but what is the sound of a tree not for us the sound biodiversity tourism community development reliable food and water. the united nations development program is listening and working with communities to protect forests for the future we want if you're hearing what we're hearing find out more. i want to welcome to another edition of your own max i'm your host meghan li we are celebrating women and female related movements on the show today here's a look at what's coming up. game set world records how steffi graf made tennis history. fearless cheerleaders tell of the new squad fire

up a female roller derby. and shades of grey the monochrome appeal of a danish diners own. in light of international women's day we are profiling female individuals who have made in the exceptional contribution in the world while tennis legend steffi graf is one of those women she's one of the most successful tennis players of all time and the only player to this day to achieve a so-called calendar golden slam now that is when you win all the major titles plus gold at the olympics in the same year or graf officially retired from the game in one nine hundred ninety nine but her impact on the sport continues to this day.

nine hundred eighty eight was the year for steffi graf first she triumphed just the australian open. then she took the french open. next came wimbledon and she remained undefeated at the u.s. open. then to crown it all she won olympic gold at the summer games in seoul. and even have so nobody thought i could achieve that so early i'm sure they'll be in losses again at some point and that's completely normal. steffi croft was three when she held her first tennis racket. she was coached by her determined father teacher. at thirteen she started taking part in grand slam tournaments for rapid rise ignited nationwide tennis fervor in germany along with the successes of boris becker who grew up nearby in a town in boston for tim burke. to have minds it would it would be a really good time to sort of. the great trainers and to the family like

environment. it started with my victory at wimbledon and i can you define and then step you caught up one hundred trying. to not get to the bottom. thank you breakthrough in nine hundred eighty seven when she was only eighteen. at the french open she unseated martina navratilova to become the world number one. she's sixteen like quick and fast and knew how to play the game really no weakness i mean her back and she was always there for her it was a huge weapon but she neutralized everything with her bike and as well because she was to great mover. in one thousand nine hundred eighty steffi graf made history when she won the golden slam all four grand slams and a limpid gold in the space of one ten a season a feat boris becker couldn't match running who could talk to me that i just wasn't good enough if she did better than me in eighty eight i was glad to win even one

grand slam a year and she got loads of the sacred music i'm off to. crawford is still the only tennis player to have completed the golden slam in one calendar year. this and i think there are so many outstanding athletes especially in recent years i'm sure somebody will manage it again. this summer. or i'm not going to make it i think she will hold on to the record for a very long time because. she's nine hundred eighty nine germany's tennis fever reached its peak thanks to the joint forces of shipping costs and the respect. that was when we both won wimbledon on the same day in july the german president because i want to buy check i was there in the royal box and it was a special moment for me time to. moment for the torch it's. alongside her golden

slam steffi graf holds another record she was ranked world number one for three hundred seventy seven weeks longer than any other tennis player. thank you by the meet nineties she suffered increasing injuries her father's conviction on charges of tax evasion was a further follow. rush made a comeback in june one thousand nine hundred ninety nine winning the french open against martina hingis in one of the most spectacular matches of her career thank you ever felt like she got nervous she was just you know she was very fair it was a pleasure to play against her and i was like it up but against her a lot of us in august one nine hundred ninety nine steffi graf announced her shocked departure from the sport i knew i would get emotional. she withdrew from the public eye and married american tennis star andre agassi they moved to las vegas and started a family. she set up

a foundation called children for tomorrow that supports young people affected by war and displacement. to talk peace and i enjoy my foundation very much so i feel like i'm exactly where i should be right now i consider myself very lucky she always was private it when she was playing surely did the absolute minimum because that's that's who she is so i wish she would support the sport a little more but you do what works for you and this lifestyle obviously works for her so well part of her. to figure out a role model and sporting pioneer. thanks . and staying with strong women there's a new face in the next edition of the movie tomb raider more on that plus a long lost message in a bottle coming up in today's express.

swedish academy award winner an e.c.v. condo was in london on tuesday for the european premiere of the tomb raider reboot . she follows angelina jolie and the role of action hero lara croft in the third movie based on the computer game franchise lara sets out on a nail biting adventure to find her father who's missing and presumed dead the movie hits theaters in europe on march fifteenth. on tuesday a one hundred thirty two year old message in a bottle was put on display at the western australian museum in perth between eighty six the bottle was tossed off the german explorer vessel paolo into the indian ocean australian founded in january on a beach near wedge island just north of perth. to walk around and i noticed a lot of rubbish and. that down and

picked up my face and that was it simple as that in days of old researchers cast thousands of bottles to see to trace the ocean's currents this particular bottle contained a formula and a request to send it to germany's naval observatory along with data on where it was found. on the last day of the shows in paris karl lagerfeld transformed the ground parlay into a forest for twenty eight thousand show. the collection married such. as tweed in perth with street. sporting codes made from leaf print fabrics are decorated with leaf like applications the models landed right in with the scenery. moving on to the french singer and songwriter barry dunn who has just recently

released her second album now it's titled roughly translates into crazy insurance and reflects life's ups and downs including struggles that women face in the music industry we visited bird on friends to hear more about how she's trying to break through the glass ceiling. with her intelligent lyrics crystal clear voice and easygoing nature will be down as a real discovery. on. children. that's good that she didn't fit into her gym. and two more. as a dick will never show me that i discovered my voice relatively late only after i'd quit dancing i was looking for another means of expression and that's how i came to start singing. at the beginning it was against my nature because i was very shy and

introverted. as a young girl i had written a lot and had a rich inner life though there wasn't much going on outside this desire to share my texts with the public prompted me to start singing the national to. the family. of the. king given to me. get you. down. but i've done study contemporary jazz and choreography that sometimes proves inspirational when she's composing music or even writing lyrics. you could call her music french shall song with a twist her songs emphasize a rhythm and add new facets. and. i don't get the feeling that i owed

too much to traditional french songs that everything's in flux there are influences from african music from hip hop and rap which i've really got into in the last five or six years not that i'm a rap expert now but there's something about this rhythmic language that i really like my own songs are also more rhythmic than the logic. confusedly before i'd often just dance to my lyrics no music just lyrics i'd record them and perform to them. because of the song not talk to. type that's when it behold i'm interested in the depths of the soul i dig around and explore what's inside like a surgeon but i'm also convinced that everything outside of everything that we experience also influences us on the inside. on my new album there's

a piece called left. it's very personal and recounts how i felt at a certain phase in my life because i then i noticed that a lot of my friends were experiencing a similar phase of transition in their relationships or their work because i don't and i realized our country is also in a state of transition we're in transition ecologically politically and socially and all this or. any form. of somebody's going to come to a campaign promise you will be done was born calling your enormity. she took her stage name from fourteenth century philosopher john billy. most often associated with a paradox related to free will and decision making. boldly done songs touch on themes like freedom change and determination something women in the music

business need a lot of. care . another girl with a guitar and i get that often no one would ever refer to a man as another singer with a guitar. there are lots of things like that it's not really serious but as a woman you always have to fight harder always deliver more for example i worked on the arrangements for my last album and i had a tough time even just getting someone to listen to the stuff in peace without them wanting to change it all. really about a woman who understands technology impossible. you didn't do that did you

it's annoying to. see. that. but persistence determination have paid off. her second album on dollars isn't likely to be the last we hear of her. the subjects in our next reports are two women who are working to make a contribution in the world but they are fighting for equality just the same the so-called feared leaders are a male cheerleading group in vienna who have vowed to fight sexism homophobia and male dominance in sport now their show antics may raise some eyebrows but their message is being heard loud and clear among their audience. their hair is perfect it's looking good too it's time to rock.

i. guess. these are the vienna fear leaders in action with their pompoms and sparkly costumes they're taking the n.s.a. cheerleading scene by storm everyone has a role to play. in this my name's candy i do live and shake my booty if you can paint it i'm pandy almost i work in theater. we don't see this as a one off carnival style performance and we're fairly eaters all year round to go. with their pants and pull warmers and head bands the vienna fear leaders look a bit like they've stepped out of a jane fonda i think this video they have fun playing around with gender stereotypes particularly the image of the man as competition hungry sports hero who

would be caught dead on the dance floor. even if this is the ultimate lee our aim is to question gender roles and gender stereotypes. but. why do we find it strange to see men dancing around to doing acrobatics and hot pants. before we would never question why women do it. our work here is to expose things for what they are. and then question them by presenting them with an ironic twist to. the field leaders produce an annual calendar to it's a whole new pinups spin off this is their fifth edition which they themed dirty deals it presents the fear leaders. environments where executives often close their deals dressed in their signature spandex and glitter the feel leaders often perform

during breaks at the vienna roller derby. the ladies in orange are considered the best roller derby team in austria. the team members would come here for practice and some of their boyfriends thought they'd like to do something to show their support. so they started a male cheerleading squad. the audience loved it. because. it was great support for us and a bonus for the spectators. the first step was ordering the pants my exboyfriend organized he took everybody's measurements and then downsized all the orders by one size. that's how you get the right fit. when i came to practice and they were all dressed up there was a change in the started moving a bit differently they were beaming. because we developed

a routine in just four or five hours and performed at the very next day. challenging stereotypical gender roles while the roller derby women are the ones dishing out the blows the men perform the light entertainment in the breaks they have no problem dancing in the shadow of strong women. broken bones are not uncommon in roller derby players have to be tough rough and skillful. the fear leaders want to mash up gender norms and that can sometimes cause confusion. we were in this public park at a kind of beyond here in vienna and we're trying to film the scene. suddenly to police officer show up out of nowhere. and thought we were the ones they were looking for.

the end of the base that was the best day i ever had as a leader. yeah everybody while it easy intended to raise questions it's mostly about having fun comedian our families and friends all gave us really good feedback most people are surprised at first my dad was wary but then they're quick to approve picking them what i'm going to see most of which to me this is going to audit might be just a hobby but it's the best one you could hope for. it's here in germany top model heidi clune has produced and starred in a popular modeling show since two thousand and six the program germany's next top model enjoys top ratings but the show's often been criticized for its sexist content and objectifying young girls for now some activists young activists rather in northern germany are expressing there just may in

a song called not hide these girls and it's resonating among teenagers. heidi's god not me i'm not me i'm not i guess they're sick of a t.v. show that celebrates an idealized body type and certainly don't just fire to be like the girls in heidi klum show germany's next top model to make their voices heard these teenagers from hamburg have produced a song and music video called not heidi's girl and it's gone viral. had. the song defiant message speaks to young women who refused to be defined by their looks. or a memory of issues recruited to high school students and directed the video she's had enough. just to interview you're made to feel like you have to look a certain way they only matter you're only someone if you've got the right figure and perfect. system because. everything is reduced to here and girls are just

totally over. the top on the media. the organization thinks things has been fighting sexism in gender stereotypes for years since these ads on the show that girls watch there's nothing else on german t.v. pitched at girls between eleven and sixteen and that's a huge problem with the schools of play and child not heightens carol has already attracted hundreds of thousands of humans at this hamburg school just like in hollywood it seems that sometimes i. just stop. the expression beauty comes from within doesn't just apply to people it applies to houses as well so next up we head to the danish capital copenhagen to see how interior designer lane a house of harlem one transformed in old hospital into a comfortable family home. this classic brick house in

a copenhagen suburb dates from one nine hundred fifty. almost a century later interior designer. transformed the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. oh i have. come to our house and go when i get there i would like to show you how we live well come inside follow me. the house features of the new wants to palate of grey with defining accents of black. the designer created an obvious that is serene yet impressive. color is more than a decorative element it's emotional. very important that the it take you like in the journey it reminds you of places and. imaginations of stories where you want to be you would like to and that's why

there's no what colors here in this house only the ceilings this white. man lives here with her husband two children and three dogs. the kitchen is the focal point for the entire family. the designer has built a career on designing kitchen islands for clients she wanted her own kitchen to be as beautiful as a dysfunctional it's a kitchen but it's not just a kitchen it's more than that because the granite here the table top brushed so it has like a. yes it's not polished and shiny small soft in the so face and it goes really well together with the cabinets when you have made of wood and it goes from one for to the other door and when you push the door it comes out and it's electronic so it's practical it's beautiful but it's also functional. the

house both four hundred square metres of living space on three floors but despite its rampling size it maintains an intimate air. space is important to the point of months and they use every inch of it. your house is your castle and you you. surround you things surround yourself with things that you enjoy and you make it cozy you know the danish word for which is causing this so i think that's a big part of the danish culture we still bring a lot of friends and family specs to our homes so we have to open up our homes and maybe that's why we really consider how we live. with beautiful things not only beautiful things like shapes but also good quality change people light good quality and that makes it a little bit more fun. this isn't the first house that may not house a horn a man has bought and renovated for her family. but given how comfortable they feel

here it may be a while before they move out again. ok well before we go we want to let you in on this week's contest now we would like to know what your ideal getaway is is it going to the beach heading to the mountains for a week of skiing or as a jumping on a jet ski please tell us by going to our website and by taking part you qualify to win an exclusive euro max watch all right well in the meantime don't forget to follow us on facebook or instagram for me and the rest of the crew here at euro max as always thanks for joining in and we will see you again tomorrow. next time on euro max one man's trash is another man's treasure a designer duo from hamburg gives full of junk a new lease on life the up cyclers from looking to lure to turn old records into fruit bowls books become key racks and old skateboards shakeups transforming trash

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