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2/2020 Business Spotlight

BOOKS

With Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch

first created his own unique mash-up

of fantasy fiction and urban crime

novels, back in 2011. In the meantime,

he’s written a whole series of books

that mix magic with the metropoli-

tan police. His latest work is a novella,

The October Man. This time, he turns

his charms on another river, the Kyll,

which runs through Trier, the oldest

city in Germany. You can enjoy this

adventure without knowing the oth-

ers, but you might be tempted to read

them afterwards. The next instalment

in London, False Value, is planned for

2020. Published by Gollancz.

DVD

Vanessa Redgrave rarely moves

out of the bed in Mrs Lowry & Son,

but her performance as the cruel,

domineering mother of L. S. Lowry

(1887–1976) is formidable. Lowry,

played movingly by Timothy Spall,

is one of Britain’s national treasures

(along with Redgrave and Spall).

The Mancunian artist captured

England’s industrial north in the

first half of the 20th century us-

ing, he claimed, only five colours:

black, white, yellow, red and blue.

This gives many of his paintings

of matchstick people a somewhat

gloomy air. The style disappointed

his mother and put off the art world

for years. The film is filled with

strong dialogues — it was originally

written as a radio play — but there

are also some wonderful scenes in

which Lowry’s most famous paint-

ings seem to come to life.

Magical

moments:

fantasy

fiction and

crime

A British

film: full

of national

treasures

air [eE] , Atmosphäre

capture sth. [(kÄptSE]

, etw. einfangen

domineering

[)dQmI(nIErIN]

, herrschsüchtig

formidable

[(fO:mIdEb&l]

, beeindruckend

gloomy [(glu:mi]

, düster

Mancunian

[mÄn(kju:niEn]

, aus Manchester

matchstick

[(mÄtSstIk]

, Streichholz

put sb. off

[)pUt (Qf]

, jmdn. abschrecken

treasure [(treZE]

, hier: Kulturikone

instalment [In(stO:lmEnt]

, Fortsetzung

mash-up [(mÄS Vp] ifml.

, Mix

novella [nEU(velE]

, kurzer Roman,

Erzählung

tempted [(temptId]

, verleitet

turn one’s charms on sth.

[)t§:n wVnz (tSA:mz Qn]

, etwa: sein Talent /

seine Kreativität auf

etw. verwenden

unique [ju(ni:k]

, einzigartig

classy [(klA:si] ifml.

, erstklassig

dedicated

[(dedIkeItId]

, hier: zugehörig

free trial [)fri: (traIEl]

, kostenloser Testzeitraum

genre [(ZQnrE]

, [wg. Aussprache]

given that... [(gIv&n DÄt]

, angesichts der

Tatsache, dass ...

passionate: be ~ about sth.

[(pÄS&nEt]

, von etw. begeistert sein

APP

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