A person comes from mean is it a matter of genes or birthplace or is origin just a measure of childrens. Sense of every home is a happenstance on youre born somewhere driven out of their market or donate your kidney to science over here look up lucky people can influence their happenstance they leave their home not because they have to but because they want to. Use to follow your origins are down to luck and this luck has enormous influence on your birth brings with it in alterable facts of birth happened somewhere on and through that people see you as a certain person in his book origins. Travels home to his birthplace on the banks of the tree no river in bosnia 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 was wanted to look at my own biography and of my family and the final stories that way where the present always dips into the past 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 came to heidelberg the epitome of german romanticism. A gas station turns out to be the place where origin loses its weight. Often 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 a chance and lets his readers join in Decision Making in the end the book becomes an adventure novel turning like a relate wheel 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 who just won this years nobel prize for literature of the austrian right into paid to hunt hes come under quite some criticism since the announcement because of his political beliefs but his literary talents are not in question more about his book short letter well from ah very own literary talent mr David Leavitts hotel bars are a great place to hang out when youre feeling at and with with people after going to be. In short letter or long farewell by paper hunka or young austrian gets to know the hotel bars of america throwing the u. S. Currency paper exwife stalking him or if he were one following her. Either way you keep hitting the road discovering what german speakers call it thats step one but im. In the land of unlimited possibilities from coast to coast he takes in a dense tangle of cliches and cultural references but mostly hes obsessed with himself. What was more important for memory 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 is 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 older said no one over 30 at 1st. When the book came out in 1972 austrian author paper hunk i was making way of the office of european literature could 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 europeans wistful look at the us but the country and the mess and what 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 in south spoke in australia. Exceptional about this particular fellow is that lewis keller is just 12 years old and is the youngest of a pupil to study kind of me he discovered the piano when he was 6 and says he fell in love with the instrument and new immediately that he wanted to become a concert pianist. One day ahead of his concert additional power festival. Is hard work for her sing. The youngest of 3 children at least lives in the state of carinthia in austria he was a quick learner from an early age and skipped to grade in school. He also knew exactly what he wanted from piano lessons. Together too much so 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 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. In this. At least his 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. From 1. 61 a kook. Its strange feeling of the beginning you have to get used to it of them 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 is just. Silly as has a busy life traveling to concerts and competitions while still attending school and studying of the sites book matteo 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 is something beautiful theres nothing wrong with making music right more to the. Head of his appearance of the chopin 1st of all only as his her her son careful and hes a perfectionist. You have always got to be prepared there could always be a part that doesnt go as well and behind never fully satisfied with myself but i actually should be. That preparation includes going over the piece mentally up until the very last moment. When every is plays his technique is close to perfect but whats more important is that he feels the music. Vampires monsters and mummies dont really exist as i well i have 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 mummy a milestone of the horror film genre upon its release in 1930 till it shocked audiences and was a Box Office Hit for Universal Studios british actor Boris Karloff played a high priest in hotep who was buried alive it successful and several sequels in phoenix the real life inspiration for the iconic horror film where the archaeological discoveries of the 1900 centuries when largely european lit expeditions plundered egyptian artifacts including money. Are actually the films are actually inspired by the natural and physical world and the imagination that people have to create stories based on a real thing. Draculas a vampire is another invented character. But did exhibition demonstrates that epidemic such as color inspired author bram stoker to come up with his story in which anyone can buy a vampire becomes one. And the classic story of a Mad Scientist frankenstein all turned into a Universal Studios blockbuster dr Victor Frankenstein so together parts of to divers and brings the resulting creature to life with the help of electricity thats not so far off from experiments being carried out on animals at the time. We have a frog herpetology 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 150 for the 1st 3 d. Monster movie in cinema history. It tells of the terror unleashed when scientists go digging around where they probably shouldnt the topic was added relevance in light of current time. It made people stop and think a little bit about you know what science can do and do you know they and you know its your conversation thats happening today about. The core team from an unusual new perspective with scientific expertise. 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