funny. actively with today's urgent questions of environmental protection and climate change. but 1st the fallout of brecht's it whether it ultimately happens or not has been felt in the british capital for months now many companies operations have announced plant and office closures and london itself is hard hit as banks and financial firms take precautionary measures with many shifting assets to the european mainland i wonder then that the art market has reacted in kind with many london galleries making their contingency plans and so far the winner on that front is paris. art dealer davids warner has 3 galleries in new york one in hong kong and one in london but with the u.k. set to leave the e.u. he's now open this gallery in paris too with a show by raymond patton. contemporary art fair several 100 galleries to admitted

they were also setting their sights on continental europe. i feel that all the go research. having a base in europe and when you look across the european artistic landscape paris seems a natural choice. you could say that paris is going through a youth forit period and that paris is currently reclaiming the place it happened in the 1940. 4 wrong time london was a more lively and interesting location over the last years that's been shifting to paris. where the money goes the high and art market. speculation that paris could become the new financial capital of the post brics and. then france has other advantages to. part of the very friendly sales tax

rules here in france right now paris is the most affordable place to sell in europe . of course the prospect of paris catching up with its long time rival london is attractive to the french even if france's minister of culture chooses to put it more diplomatically. this european dimension that explains the dynamics of the french dance market. picasso had his blue period and now paris seems to be starting its own. period. or berlin is into a period of remembrance as the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall approaches on saturday and occasion for many former east german dissidents to reflect on what a monumental impact that event had on their own biographies or. already had

a stay in prison behind her when she traveled illegally to east berlin to celebrate her birthday and then the city erupted into a party the likes of which she could never have imagined. november 9th 1909 the day the berlin wall fell in a mall meant for me here the worst of the moment we flooded through here it was as if a bottleneck had opened up you could sense that the dam had burst and that on many different levels there was no turning back from what had happened here. for 41 years germany was a divided country from 161 until 989 a war even split into the western part belong to democratic west germany the east part to communist east germany and it guarded its borders zealously those who tried to escape were arrested or shot the stars in the east germany's secret police kept dissidents under surveillance arrest was

a constant danger but that didn't stop catron has an hour. as a student in like 6 she actively opposed the east german regime she took part in prayers for peace and demonstrations at a protest in september 1000 if you know in katrina happened how i held up a banner for a free country with free people a week after that demonstration she was arrested she faced up to 10 years in jail after 5 weeks in solitary confinement she was released she was kept under surveillance and ordered not to leave leipzig but she fled over her building's roof top and went to east berlin arriving just in time for the fall of the pearl in war on the 9th of november for the 1st time in decades east german citizens could cross into west berlin without any border controls catron happened how it was there she walked over this bridge and celebrated her 21st birthday in west berlin on november

10th the strident it was the time when east and west were closest where for one night they were almost completely connected without question without i had this east versus west and it was. great to feel that you're asking how i was pretty buff the celebrations took her to an unexpected place west berlin for the very 1st time the whole city was celebrating. and this was the story and we were welcomed here with great jubilation and joy and i celebrated my birthday early. i met friends who'd left east germany and whom i thought i might never see again. friends and dissidents many of whom held vigils in churches in communist east germany a symbol of peaceful resistance. today catching happened how sometimes leads prayers for political prisoners herself for people who are now in prisons as she was in 1909 today she's an artist exploring themes like freedom and courage and

she's working on a doctoral dissertation about water rights activists. all the things i've done in the meantime the places i've been projects and the work i've done i wouldn't have been able to do any of that. stuff i'm happy if the wall hadn't fallen i might have received a long prison sentence and who knows how that would have changed me and luckily that's something i never have to find out. some gloop. and just so you know you can watch that and all of our fall of the berlin wall features on our you tube channel. speaking of the fall of the wall lots of xylo as novel coombes old takes place in that summer of 1989 when nobody expected such a world changing event a young student tries to flee his gray everyday existence in the g.d.r.

and his own personal trauma and the celebrated debut won the german book prize back in 2014 and it's up next in our series 100 german streets. everything about just running away starting over leaving everything behind what about people who lived in east germany they weren't allowed to leave as one of them for a while he thinks about jumping off a ladder or out of a window. then he gets another idea. silos book cool though takes place in 1989 communism is just about to fall in east germany and everything is going to change but nobody knows that yet the main character ad runs away to the far this place he can get to the island of hidden z. punks gays misfits are all here under the radar of the regime the decision to live

on the island told them what was most important to know and functioned like an invisible bond whoever was here had left the country without crossing the border there ringleader and guru is a guy called he tells them not to risk their lives trying to swim across the border but to find their freedom with it. and might prefer the kind of freedom he's about to taste but the transition to a free society is going to be a shock for kind of freedom the islanders dream of still doesn't exist today. well in 2020 germany will be celebrating the 250th birthday of ludwig fun beethoven one of this country's greatest and best known composers and of course there will be

special events all year long one of which is the pastoral project that's inspired by his famous since any number 6 the pastoral and invites artists from around the world to take part in beethoven's great love of nature in other words to make their own cultural statement in the name of the environment. the pastor of. beethoven's 6th symphony has inspired an ambitious undertaking marking the 250th anniversary of the german composers birth the beethoven pastoral project is aimed at creative people worldwide who love beethoven and his music. of nonsense to cruden we hope artists will engage with the pastoral symphony and draw inspiration to create their own work and i. dismiss and it doesn't have to be an entire symphonies work it's about expressing their relationship to nature's most

v.z. . the song not. the beethoven pastoral project combines beethoven's music with conservation and environmental protection in the 21st century soloist such as english pianist paul barton seen here playing piano for elephants in thailand have got involved but orchestra musicians dancers filmmakers or official artists are also encouraged to join in. these tools for them from we have a historical symphony on which someone is describing the relationship of man to nature during his time and now we can translate this into the present and ask ourselves what artistic answers people would give today or to the. several prominent artists have already been in. downstairs ambassadors from the project including chinese composer tongue. as well as a stone ian conductor pavel yes he and the daughter come a federal money youth braman. and new york based jazz musicians worry kane and

great. i mean i always like the stories about beethoven he would be seen warping in nature communing with his music but also with the birch sound the trick here that's. the ambassadors of the beethoven pastoral project by leading the way whether during rehearsals. or at showtime it's all about your own interpretation of the pastoral those who take part in the project become part of an international network. you're part of the beethoven pastoral project. to stand up for the preservation of later with fewer pastoral music.

lovely well do take a look at their website that's pastoral project dot org hoping to draw attention to our symbiotic relationship with nature an artist can make their own cultural statement for environmental protection until june 5th and with that it's time for me to sign off so until next time all the best from berlin and.

more and more young people are striking to save the planet the end game and we're the people who would like to keep living on this planet and if we don't save the planet now it'll be too late just as how does a 16 year old organize a europe wide climate congress how does that leave time for school and friends we accompany 3 young climate activists. close up 30 minutes on d w. luxury behind the mirror humans are exploited and animals cruelly slaughtered. big brands have committed to fair working conditions and sustainable production. but who is monitoring the subcontractors. and investigative

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is. the. money on emotion. production of its 1st fully electric vehicle and. infrastructure across the country also coming up tonight.