it's tell me about george chance to discover the world from different perspectives . join us sponsored by distinctive instagram or zz. d.w. stories topics each week on the mr graham. i want to welcome to another edition of your own max i'm your host meghan lee 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 history. fearless cheerleaders and all of the new squads fire up

a female roller derby. and shades of grey the monochrome appeal of a danish designer's own. in light of international women's day we are profiling female individuals who have made in the exceptional contribution in the world well 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 well graf officially retired from the game in one nine hundred ninety nine but her impact on the sport continues to this day.

one nine hundred eighty eight was the year for steffi graf first she triumphed just the australian open. then she took the french open. next king 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 as completely normal. groff was three when she held her first tennis racket. she was coached by her determined father richard roth. at thirteen she started taking part in grand slam tournaments a rapid rise ignited nationwide tennis fervor she named bon one of the great trainers and a family like environment. it started with my victory at wimbledon and i came eighty five. card up and i won her title just. to know the other team to the bottom

thanks for breakthrough pain in one 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 back and as well because she was two great mover. in one nine hundred eighty eight defeat croft made history when she won the golden slam all four grand slams and olympic gold in the space of one ten a season a feat boris becker couldn't catch running who could talk to me that i just wasn't good enough if she did better than me an eighty eight i was glad to win even one grand slam a year and she got loads of us they could basically almost. brush is still the only tennis player to have. the golden slam in one calendar year. since there are so

many outstanding athletes especially in recent years i'm sure somebody will manage again. that us so. i'm not going to make it ok i think she will hold on to the record for a very long time and it cost. me nine hundred eighty nine germany's tennis fever reached its peak thanks to the joint forces of sheffield clash and the respect. that was wrongly both won wimbledon on the same day in july the german president because the town of beit circuit was there in the royal box and it was a special moment for. moments that a torch was. 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.

thanks by the mid ninety's she suffered increasing injuries her father's conviction on charges of tax evasion was a further follow. rush made a comeback in june one nine hundred ninety nine winning the french open against martina hingis in one of the most spectacular matches of her career. she never 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 i think it's still a lot. in august one thousand nine hundred 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. peace and should.

i enjoy my foundation very much i feel like i'm exactly where i should be right now i consider myself very lucky she always was private and when she was playing she really did the absolute minimum because that's that's where 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 parts of her. to figure out a role model and sporting pioneer. 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. the. swedish academy award winner and 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 nailbiting adventure to find her father who is missing and presumed dead the movie hits theaters in europe on march fifteenth. and 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 apollo into the indian ocean australian tanya found in january on a beach near wedge island just north of perth i will cut out to walk around and i noticed a lot of problems and my immediate thought was to pick some up and try to hide and try it out and that bank down and picked up that bottle it was at my face and that was it as simple as that in days of old. researchers cast thousands of bottles to

sea 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 press to forte shows in paris karl lagerfeld transformed the ground plane into an i tunnel forest for chanel's fall twenty eight team show. the collection married such. as tweet and pearls with street savvy trends. sporting codes made from leaf print fabrics are decorated with leaf like applications the models blended right in with the scenery. moving on to the french singer and songwriter berry down 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. still. pushing more children. going to. get it to little bit than a general. mixon to more. as you declare anniversary 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 action to. the family not. given to me. on the. up to. date on study contemporary dance and choreography that sometimes proves inspirational when she's composing music or even writing lyrics. if. you could call her music a french shot off with a twist her songs emphasize a rhythm and add new facets. i don't get the feeling that i owed too much to traditional french songs that everything's in flux long as 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 melodic. confusedly before i'd often just dance to my lyrics no music just lyrics i'd record them and perform to them. the form the most often of the game. type that's when it by heart 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 realize our country is also in a state of transition we're in transition ecologically politically and socially and all this room. for. somebody to come to a campaign promise you will be done was born to the calling your enormity. she took her stage name from fourteenth century philosopher billy was 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. they

can do 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. you need a woman who understands technology impossible. you didn't do that did you it's annoying to both work and family.

but the downs persistence and determination have paid off. her second album bhatia on the horse isn't likely to be the last we hear of her. the subjects in our next reports are in two women who are working to make a contribution in the world but they are fighting for equality just the same the so-called fear 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. see i. see.

these on the piano dear 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. 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 beer 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.

mentally our aim is to question gender roles and gender stereotypes. but. why do we find it strange to see men dancing around 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 dear leader is produce an annual calendar to it's a whole new pin up spin off this is their fifth edition we stayed themed dirty deals it presents the fear leaders in. environments where executives often close their deals dressed in their signature spandex and glitter and the field 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 who did it. for the first step was ordering the pants my ex boyfriend organized and 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 that if you started moving a bit differently they were. because we developed a routine in just four or five hours and they performed at the very next day. challenging stereotypical gender roles while the roller derby women are the ones

dishing out the blows the member for 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 and rough and skillful. the fear leaders want to mash up gender norms and that can sometimes cause confusion. if. 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 officers show up out of nowhere. and thought we were the ones they were looking for. the end of the fifth that was the best day i ever had as their leader.

yeah everybody while it is 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 but i'm going to see a message with him and this is going to out it 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 sexist content and objectifying young girls for now some activists young activists rather in northern germany are expressing their dismay in a song called not friday's girls and it's resonating among teenagers. heidi's god no we i'm not 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. the song defiant message speaks to young women who refuse to be defined by their looks. or a memory of issues recruited the high school students and directed the video she's had enough of. that anger you're made to feel that you have to look a certain way they only matter you're only someone if you've got the right figure and perfect skin. everything is reduced to appearance and girls are just totally over the sign off on the off time you made us i thought. you were going to zation

thinks things has been fighting sexism in gender stereotypes for years as do you say it's all 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 name and child not heidi's girl has already attracted hundreds of thousands of views at this hamburg school just like in hollywood it seems that time's up. just stop. the expression beauty comes from within doesn't just apply to people and applies to houses as well so next up we head to the danish capital copenhagen to see how interior designer lane a house of parliament transformed an old hospital into a comfortable family home. this classic brick house in a copenhagen suburb dates from nine hundred fifty. almost a century later interior designers. transformed the ugly duckling into

a beautiful swan. oh i'll. come to our house and go when i get there i would like to show you how we live well come in sight follow me. the house features a new wants palette of grey with defining accents of black. the designer created an ambience 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. imaginations of stories where you want to be what 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 saw. yes it's not polished and shiny small soft in the surface and it goes really well together with the cabinet so when you have made of wood and it goes from one troll to the other door and when you push through the door it comes out and it's in the trunk so it's practical it's beautiful but it's also functional . the house boasts four hundred square meters 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 make use of every inch of it. your house your castle and you you. surround you things surround yourself with things that you enjoy and you make your clothes and you know the danish word for which is causing this so i think that's a big part of the danish culture we stupid ring 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 danish people light good quality and that makes it a little bit more fun. this isn't the first house that may not house a one a mom 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 weigh in on this week's contest now we would

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