a clash that's shaking families and society to the cool. my father would be angry sometimes i think i'm just. a little commandoes starts july eighth on d w. w. welcome to another edition of your own max keeping you up to date on european culture and lifestyle is what's coming up today. storm stalker a german photographer specializes in capturing extreme weather conditions in carnival culture a close look at the festive tradition fast enough in the swiss town of basel and

arctic abode we visited a norwegian couple at their luxury cabin. we start off with a photographer who loves a frill 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. not the most easy mother nature.

that's john found out he's a full time storm chaser. slits of four that's the last photo i took of the super cell above adlington on july twentieth twenty thirteen which produced a massive fail storm in the picture you can see my storm chasing team colleagues sprinting the banks of the continent the doors were still open to us it was germany's most devastating thunderstorm ever in just thirty minutes a caused three billion euros of damage oil offices all shot in fells of. the us ok sure you know you want to get that photo but you're only as for two minutes left before the real storm a break it was in a treadmill in fuels larger than it will but. twenty five year old bus john velma is obsessed with photographing apocalyptic looking funder stones across germany skies. as a child he had

a recurring dream that he was being chased by a tornado as he did when i was nine we lived near geneva one day a storm front was gathering in the valley of lake geneva i told my parents something really bad is brewing like it was in a deal or counter newnham but suddenly trees were strewn across our lawn our neighbor's trampoline was blown into our garden trashed grounds everything was flying about it all airy 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 signs. 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. and for 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 a change plans of civics and so i needed something in my life to distract. us and i got interested in the weather up and down the storm chaser community online community because i had finally found a passion all to myself something that wasn't football which everybody else did and if you me this was a hobby that was all my own something only i knew about it 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 are bright enough. good series covers it to its own image is a bit of a dicey right if you get the right in front of the storm front so you can see in the picture for the game then a new storm cell emerged in front of this myth but we didn't realize that because

it was dark and of us of a sudden it started raining and lightning struck all around us it was all that's why the picture is so brightly all those was at night but what about the lighting boy struck right behind me so if i'm wary of thunderstorms at night because you just can't see what's happening 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 traveled all over germany and europe in search of ever more dramatic scenery. piloting gliders has taught him a lot about reading the weather conditions before. setting off bastion carefully

studies the weather and its dynamics he leaves nothing to chance but when he arrives on the scene things never turn out as expected. the truth was another he fixed when i'm finally facing an extreme thunder so when i get such a sublime feeling or a little overwhelming to a 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 clogged call that the way they are now you can hear the hail coming in when you listen closely you can hear it coming down in the discourse. and hollers. and suddenly. lightning strikes. the human nation macleod's. 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 mitten vault two hundred fifty year old spruce trees are growing slowly but steadily there would make for sweet sounding violins but what's the oddest thing off by annual tree ring which should look like a vinyl record and the more regular they are the more valuable the work until we

have forty seven every four years the violin world converges in that involved 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. and he did so i had somebody like if you compare these two for examples of these you can see that this one looks top notch. and is used to it's just sleek and slick to. keep. the face you know on this one the surface is a bit on the and the mazy yes this is this one shines like a mirror. 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 starts it 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 a mass production in the uk which can be a problem for the vibration of the speaking to a pins and kind of like when someone has every had called you know residents in their voice. mish steve don't know what you two are still. involved has been manufacturing string instruments for three hundred years. the man who introduced the craft was much he has clients to this day didn't vote celebrates its first lives here as if he were a saint. for. the instruments that were made here were the very good they were inspired by italy for you tom werner p.s. klotz learned many taught us songs and then basically every second person here was

making instruments and they came off. for a time had eighty violin making businesses. pay them today there are ten towns location along the trade route from board to venice meant it was ideally placed for entering the international market one. hundred fifty years ago we were already shipping violence all over the world not just in the area or south to roll you know we were sending violins and wooden boxes to new york and from st petersburg. even today mitten vald has clients from around the globe who ordered wood to make violins some of the maple wood is over five hundred years old and by mobius for if i got this tree about four weeks ago. you could enter through this one of the four most beautiful trees i've ever received

the top like if you're listening to the crew about this much of the last hundred years. we've had time to develop these characters so to speak if you connect to someone with two people. the judges testing further interviews for best violin. fifty powerful brilliant some all with a very interesting time the oldest was one i would estimate it's like new cars have to be broken in my violin needs to be played. so you need to imagine what this new instrument they were assessing is going to sound like in a few years young. 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. the cynics might say i'm tracing the violin is very appealing. put a t.v. it's color and design are luring it doesn't feel like it's pronounced produced. and it's got an underling service you know and. it produces a sound that is both powerful and gentle. as when people are just going to own this farm. later 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 boss foss not a swiss carnival 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 bowels. bustle carnival starts in the wee hours of the morning with the mortgage bank all morning shenanigans the revelers described the carnival as the three most beautiful days.

months in piccadilly so the only instruments allowed for the mug astonished the rain each club in blazes a different subject on its mountains most often their political satire. bones and. not club we have a commission that the comes up with the subject for carnival because in sometime in autumn they present it to the rest of the club that i'm for meeting and then we start the preparation because in the family about once a 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 that. all the clubs where you are all must at high def aces the first morning the costumes until the same. the macho is shot which means anything. this is why did you see states rather face the one you can hide behind but behind

that you're smiling and enjoying them all this time the nicest moment of basel carnival was the calmer not so on the form it's a combination of the camaraderie and the tradition. but also as a military component of the marching drills we do are almost militaristic and there are some nostalgia involved. between the raids club members go down to the educated centers to warm up and rest a bit here they speak. passage each of the cities and sherman tiling. of the school who tries an old like this why did you do it will visit your balls with just a few months off to the mortgage trash ravenous meet up again now they're in their themed costumes marks out off from the dope club tells the full story that goes with what he's wearing. in the suit here heist 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 of the cuts or 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 was the ones who are getting all the money we've saved on the. items on. the basel cannibalise 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. busy thinking that both you 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 maybe gold knows he's a devil greens but performs in their own special way. since twenty seventeen the boss of carnival has been on us ghost list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. a source of great pride for the clubs and it doesn't change anything for us specifically but it's really a recognition of this local tradition one that centuries old. dr exactly seventy two was the carnival always comes to an end but not long afterwards club members start planning the costumes now when next year. enthusiasm for economy is passed down 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 cheap 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 games in body in law fish markets fight to the sea and tastes different light and refreshing it's not too strong i thought. i noticed the banana and the off to taste. a nano wine is mainly popular

in africa eve two 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 isn't as they get brown spots or start getting sweet sears just get thrown a workable means we have so instead of letting them go to waste because we buy them to go for the air make something new from the market was nice 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 first 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 depends on the type of banana they use after four to six months in the tank the wine is ready. to open and anyone famous welds are made banana wine tastes like banana wine it's its own thing and you can't

cry carriage or white wine or other wines so it's a night and it has its own aroma its own after taste the smoke. 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 the 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 traveled 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 year it was built by hot creamer. 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 sent over felts weekend for a treat the retiree's spend as much time here is possible i and. most. looking at the sea. we are relaxing more becoming very 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 and geothermal heat pump out 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 way in this however i said that there will be our here take this out. primarily to our daughter. and they also. we have a yeah we all of us here. have a very cold. the bedrooms face the heath behind the cabin. and her husband

searched for twenty years until they found a 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. in their warm feeling it gives they wanted to. be like i said. you see it oh i own all there. on the outside. the cabinets wooden structure was neatly fitted into the fuehrer dropped from asian its walls are lined with low who wind current. architects norris jenison designed the cabin and shows materials like wood which will withstand the harsh arctic climate for many years. it's

untreated. grayish look but still it's a warm work on the outside see dark which of course in this climate also is. very well suited. and turns your silver grey in time. it's worth the fountain hobart kramer spent some of your time outside if the weather permits it sometimes they can observe reindeer or whales at sea and in the winter they sometimes see the northern lights this is why they love being so far north. it's the date. and not the temperature. they are their surroundings we have here. that i have. as i.

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