the ten years to haunt those who fled from syria. the war on my phone our two part documentary starts december eighth on d w. 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 the dresdner strawman is one of germany's most popular adventure specialties. the passion of french photographer and his dreamy images of abandoned keyboard instruments. every arch in german the

plain there are those that christophe claims 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 marked in dresden now you may know it for its world famous christmas cake or stalin 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 its popularity has remained the same and that has a lot to do with its trademark cake 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 and town center germany's oldest christmas

market the streets of monks is held on the main market square more than two hundred fifty pandas for a wide variety with. most of them so crops like bees wouldn't ficus from the own mountains or locally grown gloss but the star of the ma . it is the stalin i used to reason cake with pride fruit the cake even has its own representative dahlan matron or stalin girl. is to think he's a good fairy been there's no money stolen girl. would you like to try some to. the mrs and me addressed in crystal is perfect when it's free she i remember taken more east 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 quipped was chosen to represent the stolen bakers and their product for a year. she's an apprentice at her father's bakery and rather boiled in their dress

than 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 a gentleman dressed in style than it's made of milk and flour eastern sugar butter salt not make a. covered citrus and orange peel sweet and bitter omens and raisins soaked in run . 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 power 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 street coated with lots of melted butter. then sugar is added and then icing sugar then the stalin has to rest. for four to six weeks to allow the flavor to develop. that afternoon takes part in the streets lawmakers parade in the old town. that's where the precisely two thousand eight hundred millimeter long stollen is presented then to highlight dresden mayor dick hilbert ceremonially cuts the cake to officially open the christmas market and the idea is that as many visitors as possible should get a piece of stone. that's what really fascinates me about star and is that many ingredients are as exotic as they can be. and they blend together to form

a cake there are so many different ingredients which might make you think how do they go together that's a compliment one another just wonderfully. 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 out of the far. right on a 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. fifty fifty 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 in the streets and mark developed from that. today to the market is packed with traditions

for example towering in the center of the market is the world's biggest christmas paramount the fifty metre high wooden decoration was hand turned in the all mountains. and at the entrance there is the biggest walk in christmas candle homage if we've come to. the eye for detail on the house is its very nicely decorated soldier the one that i love this almost here yes and here you can still get handmade crafts and the beautiful old town is lovely at the top so it's something different and special. tradition and the crafts an epicurean delights the streets all marked 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 dawn boulevard that 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 cart of a department store and more shine on until january fourth. producer 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. is taken from several original recordings of her arias. twenty nine thousand conason concert will be touring north and south america.

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 cotton or linen oh. new a few blue dying shot some left in europe this time around you know scout has recognized among those sixteen living traditions such as the also 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 while months here the scours abandoned buildings looking for pianos to photograph now perhaps his passion for the instruments stems from the fact that he himself is a pianist as well as for tague refer to the 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 and 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. and he finds his subjects in deserted buildings like this one not far from paris. to settle with us this shadow 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 photos objects. i don't know this used to be long but you can get in there anyway as all the efforts of. all the t.v. inspects the abandoned the state room by room fifty years ago it was still full of life. then the photographer finds the motif he was looking for. form one of the piano but there's 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 it because i'm putting it touches my heart i'm going to see this like to rescue them oldies but not to be too

complicated nowadays though i miss it on the show that 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. peace recently published his work in a volume of photos titled requiem for piano. in his images. brings his two great loves together. and music. the piano is always in the foreground because it stands for certain. that it 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 can. tell he has been photographing abandon pianos since two thousand and nine. he promised 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 so there's a large 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. says the on off studio's 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. for something. of the time. but there also an indication of what's to come. maybe they're just waiting to decompose and disappear. with 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 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 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 the normal car and this is my studio and i think the christopher lame foot has even travelled the world in his than he has painted landscapes in many places from australia to iceland but he has never stopped painting his home city. just if it is they plan they have painted the french ten for an artist who works outdoors 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 that 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. and. yes it's for me it's important for me to see things properly and. all that goes into my painting. freestylers. 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. plus. we visit the artist in his storage and showroom christopher paints about three hundred canvases a year his enthusiasm for vincent van gogh and the impressionist began when he was still a child but. i was eight when i started getting interested in art. and 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 think 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. 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 with the balances 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 lame fools work the beauty and power of light the artist often looks like an oil painting himself after completing a work. one outfit picture and i

couldn't go to a concert in the film i mean this anymore. but that's a sacrifice well with making for this exceptional test. 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 rusting 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

liberated and happy there was no spatial brown in songs but colors risk all that many bright headlines were drawing using women dawning many scots courting controversy so she is a cause of so much vice my 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 the young man's soul to 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 paternalism 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 long buttoned up and

a ground zero to sixty a bit reserved said juge collins well. into the mid sixty's most people were seeking to look decent. more than ever changes in fashion were tied to social change join us here a young women didn't want to dress like that mothers anymore let alone live like. the big french couture labels last influenced fashion was polish likely to hail from paris in the late sixty's. instead people turned to the street for inspiration in particular they looked at hip and happening london fashion was influenced by pop music and odd secondhand finds were combined with new pieces thresh codes became obsolete but

a new idea was established which continues to this day now everyone wants to look. this no bra bra was also imported from london it was like it's an airy the opposite of a stiff corset. say 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. in your book 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 the sketch that they would have of your backside is why foods with high platform heels were just like. he's a hard princeton hot pants really caused a stir of course on the street you got accused of being loose didn't go down well.

that's fine let alone the young people that i was spotting possible you know it. might remember fighting to be allowed to wear trousers and i'm. my basle i didn't like the other stuff but being allowed to wear trousers some and when to that was difficult to get accepted to says it's. in the late nineteenth sixties women were fighting for self-realization and sexual equality but they were still the ones who did the washing up after the demonstrations were over. what remains from the spirits of nine hundred sixty eight creative impulses call those the awareness that fashion comes through in society. earlier this week in our intellects series we saw a wooden table in france that was made out of old wood planks from an it 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 yourself it's easier than you may think and just a few steps you have one table that you can just sign yourself. at so your local how do you still want to find some suitable materials for the table top i decided to use wooden planks to step was 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 other materials you need six wooden planks each measuring one hundred thirty five forty two centimeters or choose your own studies. you also need

five wooden slides 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 weeks eyeball based on mine. screws five millimeters in diameter sixteen screws for the table lakes twenty four loved ones strewn on the wooden slides a battery powered just to drive a pan and measuring tape and three millimeter drill bits. sand paper and ascending spot and. now it's time to get started to use such paper to send any rocks for it's to make the front side soon. now turn to the back side of your table top this is where you're going to attach your good and slats position in such a way that later you'll be able to attach hold of the wooden boards to them. now

mark the closest square 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 here 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 the pollock host should be about three quarters of the main focus groups. now attach fold up the wooden pieces together using decoder most screwdriver. and then screw in the table lake's. your new table it's ready it goes well with scandinavian style chairs now you can through a dinner party you can plan the 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 it 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 and 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 remarks he calls himself insane fifty one years murals of pretty crazy depending on whether you look at little through a red or blue filter they reveal different images the special stop other greek stop

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in. this is deja vu news live from berlin world leaders gather in argentina for the g. twenty summit trade tensions of course in the spotlight with china still locked in a tit for tat tussle with the united states over tariffs but there's embarrassment for germany as the chancellor's plane is grounded on route forcing her to miss the start of the song also coming up. ukraine bans military age russian men from an.