greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture and this is where we take a moment to florence what we've got because berlin famous feedly stock palace theatre is celebrating its centennial will get to that right after a look at what else is coming up. award winning there may be an artist is of a touch of the is in berlin with an installation that explores her country's lingering trauma at the hands of one time germany and you know powers. and giovani can talk to the uses an unusual medium to create his stunning large format portraits namely the rubik's cube or should i say hundreds of them.

well the fiddly stuff palace theater in berlin is a place that lends itself to surprise it's got the world's largest stage which can hold the world's longest chorus line it's berlin's glitziest night out and it looks back on a century of spellbinding entertainment and for the occasion of its 100th anniversary its all knowing its jewish founder as a statement against anti semitism. that defying acrobats and perfectly synchronized dances. up to 780000 spectators a year visit palin's rejects stuck past the world's biggest yet to stage. the dancers work long hard hours until the show is absolutely perfect they master everything from classical ballet to jazz dance. to me what i see is very special here is simply this incredible stage and

experiencing it every day if it does it wants to be on stage and here you have the opportunity to be on it every day as much as 8 times a week that's my personal highlight this is mine and i like. every 2 years the freidrich stop calloused criminals and only show up supply the tix. for each production new costumes are created by big game designers like sean paul gaultier. christian aquash. and put it tracy. i the production costs for this show called fit it amounted to some 12000000 euros but it broke even a long time ago. it all began in discworld market hole. in 1980 s. a director max reinhardt opened his ruthless shell spiel household granby itself starting in 1020 police or refuse representative hollywood star ma. lena teachers

one stops in the course line. in the 1930 s. operatives like frau do not play to set out houses in the sixty's now in east germany the stage hosted international stars like ella fitzgerald and josephine baker. in 1900 the old buildings came down. 4 years later the new one to open its doors this is where the former g.d.r. put its best foot forward until the fall of the berlin wall in 1909. and new production is already in planning and some 2020 the predict up process will no doubt prove that it can be big. and deep and more amazing. well it's yet another dark chapter of german history but when namibian communities rose up against colonial rule in 1904 in former german south west africa imperial forces responded with decrees of extermination well the result was the near annihilation of the herero and the nama peoples in 2004 the german government

formally recognised the atrocities and issued an apology but to date no reparations have been paid well now and maybe an artist. is addressing this national trauma with an installation here in berlin. ancestors are herero one of them being tried as the german colonial power tried to obliterate over a century ago. with her exhibit here in berlin. gives a voice to those who are silenced they tried to various you know they they they tried to kill the whole. ethnic group the heroes as well as the now was and they didn't succeed you know we're still here when we're here to tell the story . from 1004 to 1908 the german army brutally suppressed the herero unama rebellion killing up 210-0000 people or more than the 1st genocide of the 20th century shanks

modern it may be descendants of victims were displaced today 70 percent of private land remains in white hands germany has returned remains of victims to be buried for land has so far we fused calls for reparations. fragile masks of the artists own face lie half buried in sand the work feels like an untended mass grave people kucha v.v. hopes the started to skosh and about the crimes of the past before they are for god we're our biggest thing is acknowledgment to acknowledge this history to acknowledge that it happened because for so many years it's just been denied. germany has finally stopped denying what happened in the may be but the path to healing more than a century of trauma has barely begun. a very moving installation and joining me in the studio is scott roxboro who made that report welcome scott more than

a century of trauma you said there caused by this is genocide more than 100 years ago it's a trauma that's ingrained in the psyche of namibians what was it like to actually experience this work you know it's interesting it's actually quite disorienting as you're as you're walking over the sand over these all of these places i was really scared i was going to step on one and break them because a very very fragile but is about that if you told me actually that sort of the point i mean she made the point that even to get to this exhibit in berlin you have to go over the holocaust memorial because it's quite nearby and she said you want to make the point that we're walking our cities over or you need an ordinary. trees were actually walking over history and were walking over or over forgotten graveyards and that we should we should be remember that and tried carefully unbelievable now is about the tribute it herself has of course the deep historical connection to to this genocide in these events in the media but also a very personal connection can you tell us about you know her father is peter cotty

v.v. who was the foreign bastard to germany from the b.b. to germany and he was very key in getting remains returned to me particularly there were skulls that were brought after the genocide to germany and presented as sort of an example of white's a period already and a number of these calls were then finally returned to the bia in 2011 and they were just incredible scenes of sort of mass celebrations people stormed the airport to to see these these these skulls being returned and it really is very prickly important because think about this genocide that makes even more tragic is they don't know where the bodies are buried so there's not even a place they can go to to memorialize their ancestors so what isabel's main goal with this installation well she is in favor of reparations she is in favor of returning of artworks and so forth but what she told me was that her main point is to get people to acknowledge this trauma so that is possible for people namibia to

move beyond it and she said what she definitely doesn't want is the modern people of germany to feel a particular sense of guilt or shame about the past ok let's have a quick listen to what she had to say earlier today if you they themselves don't do anything and i think what they need to do is then just come to the table and help us you know get this history into the limelight get it known and everything to help us on our journey of healing. scott it's such a huge issue how how can art to what extent can really heal. is the big question but i think at least we can start the process i think art is something beck can express. issues that are very difficult to express directly and i think with with her work she is trying to look at the the trauma of her people but do it in a way that makes it understandable for someone outside for maybe the entire world and maybe

a star if we can begin to understand the extent of this trauma maybe that is the 1st point to begin the discussion to begin a process of healing we talked about repatriation of ancestral remains and it's interesting that germany just yesterday returned the largest number of aboriginal ancestral remains to australia ever are we're seeing a larger international effort to return these kinds of colonial spoils to their rightful homes what does this potentially mean obviously for museums all across europe well i mean if you take it to the logical conclusion it could mean you'd have to clear out a lot of museums because huge numbers of big museums in the in europe are from where you are still just spoils and so forth i'm not sure that's ever going to happen but i think these discussions are being have i museums all over europe europe now and they have to be had and i think that's the main starting point and a lot of these works will be returned as they as they should be but i think the important thing is as isabel said we need to have discussions need to acknowledge the trauma and the loss of these people as a way to as

a starting point to go forward well they try to bury us a very moving installation by is about. on until december 8th here in berlin just a short time scott ross perot thank that's very much for bringing us that background. and we'll finish off with a puzzle that giovanni cantante can transform into art 1st of all the 24 year old italian is a whiz on the rubik's cube he can solve it in literally seconds which i already find amazing but he doesn't stop there because he's also a pioneer of rubik's cube art so let's get him to show us how it's done. johnny come tardy puts more than $700.00 cubes and as much as 2 hours into each of his portraits but he doesn't put into them just glue either the frame holds the cubes in place or the image falls to pieces as soon as it's completed he has nearly 350000 followers on instagram he generally makes portraits of famous figures some

of the stars share the images on social media winning him even more followers share his fascination with the cubes. one people look at you solving a cube in 10 seconds think of the name someone from another planet sameas with the artwork but it's something more fascinating can target started out by setting records he said an impressive 60 italian records 9 european ones and 3 world records he solves the rubik's cube in less than 10 seconds even underwater. giovani khan tarty lives in the town where he was born the dramatic part is pays off he's able to live from his art and is even under contract to the new york city calorie that sells his works to collectors around the world for 5 figure songs but he sees no need to leave. he's done a portrait of the town's most famous son opera composer giacchino rossini good

publicity for the opera himself and the town. very important for me. outside of here for 4 years. during that a spear. answered i love that i don't think that's the way how i like my road being with her friends i grew up with my family of course. from the very 1st cube it took giovani can target only about 90 minutes to complete this mona lisa uses over 700 rubik's cubes you constructs the portrait line by line taking short breaks now and then that's important because it's easy to make a mistake but extremely difficult to fix it later on. of course the very last block is always satisfied. saw fascinating stuff well if you'd like to see it again just pay a visit to our website not brings this week to

a close until we meet again all the best for myself and the team just and proper little. letter we will draw when we want it now 80 percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listening. audience. was the speech of his life perhaps his best certainly his most difficult chancellor of course addresses the people of east germany shortly after the fall of the wall. the crowd clamors for treme. journalist peter lim board was at the scene. 30 years later looks back on the title of president. starts december 19th. w. .