And the continent of africa on the move stories about motivational change makers take in their destinies into their own hands. D. W. Multimedia series food for god. D. W. Dot com africa. Hello and welcome to a new edition of arts 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 faith and fashion modesty and modernity. 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 late for them. On the one hand theres islamophobia criticism at the front and. On the other theres also criticism from feminists who feel the acceleration of celebrates the subjugation of women in muslim countries is local from falling in with the mission and. Hardly surprising that the opening was so well attended eighty ensembles are on display all designed to cover the body in keeping with islamic principles they prove that
theres more to muslim fashion the many realize. You for something 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. 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 there also was celebration the signs are shown on runways in kuala lumpur and jakarta. When people say he doubts what comes to their mind is something in the dark colors like black colors but in the end line you can find colors that theres any style
off the job so i think thats one of our signature. Customer base are wealthy women she also sells in the u. S. And europe the twentys. When your old represents younger generations of fashion forward muslims for her a he 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 him dep itself maybe they think that people who are press reset or pressure him so we start to be outspoken more in social media to show that were not oppressed because the. Stylists clothings and we can still do anything be anything with our here. Are 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 heated up laws 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. Old 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 socalled 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 themselves future bestows or ministers
their outfits are creative but also covered in keeping with the teachings of the koran around the. An american rapper mona haidar performs wearing her headscarf. Pregnant stylish and strong her online activism demands more tolerance for muslims like me before and the number of designers are joining her Battle Calling by making strong statements with her fashion like the same on designed a jacket with the u. S. Constitution printed on the back in Arabic Ritually from lebannon she arrived in canada as a refugee. Camp during my time as a refugee to my I Wasnt Proud To Being Arab i was mocked i was criticized i was bullied i was you know going through a lot 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 an Exhibition Worth discussing the museum is well placed to start a much needed conversation about islam and muslim fashion without polemicist. 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. Its. Time
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 susannah who. And the bird got a contemporary take for. 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. Of local describes their fateful encounters with the feather 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 in paintings and in a god for saken camp in africa. But that intellects and common sense cannot save her siblings for under the spell. Of think does this me tough i think its a metaphor for our inner selves. At least people are not confronted by something exteriors us but by Terrible Parts of themselves. What are we in the face of nature this novel opens the door to a fantastical world that feels hauntingly real. In six suitcases goes on a journey through history with a jewish family. What must it be lined 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. To speak of 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. 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 a mention of russian vodka. In the books narrator sent south 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 was it 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 art and most of the events are completely made up with c. G. I. And computer 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 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 who came straight of her family this time. On a canary island. Four thousand kilometers from germany off the african coast lies tenerife an emotionally charged backdrop for in a mouthy americas novel which takes readers on a journey through time and space through the political and personal. If were going to leave 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 where i grew up in. The authors mother is from the Canary Islands so she knows ten or 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 corning us 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 god 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 ensue the Typing Rebellion is one of the bloodiest civil wars of all time with a death toll of thirty million. In cost of the Barbarians Stefan Tom A writes about this tragedy the all who has lived in taiwan for many years he depicts a far away wound on the brink of a new era the rebellion is led by the charismatic mistake honk choochoo on 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 trade. 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 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 is both a historical novel and an Adventure Story it reads like an allegory of present day religious fanaticism. The Cantona General by Georgian Bonino how to
teach fairly tells the story of a Russian Oligarch and the rubble left by the crumbling of the soviet union. Know how to 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. Was all pervasive people were fleeing their nerves frayed by curfews and cold war the dead in the muddied snow were so disfigured that 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 in uganda and they are 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 not keep in pictish. Twenty years on all off is a rich on a guard known as the general. But memories of his on a turn since haunt him the son of a soviet war hero. So he holds himself and his co perpetrators to account. And for most 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. A story akin to
a classic tragedy you 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 fan. And superstition the world of Maria Cecilia about 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 artists is called by a staff its a melting pot where migrants from All Over The World come to seek a better future. Thats lamia in honey and 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. Here and 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 in two plans i 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 was very much 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 eggs. In Two Thousand And Six fog and Henckel Fontana Smocks debut film the lives of others want every award going his latest years 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 gets the. Most of us would constitute. Just as either of us that doesnt cut and so to Cordons Comment from credit and exhibition about Degenerate Art in dresden nine hundred thirty seven. The last british just came i live in. It. Hurts only confidant is his favorite aunt elizabeth who is schizo phrenic. Same effect. But i suppose. Its sure to. Compute changed. The Mental Confusion of kurtz and 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 sends her to the Gas Chambers Donnas Mark tells the S