an exclusive peek behind one of the last iron curtain it's. a north korean diary starting december twenty eighth on d w. i don't think. tells them to. the famous potato. everybody it's great to have you back for another half hour of the european lifestyle and culture is what's coming up on the show today. tasty

treat cream filled moran's that melts in the mouth. christmas classic an austrian carol that conquered the world. and the hidden talent and munich exhibition on as a long underrated artist. let's start off with a sweet treat that is making a comeback the men of a year is a moran concoction originally best known in northern france and in belgium and has long been seen as old fashioned and provincial but the french convection a thread of the volcom has made it his life's work to improve that image and it worked his bakery specializing in the delicacy has branches all over the world we paid a visit in lil to get a taste of the marvelous. and

it with chocolates and lots and lots of whipped cream. it's pretty rich but that didn't stop this delicacy with weeks in northern france and belgium from concord. friendship davydenko call is the man who made it famous abroad was good all the. pretty feel there are several things that set this cake apart first of all it's very very light why because the membrane is very airy and then shows it to them because i've changed a key component but thirty years maybe you were made with butter cream i use with cream a very light with korea so the mering is light the cream is light and the result is a pastry that looks impressive but weighs less than one hundred grams. because home base is the northern french city of leeds. the city center was renowned for its splendid rock architecture until the rise of man of the year. it

has become a veritable city trademark it's so popular that customers queue up in long lines on saturdays just to buy some. customers can watch man of the year being made inside the shop that's important to vocal he says anyone can make them he's even happy to share his recipes. so let's take a look. at the egg whites and sugar whip together to make them around these marang spirals a baked slowly in the oven for about an hour at one hundred degrees celsius meanwhile the cream is wept and as much chocolate added as desired. finally cream is filled between two big neurons and the whole thing is rolled in chalk mats all shaved chocolate. and dry land. already. created like focal a physical heat it. shows up in a pot on the most important thing is the amount of cream you use between that you

want to see it needs to have enough to make the rain melt episodes like that but not too much if you use too much of the membrane will disintegrate to striking the right balance so that more do it in. it's a matter of a year deferred there's one to please every palettes the classic version is covered in dark chocolate. the cons recipe for success however came when we find the traditional formula to create his own with the twelve with new flavors like cherry . statue or not. because personal favorite is coated with crystallized marang a history buff he named after the supporters of the french revolution the song could not customers adore his nephew you should bet and i actually don't like cream cakes but these are extra light stuff not the marang is delicate but maintains its shape and i love the flavors my favorites are white chocolate and specular pictures

from the system. they're delicious i love them all who believe in. god. man of the year our founding father was the world over the condo has twenty shots including in london brussels paris geneva new york and in berlin. the court is relaxed about his marang spirit and in popularity when he's not on route to new york opening a new branch he's most happy working in his own shop in downtown. there was just no more need for me i just love my product that's why i like to be here. unfortunately to be lucky i'm on the road a lot then i miss being in my store at the office or whenever i have the time i'm here i need this in the room all summer i find it reassuring to pick my own pace.

but it doesn't have long to linger he scouting for new locations in amsterdam and to saddam after thirty six years he's still happy to share his passion for you. now let's find out where another christmas tradition comes from in our series home for christmas this time we tracked down the origins of silent night the famous carol has been translated into hundreds of languages and is sung in all corners of the world but it all began in austria it was first performed almost two hundred years ago at a church in doth a small village in his book a young priest had written the lyrics two years before and then the text was set to music by a local teacher so let's take the trip to the place where this christmas carol came to life.

t. . you. see . no. good. news. and really. even if some have to brush up on the lyrics almost everyone knows the world's most famous christmas song it originated here in the austrian village of over and dog in the run up to christmas the small town years on spec offers visitors silent night tours to eliminate the songs history just before i know many start here with this picture over here you can see the side that my chapel. organist and teacher friends of a group are and the young parish priest yosef more composed the music and wrote the

lyrics and together performed this song an open door from christmas eve in eighteen eighteen traveling salesman took the song to markets across europe while christian missionary spread even further around the globe. as if the missionaries realized that hobbit a christian message and was easy for families to learn and that's probably why it became so popular and they didn't if we could put off since the nineteenth century the song has been translated into more than three hundred languages. you. know whether carol has been recorded as often as the evergreen from austria with versions by a series of superstars. oh

. the locals an open door stage a historical play in various locations that traumatizes the origin of silent night after the end of the napoleonic wars. there was. this one through and of and the gun for it was a terrible time the poverty created by the wards and the molding troops that passed through the village and. today the song still evokes the hope for peace visitors to the silent night chapel can listen to the original version with its six verses and accompanying guitar chords.

in two thousand and eleven unesco added silent night to its intangible cultural heritage list sept primal hopes the songs popularity will last for generations to come. we have to try to maintain the tradition within the families so that children grow up using it it's not easy in the digital age of because of the internet kids just don't sing songs like that anymore. some sixty thousand visitors flock to the small village every year most of them in the free christmas season tourists and locals alike enjoy the festive atmosphere around the silent night chapel this is all it's a quintessential christmas song that is always lovely because everyone associates. say it with a special memory thing that brings people together particularly around christmas everything goes on and so we had to fany and then. if we leave him us.

it's not our fault it's known around the world and that's why open doors has become a place of pilgrimage around christmas with its message of peace silent night continues to bring people together in oberndorf and around the world. from silent nights to flying through the nights we take a look at a daring wingsuit sky dive in a round up of today's news but first we're off to the finnish capital helsinki. ai seem to see a day celebrations brought light into the darkness of winter on wednesday. that. it's a widely observed tradition in scandinavia and among swedish speakers in finland.

in the capitol hill sinking on a kaiser edstrom was crowned this year's rusia by hosting the city mayor this is the sixty first time helsinki has held official st lucie a celebration. of. swiss extreme athlete geraldine fast now has jumped out of a helicopter at a height of fifty five hundred meters in the middle of the night she was wearing a wing suit lit up by l.e.d.s. and landed in the wrong call by a mountain massif of the western party now whether she's wearing a wing suit free riding or base jumping gero the fast not stunts are always spectacular. stupid divers have set up an antipathy scene in the quinary and at madrid suit. five sharks and various turtles will share their home with maria joseph and baby jesus and the three kings for the christmas period. this unusual tradition dates

back to one thousand nine hundred six and to raise awareness of the environment. families now the. next up we're featuring an artist who is sadly not fully appreciated in the time. was a painter at the forefront of the german expressionist movement and part of the office collective the blue rider but she spent her career in the shadow of her partner. vasily condensed ski now her contribution to expressionism is being highlighted in the exhibition in munich the most comprehensive collection of her works to date over the hof of the paintings have never been displayed in public before. a bold exploration of color. in one thousand no not and gabriella minter painted

her friend marianna for verification. the two were founding members of the blue writer group a pioneering movement of german expressionism it rejected cellphone painting and the conventions of academia minter was searching for truth in art. through the sect the bishop it's plain to see that she's one of the preeminent european artists of the currency a century who was experimenting with. the exhibition is rabea theft particularly at the entrance to these portraits welcome visitors with their luminous colors and pot and that's exactly one of the things we wanted to highlight the sense here is that . the alps and the roofs have more now in southern germany where minter who was born in berlin had a home. a view from her window she's our colors everywhere yellows reds and blues. for a long time interest talent was overlooked in the art world. in

eighty ninety nine minter turned twenty two. she received a camera for her birthday and discovered photography before she turned to painting . she and her sister went to the u.s. to visit relatives on their mother's side they travelled some five thousand kilometers from new york to texas. mentor always had her camera with her. she learned to see the world through its lens months it the comte missed us answers among in them and bid on she wasn't from a background where she'd received a well rounded education. went to great schools learned an instrument and had all the things normally associated with so. to korea with so i think i thought they know that she had to work hard and did it all by herself at the see she went to the

u.s. to visit family i thought and developed an autistic style from nothing once she was what is known in art history as an autodidact as a dust last month closest awesome out of the dock to sneddon. minter lived in this house in moore now with a russian painter vasily kundan ski. they met in one thousand eight hundred two when she enrolled in his drawing class at a munich art school. they lived together openly but their relationship was turbulent he called her his ella his muse but as a well known artist himself he overshadowed her and her talent. at the time women were not admitted to arctic anime's. they could attend painting schools but were often scorned. kundan skitt encouragement or however telling her

that she couldn't be taught she was a natural talent. but life in close quarters put a strain on their relationship. it ended when world war one forced kandinsky to return to russia. the turkish as a stick to them without the turkish of course this is the story of modernism it's the story of painting is the story of the true writer group is the story of the relationship between mentor and convince your sister but it's also the story of a woman who really managed to eke out a successful career for herself in a very male dominated society and kids love and that can start with this what people already know when not the story. and we wanted to show them other aspects and it's not the under an aspect aspect and so through them. in the one nine hundred thirty s. . every elementary suddenly turned to new subject matter workers and construction site two of her paintings were displayed in one thousand nine hundred thirty six

propaganda exhibition celebrating infrastructure improvements in nazi germany. the painter it seems had lost her artistic vision let's. get the. forest and certainly these landscapes were being powered by fear and by these machines and of course it was a time of enormous change especially with regard to the idyllic life of the past at the same time we know that the nazis were taking the weimar republic infrastructure projects out of patrol and implementing them on the route that we see the olympic road so of course i interpret the political pictures is an indication of the changing times so changes not just to the landscape but also to the entire ideology of the time that side. during the nazi era gabriela minter included swastikas on paintings that she later hid under new layers of paint after the war she withdrew

increasingly from public life but she continued to paint even before the war she had begun adopting the sobriety of the new objectivity movement. the exhibition at munich's house affords a broader perspective on her life and work than just her more famous play writer period it runs through april twenty eighth teen. next artist is very much appreciated in her field but was determined to make strides in another genre the unofficial never is a world class ballerina but her second passion is modern dumbs for years she's been trying to boost the popularity of this style in her native russia and she's having success even organizing an entire festival to promote classical ballet is contemporary cousin. in a vocative production by the pair and by the theater unlike western europe russia a bastion of classicism has been slow to embrace modern dance now provincial

ensembles are making the leap. star dancer gian if nova is spearheading a drive to cultivate contemporary dance in her native russia i'm sure looked into just into today it's the regional companies that are healing exciting new choreographies bullock from places like him you could have even good. or to have been skylights over who no one could hold out hope the forty one year old ballerina feels as much at home in classical ballet as contemporary dance a celebrated principal dancer at the marine ski in st petersburg she also held that position at the american ballet theatre for twelve years this nova launched the context festival in moscow to promote modern dance and young choreographers but plenty more needs to be done before contemporary dance acquires the same prestige as classical ballet and that's probably the most sublime i mean we have a problem with education in this field there are no places to learn the techniques

of modern dance unlike in the west where dances learn many techniques a priority has traditionally been tesco ballet and that's why most of the money but of course things are happening they are talented people lots of enthusiasm people are starting from scratch and that's very exciting as. this no this context festival was originally planned as a one off event but it was so successful that the fifth edition just took place in november. with a close up when the last album some we've developed into a significant event that the audience eagerly anticipated and follows the beatles they want to build up like a store from the first festival on. it was clear that there was a wave of interest in mud and. which has been growing by the year.

now if you need some inspiration for christmas presents we've got just the thing for you in today's episode of d.i.y. sorry hans and we'll show you how to make a stylish storage option in the form of a rather unique newspaper rack so save yourself some shopping by making this as a gift after all a homemade present comes from the hot. time my name is today it's got for us now as a newspaper writer made up. it's very easy to make a. unique pipes in three different sizes to forty three said to me to pipes for thirty five centimeter pipes and to twenty three said to be to pipes these are all available at any hardware store. ates copper elbows with

a ninety degree angle. fabric or a table runner this table runner is forty eight by a hundred and fifty centimeters. needles for fastening and i am. hemming tape and scissors. and a hacksaw first saw the copper pipes to the right length. fold your fabric over so that both ends are in the center facing up this side will lead to be the reverse side start with one wing measure the opening for the pipe and mock it with the pan leave this gap open because it's where the couple pipes will have to be pulled through later do the same on both sides the next place down the hemming tape and trim it to size use the pins to fasten the hemming tape around the entire fabric but remember to leave the space open for the pipes now lay the fabric so that the markings for the openings are exactly over each other and boston both sides with panes repeat on the other side. overlap the ends of the fabric in the

middle one after another i am both ends down on to the fabric ironed out all of the pinned edges and then remove the pins. next assemble the rack using the copper pipes for each side you'll need one twenty three centimeters pipe to thirty five centimeter pipes and four copper elbows. start with the smallest pipe and stick both sides into the copper elbow then take the medium sized pipes and plug them into the other ends of the copper elbows now grab the last two copper elbows the opening should face upwards repeat on the other side. finally insert the long pipe into the openings of the copper elbows pull the fabric over the pipes and touch the opposite end. and there you have it a snazzy magazine rack just turn it over and fill it with your favorite glossies.

to make sort of a newspaper read. remember to choose colors on separate pens that match your interior. interior design at it's best check out how you choose channel d. w. interior design coming design ideas spectacular building the i want you to aerials on home decoration we'll take you inside the most beautiful european home to show you the latest in furniture fabrics and accessories. and don't miss out on you tube . well them plenty more present ideas on the you tube channel that's all we have time for today but of course we'll be back again tomorrow so do make sure to stop by see them. next time on your own max. where does santa claus really live is it the north pole

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