she was the dictator's mistress. only an insignificant concert at his side. or pursuing her own visions. other woman got so close to. the foreground life and death with the film. starts july twenty first on d w. a. welcome dear might say i'm louise housen and i'll be with you for the next half an hour as we dive into some of the hottest european culture topics of the week here's a taste of what's coming up. many voices pick you when you're celebrating the

hundredth birthday or this song festival. many facets insulation artists all of the assassin and his diverse artwork. and many attractions a park in austria has a multitude of outdoor activities. first up though it's time to celebrate for what reason well because lithuania a small country in north eastern europe is celebrating its one hundredth birthday and nine hundred eighteen with the way here declared itself independent of russia for the first time along with the stone yeah in latvia all three of them lie on the baltic sea and say gather they make up what is known as the baltic states. if you any unless the soviet union twenty eight years ago and finally became a free republic choral singing is one of the country's population dishes and they love the festivals too so what better way for the locals to celebrate this

milestone in history than with a music festival of bega better than ever before. cause. you some twelve thousand people crowded onto the stage at the song festival in vilnius the massive choir struck up the lithuanian national anthem and for a few minutes the country stood still and listened. i being here in person to hear it was a special experience for many lithuanians. was everybody was very excited and i am very i think citing the five nights i am such a big test it's a mere part of such a crowd of people sitting here having five i don't have the most i haven't just all

the best emotions you feel this scenario unity you are evil and the virus that's crazy it's crazy. everywhere i go one family. the song festival is lithuania's paramount cultural event it's held every four years. that's next lithuanians come from the world over to join in. launched in one thousand nine hundred twenty four it's been listed with unesco as intangible cultural heritage since two thousand and eight long with the song festivals in latvia and estonia choral singing as an essential part of the baltic republics identities and histories so we like to say that we sang our way to freedom we had the singing revolution at the end of the eighty's and that have a huge amount of songs that are about freedom that are about our identity our

nation. this time. the first of all with its songs mass dances and procession to the singers stage had a special significance. one hundred years have passed since lithuania declared independence from russia the first time and laid the foundation of today's lithuanian republic and. on this antenna the festival is an emotional experience for many of the performers and visitors. still i wonder if i were a story and all this really makes me feel part of it is very real we're all american like we're in it so we all came from around the globe to going to participate in it and i think that's also really bringing us back to our roots just by fashion in the same way that you have nationalism which can be a negative thing these days with national pride skate with around the song festival is itself a tradition that focuses heavily on tradition but today's lithuania is

a very modern country that draws newcomers one reason maybe the old town of vilnius lithuania is an innovator with information technology europe's largest block chain center opened here in twenty eighteen its engineers work on refining data encryption vilnius says art scene is also fresh vibrant and confident designers like you ya know it's give their work a uniquely baltic touch their ideas reflect nature's influence patterns with drops of water and waves. i was traveling around baltic sea and i was trying to find out what is really baltic. and i think yes the lakes and woods it's truly baltic. little way me and cuisine has also undergone changes in recent years restaurants like the air clear now must in vilnius make their own

interpretations of traditional dishes with homegrown ingredients. if you study me you'd all be. a lot off because portions on the planes and you cut by and i opened it. and it's different the difference so we have. so fine dining. to feel. looks nice. even with modernization picking up the pace the song festival is a celebration of tradition. was the way mia is a young old nation with something to celebrate on it's and henry. i i . from one send tannery we tend to another in our

express but first we have news for you on the latest person to be awarded with a very prestigious prize. this year's premium imperioli prize goes to french actress catherine deneuve the announcement came on wednesday in berlin the award on a very impressive acting career spanning over sixty years the premium imperio is considered the art world's nobel prize presented by the japan office as the nation it recognizes i'm standing contributions in art architecture film and theater another laureates this year is a time in conduct a recount or move to the awards are to be presented on october twenty third and take you. to. the realm luxury lieutenancy a hotel will reopen on thursday in the car. in paris after being closed for four years for relation to the art deco hotel first opened in nineteen ten famous guests

include ernest hemingway and pablo picasso the renovations cost around two hundred million euros and prices were staying overnight in one of its one hundred eighty four rooms and suites one started paid hundred fifty euros. britain's royal air force celebrated its sense henery in london on tuesday queen elizabeth the second attended the ceremony the royal family including princes charles william and harry watched the air show from the balcony of buckingham palace while thousands of spectators gathered in front. of. the british air force was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighteen in the final year of world war one and is considered the world's first independent air force. icelandic danish artist all of us and is not for playing with people senses he's

devoted to developing ideas and thanks he does this by using materials light. water light and air temperature to enhance the view is experience like you can see here many of his sculptures on large scale art and still asians have been displayed around the world and very rarely in the museum there saying that he's probably best known for the weather project at the tate modern and lunch at this site specific installation and point a semicircular screen a saving of mer is an artificial mist to create a dazzling sound that enchanted over two million people. now he has a new show opening which depicts a much softer the side of his work the exhibition called water colors in munich spin you have to take is not what you might expect the images present his multi-faceted skills as a draftsman. these

humble works of altona far cry from monumental installations. for at least on the man who made them he's actually famous for his spectacular highly emotive pieces. that his current exhibition in munich spinnaker take to montana shows a different side of the artist. a more delicate frugal some plus sized. this block used to hold a chunk of ice when it melted it left its shape inside hardened concrete. only four and yes on had a few ice chunks left over so he placed them on board to kind of paper to fool examining what it means to let twenty thousand years melt away this is not the first time he's led a part of the world around him make a self-portrait on it so his first kinetic drawing experiments were twenty years ago with his father he was also an artist as well as a cook on a fishing boat. you know and i have no we asked ourselves what if the boat were

a pencil and the sea were making the drawing. stiffed one day what would it look like if we flipped the motion of the boat and the waves around here so the motion of the sea becomes the motion of the hands during the drawing us here and there and how would that look at this the mouse and. so he dipped a ball in ink placed it on a sheet of paper and ledge waves and time do the rest it turns out the sea favors clean lines and surprising turns each in history sion is a study of the inexorable flow of time and as in all of his works an urgent call for if you is to engage as he gives his lethal calm form this is not about comfort . you the visits is about taking part in the production and accepting the fact that you are also responsible for what you see ceased. it seems our

consumers left between spotlights on the white wall automatically tend to become active produces even without any prompting by museum. some of these dancers main even have asked themselves the same thing the artist did . the bus is there now about what is drawing anyway is it us making an impression of the world or is it the world's ability to make impressions on us. visitors to the munich exhibition who ponder that question too long run the risk of missing an especially bad flying machine. the in conspicuous piece hangs near the exit every few minutes and begins to oscillate but to see what it actually does he was have to close their eyes the machine drawers and proves that installations don't have to overwhelm to impress and neither does the owner for any

aside. and the exhibition will be on it in munich till at. the september now there's a growing trend amongst environmentalist's to live a green self-sufficient life but it is not always easy yes you can grow produce in your garden and farm animals too but what you do when you want to caffeine fix coffee beans don't grow in every country do that however there is now a coffee shop in hamburg that imports its coffee without making a mark on their carbon footprint that's because the coffee that this shop by is delivered to them on a sailing ship i do love the idea but it has its price. album two or cargo sailing ships has arrived in hamburg carrying a very special consignment. we've been out and about since eight am ship is docked so we can start unloading the coffee the. hundreds of bags of coffee each weighing

about seventy kilos have to be unloaded by hand it's hard work for these volunteers . who don't know how are they holding up. substituting one the others just started the aventura cargo sailing ship just got in from nicaragua last winter captain cornelius spoke a man and his crew set sail for the central american country there they picked up fair trade coffee and they returned to hamburg with it can only a spoken man spent two years refurbishing the nearly century old vessel now it carries freight across the world's oceans. the question of the standard we're doing this for idealistic reasons we're not making a profit in fact we're financing this project out of our own pockets i started it because i wanted to do something for the environment. home and it from hamburg celebrate hito coffee association had been waiting for just such a project and promptly ordered two tons of fair trade coffee beans whatever they

wanted to protest against those huge container ships which are major polluters and show that alternatives exist that we can choose different transport methods so having our coffee delivered from nicaragua with the sailing ship makes a powerful statement. the coffee bags are distributed with cargo bikes so the entire journey from nicaragua to germany and within hamburg is one hundred percent emissions free the coffee idealists hope others will be inspired but alas dirty container ships are still the norm. but of its transporting all coffee only on sailing ships is not a realistic alternative it's there's just too much coffee for that. and few people are willing to pay the extra cost we need to set prices in the mid range to ensure we have enough buyers the type. actually hundred fifty grams of this coffee can be had for seven euros fifty which makes this brand about ten percent more expensive

than most other fair trade coffee but every car is guaranteed to be environmentally guilt free. well one place known for the strong and delicious coffee is it's italy and that's where we're off to now milan is the second largest city in the country and locals there are notoriously known for having a great sense of style those who can afford it have tastefully decorated houses or apartments to architects giovanna equality canario is no exception her apartment stretches over three floors and two hundred eighty square metres at first glance the building seen unspectacular but as the saying goes never judge a book by its cover. theirs is my land supporter teacher nazeer district it's home to many historic

buildings but some of the streets have dried architecture dating from the nine hundred fifty s. even so giovanni conejo still wanted to move into the eighth floor of this building she transformed it into a luxury as living space i think you. know. inside it's anything but dull and dreary. the open plan living room is flooded with light . turned to apartments into one now has two hundred eighty square metres of floor space. to this house because of the latter because of the terrorists. and this had to draw on this day second and the lack of doing to date and so every room. it's a different view outside and in a different proportion with the light giovanni lobs fifty's era design these eye

catching chairs are up holstered with fabric used to cover on train seats and the shown prove a swing on lamp is also a design classic from one nine hundred fifty as is the couch. if you can use it some of these sat. you can see it on the other side looking to the direction that clever some of. the architect designed some of the furniture herself concluding this oversized couch. and the shelving units across from its kitchen is located on the same floor. cornélie of employing plenty of stainless steel to make her kitchen durable and functional. with just a splash of color. suzanne strong as you know this is the news that the.

this is our thanks basis with these people from the fifty's drawn by you know the family in the chair i have seen here. a narrow staircase integrated into the shelving unit leads up to the ninth floor. this used to be a windowless room that was used as storage space canadia replace the concrete walls with glass touching the room into a studio. for this special play is where they. do in that we can go in the evening to look at few more to work at. because it's a completely he is a latent box and you can't imagine being without. the studio is almost completely

encircled by an eighty square metre u. shape tears. you can stay here all really been working the working with plants and it's like to be on days. from the terrace you can get to the thames for which the architect also designed herself she calls it someday. i might be able to do that's outside just looking out from a line from here puts the building some considered i saw into a whole new light. before we leave you today we want to give you a little adrenaline rush yes the adventure park in our series episode today is the most scary of them all because at this outdoor park you don't sit on rides and just . the machines throw you around you have to jump dive swing or climb to create the thrills yourself every hour forty seven in the austrian alps is

a big hit for the extremes for sports fans but is it sensible for beginners too and if you can get there then maybe just watching it now will make your stomach. area forty seven intro park in the austrian alps is a real treat for fans of the great outdoors. the park offers what may be the world's greatest variety of open air activities in such a compact space. isn't a platform with same ticket. in the bag here you can try out all the trying to mountain sports that's them have all this is the area the idea behind area forty seven is to have a location where visitors can get to know all the sports. and a relaxed and laid back atmosphere. around one quarter of a million visitors mostly young men flock here between may and september the main

attraction is behind ropes course. that visitors here want more than what conventional parks offer. recovery it's physical activity not just letting yourself be driven around on both sides it's more of an adrenaline rush than a merry go round here you have to do the hard work yourself. we've done this often out of high ropes course it was always fun cool. towering twenty seven meters above the ground the high ropes course is one of europe's highest open air climbing facilities it takes several hours to complete. to stanch another who can manage is area forty seven is a climber and freak ladder himself but the high ropes course also welcomes amateurs . because it's your own on that side not everyone has the physical condition to scale the three thousand meter mountain with a rope and pick we can to get through this extreme but we all for everyone the chance to experience that thrill within a very safe environment or to meet without spending months preparing and training as a mountain climber like faults

a bit. to be jane is the european cradle of outdoor extreme sports since the late nineteenth. seventy's rafting has been one of the most popular summer activities in the alps the park offers daily tours on the rivers in and it's. the tour takes about two hours. the strong the rapids the feeling all of it the water fantastic good i have a great goal backdrop great guides it was fun the whole team was super. this is one for the truly great the mega swing involves a plunge from a height of thirty meters towards a paved parking lot. but it looks more dangerous than it actually is. i mean really i don't society people want an adrenaline rush in as much action as possible but it has to be safe there's

a mentality is insure me against everything that it is so. the average visitor spends three days at area forty seven the price for individual activities ranges from eight to one hundred twenty one year and this many think it's money well spent . in italy pays off we're all freestyle motor crossers and freestyle b.m.x. writers so we're already adrenaline junkies i'm planning to come soon you know for seven days or something we had so much fun credible i want the weather is crazy it's wonderful. despite the hard work out this is don't panic it in early here nine time is party time at area forty seven. well i guess that isn't the way it's about off the line it seems all of you love amusement parks today we've enjoyed having all of you say i tell you then is if you

just share your disney was a popular destination of course for many of you whether when you were with the last one your favorite characters all you out there on a trip it's. that me and the client here had some very memorable days among she will do you keep the photos coming and you can send them to us at via the web site and by doing so you will be in with a chance of winning this a year max a watch and. the website address as well i should say said to check it out as we've come to the end of the program thanks so much for watching everyone and until next time take carry. on the next edition of your imax for landscape architect enzo and trees are like sculptures created by mother nature to celebrate fees works of natural art he's opened a tree museum near lake zurich it boasts a fraud range of species from across the globe as art next time when you're all

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