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well as a reminder of the top story we're following for you and earthquake has left at least 26 people dead and at least 400 injured in turkey result city of its may was worst hit risk it was a right thing to save people trapped under the rubble the president earlier one has found all means necessary to how. you're watching take over the news up next the next the latest from the world of arts and culture i'll be back with headlines next hour and don't forget you can always stay up to date on our web site that's in d.w. dot com i'm rebecca races in the end thanks very much for watching. my 1st by state of mosul sewing machine. where i come from women are almost by this ocean for even something as simple as learning how to write a bicep those isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have loved by say the lost my home but it took me mr been there. finally they gave up and went on by me on my say that but returns people
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sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than writing a by and no i want to meet those women back home who are bones about their duties and social norms and inform them of old dead basic rights my name is the about of people home and a war that's easy to. greetings from berlin the looming lockdown for germany in november is still a hot button topic for public debate particularly with regard to its impact on the cultural scene also coming up. german composer khan performs one of the last concerts in berlin before the coming lockdown and celebrates the high
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point of his career so far. and after nearly a decade of delays the new berlin brandenburg international airport is poised to open at the weekend we sent a reporter to see if the architecture was worth the wait. but as i mentioned germany's 2nd coronavirus lockdown coming into effect this monday for the entire month of november is a blow to creative industries across the board and this means no feeder concerts movies or museums and many artists and musicians have started speaking out saying they fear for their very survival a louder than most this time around was german trumpet virtuoso till behind who posted an angry video on his facebook page and instagram site that instantly went viral planning to tour next month with a brand new album that's fresh out on friday let's see if we can have
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a quick listen to. and i spoke to tijuana earlier on today. and it's a pleasure to welcome german trumpet virtuoso to behind our welcome to the show till your new album on vacation was just released today congratulations on that front but of course this lockdown puts a bit of a damper on things how are your plans most immediately affected are. there actually have been affected because all of the causes you know maybe with the exception of 3 concerts up in castle so that is a severe change but for the entire country for the time. yes obviously i do you would you say that you agree with the basic necessity of these lockdown measures given that the alternatives could be even more damaging
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i'm an artist and everything that's necessary to make sure that everything is secure right now to find out about the virus is something we all support the other question is really you know what are we talking about right now how long will this actually less and also how are we going to survive you know i'm going to be ok i guess you know but there's so many people right now you know in my environment in the periphery that really really suffer big time and we're trying to address this matter. is so much uncertainty there at the moment now you did go i would on a bit of a limb posting your video citing discrepancies between state aid for big business and those for the cultural creative sector were you surprised at the support that you got from the artistic community after after your posting. i was surprised yes because you know i have
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a decent following you know but this is ridiculous as this is because i seem to have been open gotten a point there you know and i understand right now it's important to talk to who titian's in the main question really is do politics understand you know how we work we're talking about a scene that hasn't been suffering before the crisis and most likely won't answer the crisis you know so we're not a huge company you know just trying to degree billions right now right now the government has said that it has provided a 1000000000 euros in support through the 1st lock down and now it's making an offer of 75 percent of november earnings can you just tell us quickly why does that fall short for you and what do you feel needs to happen what are your demands. i think anything is welcome right now but i think the basis of no 2 to the pain that we're facing right now for. november is all the income in november 2019 you
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know so this is not how freelance people work you know many people maybe including me you know i haven't made any money you know november 2008 so i think it is a good way to look at it so it's to find out you know what is the 12th you know all of the last year and that is a suggestion and. it's going to be. with the government right now tenet plan are calling for more support for the cultural sector and for artists to mobilize themselves thanks very much for speaking with me and all the best in the coming weeks and months with because again. thanks thanks for having me. on now to a concert that should have taken place at the end of march spots to choose the spring lock down it was pushed to october 29th and that was a timely break for 29 year old can react the german with turkish roots embodies a new artist type for the 21st century as
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a composer and instrumentalist who is active on social media and the master of his own label and his concert on thursday night here in berlin was like balm for the soul of his audience. just moments before the concert at the berlin philharmonic it's a definite high point in the life of the composer pianist producer and label found . it's the freedom to improvise when playing music but he's also a perfectionist i want to feel a certain degree of perfectionism as long as you don't overdo it can lead to endless freedom if you take care of certain things ahead of time it makes it that much easier to just let yourself go and. it is burning studio combined electronic music with works from across the centuries for the be beethoven project marking the
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250th anniversary of beethoven's birth he took his inspiration directly from the great german composer. he was also a teacher so as a teacher i think he would be on the side of helping young musicians and composers to find their own way their own path through music and this is exactly what the beautiful is helping me to do. using his piano mixes electronic sounds tailored to his specific. so what i'm doing here is mainly adding the something electronic to the acoustic sound of the piano and where i'm doing this is i have the life sound coming through the microphones into my system and the effect sound is going out over here into my loudspeaker and that's the idea behind it that i can add to the
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acoustic and the electronic sound in the here in the concert hall and there is no amplification going on in the piano. 'd the concert at the berlin philharmonic new york and his own song will take a musical journey through china a selection of works seems to perfectly captured the prevailing mood it's one of the last concerts in germany. before all venues are shut down for november. view will just keep making music i'm always composing and i don't need a concert for that i'm satisfied we just play in my shoes judio. mindful of the music. i'm moving through knowing and hopefully. will return to the stage before too long thank you and good to see that optimism there well still waiting for the curtain to go up
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is the brand new berlin brandenburg international airport and needless to say since the original opening was postponed way back in the summer of 2012 it's become a bit of a running joke that it will at the building will already be out of date by the time it finally opens for business so let's hope that it really is for real this coming weekend because architects surely it looks like it can have at least reasonable staying power. this is it the 33000 square meters of glass for sard 9000 tons of steel and 160000 cubic meters of concrete that make up the main terminal of the new berlin brandenburg. the building was finished 9 years ago but technical problems including with safety systems the opening architecture critic and nicholas of burnout has come to check the building out that they wanted
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to make an airport that fits into the plant's plateau of the region they also wanted to make an airport that is grounded not so dramatic in terms of its effect although it is vast. it's from the broken he says forces. trying to terminal warn the route is clear long escalators lead up to the main of. the check in area is clearly structured steel pillar supports. a charge of traffic a modern and some of the huge glass fronts of unimpeded views of the surrounding landscape and into the sky. d.d.i. gear in the ninety's and for 20 years was completely dominated by this idea that we have to build huge funky dramatic. now architecture has gone back to other
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functional buildings with an airport is 1st and foremost a technical device so this means that the airport had for a time become totally outdated in terms of architecture but today seems up to date again not least due to its understated approach to architecture and space to be. internationally renowned architects meinhardt from gerken and function marc designed the airport in 1998 what do they think of their work a good to 20. years later. it's not so easy to say oh now i would make it round or square or hexagonal it's not our intention to make a unique piece something unique in the world. this would be the best thing would be if it were called classical architecture no matter whether you are thinking of the 19th century and shrink or the 20th century and. that we think of the architects have been in the business for
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a long time to take a pope which will now close is actually one of the early works the architectural icon through praise due to the short distances to the great and it's hexagonal shape. we have is basically always the same but what comes out in relation to the location in relation to the time is in relation to its perception and appearance very different. back to our architecture critic. what's his final verdict on the new 'd but old. man well today you would take a completely different materials you would choose a completely different aesthetic to it but it is an airport that remains true to its own aesthetics and in fact is never. from theory to practice
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it's time for new ports to spread its wings and fly. along the lines of all good things come to those who wait that is a long awaited occasional i have to sail mistake just a little bit that's all for this time so until we meet again don't forget about the website thanks for watching and i think. i suppose one. day i want to find out why the result is one of the most beautiful river states in germany so i'm also for right along a part of the result psychopath. the beautiful landscape is certainly here.
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