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concedes civil rights. peace movement the women's movement long planned during this period. nineteen sixty eight. this week don't. either i'm not smell 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. beach race vintage car the busiest flock to the most of us of all in denmark. historic inventory we visit the home of late german chancellor helmut schmidt.
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and space tunnel underneath because of those running river bank houses an exhibition. now if you're wondering why i'm dressed a little differently today it's all to do with our very first reports every september the danish oland of turns into a hot spot 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 demo 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 classic cars a motorcycle showed just how much life is left in them the beach race is the art.
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one of its kind in europe. not every college 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 of. chords and katherina good fun t. i've come from bavaria to take part there driving a nine hundred twenty eight model and 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 this the less you can't enjoy this kind of freedom anywhere else you can drive on the beach on the sand you can let 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. gun see ya but first the car must undergo a 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 board two models and ensure they have lean fitted with modern replacement parts. to go fante's for this 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 assist you feel every possible the wrong it's a great feeling on the end of the relax me three it's a break from the daily grind of nothing bothers you anymore if there's an app for getting into the cars like going back in time. participants have come from eleven different countries many kampongs. sides here they enjoy the company of other fans
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and told shawn not sold part of the experience. 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 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 for the incentive is to try and get a taste of what it was like back then live life at one of the pace. the room a motor festival was inspired by the traditional beach races held on the neighboring island of foreigner from ninety nine thousand 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 participants has
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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 but participants can race as often as they wish to some just finishing is a victory in itself. is wrong in my view or untrue or people are still going because the engines overheat one guy's 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 in the meaning of. this one i thought it was a really hot summers so this sounds a bit looser than usual normally it's really packed down like a highway this year and there are lots of hills and loose sand that makes it difficult to get enough traction but it's great fun. and the same for everyone as
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much buzz as if. the racing went on for six hours the few participants who used the fastest they just love driving in the courts and katherina the fountain enjoyed the day from start to finish all these days all but on the car just wouldn't 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 it was 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. while it's more fun to be had for vintage car enthusiasts and london this week
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let's get a roundup 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 on display 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 ten 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. patmos a london and the british capital is hosting its second design be in our forty countries a showcasing contemporary design devoted to the theme emotional states and exploring the role of design in today's world. is not a fix for everything it can change our lives i mean we live it live it or die every day from the speed we pick up in the morning to the city we live to visitors are greeted by a seventeen metre long sculpture in the courtyard of somerset house made of steel rods and recycled plastic to be an olive runs until the twenty third of september. now we turn to the topic of film currently the seventy fifth venice international
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film festival is underway and the german film is in the running for its highest accolade the golden lion never look away was written and directed by florian hank 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 is new is picture also deals with a german history and is the director's first german production since his initial success. in never look away our young east german painter confronts his dramatic papist. 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. here what fascinated me about. this story was having the opportunity to show the
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entanglement of perpetrators and victims in a family. and i found that interesting because it was that way all over germany. young cork barnaby has a special relationship with his and elisabet i said that's what constitutes cordons . destructors could just go. for. the felt that this. caution that. if his own teaches them about art including what the nazis deemed degenerate dart. that is stuck in my lab then. it. is a bit is considered somewhat odd. even. i was first this should. feel
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. his own has taken away by men in white coats cars a right chords future father in law is responsible for her death at the hands of the nazi. destruction. played by tom schilling start studying art in east germany there he falls in love with belize a bunch of portrayed by polar bear. but her father professor is a band played by as a bus journey disapproves of their relationship isn't the message in terms of malcolm venter. isn't up in. his eyes an artist can offer his daughter the security he believes she needs in life he considers. 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 german artist. one of the world's greatest living painters. taken in one nine hundred thirty two this photo shows a four month old british throne with ears and marianna shown verda. in one thousand thirty eight she was declared mentally ill and forcibly sterilized in one nine hundred forty five marianna was murdered. twenty years later gearhart rishta used this photo is the basis for one of his paintings portraiture didn't know at the time his answers forced sterilization was performed at the clinic run by his former father in law in dresden. one side parliamentary
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a 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 pure facts. the. court and early get married but their relationship to ellie's father who tries to hide his nazi past remains strained. and is that immature to make him fit and even. into the cat out of it and i don't believe most of the best as at. least i not have. their best at. a young couple fleet east germany for the west court resumes his art studies into sort off the. bat alpha get us to magazine assess that their equals is at it what it should it is at
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the high. playing target until. 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 then all managed to the liberating power of art. a film which manages to be both moving 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 emmanuelle my call 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 smiths 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 london horne it looks like the residents have just gone away for a few days but in fact this is the former home of the late helmet 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 brezhnev in front of this bookcase forto back 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 and 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 internet and monster and if you do it under an auto pen. even the bottles in ortiz bar which is named after smith's long serving bodyguard are itemized. and i can't lager 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
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vinyl record an ashtray it's an almost impossible task. permission to there's a few minutes collected an awful lot of things that's what i've learned combining 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 horn now feels like a museum with loki's pruning shears and how much mitt's menthol cigarettes among the items on display. well our regular viewers will be well aware of our high five series when 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 yoga is boring. but yes this really is yoga and although it seems a bit silly it does have a serious purpose these young kids are dancing to reduce stress levels laughter
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yoga is today's 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. things fancy yoga as an art form and have converted vienna's magnificent albertine a museum into a yoga studio in fourth place yoga in a museum. the yoga will really comes into its own under the watchful eye of bees antique sculptures. mantra sounds particularly good here. can really get you into the swing of things are not just virtually position goes to ariel yoga. the fourth elephant is 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 the time john but 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 wellbeing. and realize there's an out and sometimes it's a real challenge to stay focused when i go comes to your mat and tries to interact with you so on this. is the latest craze and comes second place an hour for turn it is to conventional yoga communing with goats is said to be therapeutic the animals might be stubborn but they are also very cuddly.
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and finally how about saying cheers instead of chancing a group home first place goes to be a yoga this berlin part has come up with a combination of germany's bill tradition and india's yoga practice. after each exercise you kids get to drink some beer to reward them for their efforts to bottles in our all the norm people might become a little less elegant and use the evening progressives. and of goat yoga and tricks to stop 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 distilled off was changed forever by the rhine bank tunnel which runs right out
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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 the sky a tunnel vault that and more recently was turned into a fascinating up space. show this but no you can hear a thing because. in item ten 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 what pater's was here she couldn't believe how close the traffic walls. was going to just act as a 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 just never got some about. today the space is unrecognizable. i'd suggest my here the first time i was here this was just a hole it was still under construction just a tunnel vault for but it was being turned into a space for contemporary art so lots of construction was going on and i had to wear rubber boots so it was an eight hundred square metre building site and the first exhibition was to take place six months later. amazingly it did he couldn't stay in total gallery opened in two thousand and seven it can be accessed by this cafe it was designed by architect nicholas fritchey who also worked on the rhine embankment promise not usually he explains tom involves get filled in on this that's what the ups is actually the structural engineers working on the tunnel had intended to fill in the vault and stopped but then one of them
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suggested that roofing over two of the side tunnels would make them more stable and the filling them in. it would also be cheaper for. new clothes for itching it was immediately intrigued by the space farm it was the shape. it is a very unusual shape and i got a list of all mixes it's all crooked the floor the walls. of on one side the ceiling is extremely low for the man on the other side this is really high it's but it's like an elongated wonky tetrahedron call interested. 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 hosts shows of work by young artists such as natalie hois lower . in the wonky walls don't matter
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a bit. and i think passable. in this hidden not space in underground. so we have time for today but you can find plenty all your max content on our website w 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 europe max fresh homemade pasta for very good traditional way that's what the pastor granny's video blog is all about
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