20 is the 250th anniversary of his birth and will be celebrated in a big way throughout the year in his home town of bomb also coming up today we have an exclusive interview with one of the great german film directors. who receive a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this week. box we begin with beethoven 2020 which was launched in the western german city of bomb all mines day in advance of a spectacular year of concerts exhibitions on the events all about one of the greatest classical composers of all time. was beethoven's birthplace and where he spent the 1st 20 years of his life that v.w. is heavily involved in the celebrations i'll be talking about that and the launch of a special d.w. classical music you tube channel with my colleague aging kennedy so this.

it's not truckin role it's not pop music but it's very musical that is so energetic and so full of emotions he's a living example of his one so for human creativity in the face of adversity the talk is of beethoven new trick than 250 years on from his birth the whole world is celebrating his musical genius. voice of elmo is 1st in the line of well wishers d.w. unveiled its extensive multimedia program for the beethoven year in the great composers birthplace of. the national. it will kick off with a focus on his most famous composition beethoven's 9th symphony for the world looks

at a musical masterpiece that has transcended all borders. the 2 of them and to w. we stand for freedom and this is something which brought us together and also that we have our headquarter in bonn and beethoven was born in bonn so i think it's a good match. another film called the sound of nature focuses on the pastoral symphony beethoven's on marsh to night shot the film visits musicians on 5 continents composing music dealing with environmental issues. is that. tool if we use it properly contains the world this film had its premiere on world environment day. the younger it often is all about discovering that the art needs to reflect a new kind of society that emerges. exactly at the time when peter was born with

the french revolution a world without beethoven is the 3rd major d.w. production so well this horn player with berlin philharmonic examines the legacy of the musical revolutionary and asks where would we be without the great composer. us jazz great wynton marsalis is one of the international stars she told to do like. i love. radio. new perspectives from t.w. in beethoven you know 2020. calling you go drink out of the joins me now a trinity of treats. there's lots more as well but do you have a personal favorite difficult to pick out just one but for me beethoven's 9th symphony for the world is a very intriguing project by the award winning documentary filmmaker christian

berger our esteemed colleague probe the special meaning of beethoven's 9th as you know the choral symphony that incorporates a version of schiller's ode to joy a plea for freedom and peace and one of the protagonists in this documentary is greek russian conductor teodor credits this current system of course something of a visionary and revel in the beethoven know what himself he says he would use the night to show an alien reports make human civilization so special and he has a very emotional take on it as we can hear it think listen. and to where it says and his orchestra will perform all of beethoven symphonies over the course of bytes hovan year and and see the documentary us of our great

review by the way it's wonderful. it's going to be on d.w. on the 17th of december which is actually the official start of the year also did not respond another way to celebrate the. yes we have a very important announcement now we've launched a new you tube channel d.w. classical music this is going to have a whole range of fantastic content forget james bond for the moment forget the new james bond trailer the most important trailer today is this one. here's the deal germany on the one hand hold. of classical music synonymous with classical music by brahms. the list is endless and on the other hand you've got d w of. documentaries featuring all the classical stars and

so this was a perfect match. a match made in heaven we're going to have plenty of we're going to have some familiar faces going after willis of. music. power of music i'm maestra a whole load of new content interviews and behind the scenes features and you mentioned a lot of the power of one of the great up and coming female conductors i've actually seen there's already a load of new stuff being loaded on to the channel today that's fine and as an example of the kind of thing that you can see on the channel along has been out and about and the music fest braman she met up with the repercussion is the marching grouping and after finding out a bit about. musical methods and instrumentation alone drew was even brave enough to have a go herself so here is an exclusive musical. they'll

have to watch all the you tube channel which is a treasure trove of classical music fans are already as there will be other documentaries uploaded on to the channel bit by bit by next year you won't be able to tear yourself away from the gems available via that steve classical music you tube channel adrian and kennedy as always thanks very much. then i have saw god has written and directed over 70 feature films and documentaries from our house to hollywood he created milestones of new german cinema in the seventy's and eighty's with fitz corralled nosferatu and has a polish old for filming in some of the most challenging in inhospitable places all tough now he's getting a lifetime achievement award at the european film awards this weekend oh man hans christophe on box got an exclusive interview with him before. then i had sex

films are ambitious sometimes disconcerting and always surprising and he's made them in some of the farthest corners of the world but we met up with him in his hometown of munich where at the age of 15 he decided to become a filmmaker. always knew i was the back to the other because i didn't know much about film and hadn't seen many movies i also knew that i would have to invent cinema myself. health so revolutionized german post-war films and with his more than 70 productions he's also broaden their horizons of global sense of his work cannot be assigned to one single genre and he considers himself neither a european nor a german filmmaker. and. i think i belong to a more regional category i thought is

a very unfair and the role of opulence of life i think that's why i sometimes say big the 2nd of the very out what have been the only other person who could have made fitzcarraldo couldn't. german actor close kinski plays fitzcarraldo the film is the story of a mad man who's obsessed with building an opera house in the middle of the jungle and has a ship hold over a mountain to do it down to help so it made film history with these iconic images. 20 years ago he moved to los angeles and he's worked with some of hollywood's biggest stars but whether it's rescue dawn or bad lieutenant hats only stays true to himself. up to this. 10 and that's a bit hairy and you don't see such a wild movie wilder than the wildest table at the. fast it's really intense.

and. surely. what for his soul still dancing. worked in front of the camera opposite tom cruise as the villain in jack reacher. i don't believe he did. at least. when so many artistic knocked. out such documentaries are spectacular and popular especially among a younger audience. his t.v. show on death row he delves into the depths of the human soul along with death row inmates. for grizzly man he followed in the footsteps of a man who went off into the wild to live among bears and ended up being eaten by them more than 10 years now you have been getting awards for your life's work this

time it's a european film award for lifetime achievement. first of all i find it go test the free fall and films last year other people need 6 years to do that they should give me these awards when i haven't made a movie in 10 years i need to be rolled on to the stage in a wheelchair. then i have so it is certainly not one to rest on his laurels fans at any rate hope he'll be making his iconic classic films for many years to come. finally it's the darkest time of year here in northern europe and therefore high season for festivals i leave you with pictures from the french city of. spectacular festival of lights this year which is just stasis and continues over the weekend thanks for watching.

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