also coming up on arts and culture artists and some key for a symbolic poetic approach to confronting the dark chapters of german history. and when high fashion doesn't sell designer duran puts the clothing industry's cast offs back on the runway. first though what last year might have been artistically daring is this year actually potentially dangerous opera's plays and concerts performed in front of a live audience for a month in the middle of a pandemic well in its 100 year history the salzburg festival in austria has only had to cancel one time and that was during world war 2 this year organizers are determined to stay open. onstage everything is it should be a good sets cause even today. was. outside salt

spoke is unrecognizable the city is empty the mood somber here nothing is as it should be and this is the festival celebrates its 100th anniversary direct democracy into who is a has made the impossible possible south spoke is probably the only festival that's taking place despite corona to achieve is going to pose a world to self to exhaustion if they hadn't. been that is and we have to live with this violence it's not just going to go away. and we'll find new ways mechanisms so we can still enjoy the culture the music to see to the south book festival to which people come from all over the world some cavemen forfeit mention. that. spooky insults book workers transport props for the festivals and you will highlight them on. this year's festival will very likely be the most unusual of its

100 g. history. fruits and tenor a year at the festival will be shorter and smaller instead of 200 performances there will be 100 the number of venues has also been hot and the tickets offered reduced. these steps are all part of the festival's coronavirus plan. you have to wear masks in the festivals concert halls except when city injuring your performance then you can take it off as you want and then we have a strict checkerboard rule. so once it is occupied in the next not and then the next try and see other way around. we have no breaks and no catering. what's causing fun to take is one of 2 operas on show some will is small to give the individual sing this mood distance the whole production was put together from scratch in just 3 weeks. to an amount that is of driving star of the music scene conducting mozart's because

if and to to much for a festival debut to take part she's had to have regular corona chests and her contact with others has been trusted to be reduced in spite of this the young conductor is still getting a lot out of the experience. it's a huge gift to be able to take part this year when so many others are not able to and we get to make music and rehearse mozart here insults book and i have to say that the special way the rehearsals are set up and the concentrated and yet protected atmosphere is something i like very much it's great fun. the festival despite corona reminds many of the festivals found ignatz back then in the wake of the 1st world war it started as a peace project with the very highest of artistic standards much of this sense of urgency can still be felt today. cindy fish. shift cross the festival is not just important for business but it's also essential for the cultural identity of this city to organize such festivals. and from

lockdown showing the lockdown it was a source of hope that many held on to to raise this spirits. but what happens if after all this the festival has to be canceled. there wouldn't great sadness only would it 6 like it will be proud of the fact that at least we tried. not just the people of south spoke but the whole musical world is now waiting to see with the dare insults book festival june cobra pays off. so will it pay off i've got my colleague melissa holroyd here with me melissa festivals of the performing arts really all over the world are looking to see if this is going to work out and with an outbreak a new outbreak just down the road it's possible that they still might have to cancel this that's right they might have to cancel it at the moment we are watching a much bigger production than anything that's going on insults vocal anywhere else

it's called how to put on a production how to put on a major festival during carona time that's what we're really watching for cars in front of t.v. there for a while no ok that's not the production we're watching out now and we won't know whether it works until it's really over and i'm sure the artistic director isn't going to rest until until it's actually over that's that's when he's actually going to sleep and go ok we have done it ok so now besides just wearing masks melissa tell us what are they doing to make sure that the show can go on yeah i mean i'm sure as you can imagine actually putting on a show putting on a production involves people being very close to each other the musicians have to sit in the orchestra pit people have to be on stage people have to rehearse together so in order to get through this in so we can actually see these people on stage fighting with each other kissing each other they've been put into 3 color coded categories yes so you've got the red category which is the orchestra and the singing is on the choir and they are only really in that to interact with each

other it's not you're not exposed to outside sources of the virus that's right well i mean it's not it's not is frowned upon if they do that and any interactions they do have have to be put down in a big book yeah so if even even if a journalist wants to speak to them they have to arrive with a with a with a recent corona free city if it gets and only then are they allowed to even have distance contact with the people who are in the red group ok so a lot of high security let's talk a little bit about the history of this festival this is. the 100th anniversary actually of actually the salzburg festival and every year it starts off with the same play it's called yet on mine and it's a play actually about confronting death which is more relevant than ever i would see him play about confronting death that's right and when it was 1st put on 100 years ago. they obviously had just come out of maybe i was still going through the spanish flu time and another pandemic yet another pandemic and then also the whole

festival sort of rose out of the ruins of the 1st world will anyway so we had that going on so there are a lot of parallels yeah a kind of sort of history sort of i mean for one pandemic after another 100th anniversary of the thugs book festival thanks so much melissa horry for coming in syria and german artist and some key for i was born in 1945 the year of the nazis law lost world war 2 now growing up surrounded by people who've lived through the 3rd of ice and refer to refused to talk about it that left before with questions that he still explores today in his art full of references to poetry mythology and magic his current exhibition at the french market museum in southern germany where is the chance for a rare conversation with the artist. artist and same kiefer considers himself a sort of alchemy just trying to create life from dirt and fire he sees himself as

the creator of a new world. and leave all that light as the our small life is like a miniature version of the cosmos what we see in the vastness of the cosmos that endlessness exists just the same in the other direction within us the only studios . man is the measure of all things and work is the purpose of life so for him art can be huge endless encompassing an entire universe of meaning the physically the muscles moment to my art is neither immoderate nor monumental certainly not immoderate because there's no beauty without moderation and not monumental because i don't create money with me everything is in flux. kiefer's most affecting works pay homage to writers and their works this piece is dedicated to the late austrian poet and author in the park.

massive lead books serve as symbolic depositories of human languages and the memories of catastrophes guilt and crimes. in the 1st nudism of india but i'm always fascinated when someone gives the world a certain order creates a new context i try to do that to dogs that are just. key for uses natural materials such as wood twigs iron and cotton chosen based on the emotions they arouse in him. it's byard by inch of mythology german history and by his encounters with other creative people on some key for his work can be read on several levels here bricks of oak the rubble of war behind the human mind imprisoned kiefer shows us that. freedom comes through creativity through dreams. and speaking of dreams fashion designer duren lansing doesn't just dream up whatever

styles he likes 1st he rummages around what others have come up with 1st the stuff that no one's bought we got to visit lancer at his studio and hampster. a coach that combines fabrics from high end fashion labels like celine prada calvin klein and rob simmons rearranged and reassembled that's designer duran mountings concept. when i was young i was always cutting up old pieces. this is the design that made the designers name in 2018 he created these vagina pans for american soul singers and now monet. duran is especially proud of the coat he created for superstar billy eilish it's made up of 2 quilted jackets by the current fashion label after the singer wore it for a photo shoot its value soared by several 1000 euros in. luxury department stores

provide him with unsold apparel for free he makes new items out of it and sells them back lawyer. tiredly new idea. he would like to use. to envision a completely new. approach. now

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