the people of east germany in. the movies turned the crowd clamors for german unity . journalist peter limbaugh work was at the scene. 30 years later looks back on the. interesting. stories december 19th d.w. . paris in the run up to christmas find out what my colleague maggie league got up to there for her perfect weekend let's say in this show. and with that a very warm welcome to the dish of europe max let's see what else we have for you

today. in the new pirelli calendar place tribute to shakespeare's juliet and. the traditional christmas truth coming to you from that area. the famous pier ready kendo was 1st published in 1964 and since then it has celebrated that above all female attraction and beauty but not only that in recent years actress is an artist a more likely to be seen in the calendar than models the 2020 issue is a tribute to shakespeare's drama romeo and juliet to calendar is a collector's item and being signed up for it is every photographer history. the photographer and his models with the red carpet at the presentation of the new pope really calendar in verona. it's the result of photographer power over

a fantasy search for a modern juliet's in romeo and juliet hometown. the concept tast 8 actresses or dishing in a fictional trusting for the lead role in shakespeare's romantic tragedy and convert them into. this story is still relevant for young people today. jointly that's why i was interested in it and every young woman today can very easily identify with juliet achievement. 19 year old american actress yeah russia he read william shakespeare as tragedy several times when she was at school. my copy of romeo and juliet has so many notes in it you can barely see the original text and so it was fun to revisit all the notes that i love to figure out what passes along the other part of it was just

like how was i going to embody juliet i like the fact that juliet as a character and in this calendar so fluid and so each of us presented a very different way. yara is joined by fellow american actress kristen stewart a. british actress is claire forlani. and emma watson. emma studied english literature and is fascinated by romeo and juliet . for me it's so much about 1st love and it's about how close all of your feelings are to your skin can be so. tanda and painful. how no have as he is known for his sensible images he's the 1st italian photographer to create temporary calendar. the photo shoots took place

in paris and for rhona the italian city where romeo and juliet is set towards come here from the old over. couples of ballet turn on love under juliet's and down 3. verona was a bit of nostalgia from a homesickness for italy for verona the opera invertors music that is there with. julianne moore nicole kidman. and goldberg have posed for the for any calendar and literature is a popular theme such as lewis carroll's alice in wonderland in 2018 this year actress whoopi goldberg is presenting the calendar she believes in a 10 love i believe all of these things are possible i think we all want that we want to find somebody to connect to and so that's really what juliet is she's the

the giant collector of us all for the 1st time the calendar is accompanied by a short film it compiles interpretations of juliet by being a tech tryst is. the calendar and self is a 132 page book illustrated with 58 photos. in shakespeare's play romeo and juliet take their own lives that power no revesby emphasizes the positive side of the tragedy. and the message is not that you should kill yourself i love just the opposite we should love one another and live. more. the actual dates not only printed on the book's cover on the calendar function takes 2nd. place leaving the stage to the many faces of the morton judy at.

this time i call it maggie levy has chosen the french capital paris for her perfect weekend the city is set to be especially beautiful in the run up to christmas the bowl of arts a decorated with festive lights and the big stores compete for the best displays and visitors can even skate over the roofs of the city mag and try this and lots more to experience the christmas magic of paris. it may be a rainy day in paris but i'm not going to let that stop me. for sure and welcome to my perfect weekend and paris which begins at the city's most famous and most recognizable monarch the eiffel tower was built for the 889 world's fair it stands 324 meters tall. the highest platform offers

a spectacular view of the city even in bad weather. well here's a little gem at the very top of the eiffel tower gustaf eiffel's office now there is good stuff i feel sitting on the right and he erected this office to entertain special guest and here he's sitting with the american inventor thomas edison. the eiffel tower is an absolute must see. not as old as the eiffel tower but just as french is the do shovel my guide alex is going to show me the sights in one . alexandria show me the highlights what what's included well we're going to go to see the oval and then. we pass the famous museum with the pyramid and head on to the possible. can see

the top of the column. and finally i can see a glimpse of the notre dame cathedral and the fire damage to it. alex tells me i definitely are the trite wasters here in trying. time for them so maybe i will tell you how it's done you remove the oyster from the shell then you swallow it. straight taste. to. thank you. they may be in a wired taste but oysters are my call unary tip for paris the city's most famous boulevard starts at the uk to 3 all over again here it is a. cold it is a. song. about. me me me. me.

a special thing to do in the evening is go to campbell ray. the parody like tom was also build by good stuff it's one of the city's oldest cabaret stages. dinner shows are quite popular. camry is a paris staple and my special tip for a perfect weekend. was. my 2nd day in paris begins on the avenue montaigne where top designers have there been . one of them even has a museum devoted to his work paris and fashion go hand in hand we're about to get one of the biggest names in. for nearly 30 years starting in 1974 even solo wrong created his fashion designs in this house the highlight is his

workshop museum director olivier flavio explains to me saul around the creative process we've sort of what always start with a sketch from that sketch to workshops create a trois which was sort of mock up of the government to be approved by sort of all from the 20 would troops different ricks to create dress will be presented on the catwalk. clear lines borrowing from men's fashion and a touch of extravagance those for each soul around trademarks. the museum is my culture to. christmas shopping is already well underway on the boulevard for smart the major department stores try to outdo each other with the best window displays. the gallery lafayette has set up a spectacular christmas tree under their dome with beehives as the. next i head to the rooftop for a little adventure on the ice rink. i remember when i since i was

a kid. on our message. and a bit wobbly on my blades not destined to be any ice princess but skating with a view with paris is still lots of fun and my activity tip. in the evening i decided to take in the town again from the water the sand winds through paris for about 13 kilometers under 37 bridges the most famous is gone nuts . and here we speed no saddam to. my boat tour wraps up my perfect weekend in paris and until next time it's over are and happy travels. she can find out a lot more about how mag and spend her perfect weekend in paris are you. know what

this is when i try to make something out of modeling putty it usually ends up like this honestly most kids can do it better than i do but a lot of them eleanor mcnair proves that modeling party is more than just a toy what she is able to create from it is very impressive. colorful modeling patty it's an ideal plaything for kids but it can also be used to create genuine works of art. especially in the hands of london artists ellen mcmahon. by 6 years ago a knack of car friends for they ran a photographic craze and one of their minds was to remake a famous photograph in place and my team won that one and say really i just brought that idea. the idea inspired to knock the project but it's

anything but child's play the challenge for elena is to complete a figure in just a few hours the modeling compound dries quickly and turns brittle she has to balance speed with precision. i think the i and she take me through the longest time. and if the i scale wrong it's really hard to catch semites as. well a number of protests from the internet and recreate her favorite subjects images by well known for talk of such as nicholas murray cindy sherman and diane arbus. i've experienced some people judging as just throw away at this for children i think the reason is that we're very quick to judge us and say if it's good or it's

bad and so i think i'm playing around with that little pat asking the question that can it because it upsets me from pay to this lame to rio and because it's popular on the internet does it mean is necessarily bad it's popular in the long form as well a london gallery commissioned her to make models for an exhibition they became surrealistic written. didn't play dough. gallery manager gareth meredith says their real attention gets it's what's so special about this exhibition i guess it's elena's concepts of taking surveillance artists. capturing them and through plato's sculptures and blowing them up into large scale here. in the 1920 s. to relist like french although andre breton experimented with the 1st automated photo booths in paris. and then mcmahon turns the black and white post put photos into colorful close ups. but no matter how big a success the photo of

a model might be all the figures meet the same fate. they're destroyed none of them survived longer than one day. and i did a zoologist phase of only half right. it's like when we're looking through the images on our fans every day we see hundreds and hundreds and we take stock in that we say viii images highly enough so it's kind of a video player not a modeling party becomes a welcome but it finally rehearses 2 weeks original humble for. want to learn more about european lifestyle and culture. when you come to write. your romance. take the plunge into

a restaurant. try out a winner and flavored crazy join the race and destroy crystal. your romance john subscribe so you don't miss a. for some people the most important part of christmas is the food and this varies depending on the country or region and our serious tradition of christmas fair we find out how some of the festive dishes are prepared and today we are in the bavarian city of nuremburg for roast goose and gingerbread. roast goose and elisa and ginger bread the 2 favorites here in germany at christmas . the guest house caught in a restaurant in earn back southern germany already serves red skins during the run up to christmas as soon as the weather turns cold orders for the day should come pouring in their groups prime stephon to talk now about their romantic hotel

gasthaus hawk-eye here number will be roasting a goose served with red cabbage and dumplings. hartman gets his gaze from a firm in the above area they are re-used in an animal friendly way. to be quite little or to have the curious is important that it ought to be free range in terms of size i'd recommend against waiting for an offer of 5 and a half kilos. in front of an i.q. law that big enough to feed 4 to 5 people. for the still fake he finally chops onions apples celery stalks and jinja. them the seasons inside and out with salt and cannot do it and the goose then goes into the oven to bake for 30 minutes at $116.00 degrees celsius. in the meantime haven't gotten a prepares the red cabbage and apples. and crates the

potatoes for the dumplings they are typical for the region only a quarter of the day consists of boiled potatoes the rest is made up of wool potatoes december is the main season for this dish. the gods is in been there in the winter the goose is fatter and the potatoes are harvested and the red cabbage is a winter vegetable woods over the times of the season these 3 things go together wonderfully because of the dumplings a cooked in salt water for 20 minutes. to use has to be basted every 5 minutes otherwise it would become dry. enough. another 2 and a half hours also at $200.00 degree celsius the goose is nice and crispy. it taste best when served straight out of the oven. for the gingerbread we had today northwest of baghdad baker and apple is famous for his

homemade gingerbread especially during the festive season. i mean we make the gingerbread from honey. you can make a witch's cottage out of it for example and the others all the gingerbread cookies you spread on to wife rose garden and being is a cold. brandy want to show and honey so together and beaten until. the flour is mixed with the spices. on abol has a blend all his own and it includes cinnamon cardamon cloves not mag and that will suffice the arts chopped hazelnuts and imams. in the middle ages the spices were said to possess healing properties. and even a milesian gingerbread goes back to a nuremberg baker who wished to bake all the very best ingredients into a cake for his ailing daughter and then she actually recovered. and the secret to

the whole thing was the spices. apple needs to get it with candied orange and lemon peel and finally chopped candied ginger sweet in tiny cases then mixed with beaten egg whites on the spices then the paste to spread on to the way fuzz unthanked in the oven they need 10 to 12 minutes depending on the size that she wondered 15 degrees celcius the bacon glazes half of the elise and gingerbread cookies with the others or rice with chocolates apple has a little trick to make the cookies glisten. other insurance might get a bad shine for the gingerbread cookies went on. the warm chocolate with hard and cold chocolate chips. written for mission. release in gingerbread i wish everyone a merry christmas and lots of greetings from franconia. you have

a. traditional christmas fan in germany. you can find that recipe as well as lots more traditional christmas treats on our facebook page from a village workshop to a celebrated designer label the bosnian family business that produces modern design of furniture paired with traditional what carving what makes our collection so special and who are the make us behind the label let's find out. this method of wood carving by hand is an age old craft unesco listed it as part of bosnia's intangible world heritage in 2017 part the pieces in this workshop and kanye and mark antiques their luxury contemporary design objects in demand worldwide. near and herzegovina is a place where the cultures have been meeting and mixing throughout history which has left a mark both on the patents and that is science and how things are made. for hannah

and adam exchange run a family owned business in a full generation their great grandfather founded it in 1927 part of the form of 36 workshops only one remains incontinence the concept has been redefined. really furniture is sustainable furniture has created sustainable jobs in. furniture. that help us protect and preserve our cultural heritage design not design concept bring scandinavian minimalism together with traditional southeast european craftsmanship this symbiosis is no coincidence. the brothers were looking for ways to modernize and in 2014 they turned to a swedish designer. internationally

renowned designer monica firster lives in stockholm and normally works for well established brands such as the italian label and the sea she took on the challenge of transporting the traditional craft into the 21st century. it is a risk of course moving from canton is that our extremely prescient on the international design market to become. any that on the part of the building to become press that. they share a vision of combining the traditional with the modern their creations are one of a kind on the design market. i've looked at it with my sort of scandinavian eyes or more humanistic minimalist eyes and extracted parts of the carvings and really applied it in

a new way one of the biggest challenges of course that it took a complete change of mindset for the people who are working here that they're doing something completely new which wired attention to every little detail if you were going to compete in the high end segment of the market where everything started to matter the architecture of the library at the swedish national museum inspired me to sign of this chap. pendant in a way to what's going on in the city. town it says just west of sarajevo the bosnian war left its mark here too but the furniture makers are reviving the wood carving craft and creating new prospects bess in exchange is proud of his 2 sons achievements. it started as primitive handcrafting but today we are

making modern furniture and of course it changed because every single decade brings new interior design trends so it had to change but i think it changed for the better. the speech never to be is this is. the brothers or hannah and adam exchanged one bad blend of modern design and traditional craftsmanship to become far more than an insider's team. and there were. to the end of this edition of europe max but before we go just a quick reminder to visit our web site there you can also find the details on how to and so on a draw for exclusive euro backs watch until we meet again from all of us here in the land thanks for watching.

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