and untouched nature but this is digital and these worlds do not exist a new exhibition examines our yearning for perfect nature. we begin though with the ends funds evens music prize one of the most prestigious in the classical music world it all as a performer a composer or musicologist and the winner receives a whopping $250000.00 euros in prize money this year it goes to the viola player to be a similar man who has been dubbed the queen of the viola she is also a professor of music and the award is for her commitment to helping young musicians to she spoke to d.w. after hearing the news and about the great love of her life music. and how would it be if it faded like a piano caught. over the 2 pots but. she's

a stickler for detail and she was long been considered one of the best viola players in the world now the ole to much accolade the. music prize she is rehearsing at last elmo in bavaria. started playing the viola at age 3 and i'm usually choice spot viola and can know we're already taken by other members of her large family. many develop our own unique musical language and search for the essence of music with her viola. it's 1st time but it's also tricky so this balance. is a challenge and it's been a challenge for 30 years and it's so many possibilities that i can be both a soloist and

a 2 musician in very very different repertoire zimmerman is keen to pass on her knowledge she became a professor at the age of just 21 and supports talented young musicians in various projects she says she teaches was strict ears but always with a deep understanding of her students. what i want to go to share my enthusiasm for music to also to give warm supporting. to developing everybody. strong sides and then send them out into the world to music so that they can be have been musicians for god. to be as a moment at home in her apartment today she's meeting the composer george lentz from luxembourg to scrutinize every note and to. find the precise sound required that sounds very fast. enough yes i know i'm not sure if that's the best solution

for this part of the noise i'm not sure if we get back to the normal sound quick enough. sound so look. he wants to create a foundation using the prize money 2. i want to support young musicians to be financially independent for 2nd time. not many but some who have. a good mix of talent discipline and good concepts. trying is also represents a new freedom. so far for other. reacted to ideas that came from outside and i think with this kind of award i would be able to also come up with my own i do use maybe do my own commission. the. music tries will help our fulfill her credo to continually try out new things to

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a similar budget begins on sky germany this weekend. and old hollywood maxim says a film should start with an earthquake and work up to a climax the earthquake in babylon berlin is the stock market crash of 1929 and many see only one way out. hollywood could have hardly state it better or doc. our hero is caught up in the maelstrom of the world economic crisis commission i guess. traumatized by world war one he's now a mental wreck addicted to drugs but still a great investigator. the new season is again based on a novel by far. in the silent deaths silent movies of being edged out by talkies.

the new season of babylon berlin is set in the glamorous world of the film industry at a time of rapid change being in the spotlight is not always easy but shouldn't be facing . us can also see it. on berlin the pinnacle of german t.v. series. with great attention to detail the makers have captured the spirit of the times and recreated the berlin of the 100 years ago plenty of historical facts mixed with a sprinkling of dramatic fiction is the formula much more captivating than a simple retelling of history. in my money comes in the. book option as to heart of the new book the book also back on the case emancipated

criminologists a lot of it is definitely ahead of her time. but in london lynn returns with 12 new episodes a dance on the volcano enjoys the party unfairly aware of the catastrophe waiting around the corner when the nazis seize power. back in the 1960s the 1st graphic images were generated by a computer and those computer based drawings were the foundation of what has become a new art form digital art today we're surrounded by digital media of all kinds those virtual reality 3 d. printers seem to be able to reproduce anything and you can create things digitally

that just do not exist in nature that's the subject of an exhibition here in germany called illusionary nature. back to nature. far from the stress of everyday life. places radiating come but places that don't exist on show in an exhibition at the sinclair house museum. this is the digital are virtual worlds created on the computer worlds created by algorithms and advanced software it's the art form of the 21st century and of the digital revolution technology is a game changer. not only in arts the real world we live in has also been radically affected nature is no longer we are mercilessly exploiting its was also

by products of unbridled consumerism often land in the. see martin di caro made of plastic waste not only in this meant to do reality artwork a striking number of virtual worlds depict one thing intact. untouched by human activity in everyday life 2 pictures of the real world have or human traces arranged by photoshop. here at least when mankind touches nature as in this installation it doesn't destroy it actually makes it grow. and now recreate nature it can show the kind of nature we yearn for as we would like it to be again deserted an idyllic.

this longing for nature is nothing new 200 years ago caspar david friedrich also idealized in nature and it's no coincidence that this longing grew up in an age of industrialization a longing to escape dirty factories and the constructs of life that i think this is because industrialization and now digitalisation to of course removes you from nature you actually enter another world it's not called the digital world for nothing and this distance from nature perhaps leads to a greater longing to return to. the look. back to nature back to an entire perfect world in which we feel safe because the age of progress is also the age of fia where is the technological world taking us what will mankind's place be in an uncertain future machines have already replaced

people in many areas of work they are faster and more. there's an illustration of this in the exhibition. this drawing on. for 8 hours at a time it draws lines and rectangles the arms movements are determined by an algorithm programmed by the artist. little by little a landscape takes shape mountains see. this is a very exciting tool for the artist the machine the computer a machine that can execute something that the artist can't maybe just doesn't want . and that never tires. of the latest technology and brings together seemingly incompatible worlds that shows us nature

as we would like it to be it's a feast for the eyes but don't forget. just an illusion. stories from the world of arts and culture on our website. culture and if you want to see any part of this program again it's available on the website. thanks for watching.

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