to females in germany today. and we'll be meeting up with a photographer on a mission to find the hidden and unlikely place that cars go to. start with an explosion of energy in the form of one nicholas kurla he hails from fire in southern germany and even though he's only 15 years old he's got star quality on stage as a dancer all at the recent world dance cup in baja guy in puerto rico he was named dancer of the year from a field of 6000 participants bought poetry in motion doesn't come easy. you let go you let your body do what it wants. to thank you do everything to take the audience with you. know when you've got them it's such

a relief there is just goosebumps joy. before the goose bumps the hard work nicholas trains 5 times a week at his freiburg don't school repeating the same movements over and over until the perfect. kids my head down back on the one hand it's just to get warm to reach the right level of fitness to get the post to 100 but it's also about expression and getting the feeling of the dance and so on relationship and sometimes feeling i succumbed nicholas curler is 15 years old one meets a 66 tall he weighs 53 kilos and he's the star of his dance group release. and then there's the moment when you run onto the stage you hear the other steps that's the moment when you just want to knock the audience dead. on.

this choreography the dance group became world champions in just dance in 54 to go . and then nicholas was going to dance of the year 2019 at h. just 15. back in freiburg. under the watchful eyes of his trainer nicholas rehearses the new choreography. as you come to mine i've trained many dances in my 50 year career but hardly anyone was as goal oriented as focused and it's clear about what they wanted you are by some of you.

started dancing when he was just 6 years old and because you enjoyed his 1st performance so much he never stopped. you. so let's see. let's see nicklaus doesn't know yet if he will make his passion his profession but for the moment he just dancing chose heathrow. could move like that well march 8th is international women's day that's a day that as of just last year berlin actually recognizes as a public holiday unfortunately this year it does land on

a sunday so no extra day off for us but to mark the occasion my colleague rachel stewart has looked into the ups and the downs on the lives of women here in germany and whether or not we really have come a long way. hold on to your friends and save me the german fizzled out with just 50 percent of the general population. some of the most popular names of girls over the past 15 years. or more recently about the life expectancy of a board exam today that's just over 83 years that's almost 5 more than her male peers will look at variance in quality in the long. haul. and it's have not yet along in this is for my cats and. everything that this much of this as a. preview live by these images to give you not have to multiply this. adamant about what's in my spine just ask for this man that is

a new person that mr t. man that you see you have. that is you have said into the present tense i'm going in there to assist you in this instance the investment banks of the disciplines of . the global gender gap tracks progress in gender equality in areas such as health education economy and politics germany is ranked 10th out of $153.00 countries not bad but it still has one of the biggest gender pay gap in europe and if you're on the board of $1.00 of the top german companies you're more likely to be called michael thomas or stephan than you are to be a woman. allow me to introduce you to louise our operators back in the mid 19th century she was one of the early trailblazers in women's rights they were fighting for the right to vote to get an education and to work but what came next let's kick off with a victory. in 1918 women in germany won the right to vote. under the nazis women were pushed back out of political life and encouraged to have large

families across the on it was even awarded to especially productive members. men and women shall have equal rights that became part of the german constitution in 1949 last week thanks to the complaining of politicians elizabeth at. the end of the sixty's so civil unrest rippled across the black. women in germany became fed up of being treated as assistants on the sidelines of a social movement remember that tomato from the beginning at a meeting of the socialist german student union think it had had enough she started launching tomatoes at the met on stage. this action ended up being a catalyst for the female students to get organized. in 1071 having an abortion could land the woman and her doctor in jail for up to 10 years that's why this magazine cover shook the country hundreds of german women including some household names declaring we've had an abortion the 2nd wave of feminism in germany went on to put all sorts of topics on the agenda such as wages for housework female

sexuality and discrimination against gay women. the reunification of germany showed just how different women situations have become in the west and in the east women in the east often went to work full time and there was a good system in place whether or not you can call that a month the patient when it was more or less forced by the state is arguable and of course they were still expected to deal with the kids and the housework. are you ready for the f. word. and then there is one of the most influential women in the world she has said that gender equality is logical and yet she was never the need to label herself a feminist let's see what one else's day didn't deterministic. the . best in opera die to do. so to. resort to extreme prose it's. from the shit out of him in the small stuff.

clones are only going. yes they should and speaking of equality meanwhile it's not just the y. chromosome carriers who get quite excited about cars but while most people these days are talking about the future of mobility we've decided to shine a light on the jalopies of the past especially those models that quite literally qualify as lost and will be doing it with a couple of photographers who have the necessary numerous and the key here. you sneak in through the undergrowth at night looking for rusty cars. flown and tend to about the older and more derelicts the car the better. like this ford town a 17 m. from the 1960 s.

abandoned in the middle of a forest. doesn't stroll in the snow it's quite emotional new cars have personalities a voice a face and eyes and that's why i feel closer to them than to other objects somehow a while from them and they're a bit like skeletons like you find in archaeology the remains of a car of the. cars in their final resting place the 2 photographers have even published a book with 110 photos of forgotten car racks. they found them in abandoned garages barns and backyards amongst other places. and territory got to know each other while studying photo design in the late eighty's. they are always hunting for new motifs for their lost cars projects together. as photo stories around the world sometimes staging fast cult cars.

of us who flown takes photos for companies and experiments with artistic concepts. the lost cars is a joint project which sometimes requires long trips. they keep the exact locations to themselves. looking for car wrecks is often detective work on site. like here in the eiffel south of cologne hoover seems a tip from a friend that an old ford town us disposed of sometime in the seventy's is supposedly located somewhere close. in the twilight hours the 2. photographers enter the forest. and move and need the darkness for their photos. only then can they completely control the lighting using torches and remote controlled flashes.

throughout is when to give it that there's a certain dramatic an atmosphere about the situation which you want to support and at some point you realize that it's really beautiful to eliminate the interior of cars because they seem to come alive. simon of act here to a bar to take 4 shots using time exposure. the camera automatically lays them on top of one another. known shines lights from different directions this analog technique is called light painting. the process takes about 2 hours. the next day in théodore studio in colona the finishing touches are made to the photo. just a little brightening is necessary. other of facts were done on site. by the all of this can be worked on and we can create a reflective contemplate of mood. for thoughts

a little bit apocalyptic this. rusty wreck rediscovered and brought to life one last time before it's sent back to oblivion and. they do have a morbid sort of charm last cars can be found on the line of war on our website of course as usual at dot com slash culture a lot does bring us to the end of the program for today so i'm told next time take good care and for all of us here in the studio in berlin all the best and the best .

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tuning of. local water using what. we may think our water supplies for the last forever but they. play when the rain. starts march 20th on to w. . me. this is news and these are our top stories italian officials say the country's coronavirus death toll has surpassed 100 authorities have ordered schools to close for the next 2 weeks over 95000 people have been infected worldwide with over $3000.00 deaths in total.