today. the suits the civil rights the peace movement the women's movement for the planet during this period. in sixty eight a little. this week. i'm max merrill and welcome to another week of your remarks your daily dose of european lifestyle and culture let's take a look at what's in store for you today. beautiful beethoven the german composers being on the crest of a. delightful dog now if we like it pomeranian became an

instagram stock. and precious porcelain a number of international artists exhibit that china gratian spinmeister. well we start rolling with a real highlight for film fans especially for those who favor the genre of action comedy two of the dramas biggest star was with the actors but spencer and terrence hill and every year founds from all over europe gather in germany to celebrate their contributions at the spencer hill festival despite the american aliases they actually hail from italy and their real names are carlo petter soli and mario. this year the festival is being held in saxony in the town of la much which has a special link to one of the jiro. mostly they keep their cool. but if things get critical. they leave behind a trail of destruction. the dynamic duo of action comedy but spencer and terrence

hill. they shot to fame in an age when much easement was still celebrated unreservedly on the silver screen this scene from bomber is a real hit at the spencer hill festival. the much. around three thousand fans who come to rome watching sex need to celebrate the lives and work of their heroes both have a cult following it's spencer who died more than two years ago and sonny boy hill is now seventy nine. and spencer even has a double game there are two of the list but he loves to get it just like me and like both of them were involved in sports at a high level and i was also a swimmer at a club in dresden this is me that's why i just large but spencer i have this core dynamic teardrop shape and of course and this tops it all he died on my birthday

you book your own twenty seven dollars is. there also if you terrence still look alikes in love much this group. the alps from italy to attend the event . many fans remember the films from their childhood so what's so great about them. they will find but no one died you can watch the films with anyone who does really cool punch loads. and why does the festival take place in the sleepy little town of la much. because terrence hill spent his childhood him work in a house that's still standing with an italian father and a german mother. mr blue eyes is actually called lived here for a few years in the one nine hundred forty s. a charmer even as a child. now almost eighty he still is not long ago hill was in dresden for a new film. so i can honestly say. i'm

a saxon full stop. unfortunately he couldn't make it to the festival but of course he's here in spirit just. like for this high wire scene. at. school. and the legend doesn't stop with the too much oh protagonist record if it suited has been surrounded by fans since he arrived he sometimes played the villain in their films the work was great he says especially with spencer. it was a fantastic time. and the thing i really treasure the most is that bud spencer wasn't just a colleague but also our friend. guys i know were jealous about that it.

was more reticent more reserved than this. but his strengths are this this barcode with your attitude is. not zero. just like the films most of the time the duo is fighting the good fight and always with a twinkle in their eyes but you don't seem to have impressed very many women you have to look hard to find them here. you know but i laugh at the films too and i don't think their guy movies but at the festivals you notice about biting his head south with his nose to get the funny thing is these festivals are the only ones where women don't have to wait in line for the loo but. maybe spencer hill films are a man's world. but costumes are fun for everyone. and every fan enjoys a festival highlight the singing of the bud spencer heart choir. the

best part everyone knows the tomb. and exactly which film it came from. a bit of. time now to travel around the continent to get you up to date with all the latest goings on in europe and today's express we travel to italy and france but we start in germany and visit a blooming trade show. the world's largest garden trade fan is taking place this week in cologne around two thousand exhibitors from sixty countries showcasing the latest trends from a green thumbs. given to sorted by topics from outdoor furniture. to cotton design and maintenance to gold may barbecues and equipment judging by the

sea of showcases another trend is the fully networked smart continent. and. every year on the first weekend in september the city of leo in northern france temporarily transforms into the world capital for n.t.'s to drive every day leo is europe's biggest flea market a treasure trove of period furniture vintage dresses vinyl records and retro toys it draws about two million visitors a year. at antiques and collectibles shop in south africa and we faced a divided on the internet the bad to me and we decided to come over the face time last year we found some levee stuff so this year we back. if all the stalls were lined up the flea market would stretch for one hundred kilometers. it also gets busy on the first weekend in september on sardinia that's when the barefoot run starts in the town of congress or you stand up and ends seven

kilometers away and sunset retorted the cities around nine hundred men take part at it by someone carrying a wooden statue of sons of retorting legend has it that in the early seventeenth century when marauding morris pirates landed in copper us locals raised to protect the statue of their patron saint and left in such haste but they didn't even have time to put on their shoes. now ludwig van beethoven's music is the most performed in the classical genre he was a radical office always pushing the boundaries of his craft and perpetually reinventing himself throughout his career every year his hometown of bones stages a three week festival in honor of the most famous some this is festival is focused on the topic of faith derived from the central. motif in his fifth symphony and for the twelfth year running the beethoven fest features

a public viewing right in the heart of the city. bond market square is filled with the sound of beethoven's seventh the public screening of a concert on the opening weekend of the annual beethoven fest has become a tradition. opening. you're seeing it on a screen but still it's amazingly beautiful you get to see close ups of the instruments you can really follow what's going on. before this also like the way even people who just happen to be passing by can enjoy some classical music you don't have to go to a concert hall and pay loads of money for a ticket i think that is not i did think oh i hope it's not only beethoven so i'm glad there's more on the progress of.

the program performed by conductor christoph sparing and on tone orchestra from cologne features beethoven mendelssohn on and a lesser known composer credit known for. the concert which also features two choirs marks the two hundredth jubilee of the lower vanished music festival one of the first major music festivals in europe. before the concert the orchestra rehearsed he says oratory and color. last me to embody a quiz and beethoven was a big and students writer non-greasy probably his most important or perhaps second most important students after college chani was an early director of music festivals. i think performed his own works but he was always having beethoven's work performed in the early years of the festival beethoven was the major star in the music this. dramatic theme

of this year's beethoven festival is shiksa destiny. holtzman this. dog is his fault and makes sense because that word has really shaped our understanding of who beethoven was tom. dunbar's long and it also makes sense because i always try to look for contrast in different eras. best year i did a very lyrical themes in a distant lover so yes because of this year i felt able to bring something that hits you harder to. another tradition is the afternoon performance hosted by dortch avella the beethoven firsts media partner and presented by your own max host mike it's clear that this is if it's money it's just the broadcasters director general phantom limb book was there to provide information first hand as was nico wagner who has been the director general of the festival since twenty fourteen just i think. it's got.

succeeded with another guest this year was. a soundscape and installation artist from austria. his work in the lobby of the bon world conference center is entitled typewriter of the future. the grand piano is prepared a month in advance or not tell you not far from the city it's beautiful. it's equipped with electronics and small motors carrying little hammers that make purpose of sounds and different rhythms. nicolay speaking are knocking on the piano just. like destiny not on beethoven's door to six and to pick up that. back to the market square. the line of screening goes on for nearly three

hours. to make the investment into a home with all these lights hanging here the cafes it's a really wonderful experience and it's a good opportunity for the city of bonn which organizes the festival really great. window it was wonderful the choice of voices was excellent the. music to the people the public open air screening is without a doubt one of the highlights of the by beethoven fest. it's time now for a trip to france in the ongoing series here max extra for you the viewers get to send us all over the continent. but i got in from quito ecuador wants to know more about france and so we travel to a part of the country that has evolved dramatically in the last few years we're off to finney and salted here in central france. sometimes and used to be

a center for coal mining during the french industrial revolution but the minds of long closed since then the region has been looking for a new identity. percentage and is a mix of architectural arrow's the historic part of town with the drawn to a clean states back to the twelfth century but it drives through town quickly reveals the rapid transition from old buildings to newer more modern structures. the church of st charles in the center of town is located on a popular square which also includes city hall. this is where you can experience a typical easygoing lifestyle which many friends here enjoy. over the last few years santa and chan has undergone in urban transformation the city design is

a place where higher education meets culture it was created in two thousand and nine on an old arms manufacturing site and now hosts exhibitions and other events including the international design be anally thanks in part to contributions by the center unesco name scientific and a creative design city in two thousand and ten. from the late one nine hundred century until the one nine hundred seventy s. sente chan was a hub for coal mining the industrial revolution provided the means for considerable development putting such a chance on the map. the choreo mine was the most important coal extracting facility in the region at the height of production miners here extracted some nine hundred thousand tonnes of coal per year and the mine closed in one thousand nine hundred seventy three but its legacy lives on as a popular tourist attraction. if

you would in the nineteenth century when france began to industrialise it was the city of santa t.m. which was the first to supply cone and thus made the great transformation of the industrial age possible suntan composed to being one of the first french and european industrial cities and even today coal is still an important part of the spirits of the inhabitants of such. scented hands industrial boom led to the creation of the largest housing and cultural complex designed by swiss french architect look. at the site in fear many was planned in the one nine hundred fifty s. to solve a housing shortage the idea was to create a village where the people had everything they needed in close proximity. so in the fifty's we had a new mayor called introduced pitchy and he would like to hold depletion pulled in

because we didn't have enough light inside to see and the people used to live in all four can condition so that's why you decided to create a new area called free media green with avocation cooter center a stadium and a church who could be she was called on the project with over architects and the could be she made the couture center just being me this cajun and the church. look receive a would die before the entire complex was finished in the church was built in two phases and finally completed in two thousand and six forty one years after his death. back in santee t.n. a visit to town would not be complete without a colon airy delight here at the present bakeries locals and tourists alike can enjoy a special type of brioche the probably lean as it's called consists of sweep a street sprinkled with crowley it's also something unique. in this region.

cindy sheehan a city once at the heart of industrial france is now reinventing itself as a creative center of design. looks like is worth a visit them now as always we want you to get in touch with us as much as possible in this week but once again running a competition that could see you win an exclusive euro max wristwatch just send us your favorite holiday snaps and to the draw you can find all details on our website data we dot com slash lifestyle now your best holiday shorts may already be uploaded to instagram and that's where we're headed next plenty of people out to get insta famous but there's also a little dog getting her share of likes mincey is a polar a knee and a german polish breed of dog and her life started with tragedy but she's since bounced back let's find out how she became

a social media star. this fifteen gram construction is helping the pomeranian mincey to run aground on four legs again. we couldn't find a prosthesis we looked for a long time and lost as far afield as the us everyone kept telling us it would never work. it was just four months old when an acquaintance of a particle and his girlfriend's son had told hawkins dropped breaking the tiny dog's leg. the vet the treated mincey made some mistakes and soon the leg had to be amputated limbs by those books movies when they had to take off her leg and we thought oh no the poor thing most of it off never be able to play with the other dogs she won't have a normal life kind of honestly even if. the young couple from northern germany wrecked their brains to trying to find a way to help the dog quickly got used to life on three legs but it soon began to cause problems with her back. then sandra who was studying physics

had an idea why not design a priest pieces herself as measured by just when i did all cash that these were made with a three d. printer out of a carbon a mix. or you know another mold so i can pour in some padding. i will say i had to trim around six months to come up with a really good fit we put a lot of time into making something good for her. in the end and technician took centrist designs and tied it a prosthetic for the dog and mincey became a star on instagram. the pomeranian now has over one hundred thousand followers on the platform her own is want to do more than just post a few photos of their pets. shockingly lots of vets like the one operated on are unaware of the options. we wanted to spread

the word off and went to my things andrea will back me up when i say we really didn't expect it to take off like this. for the country she's season joined by the bodies months. so has been putting on it is now she's just. maybe she's trying to pretty herself up whenever we pull the camera out she runs her own water dish and dunks herself we really don't know why. mincey is still practicing with have pressed that at the moment she anyway said at home. form of now we're going to make things a little tough for you because. during today's training session lindsay is supposed to climb over an obstacle. she makes it and of course a successful attempt gets posted straight away. and santa who had struggles will

help other pet owners to make tough decisions. because we want to show that a dog can have a happy life with three legs the dog shouldn't be put to sleep if they lose one life with a prosthesis can be normal. the irony is think it will take their dog about a year to just completely turn with music in the meantime we'll continue to have friends that having just three legs doesn't have to slow you down. now we stay in germany and head to mice and towns with. the first european porcelain was manufactured there and seventeen term when a factory was opened in the ugliest book. over the last three hundred years the tradition has been carried forward every two years the town celebrates the local craft we bring you up close at this year's.

bought it in the flesh there is a microphone in every bottle in. the industry the industry creates something useful tableware said i'm not competing with them i can be more creative and follow my own ideas. this three by five meter installation made up of illuminated postal in bottles is the work of german artist christianity. it features in the porcelain billion dollar currently taking place at albert expo castle in meissen it was here around three hundred years ago that the first manufacture in europe was established artist kallenbach has built a ceramic aig live. in brooklyn scotland is normally i build hours of an igloo were made of snow and in this case they're made entire length of porcelain. with these a sports along with not of course it was honored by freezing there was fire to drop

underdog race and with football so it's quite an extraordinary piece americans with the subject. porcelain where it is generally viewed as genteel and traditional about the be an ally invites artists to prove it can be edgy and experimental too there isn't a gold rimmed coffee cup in sight fisher. event runs through till early november and includes work by thirty one artists from twelve countries. business here first and here to see what intrigues me is how delicate the question is as a. young man he uses a scalpel to meticulously carve these amazing ornamental passions and on a massive scale but of course to take to it's quite extraordinary i can't even imagine how long it takes and stored the guns. inside the windows are very small but there's. so much lighting here shining on the porcelain work this is to me it's

a wonderful setting that's akin to the absolute best. also in band on a radio heinsohn age old craft shining new light on traditional techniques. of. cheeky china check it out. and you can check out much more of our content on our facebook page your max that's all from us for today we'll be back tomorrow with more lifestyle and culture from all across europe so see you then. next time on bureaucrats. for their home in order custard the sand beaches on the danish island of corsica are turning to a race track participants from all over come to the event every year eager to put their classic cars through their paces and many use the opportunity to dress up in

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