inventors entrepreneurs and high tech professionals talk about their visions successes and day to day business to friends. it's. history you know everyone used to smoke. he seems to know how to fish and. i'm trying to. get you to africa starts december twelfth on w. everyone along join other fun filled this have your own max we are covering lots of ground as usual so let's get right to it here's a look at what's coming up. twice as nice two german chaps are awarded for their

creative seafood dishes. behind the scenes a day in the life of opera singer but i see. in the air amazing art from a bird's eye view. you've heard the saying that too many cooks spoil the broth for but for two german chefs on the island of their collaboration has been a crowning achievement your home is king and young philip bana have been named chefs of the year by the prestigious restaurant guy go mijo now it's quite unusual for dual to receive this honor so we traveled to so it's a meet the award winning chef and find out what exactly caught the attention of the food critics. early in the morning on the north sea island of suit when the tide is out top chef you hundreds king makes his way to his oyster bad

november and december is oyster season here he knows that the by valves have eaten their fill in the summer and are now ready for harvest. your highness king has lived for two decades. he tells us what to look for in an oyster. the aroma is very important and an oyster must look good let's look sexy and always to that's been poked all over is no fun also it is light elegant in its shell just like this it should shine it has to smell like iodine like salt and have its own brine. then you eat it. tasty after that. his colleague head chef landfill abana is pleased to get the fresh oysters which he serves up raw or cooks bennett and your highness king have

been named germany's chefs of the year twenty nineteen by restaurant guide go meal seafood is a major ingredient in their dishes. into the cage of this in winter of the colder the water the better quality the seafood or and that's why so naturally we focus even more on seafood. possibly but that doesn't mean you won't find any meat on offer if i always make sure we have a very varied menu i want to offer guests lots of local ingredients and show them our philosophy and i want to cook different kinds of dishes and. steamed oyster with sauteed collie flower and black tang seaweed it's a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach. germany's chefs of the year work right by the sea at the hotel restaurant is the thing for in the village of the. guests experience the north sea up close they can take

a stroll on the beach right behind the hotel. just discuss the upcoming day you hand is king is the business manager and it's his job to acquire the ingredients his younger colleague is in charge of the kitchen we can both do everything and take turns one might be more the shopping the other more preparation there where we can share the load and then one down if you know you've got your team behind the job supporting you it's a good feeling to know that someone has your back. in the north of the island near the village of list you has king knows just where to go to find mussels snails and black tang seaweed now there is a blossom here i've taken a bit of black tang and you can just pop it into boiling water for a short time and then it's green as grass also make a bed of it and put some oysters mussels arrest cargo on top and you can't get more natural than that if you have a couple of nice blue muscles which we can find here and these mud snails which the

french called cargo flights the meat is one thing but the sauce we can make with them is divine so we use them for various things and we collect them here and they're prepared fresh so they taste good but i try to be all. this time young fella down uses the fresh mussels for a target dish with fish puree garnished with watercress. stems. herbs flowers and vegetables also play a major role in the two chefs. you had a skin planted a garden specially so that he and his team could learn more about plants like lemon verbena broccoli cabbage and roses wild roses flourish on the island. and. young philip is preparing a plum dessert with rose petals. in july in just about every dish we make year round we've tried adding roses at least once

these are candy petals they're brushed with eggs white sugared and baked are. the fragrance is incredibly deep intense which is a lot of fun now will add a little been a gret. passion for detail hard work and a deep appreciation for the treasures of the island a visit has to offer that's the secret recipe that's when your highness king and john philip down the title of germany's twenty nineteen chefs of the year. during our natural brief look at other stories making headlines on the culture same . queen moderator of denmark design the set and some seventy costumes for this production of the nutcracker tchaikovsky's classic christmas ballets being performed at the two believe theater in copenhagen through december twenty third. the monarch has been

showing her creative side in theater and ballet productions for more than twenty years. the t.v. league which is celebrating its one hundred seventy fifth birthday draw some four million visitors each year. the arterial auction house has put a rare nine hundred thirty nine alfa romeo on display at an airport hangar in paris the vintage alfa romeo eight c. twenty nine hundred b. barely nafta is scheduled to go under the hammer early next february it's expected to fetch up to twenty two million euros less than fifty of these cars were produced . the vintage vehicle is in very good condition and actually still uses the original engine. islands' legend. or you'll catch the yellow coated in has gone back on the prowl in downtown we keep. the price tag is a local tradition. according to icelandic folklore the giant you'll catch the

countryside during christmas time and gobbles up children who haven't received new clothes for the holiday despite its vicious nature that you'll catch is surprisingly popular. in one thousand eight hundred singer bjork even recorded a song in its honor. the. service you love. most kids at the age of six are only focused on playing or perhaps learning to read and write more for the opera singer else that i see the age of six is when she started performing on stage not too surprising since her parents were opera singers but now at twenty seven she has a leading role in the day. and that is where we caught up with her to hear more of

her story. in the end i. think my name is else that i say here i'm twenty seven years old have french and have to. i'm going opera singer and today is a work day for me. and i'm singing the saying in media. is like a second home for me. the work day begins with warm ups and vocal training. oh. i have time today i really don't feel like singing at all but i have to. so it's like a little fight with myself i tell myself i have to move so what if i end up forcing

things i know that afterwards my vocal chords will simply say good bye. to you. backstage the singers are pretty relaxed many walk around in back roads and slippers. and mine close and my greatest wish my dream is to constantly renew myself. to never suddenly think i've reached my limit i can't go any further human will cease think it can be right again i need these shoes. i thought it. was. the same wrong another hairstyle elsa device it is once again singing the role

of justice in the opera the day. the singer with the stunning voice studied in paris that might see her parents are also opera singer it's. been this bruno's i think performing on stage since i was six but there's a great picture i have to show you this photo reveals so much about my life up until now when this if i spent it all on stage even at six or seven and you see how happy i am it's been. backstage and during the performance she prepares her next rule and stay up. oh are. you. smitten bizarre sterling

is the state i'm in it is brilliant this is really my city. my mother isn't here my father isn't here but this is really where i feel at home. which thinking here is that spin ish to how. it's time for the curtain call. goes a device that can cost him once again at the end of the day to take our final bow. and i have to say i'm relieved because a couple of people told me that it was really good. after the show she autographed copies of her debut album while another day in the life of an opera singer comes to a close. some works of art go beyond the scale of

a gallery or museum and in order to admire them in their full beauty the viewer has to take to the air for a bird's eye view well for this week's high five series we have collected some examples of what i'm talking about so here are. the five european artists whose works are best enjoyed from on high. the beach is his canvas and an old rake his only paint brush with the patterns and equal time straws are one of a kind. in fifth place on our list of bird's eye art from the island of jersey the jersey sandman his creations are ephemeral. sometimes the tide comes in before he can even take a photo of. a car

mirrors but this man isn't running a scrapyard he's a german artist who plays with lights and mirrors unusual places like here in the theater of the city of verona. fourth place on our list of artists who are best enjoyed from above. he's also left his mark on places like lancer roche and the canary islands. and in ireland his first mirror installation was in the nippy and desert and it was even visible from outer space. this work of art is a bit more grounded you might say it took just a tractor and a cornfield in italy to make in third place the farmer of european art from italy down to. his large scale field paintings only last until the field is replanted.

this artist likes to blend his subjects into the background this project by british photographer joseph ford is known as knitted camouflage one photo and his series won him the number two spot on our list of european artists whose works are best appreciated from above. this super smiley features british musician voice slim. wearing an extra large livid pull over to match the oversized smiley face. this artist also needs to wrap up in much more than a warm sweater. though. he likes to spend his winters in the french alps trudging designs into the snowy mountain side and that's earned him the top spot on our list of artists whose works are only visible from the lofty heights british no artists simon back his geometric creations are often as large as three soccer fields and

a munch to the beauty and granger of the alps. puppet theater is not just for children as the puppet tears half sure have proven this artists do are from just that or has made a name for itself through its puppet performances made for adults now we're not exactly sure why they use english and german to describe their act but their performances are entertaining all the same. it's a heart wrenching story and unhappy girl stuck at home she isn't allowed to play with her toys until she's practiced her piano this short film with puppets by the award winning do your half past which translates as half past your fault for twenty years they've been the lighting fans with their trademark mix of puppetry acting music theater and film. and this is what my gosh

a clique and frank rama look like in real life to mark their anniversary they've put together an exhibition at dusseldorf theatre museum difference three we feel quite privileged to be able to do what we do we don't take it for granted there is a nice thing and for twenty years we've been able to do handicrafts make music and put on shows in this puppet fringe sierre we've chosen for ourselves. the exhibits provide a glimpse of what goes into their creative process from initial sketches to puppets from various productions. to a few of their favorite life sized sidekicks. there's even a look behind the scenes at the technology that helps bring their puppets and props to life these days many of their puppets include robot elements. the puppet here stands behind it in operates the latex mouth or only the eyes are animatronic. someone lying on the ground uses the joystick to operate off three

pairs of eyes to make them blink look to the left and the right. you have to plan it was so they open and close at just the right moment. of. the props and puppets are operated by hand and they're all hand crafted need and frank have their own studio where they and their team spend months designing and building the puppets they'll use in the next show they always start with the story they want to tell. and then gradually with great attention to detail that story is brought to life. of bitter rivalry in this short film passions are about to spill over. after twenty years of collaboration the two profiteers are more than just a team. we've both kind of become part of one another

we're friends colleagues and we do also sometimes hate each other we go through the whole range of emotions that you can think of. their career as public two years came about almost by chance in one thousand nine hundred eighty. to spend a few months travelling through italy working a street musicians on their very first day they were rock they had to come up with an idea for a performance on the spot to scrape together enough to even drink. so we had all these characters who shared a house a man who didn't want to die a junkie an insect collector basically perfect for italian streets for example and jesus was a super hero and of course some people thought christian freak bands and others thought yes that's punk rock. half past the. international scene that's been turning the idea of puppet shows on its head. even invited other groups to take part in dusseldorf first ever festival of puppets on

film in early november but watch out these are puppets for children. well half past shows is just one example of some things typically german here in germany you will often find and german all mixed up whether it makes sense or not but it's all in good fun which brings us to our new series on facebook here's more . than. once a week cartoonist me go read them this pokes fun. typically germany idiosyncrasy . with your weekly dose of german u. . i don't know but to the e.w.

automatic facebook page. this week in our series christmas treat we're visiting the must see christmas markets around germany and making sure that we've taken all of the goodies on offer and today we're off to heidelberg where the entire old town has been transformed for the holidays needless to say in order to take it all in you have to spend quite a long time outside which is why a mug of blue vine or spice mulled wine can really hit the spot. romantic heidelberg high above the neck of river the landmark castle is in full view in the admin period heidelberg old town turns into a giant christmas market boasting one hundred forty stands the ice skating rink at carl's plots is a favorite with children meanwhile the grownups heidelberg alike get to warm themselves with mulled wine

a must for every christmas market. sources i love the fragrance and the taste of it it puts christmas in your stomach it's. by nothing. we do enjoy it with this genius. try again next time. in the christmas market in heidelberg old town christoph schneider has been serving multi wine for the past twenty seven years whenever there's a low he lifts the pot lid and lets out the fragrant steam to draw more customers. christophe schneider is especially proud of his mold milo it's less sweet than conventional mold wines. with these people say they drink three or four women still don't have a headache the next day. the grapes for the wine grow on the slopes the other new live vineyard and lyman is a twenty minute drive from heidelberg. wine grower. offers

mulled wine not only in a classic red variety but in. white and even fucking. traditionally mulled wine is made of red wine which is how we make it and then let's but in recent years there's been rising demand for white wine because white wine has less ted in. it's lighter which is why people want to white mulled wine and for good. and in heidelberg we have a third variant i rose a bold wine. and it was made for pink monday my charity event for an aids organization. but what is responsible for that special christmas a taste of mulled wine natalie miller who works together with her husband reveals a family secret. this is have nothing to hide in a recipe i still use today is a very simple recipe from a great grandmother. in terms of the ingredients we use just three spices

cloves starting nice and cinnamon and the fruits a classic lemon and orange. the ancient romans used to spice and sweetened their wine when it was too sour in the middle ages people believed in the healing properties of the fruit drink in germany first became commercially available in large quantities in the one nine hundred fifty s. . back in. the old wine goes well with the hardy winter specialties like potato pancakes and mushrooms. there are a surprising number of mulled wine stands here. local people say wine is simply a traditional part of the heidelberg lifestyle. of the falcon and this is my first mulled wine of the year and the fragrance goes through my nose into my entire body and gives me such a feeling of how i feel very feel that up. and with that the

city of fighting back is well equipped for the cold winter season. and now is a good time to let you in on this week's drop in light of the christmas season we are also getting in the spirit with certain traditions and one involves saying the song silent night so of course we would like to hear your version just go to our website to see how to take part and by doing so you can qualify it when the cd and the original wooden christmas pyramid and with that we're out of time as always for me in the rest of the crew here thanks for tuning in was the against rocks. next time on june the x. olympic champions past skating show stars a young no such angel and bruno muscle are among the world's best pair skaters now their stories for holiday are nice for the show that has been thrilling audiences

for seventy five years this year's productions are more spectacular than ever we take a look behind the scenes fabulous thank you skating next time on duramax. the ball.

i'm going to go to. the to. enjoy the fresh sea air. and soak up some sunshine on. the island off germany's north sea coast boasts beaches perfect for long strong unique natural beauty and classic maritime cuisine. those are all recent worth

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