be strong but deep down i'm broken so little. the war continues to haunt poems to flit from syria. i'm trying to reach them but nobody and since the war on my phone were too hard to treat starts december eighth on t w. roof. if. i ever want to walk through another fun field this never euro 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 warded for their

creative food food dishes. behind the scenes a day in the life of opera singer ellis i feature. 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 bay and i have been named chefs of the year by the prestigious restaurant guy gold mijo now it's quite unusual for dual to receive this honor so we traveled to sochi to meet the award winning chefs 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 honeys 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 you know most of it's been poked all over is no fun. elegant in the n.h.l. 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 down and your hand is king have been

named germany's chefs of the year twenty nineteen by restaurant guide me your seafood is a major ingredient in their dishes. inventer the cable service in winter the colder the water the better quality the seafood or it's not true 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. 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 atlanta . 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 that where we can share the load. they want down into you know you've got your team behind supporting you it's a good feeling to know that someone has your back. in the north of the island near the village of mist your highness king knows just where to go to find mussels snails and black tank seaweed carrier is a blast and 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 put some oysters and mussels or a scar go 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 so we collect them here and they're prepared fresh so they taste good but not try to be all. this time young fella down there uses the fresh mussels for a hermit dish with fish puree garnished with watercress. stans. herbs flowers and vegetables also play a major role in the two chefs gournay cuisine. you have this king 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. and jewels 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 on the fragrance is incredibly deep intense which is a lot of fun now will add a little vin a gret. passion for detail hard work and a deep appreciation for the treasures the island of is attached to offer that's the secret recipe that's one your highness king and john philip down are the title of germany's twenty nine team chefs of the year. during our natural brief look at other stories making headlines on the culture scene. queen moderator of denmark designed the state and some seventy costumes for this production of the nutcracker tchaikovsky's classic christmas ballets being performed at the to the theater in copenhagen through december twenty third. the

danish 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 archery auction house has put a rare nineteen thirty nine alfa romeo. on display at an airport hangar in paris the vintage alfa romeo c twenty nine hundred b barely 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. iceland's legendary you'll catch the. has gone back on the prowl in downtown we keep. the price tag is a local tradition. according to icelandic folklore the giant. of the

countryside during christmas time and gobbles up children who haven't received new clothes for the holiday despite its vicious nature that is surprisingly popular. in one nine hundred eighty singer bjork even recorded a song in its honor. of love. most kids at the age of six are only focused on playing or perhaps learning to read and write for the opera singer elsa good ice 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. my name is. i'm twenty seven years old half french and have to. i'm going on. today is a work day for me. and i'm singing the same. it's like a second home for me. work day begins with warm ups and vocal training. white house 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 to new so what if i end up

forcing things i know that afterwards my vocal chords will simply say goodbye. six years. back stage the singers are pretty relaxed many walk around in bathrobe 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 if you're one of assisting good can the fight again i need these shoes.

the same wrong another hairstyle elsa device it is once again singing the role of your set in the opera the day. the singer with the stunning voice studied in paris and might see her parents are also opera singers it's. been this as 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 during the performance she prepares for next rulin stay up. all the. wrong.

mission bizarre that's been stolen is the state i'm in is brilliant this is really my city. kind mother isn't here my father isn't here but this is really where i feel at home. push thinking here is the spin ish to how. it's time for the curtain call. knows a device that can cost him once again at the end of the day to take our final bow. i'm sorry but 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 there was 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 he could toss 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 car

mirrors but this man isn't running a scrapyard he's a german artist who plays with light and mirrors in unusual places like here in the amphitheater of the city of verona in fourth place on our list of artists who are best enjoyed from above. he's also left his mark on places like lancer rhodes 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 daddy. has 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 a list of european artists whose works are best appreciated from above. this super smiley features british musician fatboy slim. wearing an extra large livid 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 artist simon back his geometric creations are often as large as three soccer fields and

a march to the beauty and granger of the alps. puppet theatre is not just for children as the puppet tears half the short have proven this artist do or from just adore 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 and acting music theatre and film. and this is what my gosh

a colleague and frank drama look like in real life to mark their anniversary they've put together an exhibition at dusseldorf the museum difference. we feel quite privileged to be able to do what we do we don't take it for granted as a nice thing and for twenty years we've been able to do handicrafts make music 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 don't lean the eyes are animatronic or neutral. someone lying on the ground uses the joystick to operate all three pairs of eyes to make them blink look to the left and the right. you have to plan a 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 needin frank have their own studio where they and their team spend months designing building the puppets they'll use in their 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. bitter rivalry in this short film passions are about to spill over. after twenty years of collaboration the two puppets years are more than just a team. we've both kind of become part of one another we're friends we're 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 puppet

tears came about almost by chance in one thousand nine hundred eighty. to spend a few months travelling through italy working a street musicians put on their very first day they were. bad to come up with an idea for a performance on the spot to scrape together enough to eat and 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 jesus was a super hero of course some people thought christian freak bands and others thought yeah cool 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 . so. once a week cartoonist me go read them this pokes fun at. typically germany idiosyncracies. so we go we tito some german humor. i don't know but to the v.w. or max 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 or 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 heidelburg those interests alike get to warm themselves with mulled wine a must for every christmas market. that's 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 old town christophe schneider has been serving mulled 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. but if you see people say they drink three or four children have a headache the next or. the grapes for the wine grow on these slopes the outer mueller vineyard in lyman is a twenty minute drive from heidelberg. wine grower mightiest offers mulled wine not only in a classic red variety but in. white and even pink. 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 ten in. it's lighter which is why people want to white mulled wine. and in heidelberg we have a third variant arose a younger i know 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 would 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 starting nice and cinnamon and the fruits are 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 heidelberg the mulled 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. in the balcony 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 home but i've heard you feel that up. and with that the city of hard back is well equipped for the cold winter season.

and now is a good time to let you in on this week's draw a line of the christmas season we are also getting in the spirit with certain traditions and one involves the same 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 twin a cd and the original wooden christmas pyramid and with that we are out of time as always for me in the rest of the crew here thanks for tuning in and we'll see again tomorrow. the. next time on your own max a live picture of the ins and skating show stars. of shane cole and bruno muscle are among the world's best pair skaters now their stories for holiday on ice 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 your own max.

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