the going to have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something . peace time what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance to start this city's after more starting march tenth t w. 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 world record crowds steffi graf

made tennis history. fearless cheerleaders of the new squad 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 an 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 well graf officially retired from the game in one nine hundred ninety nine but her impact on the sport continues to this day.

thank one nine hundred eighty eight was the year for steffi graf first she triumphed at 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 far nobody thought i could achieve that so early i'm sure they'll be in losses again at some point that's completely normal. steffi graf was three when she held her first tennis racket. she was coached by her determined father peter cox. at thirteen she started taking part in grand slam tournaments her rapid rise ignited a nationwide tennis fervor in germany along with the successes of boris becker who

grew up nearby in a town in boston for timberg. we'll have mines that would fall and that would be a really good time to so say should embark on one of the great trainers sandra the family lark environment. it started with my victory at wimbledon in one thousand nine hundred five. caught up and i won her title just. to not go to the bottom thank her breakthrough came 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 really 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 off. four grand slams and olympic gold in the space of

one tennis 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 a good music off the. profit 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 ok i think she will hold on to that record for a very long time because. the nine hundred eighty nine germany's tennis fever reached its peak thanks to the joint forces of shikata and respect. that was when we both won wimbledon on the same day in july the german president because i don't buy it circa was there in the royal box and it was

a special moment for hundreds of 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 of asian 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 thank you ever felt like she got nervous she was just she was very fair it was a pleasure to play against her like it up against her office 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 sent a foundation called children for tomorrow that supports young people affected by war and displacement. peace and 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 it when she was playing surely 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 part of her. if you got 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 and today's express. swedish academy award winner condo was in london on tuesday for the european premiere of the tomb raider reboot she follows angelina jolie in 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 is 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 pollock into the indian ocean australian tanya found it in.

january on a beach near wedge island just north of perth there was a walk around and i noticed a lot of rubbish and. that bank down and picked up it was at my face and that was a 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 plane to fourteen shows in paris karl lagerfeld transformed the grandpa lay into a tunnel forest for twenty eight teams show. the collection married such. as tweed in perth with street savvy trends. the 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 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 build it down as a real discovery. to now is still. children. going to. get it too they don't get that. it shouldn't make too much. 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. with it 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. again. to sort of giving money. to. build a done study contemporary dance and choreography that sometimes proves inspirational when she's composing music or even writing lyrics. if.

you could call her music french 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 the logic. confusedly before i'd often just dance to my lyrics no music just lyrics i'd record them and perform to them. the phantom of. the game. type that's when it by heart i'm interested in the

depths of the song i dig around and explore what's inside like a surgeon but i'm also convinced that everything outside is 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 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 room. to come to camp. was born calling your enormity. she took her stage name from fourteenth century philosopher sean billie. most often associated with a paradox related to free will and decision making. both be done songs

touch on themes like freedom change and determination something women in the music business need a lot to. learn . and their. they can do to 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 it's about working families it's a tropical. cyclone. but believe persistence and determination have paid off. her second album on dawson 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 indiana who 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 to it's time to rock. i. guess. these are the young up 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. in this my name's candy i do live and shake my booty if you can pay i'm pandy almost and i work in theater. we don't see this as a one off carnival style performance and we're fairly eaters all year round. with their pants ankle warmers and head bands the vienna fear leaders look

a bit like they've stepped out of a jane fonda 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 a dance floor. beneath the ultimate lea our aim is to question gender roles and gender stereotypes. but. why do we find it strange to see men dancing around and 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 pin up spinoff this is their fifth edition which they seemed dirty

deals it presents the fear leaders in. environments where executives often close their deals dressed in their signature spandex and. the field leaders often perform during breaks at the vienna roller derby. the ladies in orange are considered the best roller derby. 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. it was great support for us and a bonus for the spectators. from the first step was ordering the pants my ex boyfriend organized it all 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 beaming. 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 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. with suddenly two police officers 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 the media 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 the kingdom but i'm going to see most of which to me is this one's art it might be just a hobby but it's the best one you could hope for. it's here in germany top model heidi clooney 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 friday's 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. the songs 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 of. that anger pick your 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. everything is reduced to appearance and girls are just totally over the. top to show off i'm going to. the organization thinks things has been fighting sexism in gender stereotypes for years since these days 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 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 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 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 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 the 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 it in the journey it reminds you of places.

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 is brushed so it has a soft. it's not polished and shiny small soft in the so face and it goes really well together with the cabinet when you have made of wood and it's goes from one trolls from the other door and when you push 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 they use every inch of it. your house 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 their culture we still bring a lot of friends and family spec 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 like good quality and that makes it

a little bit more fun. this isn't the first house that may not also horny 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 weigh 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 by taking part if 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 your own max as always thing. for joining and we'll see you again tomorrow. next time on your own max one man's trash is another man's treasure should a designer do well from hamburg gives old junk

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