and how is the relationship between the germans on america doing now days we'll find out. if they like the ukrainian conduct. is definitely want to watch in the classical music scene she's receiving accolades from musicians and critics alike and this in a profession that is still predominantly male apart from being in great demand around the world she started a festival in western ukraine and this year is opened with a special concerts to remember the jewish population who were decimated in the 2nd world war. the cottage symphony by leonard bernstein based on the jewish prayer of mourning. this year the leaves mozart festival opened in the town of brody population $24000.00. from stage 200 artists from ukraine and around the globe

it's a sight the town of brody has never before seen and it's difficult 1000 year history . cottage. conductor oxana lean if was determined to have the concert here. these are the ruins of brody's great synagogue destroyed in world war 2. today the ruins are surrounded by homes. the whole town of brody turned out to listen even to the rehearsals. the sis yeah that this is more than a concert. it's more than just music for our listening pleasure or a pleasant way to spend an evening. not quite so it in this is to remind us of who

we are where we are if i want this concept to commemorate the many jewish people who lived in the city until i'm no longer here he didn't survive and for now at least now back as in give us me now i believe. in the late 19th century almost 90 percent of birdies population was jewish in 1945 after pogroms and the holocaust only $88.00 members of brody's jewish community were maimed today there's little left to testify to what was once a jewish cultural center known as the jerusalem of police here. oksana linnet who conducts concerts around the globe grew up just 2 blocks away from the synagogues ruins for her the concert is also a homecoming this is where her roots are where she comes to rest and recharge but she's also got a mission to put the historical region of the least now straddling the ukrainian polish border back on the world's cultural map that was one reason she helped found

the festival 3 years ago. that's about a one side is delivered from a festival was started to highlight the historical background and cultural connections between crane especially western ukraine and western europe was best and to present these connections on an international stage and the internet's an eyelid so what is in. this year's festival is dedicated to the jewish author joseph fort born in broady 125 years ago and his short life old became one of the greatest german language authors writing about an eastern european jewish culture which no longer exists the nazis burned his books a lot died in exile and. now finally the writers hometown has a monument to his legacy put up in conjunction with the festival the bust was paid for in part by. germany and austria. 200 musicians

oksana commemorated a court with a stunning concert. incidentally joseph root novel job about jewish life in eastern europe features in our series 100 must reads and you'll find the more on our website a d w dot com slash culture said to be in a dietrich's favorite book in the meet the germans our intrepid reporter rachel stewart investigates the special traits and 4 goals of this country's inhabitants today she's looking at the relationship germans have with america the culture the language and even the cakes. i am a day that's what this guy john f. kennedy sometimes accused of having said in his iconic 963 feet in one that.

yes in german i bet nina could refer to a person from but in all this kind of jam filled don't know but many germans refer to this as a club and in the lead it's known as a punk which translates confused me to. the american president had been more little and claim to be an american it wouldn't help to much either in germany this triggering trait is known as an americana or american ok enough of the baked goods today we're taking meet the germans on a transatlantic trip i want to find out just how sweet all german u.s. relations become so negative and for and that is could mean with so in the spawning room for him a fanatic. thank you mine was all me i'm going to find a place i had to pause even thing is seems an office was a foreign her fleece by so. obviously it's because if is in. thanks for trying. about numbers had to do is does hollywood for

a bit amount of some of those jokes to feel hoping i was given that sometimes you have to admit i do enjoy faked girls or we will there's no denying this relationship has had its ups and downs over the past century ok here comes the history let's keep things a little more exciting here's a brief history of u.s. german relations told through the medium of baseball the 1st official baseball game on german ground was played at the benedict in 1936 no other countries ended up sending a team so the u.s. the u.s. and the u.s. would be. the 2nd world war and surprisingly so u.s. german relations hit rock bottom major league baseball players were drafted into the u.s. military and the sport all but disappeared in nazi germany after world war 2 things got a lot better as the u.s. helped to rebuild a modern democratic germany going americans want to see the germans the american way of life and want to do this was through sport. the cold war period so the us

and west germany unite against the common enemy of communism the soviet union and in the run up to $989.00 the us encouraged the reunification of east and west germany the 80s also saw the establishment of the current form of the baseball but it is neither in germany which is still going strong today. many staples of us culture today have very german roots being christmas trees number goes and sauerkraut there are also hundreds of annual october 1st celebrations in the us from california to alabama and that's no surprise because around one 5th of all americans claim to have german heritage. among the 1st german immigrants to the us was a group of mennonites they arrived in philadelphia in the 1600s fleeing religious persecution they named their new settlements wait for it. us culture always seems to carry a particular cachet among the younger generations in germany. back in the fifty's or sixty's it was rock n roll music and coca-cola. these days that young say that

there is. still. the germans also have a somewhat bizarre interest in native american culture take for example the stories in films of the character. unfortunately they haven't quite kept up with the debate surrounding cultural appropriation germans dressing up as native americans the carnival can come as quite a shock with visiting americans there's also been a fair amount of linguistic trading between the 2 nations over the years where would the americans be without they can they got. the germans without the top meeting marketing. and jet lag that flow from this week me. you know. the austrian fashion photographer started her career as a fashion model but after a short time on the catwalk she managed to make the difficult leap to the all the start of the camera this was back in the late sixty's and she's still doing spreads

the talk fashion magazines to this day but also to styx art of photography as well as a current exhibition here. so treat gazes fashion style. dignity. provocative and nonchalant at the same time. portraits are all about attitude. true. just plain beauty. without a person who interests me doesn't interest me i'm interested in the people i 1st met her off the foot took a few years. as she's emo tons started taking pictures in her early thirty's after working as a model she was tired of posing but her flair for theatrical moments and gestures remains this campaign of hers features hands with bare not just pretty jewelry but

the experience of old age her ads and editorials are all about character. this fashion editorial starring german actor is no different simo tons of inspiration for the series came from the french neurologist a close studies of supposedly hysterical women. the more time studied fashion before her swinging sixty's modeling career she married the artist quit kasha it and became a mother. after his death she married an even more famous artist the performer painter and sculptor. his death in 1907 after a 2 time widow. and the same time kept taking pictures of her gift is stringing her subjects along until she finds just the right moment to cheat they also. talk the whole time i talk a lot i want to distract my subjects from themselves from what they look like or

what they might look like. sexy or wild debonair or casually elegant she makes stars look like stars. be the william the 4 legged well i'm to follow how he didn't pose at all he just stood there and i came out with some lighting for him that was relatively complicated and he he complete see it is other stars she says don't need special lighting to be complicated. like i'm still are. at this funky chopped that was rough because he was a total control freak and took tied up cos he does everything so precisely he's not relaxed and old gowns and all this talk. the same old times portraits of art stars movie stars and models go beyond the basic her strength is in finding substance beneath the shining surfaces of commercial photography her images are impressive

for their psychological depth and a vision of beauty that doesn't have to be beautiful. to go. to the. exhibition is him. all about. that's over this edition live thanks for watching for myself and all the crew here .

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