every call brings them closer together. but it hurts because they feel powerless to help. the tears to haunt those who fled from syria. the war on my phone our two part documentary starts december eighth on d w. you know. i want to welcome to another exciting edition of your i'm actually me your host meghan lee we're revisiting the past in more ways than one here's a look at what's coming up. christmas cake dresner strawman is one of germany's

most popular adventure specialty. the passion of french photographer and his dreamy images of abandoned keyboard instruments. every hours german sign there are those that christophe lame school came sweeping out of caracas. we kick off today show with a visit to one of the oldest and most traditional christmas markets in germany this treason in dresden now you may know it for its world famous christmas cake or stolen made with lots of butter raisins and rum well dressings christmas market dates back to fourteen thirty four over the last five hundred years or so it's grown and it's transformed somewhat but it's back to larry has remained the same and that has a lot to do with its trademark ache which is always a part of the markets opening ceremony we take a closer look and now in the next installment of our series the christmas treat.

the mood is very christmassy interest to town center germany's oldest christmas market the streets of monks is held on the main market square more than two hundred fifty thousand us offer a wide variety with. most of them so handmade crops like peas wouldn't ficus from the own mountains or locally blown glass but the star of the ma . it is pushed all in the east to reason cake with trite fruit the cake even has its own representative the stollen matron instrument. is to thank you the good fairy me it's been a snowy this dongle. would you like to try some to. me it dressed in crystal it is perfect when it's free see i remember it and noised it shouldn't be too dry that's the secret baking it for the right length of time. and

she should know because eighteen year old lena collector was chosen to represent the shell in bakers and their product for a year. she's an apprentice at her father's bakery and rather boiled near dressed and is currently one of around one hundred thirty bakeries licensed to bake the cake according to the original recipe. her father heiko is keen to pass on the tradition. of gedney in dressed in style than it's made of milk and flour eastern sugar butter salt not make and marty pan covered citrus and orange peel sweet and bitter omens and raisins soaked in rum. some ingredients are not allowed margarine artificial preservatives and aromas. the dough has to be needed well and then baked for around an hour but so. tall and has a long tradition. we've been baking something called the streets of christmas in

dresden since about thirteen hundred. but back then it didn't contain butter the only plower of milk and it was more like a food for basking it can't be compared with today's stolen. these days stolen is packed with calories after it has been in the oven the st louis coated with lots of melted butter. then sugar resided and then icing sugar then the stall and has to rest. for four to six weeks to allow the flavor to develop. that afternoon i called trek to takes part in the street because parade in the old town. that's where the precisely two thousand eight hundred millimeter launch column is presented then the highlight dresden man dick hilbert ceremonially cuts the cake to officially open the christmas market. the idea is that as many visitors

as possible should get a piece of stone. that's what really fascinates me about stalin is that many ingredients are as exotic as they can be. and they blend together to form a cake so there's so many different ingredients which might make you think how do they go together but they complement one another just wonderfully about and it's clearly going down well with the visitors from near and far less going to it's very tasty and very sweet. that i know all of this here is also a very nice room full of the. i don't think house of christmas for us in the region it's really important because it's a part of our identity and tradition. and i think of christmas you always realize just how important tradition is. going to be fifty to one. but eating fish bowl the most and something that the market was originally there for in the fifteenth century frederick the second prince of saxony permitted

a meat market before christmas so people could shop for their seasonal roast the streets a market developed from there. today to the market is packed with traditions for example towering in the center of the market is the world's biggest christmas paramedic the fifty metre high wooden decoration was hand turned in the all mountains. and at the entrance there is the biggest walk in christmas can do homage if we've come to. pre-shared the eye for detail on the house is it's very nicely decorated soldier when i lie about this almost here yes i'm sure you can still get handmade crafts and the beautiful old town is lovely. so it's something different and special it's tradition and the crafts an epicurean delights the streets lamont has got something for everyone. and staying on the subject berlin is shedding some light on the christmas season as well more on that

story at the top of today's express. europe's longest continuous strand of christmas lights was switched on on wednesday evening along berlin's famous purposed and on boulevard it consists of ten million l.e.d. lights strong around five hundred seventy trees and runs for about four point five kilometers the lights begin outside the upscale part of a department store and more shine on until january fourth. could even maria canis died forty one years ago but now she's back in the limelight in paris as a hologram accompanied by an orchestra the greek american soprano appears as a three d. image projected onto the stage. this is taken from several original recordings of her arias.

twenty nine thousand cameras in concert will be touring north and south america. the indigo blue drawing technique has been added to unesco's list of the world's intangible cultural heritage has been used for centuries in printing natural fabrics like cock nor linen oh. new a few blue dying shot some left in europe this time around you know sco has recognized among those sixteen living traditions such as the office of making fume as practiced in the us southern france. next up we take a journey into places full of melancholy and untold stories frenchmen are well months here the scours abandoned buildings looking for pianos to photograph or

perhaps his passion for the instruments stems from the fact that he himself is a pianist as well as for tague refer to it he has spent about ten years visiting ruins across europe in search of old pianos tissues and the result of all his effort is a book called a requiem for piano. concert grand and upright piano forgotten then left to die a long slow death in once magnificent stately homes braving the elements and decay till the very last they bear witness to a bygone age. this is what photographer and pianist paul monti is out to capture with his camera. he finds his subjects in deserted buildings like this one not far from paris. to settle with us this chateau dates back to the nineteenth century recording to my

research its construction started in the eighteenth sixty's and was completed twenty years later that's why it's an impressive shots on the set of. explorers hazardous and dilapidated buildings in search of photo subjects. i don't know this used to be long but you can get in any way the references. momentarily inspects the abandon the state room by room fifty years ago it was still full of life. then the photographer finds the motif he was looking for. and then sit. on one of the piano is an integral part of my life so it's important

to me to come and photograph them and pay one last tribute by playing them and making them ring out one last time they'll go off that's because i'm putting it touches my heart about it to see that is this the unlike to rescue the mold but not to be too complicated nowadays though i do this with all the shows of all the. well everything of any value has been plundered over the years the heavy keyboard instruments have been left behind it would be too much trouble to transport them. he won't say where exactly the stately homes in his pictures are he tries to protect them as much as possible. he's recently published his work in a volume of photos titled requiem for piano. in his images he brings his two great loves together. and music. the piano is always in the foreground because it's. chrissie he was the centerpiece of the

house and oddly enough. but i think even as a ruined buildings with. this one still retain something of the noble you know that's what's important to me and i'm going. to have a has been photographing a band in pianos since two thousand and nine. he pines them all across europe in spain germany the czech republic and ukraine. he devotes a great deal of time to finding new locations which he usually spots in online satellite images. you can see here for example. building and i can actually see that. there's a big hole in the roof i can see another hole over here and the gardens are being kept up any more it's potentially abandoned. so i would go and look.

says the studios gallery in paris is seventeenth on this mall is opening an exhibition of his photos. has reached the point where he can live off his art he sells it all over the world. waiting for something. of the power. but there also an indication of what's to come. maybe they're just waiting to decompose and disappear. you would see. this kind of wasting that has kept it in his touches me deeply. here he is planning trips to austria and portugal next year to track down more abandoned buildings and more pianos before they lose the battle against time. artist christopher lane for likes to get his hands dirty when he works and that's

because he thinks with his hands not only that he likes to paint outside in the open no matter the weather he's a planner or painter and we joined him outside to watch him in action. this is i love this it's part of me and my daughter really loves it too she refuses to be taken to school in a normal car and this is my studio and i think the christopher name for it has even traveled the world and has than he has painted landscapes in many places from australia to iceland but he has never stopped painting his home. if it is they plan their painting the french ten for an artist who works out come rain or shine. being a plain napping to means working outdoors in the natural environment. where you could make a photo of the scene and then just work on it on the basis of fact with

a glass of wine and playing music in a cozy. but i don't do that. because i have to experience the whole scene with all my senses as my head. yes it's to me it's important for me to see things properly i'm so. all that goes into my painting. christopher studied at berlin's university of the arts he creates his paintings with his hands he doesn't use a brush. so when he sent one time i was painting near the sony center in winter and someone said i could do that but when he came back half an hour later he could see what i was painting and he said that looks really good. we visit the artist in his storage and showroom kristopher paints about three hundred canvases a year his enthusiasm for vincent van gogh and the impressionist began when he was

still a child because. i was eight when i started getting interested in art how my parents supported me from an early age i started getting painting lessons when i was very young mountain reached today he sells his paintings to art museums and collectors worldwide. the oil paint that he uses by the bucketful costs four hundred euros for a pail like this. if i work really intensely for a week then i might use thirty to forty buckets on prices because. christopher records the changing face of the one series that he started back in two thousand and eight shows how the heart of the city is evolving where the balance as he palace is being reconstructed. a few weeks ago the artist put these works on display underground in a subway station which is being built close by. the big theme in all christopher lane fools work the beauty and power of light the artist often

looks like an opening to himself after completing a work. in one outfit picture on the i can go to a concert in the film in this anymore. but not to sacrifice well with making for this exceptional taste. clothes have always made the man so the saying goes but fashion in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight especially here in germany it was also used to make a political statement furry jackets flared trousers and hot pants were an expression of protest and of sexual liberation at the time the exhibition a fashion sixty eight and rotting in near does the door for in western germany shows how fashion changed in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and early seventy's one hundred fifty items of clothing and accessories are on

display and what stands out is that some of the trends are still around today. nineteen sixty eight it must have been heaven everyone seemed to be younger liberates isn't happy there was no beige old brown in songs but colors risk elphick very bright headlines were drawing using women daunting many scots courting controversy. it is a cause of so much spice mind sometimes it goes to make. somebody wear anything you can see the bottom and men are meant to control themselves men on the body. while young men sort of provoke the mainstream by growing the head. with an elevated my son went around looking like that why does he i don't mean you personally you know what i do to him i cut his hair myself it's all. young men and women took to the streets together to protest against oppression the abuse of power the terminus of nine hundred sixty eight most demonstrators still look pretty small this was how

things looked in the city. for most people in fact nine hundred sixty eight was a long walk and up elegant to sexy a bit reserved should use commas well. into the mid sixty's most people were seeking to look decent. more than ever changes in fashion were tied to social change joining us here a young women who didn't want to dress like their mothers anymore let alone live like. the big french couture labels last influence fashion was polish likely to hail from paris in the late sixty's. and. instead people turn to the street for inspiration in particular they looked at

hip and happening love fashion was influenced by pop music and god second time fines were combined with new p.c.'s dress codes became obsolete but a new idea was established one which continues to this day now everyone wants to look beyond. this no bra bra was also imported from london it was like it's an airy the opposite of a stiff corset. protest and a belief in progress took center stage fashion turned ordinary women into space goals. visitors to the fashion sixty eight exhibition remember how things work. we knew about good because there wasn't such a thing as a mini skirt that was too short for the office but you weren't allowed to wear trials as i worked in an office i mean he's gutted that they didn't have your backside lifeboats with high platform heels we're just not true she's

a hard pinch the hot pants really caused a stir of course by down the street you got accused of being loose didn't go down well. that's fine but all the young people go that i was fine for you know it. you know i'm not going into fighting to be allowed to wear trousers and i'm a. i didn't like the other stuff but being allowed to a trial this summer and winter that was difficult to get accepted to says it's. sixty's women were fine. but they were still the ones who did the washing up after the demonstrations were over. remains from the spirits of nine hundred sixty eight creative impulses colors the fashion. influence society. earlier this week in our intellects series we saw

a wooden table in france that was made out of old wood planks from him from an indonesian fishing boat well today our resident a d.i.y. bird is going to teach us how to make one of those tables ourselves and if she goes too fast you can always find her videos on our youtube channel d w interior design . there is tension if you're looking for a new dining table but come find the right size and build it yourself it's easier than you may think in just a few steps you have one table that you can just sign yourself. at so your local howard was told to find some suitable materials for the table top i decided to use wooden planks to step allies to table only to feel wooden slats. having to be kept down to size i pick out some screws of the right lengths.

to make out these are the materials you need six wooden planks each measuring one hundred thirty five forty two centimeters or choose your own size. you also need five wooden slats to that measure one hundred twenty by seven by two centimeters two slides that's seventy centimeters long and one that is thirty four centimeters long. and forty two legs eyeball based on line. screws five millimeters in diameter sixteen short screws for the table aches twenty four long months to screw on the wooden slides a battery power to screw driver pan and measuring tape a drill and three millimeter drill bits of. sand paper and ascending sponge. now it's time to get started to use science paper to send any rocks for it's to make the front side smooth. now turn to the backside of your tabletop this is where

you're going to attach your good and slats positioned in such a way that later you'll be able to attach pull over the wooden boards to the. now mark the closest where the screws should go there should be full for each table leg . because the side slides with double as the table sick. screws would be added one for each would imply. four screws go into each of the lengthwise slats and the one in the middle. now through some pilot holes the and should you screw spring break open and you would soon crack that jeff of to pollock host should be about three quarters of the main focus groups. now attach both of the wooden pieces together using dickless screwdriver. and then screw on the table lakes. new table it's ready it goes with scandinavian style cherries now you can through

a dinner party you can find a dimensions in advance but you only be able to decide if they're right when you get to still you may have to change your plans on site so bring pens and a type i should just to be on the safe side. looks good and finally before we go we want to let you in on this week's draw since christmas is not far off we would like you to get into the season spirit and sing the song silent night for us if you'd like to say part then just go to our facebook page and share your version with us and by doing so you'll qualify to win a cd and a wooden christmas pyramid and with that it is time to say goodbye thanks for tuning in keep on shining and we'll see you again tomorrow. next time on your own what he calls himself insane fifty one his murals of pretty

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