think you're smart t.v. smarter than the d w for smart t.v. . what you want when you want it up to date extraordinary into you decide what's on sunday no more than double dot com smart t.v. . welcome to the show i'll be guiding you through the latest in european lifestyle and culture this week is what's coming up today. striking snapshots an amateur photographer caption an amazing picture of stalin. musical memory germany's according to building tradition that music will make the unesco heritage list. and

the beatles birthplace we told the british city's a little cool. we start off today's show with a visit to the netherlands amsterdam boasts a rich cultural history and some of its tucked away in backyards in the private gardens of seventeenth and eighteenth century canal houses normally visitors wouldn't even know that these spaces exist but once a year during the open garden days event tourists and residents alike can get a glimpse into the secret world here max reporter meghan lee took a closer look at. these private gardens are small oases in the heart of amsterdam they belong to the city's wealthiest residents and once a year homeowners allowed visitors to get a sneak peek inside for the open garden days. and i was on hand for the experience . so we've just arrived at our first address let's take

a look inside and see what awaits us. private addresses where on this year's program visitors can catch a quick glimpse into how the home owners live on their way to the gardens some of them designed the gardens themselves like dutch architect hans witt who says he's happy to welcome visitors into his home for many reasons the moment we are retired so that's number one so we have the time to do it good so we're also always supported the garden should be beautiful for the day so you push yourself a little bit to make the garden beautiful and the most important parties the privilege that we live here and i see a lot of people like to see their gardens behind through canals now you designed this garden what is the key to it. no maintenance and it should be fitting by the more or less eighteenth century office building. amsterdam resident. is the

organizer of open garden days and a garden designer herself some of her creations are also on display including this one which she designed for an office it was a very romantic overgrown old garden the one dimensional. years ago something like that was an old couple. and it had very old trees but they were sick so i would have had to cut them so they start all over again while i sort. of well it's nice to do something with flowing forms the shape of the greenery and the landscapes are meant to reflect the constant movement in the office. so i've just been yet another garden there is so much walking around on this tour but i've found a really clever way to get around to the next car and do as the dutch do what runs us here for next card and. navigating hassidim streets is the. but even that can be tricky when the crowds take over.

and. openings each store is like stepping into another world from scenes that reflect the wilderness to manicured landscape architecture every garden is different. it's been lovely it's so different than doing it it's the normal american tours it gave us a chance to see more of the dutch look. which many of the visitors are also surprised to find such green spaces behind these canal houses but each one offers a reprieve from the hustle and bustle of city life. history is always present. designer eric foner mind centered his design around the symbolic tree when it stood tall jewish teenager and frank's side every day from her window while hiding from nazi persecution it's a bit of

a monumental sportspeople to treat it with something but it's necessary. for me to remind me sometimes in the fall and then you have this gap in the ground which a lot of water for example to. recreate it's a little punch which looks natural form just before it's more of the swamp thing but there. so it's life which also must reflect the original source. dam is famous for its can now so travelling by boat is popular we're doing is the dutch and we fly down a boat so we're going to travel down these canals by boat with one of the local residents so let's go. to amsterdam has more than one hundred kilometers of can now see the three main ones were dug in the seventeenth century during the dutch golden age. spencer has more for the working people well it was meant for the working people and. where for the wealthy people and you can see it at the space the steak next to each other. bigger and more ornamental

more beautiful houses on the prince house are more basic the basic here means an average house price of one and a half million euro's enough but looking at them costs nothing. so my tour of the open garden days is coming to an end but what i'm taking away is that this event is so much more than just about seeing the private secret gardens behind the doors of these fantastic houses it's about meeting the people and talking to them and seeing what their ideas behind their gardens in their lives and visitors can do this every year on the third weekend of june so till next time don't seem to. done chevelle meghan now let's get up to date with what's going on across the continent in our euro max express today we're featuring the horses in france and hobbits in the czech republic but first up is an open concert right here in the capital of germany.

once again berlin's. open era vent attracted thousands of classical music lovers to the city's babeu square for the twelfth year in a row the event drew huge crowds to enjoy a stellar open air symphony concert for free. thought. but startup ellabella an orchestra conducted by daniel barenboim performed among other things a work by giacchino racine e. some forty thousand people attended the event. this weekend fans of fantasy author james kim descended on a forest near the czech city of doxy one thousand enthusiastic playing or swarms unmanned reenacted the battle of five am is from tolkien's famous novel the hobbit

. these mock battles have been staged felt almost twenty years now thanks to weapons made of plastic and want nobody has ever been. extravagant hats and exquisite dresses were on display at the one hundred and seventy fifth please dion close race in chongqing this weekend the race sometimes referred to as the french oaks is the most glamorous of its kind in all of france. the winner of sunday's race secured one million euros in prize money and not i mean that is also an award for best dressed mademoiselle. now we take to the skies with a feather a friend the stalling for target for bebo loves nothing more than getting. the lens to watch their graceful choreographies as most stunning photo was captured while he

was travelling through spain as thousands of starlings creative and often logical masterpiece. when thousands of starlings take to the skies it's always a mesmerizing display of nature. photographer dunya bieber has been capturing memory asians of starlings for years. but even he has never seen anything quite like this before a flock of tens of thousands of starlings that form the shape of a huge bird. shot the image in spain spawning startling formations like these in germany that's become super rare. to fly started photographing with two cameras i was completely focused on that i spent four days photographing taking thousands of pictures and it was only while looking at them off to its that i found

this one the bible. usually bieber has to wait until he's back in germany to look at the thousands of images properly. and sometimes that means he's in for a surprise. because i was concentrating so hard i didn't notice the formation that make up doc and then i realized it was an amazing display and they made quite a racket and there was a huge energy and dynamism in it but it was only later that i saw what they conjured up in the skies and what was it like when you realized oh. done you'll be beloved his hobby whether out with his bike or on foot he spends almost every day outdoors in nature. and he never goes anywhere without a camera. he started taking photographs when he was seventeen and then gradually honed his craft birds are one of his favorite motifs. now his remarkable photo has given him

a name internationally. but it was so out of the ordinary that it hasn't just attracted interest and on a theological cycles it went around the world media outlets were interested lots of people wanted to talk to me but private and commercial really opened doors for me and helpful to him. and who knows maybe daniel bieber will pull up another stunning shot like the starlings in spain. were. or mesmerizing moments captured there now we change and bring you a close look at one of the most spectacular musical instruments the organ and ask those list of intangible cultural heritage compiles unique traditions and crafts every year new additions make the list and series european traditions we're exploring five new entries from the continent and start right here in germany with

the odds of organ building. the music fills every corner of the mushy cologne cathedral. the world famous church boasts to pipe organs even after decades as an organist here winfrey burnet is thrilled by the instrument. doubles is going through what i think it is no coincidence that it developed like this over the centuries the sound produces an otherworldly failing but usually you don't see the performer the sound just comes from somewhere on that enchanting and it's more captivated people as this was dimension. that also goes for the client company that built the organs philip clients who runs the family business and braun is a great grandson of the founder of. the senate were all good and all for me

a good organ has to touch people do with dark bass notes which can be felt in the belly it should turn the space into a warm full soft bath of sound and not just reach the years but the entire body cope of a vehicle the company builds three or four organs every year phillip lysander seventy employees manufactured every part themselves starting with casting the ten sheets from liquid metal. their world cut and sold it to make the organ pipes the right pitch. large organs may consist of more than ten thousand parts that's more than ten thousand different sounds. open building is a complex craft that requires money patience and passion. is help for asian families itself i was a volunteer here during a gap year and i just couldn't get enough of this horrible. tear gas has been building organs for fifty one years and plan to retire soon he is convinced that.

no machine can entirely replace his craftsmanship part of dollars and therefore can building is a wonderful profession there's so much for rioting every project is different and when you're finished with it and you see it it's never boring it's great. do it all over again reform all. the most complicated component is the console which controls the organ it consists of many tiny mechanical parts with a connection to the pipes every organ has to be carefully planned down to the last detail. the sooner the great thing about pipe organs is that each organ is built individually to match the space in the surroundings and the language of the people who live there the book of these mentioned you know what they have to feel as if it's speaking to them and perceive it as harmony i want to hear more and fill me up so who are.

the first organs came from egypt in the ninth century one was brought from by the n.t. into germany as a gift to the holy roman emperor charlemagne. the rich diverse sound of the organ is one reason why in two thousand and seventeen unesco selected organ craftsmanship and music for its list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. in a few of your many regions even if they say the same words the characteristic vowel has a different nuance in trying to pull for example taken away by the time they can be our or they. and there's an entire range between them and the organ builders and musicians from particular regions wanted to hear the sound they were used to from their language in their instrument or board with a spot in your instrument room. or also made the concert halls like the alps or how

many and hamburg. there is a very special one built by the trees company in two thousand years to plan and build it was of course the biggest challenge was the acoustics of the elfin amani the sound is incredibly direct with an amazing transparency and crystal clear sound sleep you can hear every detail and it was such a pleasure to do it. because company has built organs all around the world for instance in oakland new zealand madison wisconsin and the us the chinese capital beijing and in time. enough is it done i'm so glad i can get to know musical traditions and cultures all over the world and interact with them i always learn something that i take home with me and then that will influence the next instrument i'll be working on from infancy but one of the moment i'm focused. and that's how we're all going though

this continue to create unique instruments all around the world as they once did for the cologne cathedral. was a wonderful instrument which has also been heavily featured in film music throughout the years now for over four decades star wars has not only been hugely popular on the screen but also holds the guinness world record for the most successful film merchandising franchise memorabilia from the movies is a huge hit with fans and some of the rarer examples can be worth tens of thousands of euros star wars fanatic mark foss from northern germany has invested heavily in his collection and even set up a mini museum for us in his home. these life size figures of star wars characters are highly sought after collectibles.

and they belong to a passionate fan of the franchise mark boss has fulfilled a dream and collected his film heroes in the attic of his house it's. he's been collecting the star wars figures for the past ten years. there is going to continue throughout my childhood i connected star wars action figures on the back when i was eighteen years old i used to play with them to. do you don't dispute. now the tiny figures from back then have grown in size of life size busts are covered in items. character is produced in limited editions ranging from one hundred to fifteen hundred items. so far mark has managed to acquire

sixteen of the figures. it can take up to hear from when a figure is issued or announced until it gets dispatched again. which i have to import the figures from the u.s. so i have to transfer the payment to the us and then go to the customs office in whose room to pick them up and she's in full sultan whose own party stand point this is one of just three life size figures of boba fett autographed by actor jeremy ball the mark search collectors forums for years to get hold of it they sell for twenty one thousand euros a few i only started in two thousand and eight so i'm missing full figures odd really like to have them but the prices have become so an affordable that i don't have a chance he says or national news your bones and muscles. the life sized busts

cost five hundred euros and. and the prices are constantly rising. shots which if you decide i have to say no to a lot of other things to finance this is otherwise i couldn't afford it. among the things he does without our vacations but he does have a home movie theater where he and his friends watch the films that have been fascinating millions of fans for decades. these are the. cons for me sharing this passion with my friends and relatives and coworkers the feeling of togetherness among the star wars disciples as i told them styles you won't see again and then the latest star wars film introduces some new characters one day they soon may find their way into mark sauces collection. and finally in vis week's installment of your mac's extra talk we're responding to the wish of one of us who wrote in to us from ecuador gabrial must see us lives

in a queue and asked us if we could take him on a virtual tour of liverpool the port city in the northwest of england is like me a massive fan of the beatles who were all born and raised there so with that in mind we're off to visit a hotbed of musical history i was also so much more. the beatles may have put liverpool on the map but there isn't a lot more to the city. one huge draw for a visitor's is the historical importance complex which includes the famous royal albert dong. the old warehouses have been converted into hotels apartments and restaurants. but the main attraction remains the beatles even more than half a century after they left liverpool. the cavern club is where the beatles performed in the early one nine hundred sixty s.

. kevin mcmanus never saw them play here but he's an expert on the history of pop music. so what i'm up to since he and his the whale famous cavuto still attracts millions it's artists every year still a thriving beatles industry but my my real musical life started over the road in a club called attics which is where which is the center of the punk scene in liverpool i saw many famous bands such as the clash joy division and call all opposed greats. the visitors started arriving before lunch for their taste of the fab four. feels leaving all this time later the fields are still massively important to the liverpool economy last year figures it was with over eighty million to the city

eighty million pounds in the city over two half thousand jobs where response but credited to the people's industry. lots of bands play here this is beatles cover bands for famously the arctic monkeys played there as del well famous star now plays it here. it is tatty now as it was in the sixty's. a hard day's night hotel is a more elegant tribute to the band. with a suite dedicated to john lennon. but musical life in liverpool didn't begin with the beatles or end with. mcmanus who is the curator of the museum of pop music here and he says it's the countless immigrants from ireland who brought music to the city. people have traditionally right to make music tell stories sing songs and that's that's that was their way of of all social events in

iowa morale music. liverpool is also famous for the fair is that cross the river mercy. this one's dazzling paint job was designed by veteran pop artist peter blake . these are liverpool's three graces building on the right used to be the headquarters of the q not shipping line. jackie rafferty works there she's a location scout knows all the most evocative sights in the city. this hole has featured in many films. so we're now in the queue now building on the ground floor and we're in what would have been in its day the first class arrivals departure lounge this is where people travelling on the quay not line boats and ships would have come before they've taken off to a brand new life or are now. holiday. the place to go anything is crosby beach in the north of the city in the mouth of the. stroller share the sounds with one

hundred constantine figures by the sculptor antony gormley all staring out of the horizon in sign an expectation. well worth a visit now just before we go we have time to let you know about this week's prize draw your max is turning fifteen soon and we want you to send us pictures of yourself watching your own x. so just visit d.w. dot com slash lifestyle to submit your snaps and you could win this fantastic collection of your max prizes including our very own book fifty kitchens one city council from us for today of our for now. next time on your an x. in the second part of our series on european traditions we look at the art of making the a promise in pizza. it's been cultivated in the italian city of naples for centuries. in the old town you can sample it on every corner of the right wing of

a ration is handed down from generation to generation and that's part of unesco's intangible cultural heritage out of the oven next time on your inbox.

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