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a heady mix lined up for today's program. ode to activism beethoven's pastoral as a rallying cry against climate change. the master of manipulation a london retrospective tracks a pledge to work. and march of time the art of the hand to practice when young time priests. well as host of this year's united nations climate change conference kopp twenty three which has just drawn to a close the german city of bonn has had good reason to draw the attention of the world to its own natural phenomenon namely the most famous song the composer beethoven twenty twenty will mark the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of his birth and already the city is pulling out all the stops with project planning for a stupendous celebre touring year and that includes an inspiring new project around

. the beethoven pastoral project connects the masters music with twenty first century environmental conservation it was unveiled at the u.n. climate change conference cup twenty three in beethoven's birthplace bonn germany. this pastoral project in principle the pastoral project addresses musicians in all genres. listen to clip brzezinski various musicians as project ambassadors. i always like the stories about beethoven he would be seen walking in nature communing with his music but also with the birds. that you hear that's. the exhaust the heart of the idea of transferring the pastoral to another world stylistically interested me right away as did the project connected with it i found combining the pastoral nature and the climate conference very intriguing.

jazz violinist gregor who was one of the musicians on hand in bands beethoven house he presented some of his own improvisations on the pastoral. the past of ali it's really pastoral it's difficult because beethoven is so good at developing motifs he can spin a single motif into a whole symphony. project. embassadors in this promotional clip show how it's done whether rehearsal or performance and regardless of the instrument what counts is the final product a unique interpretation of beethoven's pastoral symphony. the pastoral the top the senses astral day will be the high point and the

culmination of the project and it will coincide with the u.n. world environment day on june the fifth twenty twenty and it will feature as many variations on the pastoral it's possible played across the globe there are still two and a half years to go until that date in the meantime we want to establish a pastoral network connecting artists all over the world. of all part of the beethoven past road project and to be. twenty one to. stand up for the preservation of nature with your pastoral music. starting on june fifth twenty eighteen the next world environment day musicians from all over the world can present their ideas on the internet of how to combine beethoven's timeless music with a modern love of nature. well if you have a weakness for beethoven and would like to know more or even possibly get involved in the pastoral project and do feel free to visit our website just go to beethoven

dash pastoral dust project dot com. and at this point it is time for me to announce the winner of our euro max watch we wanted to know this past week what your favorite music is and why and amanda quasi from a pack in new york state usa told us that hers was heavy metal and that's because she finds the guitar riffs very cathartic so cheers to her as the winner of our year max watch and to all of you of course for your feedback. and moving right along it is now time for our daily express. the coveted german media accolades the bandys were awarded thursday in berlin there was even a hint of hollywood love that the ceremony australian actor and heartthrob hugh jackman won an entertainment bambi. and adults watson a received a prize for his environmental activism. actress diane kruger and directed

forty one the jury's prize for the movie in the fade. model cloudier shifa picked up the fashionable word to honor her thirty year contribution to the industry. prior to the ceremony shifa signed copies of her first volume titled claudia schiffer in a bed and gallery surrounded by fans and a selection of her favorite photographs. shifa now forty seven years old is one of the most successful models in history making the cover of more than a thousand accusations. on thursday parisian celebrated as new beaujolais wine hit the shelves. the world famous young wine was harvested only two months ago by two thousand wine growers in france's eastern region.

day has a long tradition it's celebrated on the third thursday of november every year. bonaparte's crown is being sold at auction it was part of the laurel wreath the french and per cent upon his own head in. imitation of the roman emperors of your. the crown goes under the hammer this sunday at an auction house in full. parents it's expected to fetch between one hundred one hundred and fifty thousand euros. he's a huge star in his native france but english speaking audience as well know van so best for his roles in films like black swan or ocean's twelve and thirteen with his angular good looks he's often cast as the villain but for his latest effort he slipped into the psyche of post-impressionist painter paul gauguin and the artist's

work was heavily influenced by his travels in french polynesia but it wasn't until well after his death that his highly experimental style and use of color or really appreciate it and we spoke to about his work on the role. one of france's biggest stars and an astonishingly versatile actor he's worked with the biggest names in the business monica bellucci was often his partner on screen and his wife for almost fifteen years. has acted alongside hollywood's greats. now he's playing the role of renowned for his paintings depicting a tropical arcadia and polynesian beauties women on the outskirts of paris it's not a glamorous location but he likes the breakfast at this hotel and he needs to regain the weight he shed to play. when you get rid of the sugar. and you just left with. fish raw fish and fruits i mean. just you leave

a better life. there was one of the thing you know the guy goes there he doesn't have anything so he's starving sick i had to be skinny. i had to look sick. strangely enough i never felt so good. the film gauguin recounts the period the artist spent in french polynesia polka dot travel to the south seas because he could no longer stand life in paris he left his wife and children behind in europe. but easy was far from the peaceful island paradise he'd expected to go was extreme and it essentially and put. could be acting relate yeah i could feel stuff but you know i can relate to some of his desires. i mean i think i understand that the process you know his thought process now to say that i agree with everything will be true i mean i

can i can identify myself with him. i'm pretty. merits of a lot of things he does a part of the talent the way you know the ability to believe in himself against all odds for example. these paintings aren't by god they buy to sell. the actor prepares for his roles meticulously he researches and reads a lot and to put trade the famous artist he started to paint himself it's part of the deal it's part of the you know it's this is my only abbots is to change i change all the time. and it's fun because the way you do it there is always a good aspect to it you know to play gauguin learn how to paint this is the life of an actor you go from one world to the other and you get very specific about certain things for

a short amount of time and then. you just. jumped from the train and their grandmother was. painted in the. middle to the development of modern art the film gun which covers this period of the artist's life is now in cinemas. how do you react when you're confronted with a picture of a human face you've name may have never thought of it before but the context in which you see that face will have a great effect on how you perceive and even maybe accept it and this is just one example of how our visual perception can be manipulated and it's one of many that german photographer thomas hoff has delighted in exploring well now the descent of artist is the subject of a major retrospective in london. thomas' office breakthrough came with first as a fellow art school students displayed like a list celebrities that up ended common

notions of the portrait. back in one thousand nine hundred eight these work sparked an uproar. responded angrily to my portraits because i provided no information on these people names no vocations no info on who they're married to apparently people need a lot of additional information when they look at a portrait if they don't get it some get really aggressive. after studying at the disorder of arts academy thomas started with architectural photography but soon moved on to making portraits retouching images and creating montage has. explored unusual cameras too and used them to play with notions of authorship and reception. he borrowed equipment police used in the one nine hundred ninety s. to make facial composites of suspects to blur the line between portrait and mug shot in his own work. in response to the media coverage of the first gulf war got

a special camera suited for nightime photography and took pictures of tranquil does that often the result haunting images evocative of war said. his series entitled stana all stars experiments with scientific pictures taken by the european southern observatory which he says are better than anything he could produce a myth a glass of images and the digital age has been taking fewer pictures of his own relying more on photo archives. there are so many pictures on instagram because people want to capture the present. that's why they're constantly snapping away. the catch is that once they take a picture they're actually looking back at the past forgotten so they have to take another one. next. now works on old pictures that resonate into the present because the photographer isn't taking photos at present

and who has long regarded his own life and work with a sense of right detachment a case in point these pictures he took of himself in ridiculous poses he called it his imprint series. well anyone who's into food is certainly in the right place here in the german capital and that's thanks largely to the many foreigners who arrived since the fall of the wall and brought with them their wonderful christina berlin has also long had a large turkish community and so for our series fifty kitchens one city we paid a visit to a restaurant iceman's tester for a plate of curtis or turkish meat ball. i can't say whether i'm more turkish or more german. i'm both but it's so in on both sides are so tightly interwoven that it's almost like a new national. they're both equally strong and stark.

yeah. born as the older of two children in the turkish metropolis istanbul when she was five her family moved to munich she's lived in berlin since two thousand and one. together with r.'s zero bullard she runs the restaurant. or osman's daughters a mutual friend introduced her to back when they were still working at their jobs law is a trained actress while as who started sales. who was born in germany but lived with her grandparents in eastern anatolia until the age of five her parents then brought her to berlin. it was there that hours who crossed paths both dreamed of opening their own restaurant in twenty eleven those dreams began to take shape.

there were no modern turkish restaurants in berlin and. everything was so conservative and stale there were hardly any turkish restaurants where you could go with friends that had a welcoming atmosphere and was a bit more modern. with us. there was a big motivation for me. and. their idea was to create an open kitchen where professional chefs cooked alongside turkish housewives lala's restaurant offers classic turkish cuisine along with modern interpretations of some of her favorite dishes. both learn to cook as girls from their mothers. it's a traditional recipes play a big role it's like a shaft with either our mothers cooked with passion and love because they were

feeding their families and wanted to please their hardworking husbands. and because we have turkish wives working here they bring this quality and these recipes to our menus in our restaurant. cartons like i. have to see is a turkish classic. to see our meatballs also known as kafka in the english speaking world there are more than two hundred ways to prepare them turkish cuisine is mediterranean and uses a lot of vegetables. they make a delicious side dish to his make up to see. coughed as can be pan fried grilled or boiled. to see is a typical midday mail in turkey and is often served in look contests or lunch restaurants. coffee as they

usually named after regions have to see is called to from the turkish port city of is me. it's characteristic flavor from the sauce which is made by combining tomato and red pepper paste. to the few. the saucer in turkish is very important for this and other dishes in and of to kish get tight public a mark on you take red pepper. and tomato paste. there's even a turkish thing about this. site that's not took this. culture. which means a meal without seltzer is like a woman without curves. of course we mean hips. and as they were full of ideas for

the new restaurant for almost a year they renovated what had been an office space. for wall decoration they had a burn an artist paint the backs of oriental rugs. opened in april two thousand and twelve in the trendy district. after the fall of the berlin wall this formally working class area became a hot spot for students and creative types. back. answer back has gotten a bit gentrified but when i moved here it was unbelievably lively so there were so many people from so many nations to me. it's fun and i feel at home here there are so many people have found creative ways to get by in life it's very inspiring. if. you.

have long since given up their jobs they're busy enough they say being restaurant. is not gifts not a look this is a futile so. and if you'd like to see the accompanying video to that or any of the other fifty kitchens recipes you can find them on instagram along with lots more your remark behind the. europe at its best your imax brings you the highlights on instagram stunning landscapes spectacular buildings and mouthwatering delicacy our reporters are constantly on the look out with their cameras we look forward to your comments check out our your mags instagram stories and discover how exciting and diverse europe can be. follow us on instagram. and finally to be your is the french word for whirlwind and in watchmaking it's

a fascinating addition to the watch mechanics that keep the time it's usually visible and indicates that this watch is in a very sophisticated category of time pieces namely because so many of the parts from the hairspring to the very tiniest of screws have to be made by hand or one of the last remaining masters of this craft is the head with anybody in southern germany who's had the meticulous art of watchmaking handed down over six generations. when vilhelm rebore sits down in his workbench every morning he loses himself in another world one in which hustle and bustle have no place the master watchmaker takes his time and his work is time for more than three decades really has been making mechanical watches or repairing them like this one hundred year old long and soon a pocket watch which a customer accidentally dropped it's important to revert to get the timepiece going again. this is from n.p.r.

news but in the case of. technical perfection they are not going to develop these watches and for me they were the greatest thing in watchmaking. these watches also inspired me to produce. they are his big passion flying turbulence viewed as the pinnacle of watchmaking and river has developed their internal mechanisms to perfection. the heart of the watch and his trademark is this cantilevered flying toby young which turns completely on its own axis once a minute. river might be the last watchmaker in the world to still produce all the parts by hand the way the great watchmakers did in the pre-industrial age. rivers sees himself as part of tradition so to then wilson's and back to the roots to tradition and had across much of i'm a watchmaker not a machine operator for me that was important because i never wanted to have

a shop i said i'm a watchmaker i restore watches and then i started making them and now that's my world and. a steady hand and a good eye are his most important tools it takes up to a year to make a new to real it's pursued in work each piece must fit precisely to within one one hundredth of a millimeter. by one seven if you most of all you need to have a feel for it because if you slip out while mounting this the doll will break concentration is vital. when he finishes a watch it's cause for celebration. this is real and see from this like a victory for an athlete a world championship or an and then pick when the such a crazy sense of satisfaction when a watch is done when it's running and you've made a client happy and he shuts tears of joy seeing it for the first time voters no-man's defy description. that talent must run in the family the rivers have been making watches since seven hundred ninety three. you can do all sorts of i grew up

with watches i don't remember my grandpa but when i was a year old he said he's going to make a good watchmaker he has extras fingers you know. him labor was already hanging around in his father's workshop when he was three at age eighty repaired his first watch and he finished his apprenticeship as germany's top young watchmaker. ribber quickly became a master and went into business for himself setting up a workshop to restore old timepiece. his passion for flying to beyond's grew and grew so he started to make them himself. it took four years to complete his first one. yes latest masterpiece has earned him a place in the jewelry museum and for time he spent a year working on it. i have this feeling of transcendence of having created

something truly special is a decisive aspect it's what drives you on point. and it's what will keep on driving will have labor to devote even more time to these exquisite time pieces. and that's all for this edition so until we meet again all of us come up here in berlin chests on top. next time on your in the next the highlights edition including why french pastries and high end she is make for the ideal couple. at him and. that's the business that restores historic. finished infamy based on the nation's d.n.a. all this and small next time your next highlights.

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