actively with today's urgent questions of environmental protection and climate change. but 1st the fallout of breck's it whether it ultimately happens or not has been felt in the british capital for months now many companies with u.k. 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 no 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 opened this gallery in paris too with a show by raymond petit been. at the fia contemporary art fair several london

galleries to admitted they were also setting their sights on continental europe. i feel that all the galleries are doing the same they're looking at. having a basin and europe and when you look across the european artistic grounds paris seems a natural choice. you could say that paris is going through a horrific period and that paris is currently reclaiming the place it happened in the 1940 s. . on the. sideline for a long 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 too. part of it is 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 rivals 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 bricks perry. oberlin is into a period of remembrance as the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall approaches on saturday an occasion for many former east german dissidents to reflect on what a monumental impact that event had on their own biographies what. 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 more men for being here to work at the moment we flooded through here it was as if a bottleneck had opened up you could sense that it 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 1809 a war even split into the western part belong to democratic west germany the eastern part to communist east germany and it guarded its borders zealously those who tried to escape arrested or shot the stars the east germany's secret police kept dissidents under surveillance arrest was

a constant danger but that didn't stop catron half an hour. as a student in leipsic she actively opposed the german regime she took part in prayers for peace and demonstrations at a protest in september $1009.00 country happen 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 berlin wall 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. happen how i was pretty buff the celebrations took her to an unexpected place western world in for the very 1st time the whole city was celebrating. and this was the story we were welcomed here with great jubilation and joy and i celebrated my birthday early. i met friends who'd left east germany and who i thought i might never see again. we're friends and dissidents many of whom held vigils in churches in communist east germany a symbol of peaceful resistance. today catching house and how it sometimes leads prayers for political prisoners herself for people who are now in prisons she was in 1909 today she's an artist exploring things like freedom and courage

and she's working on a doctoral dissertation about want drives activists. all the things i've done in the meantime the places i've been the 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. 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 looks 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 history. see 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. and. silos book takes place in 1909 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 within. that might prefer the kind of freedom he's about to taste but the transition to a free society is going to be a shock because end of freedom the islanders dream of still doesn't exist today. well in 2020 germany will be celebrating the 250th birthday of lord think 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 like it's about expressing their relationship to nature's most

of course v z. the son notes who are. 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. to wish 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 the. 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 of greyman. 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 birds or sounds that you hear that's why. the ambassadors of the beethoven pastoral project are 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. called over the body the 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 i thought it's time for me to sign off so until next time all the best from berlin and.

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don't need to keep a day available both for the over that's on home the 4th time for the whole of the closeness i'm in that. is the bottom of the valley is that the last dragon is worth calling the heart. to the river on. the following and follow the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to some abrasion alexander from the world's 250th birthday we're embarking on a voyage of discovery. edition voice on t.w. . to france dear antonio here's a scene when your mother was born in 1989 the world was already 8 years old and you

know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell morning read the fine sure. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history. starts nov 6th on d. w. . this is the news and these are our top stories germany is marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and the 9th of november 19th 89 a light show at the famous alexanderplatz kicked off a week of celebrations in the capital. german chancellor angela merkel has attended the launch of volkswagens id 3 billed as its 1st fully electric car for the masses michael says her government wants germany to.