tv Euromaxx - Lifestyle Europe Deutsche Welle December 7, 2018 11:30pm-12:01am CET
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start with small steps global ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world like news that protect the climate boost green energy solutions and reforestation. the community interactive content teaching the next generation about environmental protection and were determined to build something new for the next generation global ideas the multimedia environment series on t.w. . a real. welcome to your imax let's take a quick look at what's coming up today. light bills and you will affect a new me a festive. age old tradition krampus or so st nicholas
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is evil companions. and starry nights the german photographer captures beautiful images of the night sky. around europe cities and towns are lit up with lovely lights during christmas time nowhere more so than in leo all the city in south eastern france hosts and i knew a festival of lights starting on the sixth of december we begin today's show with effect a lumia which lasts for four days and tracks up to four million visitors from far and wide it's a spectacle that we couldn't let you miss. experienced as an explosion of. color over eighty light installations of turn the french city
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into an open air theater the designs music and dance interact with each other in brand new ways the city's residents are proud of their fet the lumiere light festival it's good in there more and more people are coming to it it's getting more international it's always fun to be here. that it's muslims out i like a lot it's cool that the light installations are placed at such symbolic places in the city. that i live in leon and i go to the festival every year it's magical like revisiting your childhood. and leonsis sturrock city of rough logic from bomb watches over a spectacular three d. laser installation dubbed. the first time east taking part. i wanted to create something people could walk through which is why the effects
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come from every direction from all sides so in all we have about one hundred different laser sources like the. a lot of visitors are eager to get into the courtyard where the display takes place. is in a little a little overwhelmed it's just thursday the first day of the shown. me to raining really hard and yet every show is more or less packed they're applauding couldn't be better it's not. the fed the lumiere has religious origins in the seventeenth century leona valid to build a statue to the virgin mary and she saved the city's residents from the plague. they were spared the statue erected and people still light candles in celebration of this event. the river song and ron join in leon sort of water also
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provides a reflective surface for the rich play of colors. with our modern techniques we repeat what the citizens of leon did with fireworks one hundred fifty years ago. we pay homage to our city. and also to the virgin mary and the spiritual power that makes its presence felt here. at leon's park to let a door visitors enter a fairytale world the ground is strewn with golden balls and videos of dancers provide a sense of joy and levity but this world is also a fragile one. was. something that's the message take care of your planet because it's beautiful enjoy
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it it's just some words of warning here at the park. in the garden of the fine arts museum visitors can create their own light show. just by playing the piano light is projected onto the surrounding walls statues and trees. other than the colors on the wall change according to how high or low the note song. and the call these people play. one of the most impressive light shows is projected on to leon cathedral portugese art studio a cool bow created abstract paintings by the fusing pigments inks and flowers and water. being done to the building's facade they produce fascinating kaleidoscope like effects. so we go from green to blued to yellow to multi color and we end with rose which is very known in the in the hose the new so it kind of to do color
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in new york. every year the french city is a stage for innovative light arts which attracts admirers both young and old. now let's get up to date with the goings on across the continent and express first up we travel to the smallest state in the world. in the vatican a giant nativity scene was finished on friday this year it was made from seven hundred twenty tons of sand brought especially for the purpose from years along a seaside resort town on the outskirts of venice renowned for its extra fine sand. american sculptor rich ferraro was in charge of the sixteen metre wide five and a half metre high project on st peter's square. then a t.v. scene will remain in place until january thirteenth. the africa museum of the belgium city of tehran reopens in december ninth after
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being renovated from the ground up the concept behind the execution founded in one thousand. there's also undergone a third a revision in particular the custom much more critical belgians colonial past and still once in sixty two the country's colonies in africa included today's democratic republic of congo and rwanda the museum's renovations took ten years to complete. germany. could turn sixty on monday the bestselling bronczek is known for fantasy novels that young adults have popular words included in cost c h i x and the dragon ride a series of his books have been translated into over fifty languages and have sold twenty six million copies worldwide several have also been adapted for the big screen the author has lived in the us since two thousand and five.
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there are plenty of gifts to go around for kids and the christmas season on the sixth of december children in many european countries treats and small presents to celebrate st nicholas day but in southern germany austria and northern italy another character joined st nicholas on that day the horned figure described as half goat demon who during the christmas season punishes children who have misbehaved all reports are actual prima vaizey traveled south dong the traditional scary cost him to do his best krampus impression. that crumpets is are on the loose in the austrian village of sunk johann in pungo the wild untamed figures are spurred on by st nicholas and his angels and right in the midst our reporter primitive. early in the day and some two hundred here around sixty kilometers south
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of salzburg the tradition of the compas is still going strong it's popular throughout the whole region. heads one of the local compas groups. he founded it back in the one nine hundred eighty s. . it's made up of a saint nicholas angels a basket carrier and more than a dozen compositions. he's played the figure since he was a boy. from age twelve on you're running along in various villages and at some point you say hey let's have our own group. so i talked a couple of friends into it and at the beginning there was just nine of us. but now we have an eighteen krampus is sent nicholas angels and basket carriers because. so i so at some time to show you how it all works that's going to change so we can get started on book of growth. we have a costume for you. that's it time to move over you have to take off your pants.
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over the wait a minute. no one told me i had to get undressed you know for a pardon i guess. there's a good reason why you have to strip even though it's below freezing outside the sheepskin costume keeps you so warm that it's pointless to wear anything under it a custom like this can be used for about five years before the leather wears out. next there's the belt which the compas is used to make a racket and finally the mask all in all the costume weighs about thirty kilograms . of rather hard it's really hard inside here on the mask is very tight i can barely speak i see next to nothing just a little through the eye in the mouth slits i have no idea how i'm going to survive this day. so there's no time for though it says things are getting serious now st nicholas with his angels and the basket carrier are leading the procession. to group visits the farm on the outskirts of sunk johann i think greetings to all in
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this house and nicholas speaks to man and mouse. because there are only well behaved children here everyone will receive a gift the compas the stay back a little the sheer number of scary masks is enough to make an impression. after the presents have been distributed the nice part of the visit begins the family treats the cook passed group to a round of local shops. i think you know it's the theater see until this day is a highlight of the advent season it really makes you look forward to christmas and the francis's are part of our tradition human. rights accorded and highlight this for the kids it's a wonderful experience to see the compas is and of course st nicholas and the angels every year they love it the. time to head off for the next performance fittingly the compas is are packed into cattle cars for the trip they'll appear four times in all today on other days the group can even put in twice that many
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performances. at one of the stops the house is toasty warm. to warm the reporter is dripping with sweat under the sheepskin and the tight mask makes it hard to breathe he's about to give up. but after countless presents have been distributed and the last carolus song the job is done. really enjoy boxset. thanks. for being with us german crowds we've talked about how they're called. but they're still not quite finished the people have sunk yohan expect the group to take part in the krampus run where more than a dozen local groups present themselves. as she. encounters i did it's that i'm totally beats seven hours and this full body
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sheepskin has given the phrase stewing in your own juices a whole new meaning anyway what i like most is that the group accepted me right off this if i were one of their own. and i've definitely gained an experience or two and i'm the richer for us. well done axel that looked pretty tough now we stay in the alps for ongoing cullen every series you're max caught today we dine at an altitude of two thousand four hundred ten meters to enjoy a hearty meal in beautiful surroundings bacon dumplings are on the menu at a mountain chalet restaurant high up in the dollar mights own and head chef marcus primo it shows us how to make this time really and speciality. on the alps some two thousand four hundred meters above sea level lines there's a fee hotel surrounded by the peaks of atomics it's the perfect place to take
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a break. during the winter to shanghai is only accessible on skis winter sports enthusiastic love it's italian flair and excellent fruit only mockers pinoy took over the chalet from his parents in two thousand and three. was surrounded by the mountains i thought what's special about this place is that we have the sun from every morning until evening our guests like coming here because the ski piece goes right past so there's always a lot of activity. and everything the restaurant needs is delivered to the mountain top by cable car each morning is the first scheme has hit the slopes markers play not fetches the bread vegetables meat and fish on his snowmobile. the menu changes with the seasons but rustic speciality is like bacon dumplings and schmutz cops on the local variety of ravioli are year round favorites. they
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call facing today and making south terrilyn bacon dumplings a traditional dish from the delegates this is my mother's recipe we need said cheerily and bacon milk eggs. are meant some butter are finally sliced bread salt pepper and a bit of some flour oil. this is how it's made chop the bacon and onion. as well as the stale bread. finally chop the child's. so take the onion in melted butter. add the bacon to the bread crumbs. combine the eggs with a. at that mixture to the bread crumbs and bacon. add enough milk to soften the bread staring a child's sauteed onions salt and pepper mix well by hand
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a bit of flour and some flour oil. now will mix that i though has to rest for thirty minutes so the eggs and milk get absorbed by the bread and it becomes a really nice smooth dough with the finest might be got by. eight to ten dumplings from the dough and similar from around fifteen minutes. today i'm serving the dumplings on cabbage salad. ice i like but you can also serve them as a side dish for a good be foolish or simply with butter and parmesan. no matter which of the speciality is you order they all taste even better the spectacular view the snow of sun and crisp mountain at some guests even the lights are the end to visitors or feel her to shall in.
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time for some dessert now in today's final installment of our series sweet delights we meet food blogger mark colma the graphic designer has a passion for pastry and his creations don't just taste delicious they also look good for his famous blog bake to the roots is perfect proof we met him in berlin to get a taste of his artistic creations. ma is a graphic design and he spends all his spare time baking and blogging about it he's back to the roots blog has won many accolades in germany it features delectable calorie rich recipes fix everything from lemon time task to tiramisu cup. cakes and blueberry cheesecake one look is enough to make your mouth water but before a recipe goes online chroma tests it for himself today he's making
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a trendy hybrid creation. things are delicious they're a cross between a cross and a muffin and not as fatty but just as tasty maybe even more so. for those who. has been watching his blog for more than four years and says at some point it just took on a life of its own. over thirty five thousand people now follow him on instagram. his recipes typically german and there's a reason for that is. my lived and worked in the us for a while and i really fell in love with cupcakes there at the time we didn't have them in germany so i started making them my song. but i often had trouble with the recipes because i couldn't get some of the ingredients here and i had to replace them so that some point i thought maybe others are having the same problems so i
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started writing everything down and posting the recipes online. the craft and only needs to rise for a while in the meantime mark works on his blog each week he spends up to sixteen hours on it and posts three new recipes but only if they pass his personal taste test what does he do with the leftovers my freedom to my colleagues now all the crap and is ready it gets rolled out and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar then it's rolled back up again and pressed into a muffin tin it's baked for twenty five minutes at two hundred degrees celsius crime is always curious to see how things turn out as even the best chef can mess up. i once tried to make flour less cookers and it was just awful. just crumbled to pieces never again when i bake without flour and so you don't live up to. this time everything's going according to plan when the crawfords come out the aroma of yeast
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and butter fills the kitchen crafts. but has to take pictures before he can tuck in the blog is hard work but mock still has plenty of ideas in store. as my next recipe is churro comes with ice cream maybe you know children's from spain can only then longer in shape but i'd make comes out of them which can be filled with ice cream. as. crime is creations look and taste great try them for yourself they worth every calorie. alongside this week's series we wanted you to take part in our audience competition we asked you what your favorite sweet snack is lots of you got in touch including costa who's guilty pleasure is a traditional german christmas treats a sweet fruit cake called kissed stalin she remembers it from her time living in dresden congratulations we'll be sending you your prize the euro max wristwatch
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now in our final report we look up to the stars beyond push old is a german photographer who loves taking pictures of the night sky for his latest book he traveled all over europe from scandinavia all the way down to the canary islands to capture lovely celestial images. berent pro shoulder reaches for the stars. without ever leaving the ground somewhere in germany. i mean you know for me it's really about using my pictures to ask questions about how the world was created and to raise issues like are we alone in the universe. for more than fifteen years prussian has traveled the world to photograph
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landscapes under starry skies. not be first in your interview it's so fascinating how incredibly tiny this world is in comparison to the vast universe. that is the time aspect we're living in just a fraction of a second compared to the time that came before us and that will come after us it shrinks us to something as meaningless as an unrecognizable grain of sand can come . to get a really clear view of the stars the photographer from cologne has to leave the cities with their light pollution far behind. light pollution increases by the year it's a growing problem worldwide. crucial its new blog rises sealers down in himmel or destination starry sky takes us to europe's darkest places like the i phone national park in north rhine-westphalia certified as germany's first international
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dark sky park it is to become a star reserve with strict like pollution regulations. taking pictures of the night sky is a challenge relieve the light of the moon but otherwise absolute darkness you also need just the right exposure and a good sense of timing. and a more likely thought the light specif when the moon sinks into the horizon. once it was then you need to be in the right place at the right time. mining india's non-busy and my idea is always to portray earth as an alien planets of a good photo is a photo that makes you ask what kind of planet is that from planet.
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earth doesn't have to travel to the ends of the earth to capture spectacular celestial sights he finds many close to home in germany. like on the island of aruba in the baltic sea. or in the half a line district of brandenburg. has captured breathtaking light phenomena all across europe. and gran canaria in spain's canary islands. over the dollar might seem to tell you no. end in northern sweden. i don't know if i can pin down the most emotional moments to any specific phenomenon. it's more like a mood that you experience human like when it's so still that you can hardly hear a sound. maybe in a snowy landscape that absorbs any remaining natural sounds and then there's just
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the twinkling stars above you those are the moments that move me lessons all moment . when he looks into the night sky it inspires bared pressured to question the meaning of life and the universe where do we come from where are we heading the eternal mysteries that resound in his images. the heavens and the earth. and that's all we have time for today we're back tomorrow with the highlights of the week and you can also catch up with all our reports on shows online dot com slash lifestyle or visit us on our facebook page your remarks are from the. next time on your and that's the highlights of the week. and one of europe's most popular traditional christmas trains. the creation process
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