we met up with die hard fans also coming up on the show this is exactly what you usually don't want to see unless you're a fan of the swift destruction artists. and from shattered glass to the collapse of a wealthy family we look at. the debut novel that while the thomas month a nobel prize in our series of a 100 german must read. ramstein have a reputation for putting on the most amazing large shows that also one of the most controversial biomes around with their frequent use of nazi era imagery that often gets them into trouble especially here in germany now they just crowned their career so far with a huge concert in the olympic stadium in a venue which of course was famously built to showcase the olympics in nazi germany back in $96.00. like mugs to the flame tens of

thousands of fans crowded into berlin's a lympics stadium aloose the i think the simpler songs of genius some people accuse ram started making monotone simple music but genius in this simplicity i love. rock music and so on and they are one of the top and best in the world including the show and the music and last i think for the 1st time in my life i can understand german. what i find most interesting with ramstein is that they are provocative and they are have been playing for a long time and. also. tell many foreigners something about germany at least we think you know i think that they are telling us something about. the concert on the home turf turned into a real family event for fans of all generations. levels of commitment to were

sold out immediately. why ramstein ramstein also might also show or some people as a matter were hero absent 1st of all they always put on or some show my. father was one of those people wonderful for a father than treating his daughter to a ramstein concert she didn't have to drag me here i want to see them too. but i'm the main reason you're here yes i'm mostly here. and spent 2 weeks testing and preparing the show and the work paid off their fans were blown away. pyrotechnics were excellent it was a wonderful performance from beginning to end. the show the explosions the fire always great. it was awesome so the whole thing was oh so make it is

a paper the atmosphere 6. like all the barker crew is so the fans like to like a lot recently the critics think what did the band thinks is very special good for them on the home side gas and the and in advance they said that they didn't want to end up like for example the band kiss from the united stats states that means performing in the old costumes with the old well known make playing the old stuff which doesn't shock anybody anymore that's why i'm stein is playing mostly the new songs from the new album and but not everything is so let's take a look what the fans posted on social media this is really funny they still got what they expected 1st of all a stage for over explosions and fire and no i'm staying candid without flame throwers for example. from the outside it looks as if they have set the whole

stadium on fire but don't worry. we see that here it is those are the only everything's still there again the critique some sticks out. of the new songs a bit boring very very it but what are the band is doing a show like no from the well because the advance a was so successful the extent they should be very lucky playing these huge venues as we said they're really big outside germany i mean the touring europe right now but the big especially in america why do you think this is well because the band played right from the beginning with a cliche of the bat german i guess like the bad german in the movie and the way to learn the man sings and the military look every one has a some sort of reaction to this might it positive or negative and the baddest most the most successful german bands in the world with german lyrics 1st of all they're

like to shock once again and then you video auslan. it's a bit of a look. there we have it the video i don't want to show you something that with me here is. yes they have this illusion so the history of germany as a colonial power. pulled it out so they all are very political but they do try to unfortunately have a sort of new to following to some extent but they said to be very left wing so. yeah they rarely give interviews so we have to guess what they are really trying to express with the provocations but even though sometimes it looks the opposite they seem to be left wing songs like all links would but i will prove that so the last 234 letters what they're really means is that the hottest beating on the left side ok michael thank you very much as

a way thank you. from british music to be brutish and just go from switzerland likes to smash car windows but he does it very carefully with surprising results he's an artist who has to in effect destroy something and then rebuild it creating a work could be a smash calculating machine or his favorite role material. you might be tempted to brand the work of artists as willful destruction. but what looks like vandalism up close makes a different impression when seen from a distance. the easiest way to grab people's attention is to use materials creative no one has to before but. some of his last portraits are currently being shown at a gallery in basel. often their artistic merit only becomes evident at 2nd glance.

curator philip broadly promotes this will serve an art scene with exhibitions like this one. people look around don't really think everything's broken we even have people come in who want to fix something others think we're a repair work shop. but for me this is about telling stories. specializes in classical portraits made of fine usual materials to train carpenters experimented with wood and stickers. later he used tools like these hammers he took a piano apart in made it into this portrait and did the same thing with a calculating machine. like a face that i want to capture it somehow see a face on the street and think that's what i want to. thank. he finds his motifs on the internet or photographs them himself.

portrays i always make sure there's as much play of light and shadow as possible because that makes it more lively than if it illuminates evenly so that would be a picture. first they're going to sketches the outlines of the portrait on a pane of glass. many marks the spots that shouldn't shatter and those he needs to work on more intensively. out of a car is well suited in terms of how it's made because it doesn't fall apart the 1st time you strike it that's the reason i work with this kind of glass. he works on the brightest parts of the image with a hammer and chisel the brighter they are the more he concentrates on them. it's an interplay of power and pressure. one wrong blow could destroy everything. he

hammers out this portrait in around half an hour. i mean it's very sensitive work what's always difficult is all the shades of gray they require a few strikes but not too many if it's too many then it stays that way there's no turning back. the cracks in the car windshield form a portrait seen one very good checks the contours on his smartphone to see if his work is turned out the way he planned. extraordinary stuff. in 100 german must reads this we come to a literary classic books by thomas. it was his 1st book he started writing it when he was just 22 years old and it was a book that eventually him the nobel prize for literature but. intimate insights into the life of

a german border family in the 19th century our resident book david leavitt's has more for you. don't we all just want a little piece of immortality preferably a really flattering portrait or maybe someone could write a book about us full of nice things only nice things. and. not right just nice things when he portrayed his hometown of new back germany and the hefty novel books one bookstore in the town even lent to readers a key to tell them who the characters were based on you can imagine not everyone was pleased the book came out in 1001 it tells the story of a prominent merchant dynasty billboard and book claiming spanning 4 decades from the family's rise to its collapse gooden bokes woes aren't just financial.

the men in the family are physically and emotionally unfit for this world the great grandson a sickly teenager named hunter gives up on all his dreams i can't want anything i don't even want to be famous i'm afraid of it just as if it were wrong thing to do nothing can come of me that is perfectly sure one day after confirmation class i heard pastor claims i'm tell somebody that one must just give me up because i come of a decade family books as one of the last works of european real ism both hemingway and loved the book and so did the nobel prize committee almost 3 decades after it came out hard to believe that thomas munns publisher originally wanted him to cut out half the book thankfully the author refused every page is a pleasure ironic clever packed with intrigue with any luck it will make even your family look harmless.

and you can find more about good books on all the alba jumma must reads. well website at d.w. dot com slash culture all 100 of them so there's bound to be something that suits your taste and that's it it's for today thanks for watching and we'll be back at the same time tomorrow for me and all the crew here in berlin i hope you will be joining us to bob i. think.

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is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the united states imposes more sanctions what president trump calls hard hitting sanctions on iran president trump announcing the new measures which will target the country's supreme leader and the country's top diplomat will these latest sanctions make a difference also coming up to german fighter jets collide over northern germany the euro fighters were on a training exercise both pilots ejected but one.