actual program about him coming up soon on g.w. . we begin today though with a quite unique exhibition in the netherlands one which is understandably causing a lot of controversy a museum in them bosch is looking at design from the 3rd dariush of course the most famous symbol was the swastika originally an ancient asian religious icon used as a symbol of divinity or good luck unfortunately this symbolism was ruined by the nazis what this exhibition shows is how important 3rd reich design was in promoting its evil philosophy national socialism a murderous ideology a machine of war and a brand the nazi party was keenly aware of its public image and used architecture and art and design to strengthen its totalitarian state the swastika was the nazis most prominent logo a symbol of happiness appropriated by hitler to signify german history from

military gear to the vox falcon car nazis created a tightly regulated set of symbols that reinforced hitler's stature as the supreme leader of the german race. the folks and or the people's receiver was sold to germans as a way to choose into hitler's speeches the model number 301 is a reference to the 30th of january the day hitler was sworn in as chancellor of germany in 1933 the nazis rejected communist and modernist in theory but appropriated both walk through new. there's no such thing as nancy do it's compiled of 3 or more different kinds of of design is you know classical blue to vary from and it's also modern and it's adopted from you know from ideas of the sign that already existed and the nazis go their own meaning to it and that's of course very important and that's why you have to explain what it was all about in the thirty's

and forty's. often used to impress the 936 burned in the olympics was a chance to show germany as a global force and the massive stadium was the centerpiece the stadium still stands today attracting visitors who know little about its history. it's not important who built it it means something different for everyone now. wondering if . my colleague said that it looks like i said yes it does. but yeah i don't think it's nice to look at. while the swastika symbol has been banned in germany nazi architecture remains for all to see so do many of the products of nazi design but should such items be in an exhibition the museum says it wants to disown the nazi legacy by confronting it head on it's still a piece of our history national socialism we're not at ease with i mean not with

the ideology it's completely evil but we should be face to face with our own history our own culture and as long you know if that's if that's still. or strange to us you should show it over and over again and talk about the museum hopes to show that nazi symbols have no mystical power only the meanings we ascribe to them. so you must as a concert pianist based him by lin but originally from nazareth in israel and indeed is often busy with his galilee chamber orchestra which he conducts folds with he's also renowned as a beethoven specialist and i should be asking him about bats and the chamber orchestra much more as he's my guest in just a minute after this. he was 6 years old when he 1st heard. he knew right then that he had to become a pianist. silly mascot was born in his frown and not serous his parents were

palestinian christians. he studied in london and. under the direction of star conducted daniel barenboim depute in new york's famous kind of keyhole. he's great passion is for the works of beethoven. his frequent appearances in israel are always challenging. a concert in the middle east he's always as he says it's more than just a concert. he concerns himself with the relationship between religion and politics and music above all he wants to use music to bring people together. and something joins me now in the studio i welcome you 1st of all tell us

a bit more about performing in israel it's it i mean it how emotional is it for you well it's emotional because there are always so many layers of meaning beyond just playing the concert if it would be here in berlin it's quite different and when i say emotional it doesn't always just positive emotions i mean there's a lot. of baggage there's a lot of extra meaning and. already from the very beginning when i was a child it was meant for me crossing boundaries and learning music studying music was was crossing boundaries into into another world culturally linguistically. and or what comes with its soul every time i go back. there is this association of all the years and all the all the wreckage of the. now years

ago you played with the west east and divide orchestra of that's all got daniel barenboim this is made up of musicians from the middle east yes who come together in musical harmony however you have your own orchestra now the galley chamber orchestra just similar goals perhaps but slightly different similar idea but i must say quite different context in the sense that the chambre is based is based governing and its members are people who live there next to each other but over many many years. very parallel disconnected. cultural lines and so always there is a conflict points between the palestinians in israel and israel and the jews in israel is is on the most basic economic. contacts and so we believe. very strongly that there is

a place for folks who cultural. working together and coming together and finding finding out finding a life together and you recently actually toured germany yes which is not just is that was incredible it was incredible for the musicians it was extremely. invigorating for them and very meaningful for or for the young musicians to be received in such with such warmth here we were in berlin in hanover the brookies body part of the ring all music festival. but more importantly i think we realized that that's a work means something beyond the local context for important let's just pause for a 2nd and hey we haven't got a grand piano here in the studio unfortunately but we can hear you play a little bit of mozart.

it's with the detroit symphony i was once in a pinnace you travel all over. the one instrumentalist. with yes how do you practice. well it takes a lot of planning beforehand i have to say it is a mozart concerto but this was the cadenza written by beethoven for the month of

concerto so. it was based on music i think actually we have yes but to come back to your your question a lot of it happens in the in the mind i mean i for 11 does practice with the instrument by visualizing bye bye bye bye thinking about music. imagining it and soul actually it's differently possible ok i'm very we have a lot of time i just want to ask you quickly about i hope because you're in why. well why beethoven i don't know it's just it just music that i suppose i'm not the only one by and by no means it grabs you it's music that is so exist tensional so powerful so i mean whatever words i use it will seem silly because the music cannot be described as a if you use the right words it cannot be described cannot be described but something about it just grabbed me deeply and i felt a deep sense that i want to immerse myself to leave it there are friends good luck

with everything good luck especially with a guy i want to strike you. the most dangerous worldview is the world view of those who have never viewed the world quotations extremely relevant today but it's actually one of many things from the great 19th century german explorer alexander from home this is the 250th anniversary of his birth and this weekend culture show out front of all has special program about him is a taste. of fun who in 1900 centuries prussian scholar. and explorer he popularized the concept of the natural world is interconnected. cultural historian andrea wulf may know him better than anybody else even writing 2 books about the scala she sees him as the father vironment. i think his views on how he brings together the science.

so that we use our imagination and. i think excellent very relevant. today andrea wulf spent tens years researching whom bod and not only in the ya cotter's she's him box on epic journeys following the news footsteps to see what he soul and to feel what he felt when he wrote she's 30000 lead it's been really cultivated this emits off the dad for he was in he was the best publicist to machine. alexander from whom bud may not have made a great discovery he didn't develop the theory of evolution but his ideas of the

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