things turned out to be. forced marriage genital mutilation humiliation. so i know well sonali rebelled. the written word to stand up for women's rights. no one else will die with the force of nature starting. on d. w. . greetings from the german capital on a warm welcome to our latest edition and on today's show we're seeking out the far flung and forgotten corners of the continent with these top stories. town explorer an italian photographer and his love of last place. snow surfers

a new and trending way to hit the slopes in finland. and well there are some austrian couples who lovingly restored alpine chalet. bicycle week kicks off this week in the capital to mark the arrival of spring and as the days get friendlier several hundred thousand cyclists will be hitting the roads but for professional cyclists there's no such thing as a real off season as they of course have to stay in shape year round like a german mountain biker steffi mult who has muscled her way into a decidedly male dominated field with guts and grace. a leisurely bike ride through the park is not for the likes of stephanie mocked the german mountain biker for first trails that are rated high in terms of technical difficulty and come with a guaranteed adrenaline kick the thirty two year old is one of germany's most successful female mountain bikers this extreme sport is mainly

a male domain and there are many women who can make a living from a mountain biking is nerve racking stuff. in games and of the christenings i woman is a disadvantage because we reflect on things more and are a bit more careful with our bodies. if you do things with courage and energy and they tend to work out better as a man i like to do what i call it and she jumps which is completely counterproductive when i approach things a bit cautiously but you can't do that with extreme things he will we have to get them full whack. and steffi marty is certainly going full throttle at this point track in munich's gazing district she started out riding b.m.x. bikes twenty years ago the mountain bike came later. five to six days a week of training is the price she pays to be a professional in her dream sport. i watch what

fascinates me about cycling is being able to exercise and be outdoors on a mountain bike you can get anywhere with a racing bike you can cover long distances with a mountain bike you can go up steep inclines with a b.m.x. bike you can get really fast cycling has so many facets. but. the five time german women's champion has also received international prizes she won bronze in the women's four cross world championships in twenty fourteen and twenty fifty or cycling career has taken her to some of the most spectacular destinations in the world such as the hawaiian island of oahu. the great wall of china. and to utah where she soared over the grafton road part of one of the most risky mountain bike trails in the u.s. . mark knows how to ensure that she looks good too.

as nick was a bit but he's always debate about whether women as looks play a role in the sport of mountain biking unfortunately i think that's the case on the other hand it's also a lot of well it's not just about looking good and getting on the bike now and again you have to train her work a lot on yourself. in mountain bike magazines stephanie regularly reports on her adventures for example for the magazine free ride she has written an article about her bike tour through canada. working with the media is an important part of her job. editor in chief dimitri lainer has been working with stephanie mark for ten years now. stephanie looks good she looks good on a bike. you wouldn't believe how much that very. reason some pro cyclists who sit strangely on their bikes stephanie is constantly working on her

posture so that she sits on her bike in the way that every amateur biker would like to take a bag down cause she also travels a lot internationally and really exudes a good vibe she's positive full of life just what you want your magazine. via instagram stuff you mark regularly post photos and short film clips she wants to encourage more people to take up the sport and also likes to communicate directly with her fans. and not at the social media is really important for my work and for extreme sports men and women generally you can show what you can do many people might miss things on the wise if you travel some. aaron right a really exciting trail we're giving courses on a technique somewhere and you say it's a really good course here those things onto my magazine but people can follow them on social media social media can the thing that i performed in. tempe monster is hoping that more women will follow in her bike tracks and make the jump into the

professionally. and one more time we'd like to know what your favorite type of bicycle is there's still time to send us a picture of you and your two wheeler of choice and don't forget that there's a cool cycling bag up for grabs so thanks in advance for playing along best of luck to all of you all i certainly can't remember a time without his productions making waves on stage and we sang his songs from musicals like cats or jesus christ superstar until our throats were sore now the master of musicals is hitting a milestone birthday. musical maestro andrew lloyd webber turns seventy on thursday the british composer has written scores for some of the most successful musicals ever staged cats and phantom of the opera had been performed around the world and many of the songs became chart hits. lloyd webber began composing music at age six his most recent

musical adaptation school of rock debuted in twenty fifteen. his memoirs entitled unmasked came out earlier this month. an exhibition featuring sculptures by as you and me home opened on shoes day in central buttin in the spanish that c.f. sun van horn and eight hundred ninety three the spanish artist became world famous for his colorful paintings. inside me home was just as passionate about sculpture in particular he liked to create sculptures from objects he found while taking walks. whole show runs until september second. the first polar bear to be born in the u.k. you know her of the century has ventured outdoors for the first time.

the couple is worn at scotland's highland wildlife park just before christmas and mother victoria has cared for dinner down ever since the polar bear has yet to be named because it's gender hasn't been established we should find out if it's male or female when health checks are made next month. for all of its incredible civilisation italy has more than fifteen hundred completely abandoned villages ghost towns that are the result of urban drain but also natural catastrophes like with quakes or landslides all the land base for top . for bruno zones of ted has frequented these forgotten places for years documenting their decay from the italian alps to the sealion hills and he took us along to a village in the apa nine mountains where villagers were forced to flee adhoc back in one thousand nine hundred sixty. row by your love and abandon mountain village in the northern apennine. nature's fast encroaching on the ten houses and

taking them back sixty years ago they were still more than a hundred people living here. a perfect location for milan based photographer bruno sun so take it up. welcome to ghost village shrieks the sign at the entrance of town center tara takes pictures of a forgotten italy. he's been searching for such mysterious places since two thousand and thirteen. i. had a lot better that's the fashion i did with the cards from the beauty and transformation of these deserted villages i want to tell something about the depopulation nobody tell you in regions that began at the beginning of the last century that i said when i was the second world war also as a result of industrialization many villages especially in the mountains were

gradually abandoned. was threatened by a landslide and was therefore completely evacuated in one nine hundred sixty. the search for locations can be quite risky for. because he's also interested in what is still inside the crumbling houses remnants from the past. sometimes former residents like ninety year old rena or sicko may come here to look at their old houses and to reminisce. and we slept right over there. here's the entrance to the kitchen. and stone up in a typically large tell your family lived here ten people slept in these rooms. she

hardly recognizes them today. know what i am but a real i wish i hadn't seen it again. i get all choked up. as the way to. talk about a little by little all such villages will end up like this. different. has photographed over thirty ghost villages for his project there is no shortage with an estimated one thousand five hundred more abandoned places in italy. in southern italy rural exodus has depopulated entire regions. abandoned villages with picturesque names like amanda. brunker leoni and fascinate the mill in these photographers. he recently metra zippy spun you all over the last inhabitant of the village washing your own near naples. and appeared

suddenly very for old glory. the perfect image that i've just been fed the bit off all. the photos have been published in among other publications the italian edition of national geographic magazine. they depict in italy that is to retrieve the plane lost. by the. time it stopped. shortly before life was being lived to the fullest and then suddenly no one was left it's almost like a modern. day. the inhabitants are. moved to a new village on the other side of the valley in one thousand nine hundred sixty the feared landslide never happened. yet no one returned to the old village green or sea says she never even considered the idea of moving back here.

soaring convenient to live. proxy remain out. wadih. the number of italian ghost villages is likely to increase earthquakes are one factor. a popular hiking trail leads through a viola of a q there is some hope that enthusiasm for this way of life will consider moving here to restore at least some houses in this ghost village. i guess shep's is one of europe's most sought after concert pianists the thirty two year old russian was born in moscow and now makes her home in cologne where she regularly takes to the stage with mostly classical works but she's also a great fan of contemporary music and contrast which led her to paint remarkable home make home edge to a german techno bent. one

song two very different performers pianist olga shops and scooter front man h.p. baxter. on her latest cd the classical star performer reinterprets the songs of the german techno band. i feel as if i've always known scooter scooter songs were always playing at parties or on the car radio. techno goes classical h.p. baxter and ships worked on the songs together creating cover versions that are very different from the originals but scooters hit maria. all my needs and i was able to introduce my own ideas as well and it was really

nice to be there well music was created. that i play was written a long time before i was even born. this encounter between two alien worlds creates surprising results scooter's front man is certainly impressed. playing without sheet music is that normal in. some amazing how do you remember it all. the two of them have pulled off why do musical feel the combination of one hundred percent scooter and one hundred percent of piano virtuoso. all now are headed to finish lapland where winter still has a firm grip and the last few years have borne witness to the reemergence of powder surfing an activity that's more or less a combination of snowboarding and surfing and we went to see the two guys who are making an art form or.

picturesque winter landscape in finland some one hundred forty kilometers north of the arctic circle. though it's only three hundred seventy meters high climbing mt so tell you it is quite arduous. but see an area clear and moxy norberto are happy to make the effort they want to surf down the slope. unlike a normal snowboard their boards have no bindings or fasteners. counter surfing is the new thing. ten percent of the five percent going down is actually probably. twenty times good high like an adrenaline rush really i just. it's i mean it's hard work sometimes working through deep snow for. but even

i mean even that is rewarding in itself but when you get a ride at the end of it it's the cherry on the cake. you know surfboards can't really be bought anywhere in finland so there was only one logical thing for the finns to do then themselves. a designer and cabinet maker establish their own company. name me they bought wooden tools and got started. i think freeing your feet from the boat that you're not attached to a certain position just opens up more of a. burst of way of writing. to perform. perform on the water so would perform on snow similar way. but. it's important for the two fins that the whole operation ecological is

possible only natural materials such as birch would know synthetic fiberglass. board should be uncompromisingly environmentally friendly. we intentionally went for quite a minimal aesthetic from the beginning just because. i mean snow surfing we live in lapland and we spend a little time well ninety nine percent of the time we hike. maybe one percent or more who is actual surfing you know spending so much time and it's you obviously get a. sense of what things are like he didn't make much sense to us to slap bright graphics on them we might experiment with some color and graphics soon but. to begin with we just thought it would be nice to have a simple this would be big red that i'm going to be alone

or with a few friends they're out surfing as often as possible all winter long. i like if you know somebody said oh you're going to call. more and more winter sports enthusiasts are asking for snow surfboards they've sold two hundred already at around four hundred euros each. this type of winter sport requires three basics good physical condition lots of time and a thing for extremely cold weather. in the forests of lapland small huts along the way offer hikers a little wrist to warm up with a hot drink after a long day. you know it's a very obviously when the season is on you have to make the most of it. because you know there's not going to be any snow surfing for the rest of the year so you got to catch the snow when it's. surfing at minus twenty degrees celsius on snowboards

without bindings a wild landscape without prepared ski runs and without ski lifts that's how you try to and from lapland like it this. typical alpine hot summer a romantic sight. in the mountains of switzerland and austria for instance but there's also a lot to learn from simple mountain farm architecture as the buildings are often exemplary when it comes to space and energy efficiency well alst tala is an austrian cabinet maker who is well known for his work with old wood and he believes that heritage materials need to be preserved and he turned an old alpine into a monk refuge with the difference. to get up to the alpine chalet in winter snow can be more than a metre deep for months here on mt to catch back at one thousand six hundred fifty

meters above sea level in the austrian state of carinthia. common to end style and heritage the four hundred year old chalet from his ancestor and restored it painstakingly by hand according to age old tradition. where you have to do say enough is a good used to be a cabin where herdsman could cook and sleep simply as protection from wind rain and weather. the ground floor consists of a single large room dominated by the dining table and the small kitchen in the corner plus a huge fireplace which is the heart of the chalet and keeps the entire house warm. this house and what is more is essential because where there is no warmth there is no life so in the stores in the show lawyers are always located very central and

the kitchen in the living area the kind of make sure very little warmth was lost and that's why the windows were very small back then this week if we were going to kind of things like north. alpine mountain dwellers can teach us how to organize life in the tightest of spaces. every free surface is used for storage. that's a wooden lattice above the stove for hanging out washing and the dining table with its splayed legs office room for everyone. in the frame was built with slanted works so people would have room for their legs when there's another if you want those who go the drawers very special. blood most drawers were made of swiss pine because the essential oils in the word rebuild. or escape through.

the many loving details are another reason and stan and his wife laurie can feel so comfortable in this alpine chalet. the walls have decorative patterns carved into the plaster. tyler has hung dr herbst everywhere. this is love in this work this is lavender it has a calming effect if the scent is too intense for some people they can remove it but i find it very soothing we may be exploring and. tyler took over the chalet it was very rundown except for the seventeenth century wooden beams little in the interior was still intact. but on the hook in board and then i started to restore everything. as i tried to preserve the old features and supplement them with new ones. through again. he's produced

a found frame with stones he found in the mountain pass chance. and he converted the old stable facing the chalet into a sauna. in the chalets up a story there are three simple bedrooms. but in the winter it's better only to sleep in the one that's right about the stick move on the ground floor. over this one the bedroom for the parents with their small children was always above the kitchen. because heat rises and that way they and their children can keep warm and are going to see old. man and feels best on the balcony. and here he has a glorious fear of the catch banks winter landscape. fresh

air water and trees are really important to me boy me provide grounding for me i'm going home air that's life for me i calm down and i'm at peace this is from you. the alpine chalet on the catch back the place where you can live comfortably even in the severest of one times far from civilization in complete harmony with nature . a place with space to dream and on that note it's time for me to sign off so until next time i was spending just. next time on your own max i see. her cap known as the cigar is the latest. favorite fashionistas after model sported the more of karl lagerfeld recent runway

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