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everything is wrong to want you to ignore the reality of the funny thing like blocking niceness of a system that spawned out of control. of the more they will. cause remember. to crush the investment bank lehman brothers start september thirteenth on t w. i there i'm max merrill welcome to the day's edition of euro max your european lifestyle and culture program here's what we've got in store for you today. the trace vintage car fizzy asked flock to the motor of quest to vote in denmark. historic inventory we visit the home of late german chancellor helmut schmidt.
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and our space tunnel underneath fiscal dos running river bank houses and exhibition . now if you're wondering why i'm dressed a little differently today it's also do with our very first reports every september the danish island of turns into a hotspot for vintage car enthusiasts the usually peaceful beach on the north sea results with a chorus of howling engines and the visiting petrol heads turn up dressed to fit the occasion twenty thousand spectators travel to come of this year in order to get a taste of the vintage motor sports event so let's see what's got the engines going . racing over the beach at full speed in vintage vehicles on the danish island of luma classic cars a motorcycle show just how much life is left in them to be traced. the only one of
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its kind in europe. not every color is street legal like this one fitted with an airplane engine. the race is open to all vehicles built before nine hundred forty two the track is two hundred nine meters long or exactly one eighth of a mile. courts and katherina fun t. have come from bavaria to take part they're driving a nine hundred twenty eight model a ford it's the roadster version with ninety horsepower on the day before the big race they've come to where i'm a beach to check out the track. is completely new here this really only happens here that's why every year we drive the eleven hundred kilometers from bavaria to come here and experience this. come true. for making us is the less you can't enjoy this kind of freedom anywhere else and you can drive on the beach on the sand you can bet the back end swing out and get a taste of the sea breeze and sand in your teeth mia i look forward to it all year
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long. but first the car must undergo technical inspection it's one of one hundred six vehicles taking part in this year's race inspectors check whether they really are pre-boil war two models and ensure they have me in fifty with modern replacement parts. to go fanzines for his road where the in germany for them the technical inspection is just a formality they pull their car five years ago it was love at first sight. according to john and it can without any driver is it something you feel every possible i'm wrong it's a great feeling but at the end of the relax me three it's a break from the daily grind of nothing bothers you anymore if there's any outside getting into the cars like going back in time. participants have come from eleven different countries many camp. signs here they enjoy the company of other fans and
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told shop that's all part of the experience of race director. for a dollar checks in on them the evening before the race. i think the fashion nation is the limitations that these old bikes gave and the grand cars the racing cars that they give you i mean sure you could find a modern race car that will go like four hundred kilometers per hour but that's not the incentive the incentive is to try and get a taste of what it was like back then live life at all the pace. the room a motor festival was inspired by the traditional beach races held on the neighboring island of foreigner from nine hundred nine hundred to nine hundred twenty four cars clocked up speeds of over two hundred kilometers per hour here after years of battles with local authorities danish vintage car and bike fans revive the be tracing tradition on rumah now in its third year the number of
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participants has trickled this year's event attracted twenty thousand spectators which is also a record two vehicles go head to head during the races the fastest one wins the participants can races often as they wish for some just finishing is a victory in itself. is wrong in my view you are on the floor people are still going because the engines overheat when guys manual transmission is given out the next is repairing his fuel injector another has problems with his rear wheel cylinders so the numbers are dwindling then. that's why i thought it was a really hot summer so this sounds a bit looser than usual normally it's really packed down like a highway this year there are lots of hills and loose sand that makes it difficult to get enough traction but it's great. and the same for everyone as much buzz as if
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. the racing went on for six hours the few participants can use the fastest they just love driving costs and katherina the fun to enjoy the day from start to finish all these days all but on the car just one start and we were afraid we wouldn't be able to drive at all here but here on the island it's just fine it's been running all day we had no problems just another wonderful day. of course they plan to come back next year until then they'll have the room a motor festival souvenir t. shirts to remind them of all the fun they have here. well it's more fun to be had for vintage car enthusiasts and london this week let's
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go to round up of what's happening across europe and our express. what's probably the classiest vintage car show in europe is currently taking place at hampton court palace in richmond london. the concourse of excellence features sixty of the rarest cars from around the world some of which have never been seen before in britain. hundreds of other foreign motor cars are also under splay patron of the event is prince michael of kent the queen's cousin a keen motorist and president of the royal automobile club. queen mab data of denmark is on the last leg of her annual summer trip on monday she visited the town of silk a book where her i turned a very included a visit to a museum and one of the biggest companies in the region. for over eighty years
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every summer danish royals have toured the country's coast on the royal yacht. this year their final port of call will be. the second largest town on the island of. lights of london and the british capital is hosting its second design be anonymous forty countries are showcasing contemporary design devoted to the theme emotional states and exploring the role of design in today's world. well design is not a fix for everything it can change our lives i mean we live it we have it all day every day from the speed we pick up in the morning to the city we live visitors are greeted by a seventeen metre long sculpture in the courtyard of somerset house made of steel rods and recycled plastic the be a nano runs until the twenty third of september. now we turn to the topic of film currently the seventy fifth venice international film
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festival is underway on the german film is in the running for its highest accolade the golden lion never look away was written and directed by florian hankered from donna smock he won the oscar for best foreign language film with his debut film the lives of others in two thousand and seven it was a spy drama set in former east berlin his newest picture also deals with a german history and is the director's first german production since his initial success. never look away a young east german painter confronts his dramatic this. covers three hours of german history and was inspired by real events director florian handkerchief and on his mark spent more than four years working on the screenplay for his latest film. had fast and yet it is this is. what fascinated me. about this story was having the
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opportunity to show the entanglement of perpetrators and victims in a family. and i found that interesting because it was that way all over germany. young korg barnett has a special relationship with his and elisabet i said that's what constitutes cordons called fun. struck this kind of straw. was not stopped by the felt it is the faceted. caution that for the. his own teaches them about art including what the nazis deemed degenerate art. still has to go to stuck in my eleven. years. it. is considered somewhat odd. but i was
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first this should. compile. his own has taken away by men in white coats cars a right chords future a father in law is responsible for her death at the hands of the nazis history shows a live person of the. court band played by tom schilling start studying art in east germany there he falls in love with belize a bunch of portrayed by power a bear. but her father professor is a band played by sebastian cough disapproves of their relationship isn't musketeers of malcolm friendship. which would have been. so i can see his eyes an artist can offer his daughter the security he believes she needs in life he considers weak small and on important and he uses his position as a great scientist successful under the nazis of the communists and later in the
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west as well to break up their relationship at the same time this young man has to make his way as an artist and listen to that little voice within himself which tells him what's right what he should do that fascinated me. before. the film storyline is based loosely on real events in the life of a german artist. one of the world's greatest living painters. taken in one nine hundred thirty two this photo shows a four month old wish to own withers and marianna shown verda. in one thousand thirty eight she was declared mentally ill and forcibly sterilized in one thousand nine hundred five marianna was murdered. twenty years later gary hart raised or used this photo as the basis for one of his paintings for division i didn't know at the time his aunt's forced sterilization was performed at the clinic run by his former father in law in dresden. bonzai parliamentary
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last couple of elements from again heart of richter's life were the starting point for me you could almost call it an inspiration point but then i wrote the story relatively freely because i always find that through composition and through fiction you get closer to the truth than with your facts. the. court and early get married but their relationship to ellie's father who tries to hide his nazi past remains strained. and as a hermit it just to make him fit and even. into the cat. most of the best as i. finished i know. they're best at. a young couple fleet east germany for the west court resumes his art studies induce a dog be. an alpha to magazine assess that there because
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he's at liberty to live his appetite. plains of atlanta. it's a time of great change in the art world to never look away includes many allusions to famous artists like to joseph boyce in the film he's called professor van fountain. never look away is a family drama a thriller and all mine used to the liberating power of art. manages to be both moving and entertaining. how have you ever wondered about how our political leaders live german chancellor angela merkel lives in an apartment in the heart of berlin while french president in my new ad mccall resides in the eliz a palace but helmut schmidt was quite an orthodox former chancellor of west germany and his wife remained faithful to their residential home in hamburg now a foundation wants to turn the house into
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a memorial site but first someone needs to take stock of all the items which once belonged to the schmitz and there are quite a lot of interesting things to be found. the security precautions are still in place at this modest house in hamburg long and horn it looks like the residents have just gone away for a few days but in fact this is the former home of the late counted and loki schmidt the former west german chancellor and his wife lived here for fifty four years if walls could talk they'd have a lot to say big political decisions were made here but first and foremost it was a refuge from public life where the chancellor read played piano and chess chatted and smoked today the house is owned by the chancellor helmut schmidt foundation. what we have here is a place where the private and public sphere is merged with the family sent together in this living room as did world leaders like this crowd to stand and leonid
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brezhnev or there's a famous photograph of president after in front of this bookcase for to you know you have quite a bit of and. since spring twenty seventeen a history student has been compiling an inventory of everything in the house the an economics of the we examine every single object to see if we can find an artist's initials so we can establish the provenance if we don't find anything we write a description of it give it an identification number and put it back in its place for the intimate and in the mountains of utah under the autopen. even the bottles in ortiz bar which is named after smith's long serving body guard are itemized. and like a flag has added about six thousand objects to the inventory in the past fifteen months. everything here is being recorded for posterity in keeping with the schmitz will. every diplomatic gift every book glass holiday photo vinyl
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record an ashtray it's an almost impossible task. for management of that a few minutes collected an awful lot of things that's what i've learned compiling this inventor e. so finding louis armstrong behind the bar doesn't really surprise me anymore. if we're making good progress when now in the bar we've done a lot and the end is in sight you know the commander. the bar also hosted the legendary friday society for thirty years the schmitz would regularly invite people from all walks of life politicians entrepreneurs artists writers doctors and scientist to a lecture and debate followed by a dinner complete with a nightcap in the bar. the inventory is expected to be completed this autumn the
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house may one day open to the public once a place teeming with life the house in hamburg long and hard now feels like a museum with loki's pruning shears and how much mids menthol cigarettes among the items on display. well our regular viewers will be well aware of a high five series where we present you some unusual rankings today we're focusing on yoga the ancient indian practice is widely popular here in europe but not everyone is partial to it so we looked up some interesting variations to win yoga skeptics over here are. five ideas for people who think that google is boring. yes this really is yoga and although it seems a bit silly it does have a serious purpose these yogis are laughing to reduce stress levels laughter yoga is
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today number five. just like conventional yoga it originated in india doesn't just put you in a good mood it can also boost your immune system and. fancy yoga as an art form and have converted vienna's magnificent albertine a museum into a yoga studio and fourth place yoga in a museum. the go go will really comes into its own under the watchful eye of these antique sculptures. mantra sounds particularly good here. can really get you into the swing of things and not just spiritually third position goes to ariel yoga. has the advantage of aerial yoga is that everyone can do the scorpions even if they can't manage it on the floor when it gives them
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a real sense of achievement was only. a handstand is easy to do even if you want that time john you need a lot of body tension to keep your balance. this exercise is bound to work up a sweat. this kind of yoga may not look relaxing but it is thought to evoke a real sense of calm and well being. religious and out and sometimes it's a real challenge to stay focused when i go to comes to your mat and tries to interact with you so on. go to yoga is the latest craze and comes second place an hour for turn it is to conventional yoga communing with goats is said to be fair a few take the animals might be stubborn but they are also very cuddly.
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and finally how about saying cheers instead of chanting a group home first place goes to be a yoga this berlin part has come up with a combination of germany's be a tradition and india's yoga practice. after each exercise yoga is get to drink some beer to reward them for their efforts to bottles in our all the normal people might become a little less elegant as the evening progresses. and of goat yoga and tricks is stopped by our facebook page where we've just uploaded a video on how to relax with the help of animals you can find us and like us d.w. your max. now we dive deep into the world of twenty five years ago the german city of dissolute off was changed forever by the rhine bank tunnel which runs right some
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of the rhine river promenade out above the ground the area was pedestrian ised while traffic was moved underground but soon local artists discovered a tunnel vote that and more recently was turned into a fascinating space. this but no you can hear a thing because. in one town of us all in an underground tunnel vault basically surrounded by traffic arteries. some fifty five thousand vehicles ten through the rhine bank tunnel every day the first time the gallery's artistic director gets wood pater's was here she couldn't believe how close the traffic was. i find it odd that the door when i was first here in two thousand and six there was a metal door that i was told was an emergency exit i opened it and stuck my head out the cars were speeding past just fifty centimeters away so naturally i shut the
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doors fast as i could i noticed that at some back. today the space is unrecognizable. i had some estimate the first time i was here this was just a hole it was still under construction just a tunnel vote for but it has been turned into a space for contemporary art so lots of construction was going on and i had to wear rubber boots it was an eight hundred square metre building site and the first exhibition was to take place six months later. amazingly it did the couldn't steam tunnel gallery ogun did two thousand and seven and come e.x.'s five this cafe it was designed by an architect nicholas fritchey who also worked on the rhine embankment prominent. usually he explains the tunnel vaults get filled in and there's that's what the ups is actually the structural engineers working on the tunnel had intended to fill in the vault and stopped at the sec but
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then one of them suggested that roofing over two of the side tunnels would make them more stable than the filling them in. or that it would also be cheaper for. new clothes for itching it was immediately intrigued by the space form it was the shape. it is a very unusual shape and that. mixes it all crooked the floor the walls of on one side the ceiling music streaming low. and then on the other side this is really high but it's like an elongated wonky tetrahedron. eight hundred eighty eight square meters space one hundred forty meters long and a ceiling that's from two to nearly six meters high up to six times a year the gallery house shows of work by young artists such as natalie hoy's look . at the wonky walls doesn't matter
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a bit about anything's possible. in this hidden not space in just a little underground. that's all we have time for today but you can find plenty all your max content on our website dot com slash lifestyle that's also where you'll find all information in regard to this week's competition send us your best holiday photos and you could win an exclusive euro max wrist watch we'll be back tomorrow so join me again then for now that's it from me and the best crest of the team. on the next edition of your online fresh homemade pasta for tradition no doubt he and way that's what the pastor granny's video blog is all about the british blogger
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