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a german photographer specializes in capturing extreme weather conditions. carnival culture a close look at the festive tradition fast enough in the swiss town of basel and arctic abode we visited norwegian couple at their luxury caps. we start off with a photographer who loves a thrill he doesn't track wild animals or travel through dangerous areas bustin van it chases storms whenever the weather is wild rain pouring wind howling he grabs his equipment and hurries toward the eye of the storm hoping to capture the perfect picture of mother's nature's mayhem over the years he's developed a real knack for it and at age twenty five has established himself as one of germany's leading weather photographers. at the mercy of mother nature.

last gen found is a full time storm chaser. does this to us let's of let's the last photo i took of the supercell above organizer line twenty eighth twenty thirteen which produced a massive fail storm in the picture you can see my storm chasing team colleagues sprinting banks from the con to the doors were still open to us it was germany's most devastating thunderstorm ever in just thirty minutes it caused three billion euros of damage oil offices all shot shells of. the us ok you know you want to get that photo but you're only as the two minutes left before the real storm the break it was in a treadmill in fuels larger than it will but. twenty five year old bastion valley now is obsessed with photographing apocalyptic looking funder stones across

germany's skies. as a child he had a recurring dream that he was being chased by a tornado as he did when it was nine we live near geneva one day a storm front was gathering in the valley of lee geneva i told my parents something really bad is brewing like it was in a dealer counter noon but suddenly trees were strewn across our lawn our neighbor's trampoline was blown into our garden trashed grounds and everything was flying about the whole area was devastated recent. a small village somewhere in eastern germany the green hue in the picture is a dense haze of hail stones a whopping nine centimeters in sa times. humans have managed to conquer and control the earth but not the skies storm chasers are just content with snapping pictures of thunderstorms. they want nothing less than the perfect

picture of the perfect storm. i'm sure that they'll gladly travel fountains of kilometers just to get that one only important image. because i get all started in school i was bullied for years i even had to change class officer so i needed something in my life to distract. us and i got interested in the weather and from the storm chaser community online be a community that i had finally found a passion all to myself something that wasn't football which everybody else did if you knew this was a hobby that was all my own something only i knew about do is come out the. storm chasing can be hard work sometimes tireless enthusiastic will stay up until three or four in the morning for the fiction. no need for flash photography in this picture the lightning bolts a bright enough. series travels it thought so and it was a bit of

a dicey right if you get there right in front of the storm front as you can see in the picture with wave gam then a new storm cell emerged in front of this myth but we didn't realize that because it was dark it of us of a sudden it started raining and lightning struck all around us and if that was all that's why the picture is so brightly all those was at night what about the lighting boy struck right behind me before i'm wary of thunderstorms at night because i just can't see what's happening but you can't trace the clouds at night i have to accept that i don't know what's going on what does he have thought of. as a child bastiaan started chasing storms all by himself on his bike he just set off from his parents' house. then at sixteen he got his glider license and at eighteen he used all his savings to buy a car. he's fascinated by all weather phenomena when the fault cloud dynamics he travels all over germany and you. in search of ever more dramatic scenery.

piloting lines has terminal knocks about reading the weather conditions before setting off bastion carefully study the weather and its dynamics in leaves nothing to chance but when he arrives on the scene things never turn out as expected. the truth was a movie he explained i'm finally facing an extreme thunder sound as i get such a sublime feeling or a little overwhelming moment of it there's that moment of calm and. it's when the air stops flowing into the thunder so it begins flowing give it a loss and in that moment the wind is completely still have a completely beyond the call that the way they are now you can hear the hail coming in high good but when you listen closely you can hear it coming down in the distance. and hollers. and suddenly. lightning strikes.

the human a shingle clouds. zigzagging from one town to another it's a moment of peace in our view a natural spectacle lighting up the sky. well the sound of thunder must be music to his is we carry on with the delightful sounds of the violin when it comes to crafting the instrument the name stradivari comes to mind but what about mitten vote it's a town amid the alpine peaks of bavaria in southern germany and has an impressive tradition of violin making every four years musicians and craftsman from all over the world congregate that's a work on the perfect sound the local would also plays an instrumental role. somewhere here not far from the bavarian town of mit involved two hundred fifty year old spruce trees or grow. and slowly but steadily there would makes for sweet

sounding violin. but what's the oddest thing off the yanyuwa tree rings should look like a vinyl record and the more regular they are the more probably know they're worth a woman who had forty seven every four years the violin world converge isn't that evolved to compete for the best string instruments contenders come from italy the u.s. japan and korea each violin is carefully inspected beautiful craftsmanship isn't enough the instruments must also have character. that he did so i had somebody who felt like if you compare these two for example. of these you can see that this one looks top notch. and is just too big it's just sleek. deflation on this one the surface is a bit of a neat and. yes this is this one shines like a mirror. of

a feeling for me this one is more pleasing. the sound must also be right tim faulconer who teaches violin at the frankfurt university of music and performing arts is one of the judges. who's going to get has been clues that well to be perfectly honest i can't get a proper sound from this file and it's from that since varnish looks almost like mass production in the uk which can be a problem for the vibration of the. pens and kind of like when someone has every head cold you know residents in their voice. nish steve is on what you two are still. involved has been manufacturing string instruments for three hundred years the man who introduced the craft was mighty as quotes to this day written vault celebrates its first lives here as if he were a saint. as ones the instruments that were made here were very good

they were inspired by italy where a ts klotz learned and then he taught his sons and then basically every second person here was making instruments and they came off. for a time didn't baldhead eighty violin making businesses. day to day there are ten towns location along the trade route from sport to venice meant it was ideally placed for entering the international market. boom boom. boom boom boom. one hundred fifty years ago we were already shipping violence all over the world it's not just a very rare south to roll you know who were sent to ireland is in wooden boxes from new york and from st peters birds and fishes. even today mitten vald has clients from around the globe who order wood to make violins some of the maple wood is over

five hundred years old and obvious for if i got this tree about four weeks ago. so the one of the four most beautiful trees i've ever received got complicated it's no wonder they grew about this much in the last hundred years. but at the time to develop its character so to speak can connect to some only two people. the judges testing further interviews for best violin. powerful brilliant was on the in the summer with a very interesting time because the oldest was when i was dreaming it's like new cars out there were broken in my violin needs to be played so you need to imagine what this new instrument that we're assessing is going to sound like in a few years. building violins requires absolute precision instruments are then covered in up to thirty layers of varnish but their quality

also depends on whether the violin maker is having a good day. is not good every day is different i love football and after byron munich lost the german cup finals what was to say that wasn't the ideal date for building up ireland. this year the top prize is awarded to violin number thirty six by u g can a call from japan. cynics might say on tracing the violin is very appealing. put a t.v. it's color and design and pop people are lowering it doesn't feel like it's for mass produced. and it's got an undue lading service you know and. it produces a sound that is both powerful and gentle. hundred registered her own as foreign. leader tim full flow plays a concert with the award winning violin and who knows maybe someday it will end up

in the hands of a violinist in a famous orchestra somewhere. now to the third installment in this week's series european traditions we've been introducing you to some of the additions to a rather special list it's unesco's list of intangible cultural heritage today's entry is the basel fast enough to swiss con of all tradition which is quite distinct from its european cousins for instance so-called fast enough i know or clique's gather at four in the morning to ring the bells. bustle carnival starts in the wee hours of the morning with the mortgage bank all

morning shenanigans the revelers described their carnival as the three most beautiful days. months in piccadilly so the only instruments allowed for the mugisha time for a beach club in plays is a different subject on its lanterns most often the political satire. bones and. not club we have a commission of the comes up with the subject for carnival is that sometime in autumn in the play presented to the rest of the club that i'm from meeting and then we start the preparations because i love them but when the big lanterns like ours here are painted by artists it takes them two or three months that's a few hundred hours of work to go into them. all the numbers well not all months of high def aces the first morning the costumes until the same. the macho is

shot which means anything. this is the strike you can see straight through other face the one you're going to hide behind but behind it you're smiling and enjoying the mortgage prize the nicest moment of basel carnival is the coming out so on the fourth it's a combination of the camaraderie and the tradition. but also as a military component to the market is the marching drills we do are almost militaristic and there is some nostalgia involved. between the parades club members go down to their decorated centers to warm up and rest a bit here they speak. was it huge the city's own sherman tilings. public school people who charge you know like this why did you do it will this in your balls with just a few lamas off to the mortgage trash ravenous meet up again now they're in their themed costumes marks out off from the docks club tells the full story that goes

with what he's wearing. your theme is goodness we have a crisis if you know the idea is that our club is in financial crisis and we've called in external consultants to show us where we can cut costs we feel the cuts are at the expense of the team we've got a really cheap costumes this year recycled larges there are no wigs just caps really cheap feathers and the consultant pigs are in the vanguard of what wasn't because the ones who are getting all the money we've saved. by. the fossil carnival is still celebrated exactly the way it's been for the past one hundred fifty years there are strict rules for the cultish the afternoon parade spectators are requested not to wear costumes nor are they allowed to sing and sway along. thank you both and that's probably the thing that sets it apart from other carnivals the separation

between the actual participants and the spectators but they're a very important part of it all we're doing it for the spectators benefit. from the floats the vikings hand out treats for the children. along with the piccolo players and dramas the cortege also features brass bands they play what's called good music mainly gold no these are devil greens but performed in their own special way. since twenty seventeen the boss of carnival has been on you ness goes a list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. a source of great pride for the clubs that owns it and it doesn't change anything for us specifically but it's really a recognition of this local tradition one that sentries zero. zero zero three exactly seventy two was the carnival always comes to an end but not long after the club members start planning the costumes now when next year. enthusiasm for connell is

passed on from generation to generation. now food waste is unfortunately a big problem here in europe many people and businesses end up throwing away spoiled food due to inadequate planning but fortunately there are enterprising minds like eve she kourou in the austrian capital of vienna you notice that bananas in particular were being thrown away in great numbers so he decided to turn his surplus into wine. waste not want not that eve to kudo's tomato every week he sells his rather unusual wine and vienna's not. most people struggle to discern what the beverages made from. seeing this unfold it has a very interesting flavor and aroma the initial taste is a little strange for wine drinkers but then it gains in body in law fish markets

fight the decision and tastes different light and refreshing it's not too strong i thought. i noticed the banana and the off to taste. banana wine is mainly popular in africa even to kourou came to austria from his native home the democratic republic of the congo when he learned how much fruit gets thrown away in europe he started buying up over ripe bananas so by this the bun and most people stop buying bananas as soon as they get brown spots or start getting sweet sears' just get thrown a workable it's we have golf so instead of letting them go to waste us victor we buy them to go for the very make something new from of the month of us lies to us. he pays ten year rose for a crate of bananas which is about half the original price during the course of the year event his wife makes three to four batches of banana wine the first of the bananas are peeled and the fibers removed so the wine doesn't taste bitter then it's time for fermentation. the wines sugar content it depends on the type of

banana they use after four to six months in the tank the wine is ready. to open anyway and if you miss world to me a banana wine tastes like banana wine it's it's own thing and you can't buy character white wine or other ones so it's a night and it has its own aroma its own after taste this one. one hundred kilos of bananas field around thirty to forty metres of wine in this way if you could who has already saved around thirty tonnes of bananas from being wasted he's especially proud of that. i'd love to try some now while most of europe is already enjoying some of temperatures folks in northern norway are still thawing out from a long winter and while a lot of europeans enjoy venturing south for their holidays we've met up with a norwegian couple who go the opposite way they vacation at their weekend home. up on the lincoln peninsula as part of our ongoing series your remarks to locke's we

travelled far north. north of the arctic circle this holiday home is perfectly suited to the cold climate in northern norway where snow covers the ground for roughly half the here it was built by hard kramer. hello welcome to my cabin come inside. the heart of the building is the living area with its floor to ceiling windows which afford a stunning view of the water this two hundred square meter bungalow is hot board kramer's and chopper felts weekend for treat the rich i respond as much time here as possible i am. most. looking at the sea. we are

relaxing more we can. read that book we can. be a more outside. during the winter months the sun doesn't rise for too long months to compensate for the lack of daylight that has decorated the house and vibrant colors and fitted it with cozy carpets and blankets geothermal heat pump and a wood fire ensure cozy temperatures. i can stand. near the wall from the fireplace . it's very giving me i love that and it's. the house also boasts a sauna that can be used all year round. i go and that's how when i ever said that they were we are here we take this out. primarily to it that would go.

they also. they have a yeah we all of us here. have a very coffee the bedrooms thinks the heath behind the cabin. and her husband searched for twenty years until they found this spot to build their cabin construction began in two thousand and seven their idea was to build a cabin that harmonizes with its environment yet also provides a warm haven amid these harsh climes. i like the structure that feeling the warmth feeling it gives they wanted to. be like i said. you see it oh i own all there. on the outside. the cabins wooden structure was neatly fitted into the few words rock formation it's malls are lined with know who wind currents. architects norris

jenison designed the cabin and shows materials like wood which will withstand the harsh arctic climate for many years. it's untreated so it has a gracious look but still it's a warm work on the outside cedar which of course in this climate also is. very well suited. and turns your silvery gray in time. twelve the fountain hobart kramer spent plenty of time outside if the weather permits it sometimes they can observe reindeer or miles at sea and in the winter they sometimes see the northern lights this is why they love being so far north. it's the beta and not the temperature.

they are their surroundings we have here. that i have. as. a choice move the fountain home park kramer spending time in their cozy cappa north of the arctic circle is next no matter what the season. before we go i'd like to remind you of our ongoing competition your max will turn fifteen years old soon and we'd like to see you enjoying the show so send us selfies also maps that show you watching us whether that's on your tablet phone computer or t.v. you can upload the pictures on our website d.w. dot com slash lifestyle for a chance to win our special goodie bag filled with the euro max prizes so make sure to take part that's all from us for today i've often now. next time on your own max. tarnish is

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