subjugation of women in muslim countries are looking for fall in with these men. Hardly surprising that the opening was so well attended eighty ensembles are on display all designed to cover the body in keeping with his Lama Principles they prove that theres more
to muslim fashion the many realize. You are certain to be afraid of what they dont know. What i find nice and interesting is that once you see something. I dont think its was scary as you might think. This is that. The fifty three muslim designers from across the globe have loaned their creations to the museum the pieces are high fashion elegant without a whisper of a cliche they might be whats called modest dress but theyre also a celebration of confidence style and beauty. The Intonation Designer Dion Pelangi is a star of the muslim Fashion World her five print designs are shown on runways in koala in poor and jakarta. When people say what comes to their mind is something in
a dark colors and. Colors but in the end line you can find colors that theres any style off the job so i think thats one of the. Our signature. Customer base our wealthy women she also sells in the us and europe the twenty seven year old who represents younger generations of fashion forward muslims for her to heat up is both a religious symbol and an accessory which can be used to express individuality thats not as paradoxical as it sounds a lot of people have a different perception about dep itself maybe they think that people who are press that oprah here so we start to be outspoken more in social media to show that were not oppressed we were stylish clothes things and we can still do anything be anything with our here on. For some westerners head scarves and clothes
specifically made to cover womens bodies remain tools of oppression. The exhibition touched on this view by including a book keeney the full Body Swimsuit which was banned on French Beaches in twenty sixteen. The show also features the courageous protest by iranian women against he job loss in their radically changing country theres also been the rise of the muslim female professional and a lot of women are entering into the workforce and theyre looking for a wardrobe that is both urban but also it hears to their modest dress codes. Could tour Design Houses like Oscar De La RentaJohn Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld are already designing for the growing and lucrative muslim Fashion Market muslim women spend Forty Four Billion dollars a year on modest fashion the exhibition was partially inspired by the so called generation am confident muslim women and men between the ages of twenty and thirty
bloggers fashion influencers from many countries who see themselves as unofficial ambassadors of Muslim Culture they call them. Selves each of the styles or ministers their outfits are creative but also covered in keeping with the teachings of the koran all around the Syrian American rapper mona haidar performs wearing her headscarf. Pregnant stylish and strong her online activism demands more tolerance for muslims like me but the number of designers are joining her Battle Calling by making strong statements with her fashion like the Saloon Samaan designed a jacket with the Us Constitution printed on the back in arabic originally from lebanon she arrived in canada as a refugee. Camp during my time as a refugee my i wasnt proud to being arab i was mocked i was criticized i was
bullied i was you know going through a lot of lot of racism it is a political piece if you wish to see it that way but it also represents the u. S. Constitution and the First Amendment freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of the press america is built on these values and we should remember that and the Exhibition Worth discussing the museum is well placed to start a much needed conversation about islam and muslim fashion without polemicist and i think its very timely given our current climate that were living in and i think that its highly educational because not everybody may know muslim but art is the means to a conversation and so i think people might come and they might see something or they might learn something and then theyre take away next time when they maybe watch the news and see something not so flattering about a muslim would be a little bit better. Come spring the exhibition will move on to frankfurt it runs
in the u. S. Until january. Time now. Now to put our Reading Glasses on as we introduce the writers who made the shortlist for this years german book prize for women and two men we start with susanna and the bird got a contemporary. The story begins with a sacrilege in an isolated Mountain Village a Bird Of Prey Worshiped by locals is killed. The bird hunters children pay the price. Vocal describes their fateful encounters with a feather a day. I
think birds especially Birds Of Prey have always captured the human imagination. Because they are such simple beings and yet they surpass us in many ways they can do so many things that we cant. Form a medical student an artist story on and a journalist three supposedly rational people become obsessed with tracking down the mysterious god of birds searching for him and paintings and in a god for saken camp in africa. But that intellect common sense cannot save her siblings who for under the spell. Of you think does this in the me tough i think its a metaphor for our inner selves. Of us of us least people are not confronted by something exteriors but by terrible parts of themselves. Slickly says and. What are we in the face of nature this novel opens the door to
a fantastical world that feels hauntingly real. In six suitcases maxine bello goes on a journey through history with a jewish family. What must it be like to be the son of russian jews constantly on the move seeing Family Members scattered across the world and never feeling it. Might seem billers novel captures a sense of Immigration Fatigue the author drew on his familys own experience they came to germany in One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Two years after the Prague Spring had been crushed. My parents suffered a lot leaving not just a city but a whole country and culture when youre forty and knowing you cant ever go back well thats like an amputation. And its incredibly exhausting and i wanted to
write about that i moved from munich to berlin when i was forty and that was hard enough for mentioned russian what can. The books narrator sent down from berlin to get to the bottom of a Family Secret his grandfather was denounced and executed in the soviet union who betrayed him and uncle. Natalia a beautiful actress. The six chapters are written from six Points Of View the characters are perilous relatives including his mother Brother And Sister Elena is the book or two biographical. Because this is nonsense this is its literature im intentionally messing with you mixing everything up cooking a great big pot of stew made of truth and lies some of the names are real some arent and most of the events are completely made up with some comparative from. God knows why i suddenly remembered how when i was
a child in prague i was always terrified that my whole life was just this story that spadeful was reading his son who of the neck to help him fall asleep and that space would shut the book of my story one day and that that would in my life to. The narrators life does not end and the secret remains unsolved six suitcases conic masterpiece full of wit and melancholy. In arky peleg oh. Also charts the history of a family this time on a canary island. Thousand kilometers from germany off the african coast lies tenerife and emotionally charged a backdrop for a novel which takes readers on a journey through time and space through the political and personal. Is the thought of leaving the island is on the periphery of europe and its always interesting to tell a story from that perspective but more importantly this Island Didnt Fit in with
bush one german suburbia were i grew up. The authors mother is from the Canary Islands so she knows turner if well book tells the story of three families belonging to different classes in society spanning birth adultry love and death. The story is overshadowed by historical milestones the Spanish Civil War the franco dictatorship. Travels backwards in time from the present to Nine Hundred Nineteen a narrative challenge. I have to take everything i know about storytelling about Building Suspense and conveying information and forget it or turn it upside down after cops despite the complexity of the story her prose is calm and clear. I dislike opulence and corners its basically sentimentality
a sort of beautified retrospective with. Nothing is beautified in this epic tale time passing and isolated moments a masterful depicted. I think every moment is the sum of all past moments the past is still present. Stephon tom a novel called of the barbarians is set during the opium wars in One Thousand Nine Hundred Three china. People are starving those in power are amassing wealth its a Tinderbox Riots in syria the Typing Rebellion is one of the bloodiest civil wars of all time with a death toll of thirty million. In count of the Barbarians Stefan Tom A writes about this tragedy the old who has lived in taiwan for many years he depicts a faraway well and on the brink of a new era the rebellion is led by the charismatic mistake home. He and his growing numbers of followers see themselves as christians. The
leader was in contact with christian protestant missionaries in hong kong and from his dreams and feverish fantasies he came to the conclusion that he was the son of god god second son the younger brother of jesus christ and that god is urging him to topple the emperor and make china a christian empire. Its a war on all fronts the british and the french muscle into as they want to force the free opium train. Though it was a coalition of world views and political ideas clash of historical systems of order and the question was what form should World Order Take who has the right and power to decide what kind of a world we will live in. The Novel Central Character is a young german missionary he experiences destruction and violence on his journey
through the war zone and increasingly questions his own western values. Of the barbarians as both a historical novel and an adventure story. It reads like an allegory of present day religious fanaticism. The Cantona General By Georgian Born Nino how to really tells the story of a Russian Oligarch and the rubble left by the crumbling of the soviet union. Nino how to teach billy peers into the very depths of her characters selves. In the cat and in general she uses different perspectives to tell the tale of a monstrous crime. And of the first chechen war. The book is inspired by real life events. The house. Was all pervasive people were fleeing their nerves frayed by curfews and cold war to much of the dead in the muddied snow were so disfigured they were unrecognizable as fallen as if the
war was creating a new category a new kind of human. The central figure is alexander all of a sensitive russian turned perpetrator by the war together with other soldiers he raped and murdered a young woman in a Mountain Town in chechnya the spawns and again where i once crazy about this real life case is that the unit was on a kind of holiday. Before they were on leave to recover from the fighting. But then they Couldnt Stand it they started all waging a kind of war within a war. And id keep in pick. Twenty years on all off is a rich on a guard known as the general. But memories of his on a term since haunt him the son of a soviet war hero. So he holds himself and his co perpetrators to account. For it and for many wanted to depict
a person who begins seeking some form of punishment because he knows hes done wrong with it and he sees the finality of that and realizes he cant go on living his life as before. Leaving. A story akin to a classic tragedy know how to really explores Crime And Punishment Wars Inside Heads and the evil within us all. Now to argentina and the onset of the Military Dictatorship in the one Nine Hundred Seventy s. Madonnas fail. And superstition the world of Maria Cecilia better. Shes lived in germany for twenty two years and explores her native argentina from that. Little town where she grew up on the outskirts of one as iris is called by a staff its a melting pot where migrants from All Over The World come to seek a better future. Best name in the internet is the life in argentina is not easy. But people are used to fighting hard for the things they love and love the fields who came for. The heroes of her novel are hair dressers laundromat owners or Car Mechanics like bob and his grandfather with all their hopes and fears they congregate in the car workshop. There. Anyone who wants to build up an honorable life in argentina needs a vision we need a utopia theres no way around it. The reader experiences Major Political events through the eyes of ordinary people the death of president pair on
the terrorism of the one Nine Hundred Seventy s. And social divisions on the eve of the Military Dictatorship. He wanted us to learn kana i wanted to write about what i know well enough to play inside of course that was life in a dark era a time filled with threats kidnappings murders but still all of these people sought out the light in their everyday lives the Little Things that make life worth living he wants that mark and. Maria cecilia bettors opulent novel night growing is steeped in affection for its characters and depicts a torn society seeking its identity. Six try. Six rivals for the german book prize worthy contenders will find out the winner on october the yanks. In Two Thousand And Six fall again henkel Fontana Smocks Debut film the lives of others
want every award going his latest is never look away doesnt live up to expectations. This fellow Doesnt Do Small long on hankel from donors mark won an oscar for his first ever feature film he made his Second One With Hollywood Stars but was marked by critics now his third film never look away has celebrated its premiere at the Venice Film Festival although there were no prizes there was one success for adonis mark germany has selected his film as its nomination for the best foreign film oscar. This gifts he. Said thats what constitutes borders just as either of us had us but couldnt so to. Quote from kind of an exhibition about Degenerate Art in dresden nine hundred thirty seven. The last british just came i live in. America and its. Only confidant is his favorite aunt elizabeth who has schizophrenia. I suppose. Its sure. The Mental Confusion of kurts aunt is her Death Sentence elizabeth becomes a victim of Nazi Ideology women like her belong in asylums. Sebastian coe who plays the monstrous doctor who later sent her to the Gas Chambers Donnas Mark tells the Suppressive Story with much path as a family story. I thought it was intriguing to show how intertwined perpetrators and victims were within a family because ultimately thats what it was like in the whole of germany i mean if you see germany as one big Family Perpetrators and victims were extremely
intertwined and at the same time the historical background is also told as the History Of Art to. Fast forward to postwar dressed and kurt now played by Tom Shelling Is Living In Communist East Germany and studying art he falls in love with a Fellow Student who reminds him of his murdered and. The life. Sphinx next to his or her that soon moves in with allie and discovers that her father is the very nazi doctor who sent kurts aunt to her death after Nine Hundred Forty Five he hushes up his nazi past seamlessly pursuing his career in east germany kurt becomes his son in law and as a hermit you have to be careful and he. Is going to need a good sign. And im not sure that oscar matched. That i
believe. Most watched most of the best as i. The thing to sniff as if he thinks its just a phase when he sees this little artist who he doesnt take seriously at all who he totally underestimates who has no power hes just a Student Painting pictures for him its just a question of time until his daughter realizes this too hard to type and hes still thinking in a league terms from a position of superiority then at some point he sees that its bigger than that but he doesnt expect him to get in his way to. Be defeated and kurt cant develop as an artist and in Nine Hundred Sixty Eight he and ellie flee to west germany ive been wrecked. Kurt wants to study at the Dusseldorf Academy the center for modern art and his You Professor is pretty unconventional. And ill get us to magazine assess that. There. Is actually what its really. Is that the. The film is fiction but inspired by great artists of the time such as joseph boys who revolutionized arch and awareness in postwar germany. On the street boys did not distinguish between man and art he declared meant to be a work of art that was an Essential Component to his understanding of art and he believed that our can anticipate what still lies beyond the reach of the human mind. Curt finds his style his paintings are photo realistic yet alien much like those by the successful contemporary artist gary hart who stuck his aunt was killed by the nazis while his father in law was a Nazi Gun Ecologist who carried out the forced sterilization of women. Parliamentary system leading from elements from get out of this life became the starting point for this film thats your point. But then i created my own path and story from there. Because i find fiction somehow becomes more real and true when it isnt tethered to pure facts and real life events. A noble ambition but honest mark wanted to much displeased decades of german history and love story and art theory into a three hour film. The results doesnt quite add up despite many strong scenes and strong performances. That sent from ops twenty one this week but before we go if youre in berlin be
sure to drop by the. Video installation at the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery the artist won the National Gallery prize last october our work is Poetic Hypnotic for provoking definitely worth saying join us next week for more arts and culture until then good bye on talf it is a. Bully. To. Have. You romance finally the feeling was all my divine instruction nothing else could change will celebrates forty years as a unit scope World Heritage site osman see threads fashion label all showing up close heads in paris daring maneuvers drag races get fun stuff and be a professional. Bored bored bored bored bored. Tear up at the more everybody camp theres a terrible suspicion coursing through one of europes largest Refugee Camps on the island of lives lost a legend i as followers has said to be terrorizing the refugees some say theyve created criminal structures we meet witnesses and victims in an exclusive report today in reporter. Who may have been fighting for the case to take you seriously in the world of war heres whats coming up women strong hot dogs. The female superhero. Is much smarter stay in the gym bring creasing lean Dangerous Time Budget W for mine. Wished. Isnt it time for good. To go out africa people and projects that are changing the arent for the better so good. For france good for a good. Legacy do you w. These is the beauty to understand these beamingly. Are many gun. Shy they have to. Share