and has that ever been a drive through museum before while there is now in rotterdam. but that's we begin with the announcement this friday of the winning design for a new museum here in berlin it is a museum about exile which of course hundreds of thousands of germans experienced themselves in the 1930 s. under the nazi regime the nobel prize winning author had to move initiated this idea for a museum nearly 10 years ago and she was there on friday with a number of dignitaries including the former german president you're welcome gul patron of the project as they set everything in motion. more in a minute after a look back at how this all came about. germany under the nazis hundreds of thousands fled towards an uncertain future jews members of the political opposition anyone who didn't fit the nazi mindset was forced out of their own

country now a new museum is planned in the heart of berlin to tell their stories of exile. camel back to our main and metta theme is to present the experience of exile what does it mean to leave to be in transit that state of limbo what is it like to arrive in a foreign land will you be accepted or shaken by homesickness. more than half a 1000000 people were forced out of nazi germany like writer on a zeta in 1933 the nazis burned her books on the run from the gestapo she fled to mexico writing explores the trauma of the statement. and nobel prize winner thomas mann the novelist found a new home in california the villa aurora became a home away from home for exiled german intellectuals from director fritz long to play right back to play.

it's an incredible saga of different fates people who scattered across the world and who didn't just save their own lives but brought about an unbelievable cultural transfer because it wasn't just anyone who left many of the exiles came from the intellectual classes the liberal democratic classes the sciences and the arts. you could say they were the elite of the 5 matter of public. republic here is where the contributions from this cultural elite will be remembered the museum of exile will be built on the ruins of the un height of once berlin's main train station a symbolic spot. on. here here is where the exiles often began their journey filled with fear then here is where their memories return because this was the last piece of berlin they remember.

the focus of the museum will be on exile in displacement from germany between 19331940 time but the issue could not be more topical there are more than 65000000 displaced persons worldwide people living with the same sense of exile. and the institutions did this so this old story of exile is very current of course the fates of people back then and those now mirror one another the same existential stories are playing out today one from the heart. and my colleague. so scott they announce the winning design today. yet no it's quite interesting it's a design the design that one out is from a danish architect. and basically her concept is to take the old

entrance of the of the train station the old train station where hundreds of thousands of. german exiles left germany in the thirty's and forty's and use that as sort of an entrance into this new museum that tells their stories and today of course it was a great moment for had to be a nobel prize winning author because it was her original idea and of course it's quite compelling because miller herself is an exile she escaped the dictatorship in romania to come to germany and she's been working for almost a decade to make this museum a reality and it's unusual also this museum because unlike most german museums it's fine it's private yeah that's it. is very unusual really i mean as you know here in germany public financing is public financing always all museums but in this case it was all privately financed and particularly for one particular patron schultz was

an art director art dealer and he auctioned off a lot of his private collection to raise money for this museum and in fact raised around 6300000 euros in selling off his own private works trace money for this in total they expect the museum will cost around $27000000.00 euros and all of that will be private finance ok let's go back to the good for him i should say but let's go back to him and hear what she had to say about why this museum is so poor. yeah i mean really it comes on when it is a project that reminds us of our history and fills the gap in germany's historical memory no we do it. because exile next to the holocaust which is the worst thing in our history he was the 2nd worst is this so and they are connected i think it has to be remembered. you know bit worse. but this isn't just

about history is quite relevant today yeah definitely i mean i would always even say history in general is always about the present moment i mean the story that we tell ourselves about the past informs how we act in the present and if you look at this this museum i'm talking about the story of exile i mean there's no more politically hot topic at the moment than migration and exile here in germany and i think a museum that looks back and looks at the stories of germans who are who fled war and dictatorship in their own country and went to foreign shores looking for looking for help and looking for assistance i think that's an incredibly relevant cult culturally and politically relevant topic for right now and i think we can say the germans deal very well with remember she does i mean yeah i think so you can see that in the way that the this country culture is dealt with with the legacy of the holocaust that they've they've not just tried to make their history into a heroic story about also looked at the very dark and problematic aspects of their

own history not always perfectly but i think their example for for a lot of countries around the world scott. thanks very much have a great weekend you have said. now the final part of our mini series on how members of the artistic community around the world coping the moment in the russian capital moscow there was a very strict lockdown just like everywhere else this went online and various events happened on social media but now the city is opening up again. people in moscow have been waiting for this the vins of arts center for modern art has reopened after months of lockdown political twitter artist elisa remained active online but she's happy to be back outside again. the pandemic is the topic of conversation even in exhibitions this graphic work depicts a covert 19 infection curve. having to spend months in lockdown gave us time to

think and develop new ideas and new approaches so it was also a productive time. during lockdown moscow citizens weren't allowed outside without permission elisa yasha said things out in her basement studio the punk political artist had no lack of material. she says the police use the quarantine as an excuse to break up unwanted demonstrations she covered the issues in her newsletters posted online. and supports us go to my middle so the people in power use the coronavirus to push through changes in the constitution cemented putin's power no one was allowed to protest against it the only lifted the quarantine to let people vote the measures through. its. must goes triumph gallery has dedicated an entire exhibition to corona inspired work the offer has

a piece here about government repression during the pandemic. other artists denounce new digital surveillance methods by the government. across town the archos health system is holding the 1st classical music concert since locked down it's a charity affair for artists in need. some moscow galleries have gone broke because of corona the city's artists are trying to help each other out. i think by successful artists have been buying works from those who are at the end of their rope is that it's helped pump money back into the art market which in. the russian art scene has been hard hit by the crisis and not just financially artists have come out of lockdown to face a new and oppressive political reality while the virus continues to rage artists like elisa yosef feared putin's government is using the coronavirus as

a cover to further restrict political freedoms in the country. as we see the autistic people have been creative and in these strange times we have to adapt and change now a museum in rotterdam in the netherlands has created a unique corona proof drive through exhibition not possible everywhere of course but the museum has borrowed space in a convention center that which has no events at the moment. off to the museum in these corona times evil cop and don't even have to get out of the car there at an exhibition organized by rotterdam's museum by man's fun binding. as far as a step or here there's a prescribed route that's not usually the case in a museum where i can decide myself in what order i look at things so that's a totally new experience and they all are fighting. visitors can experience 40

different artworks in a new way large format pieces hang on the walls installations are mounted on the ceiling. the show includes works by cook kasha kiefer and mccarthy in this new setting the art works literally appear in a new light. and it's quiet very very quiet no footsteps no buzz of voices like in a museum you can listen to sounds and explanations on the car's radio. or the character they're always looking through a frame the windshield or side windows or sunroof you drive underneath the artworks and feel as though you could touch them. this show is about the confrontation between man and nature at a maximum speed of 5 kilometers per hour visitors roll from installation to installation in eco friendly electric cars we think of a billboard i think it's a good idea for invigorating museums in the future too it will definitely draw new visitors because it's not

a static it's really special and also the fact that you're driving an electric car . and if you don't have your own like the car the exhibition has 30 of them to lend to visitors at no extra cost. is an ingenious idea and evidently it's working well that wraps up the show for today more culture stories on our web site at d w dot com slash culture on facebook or twitter at d w culture thanks for watching and see if.

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