take on it nancy some it's as if. it's a woman's world at this year's brit awards and that is a big change last year the brits were criticized for nominating only male acts in the best album category this year there are 4 women nominated and only one male artist. on the. chart topper duleep but is the best known nominee in the running with her album future in a style object. don't . do nobody culture reporter my crew goes here for more about this year's brit award nominations michael has got 3 nominations this year she already won a grammy for this album is this just going to be the dually push of maybe maybe but they also see 2 other female musicians with 3 nominations and 1st of all we have

celeste she has won last year in the category rising star and and now she's nominated for best female solo artist full best album and break us through artists she's a soul sensation originally from california and now she's british and she has this remarkable voice. sounding names and you know. yes she does. yeah. she does and she's also a great songwriter has also written songs for a couple of soundtracks and also 3 nominations in the same categories small pox also newcomer from none then very classic. so together. do these strong woman leading the race for the awards but is some

stiff competition ok so that awards are about british music of course but there are also these international categories best international male artist best international female artist who should we watch out for there it's a bit confusing i was a bit surprised at the rw springsteen nomination because he's the old rock he's from another generation and i don't thing that so many younger ones still know him but he has good chances to win also an award by the way the record labels have a big influence over who gets nominated sort of clothes we have the most successful artists like. all taylor swift for example she is just tricked the 1000000000 mark on you tube in just a few months was her latest song ok you as a music lover as a culture journalist just briefly who do you think should win should win. is

a very good word for it because i don't thing that she's going to him but i keep my fingers crops crossed for us and she is just special. nominated for phoenix solo artist and her voice is so fine diva obscure but maybe she's just not mainstream enough for this and we're going to have to see the brits are on may 11th micah griego thanks so much thank you. now to a fashion designer elle magazine calls one of the women who defines 20th century style claudia skoda created net ware for singers donna summer cher tina turner and david bowie now scored his hometown of berlin is celebrating her with an exhibition of her designs the show's already been postponed twice because of the coronavirus but it's now viewable online and here on t.w. arts and culture. the exhibition dress to thrill celebrates the heady early days of

claudius gotos career in the 1970 s. and eighty's. the fashion designer was a key figure in west berlin underground scene. her work was considered a fun card. does son of a card is what the other said i never said to myself now i'm going to be out on cards it just happened somehow. or we simply did what we wanted of life and berlin was a bit freer back that and you could go about things in a playful way. and. also when. surrounded by the berlin wall and east germany west berlin was a little island of freedom claudia skoda presented her clothes in an industrial complex and in her loft in a former factory building which she called publicly known a group of creatives who were like a family to her lived in the work day scotus fashion shows were like happenings or

performances with models who danced their way down the runway these recordings give a sense of the energy and mood of those days. even though the police energy was pushed in part by our status as a kind of island we could move around within a certain framework and then we wanted to really move a lot because there was nothing outside we wanted every. thing to be beautiful and exciting and interesting and also meaningful the door to. david bowie and iggy pop lived in berlin in the mid 1970 s. and of course claudia skoda hung out with the city's creatives attended her runway shows musicians and artists such as martine kicking back the photograph of her in a subway station posing with her knitting machine as if it were a guitar. photographer jim kito also took

portraits of her the other photos in the exhibition are almost all by well known artists evidence of scott is excellent connections. yobs i've also moves we did things for the sheer pleasure of it because we just wanted to do them and i had support from all of my artist friends my fabric noise family from everyone really i probably couldn't have done it on my own as a little cloudy or whatever it was for life. and so she became the great cloudy escoto who makes fashion into a work of art. i. makes people laugh of course but groups or groups that face oppression they can also be a way to process trauma if you're in germany a group of jewish cartoonists and humorists are using jokes to cope with discrimination their book is ironically called anti semitism for beginners.

that's art mr goldberg your account is in the red surprising given your surname. you're converting to judaism why we want to become part of the global conspiracy these are some of the city cartoons founded miriam hubbard scientology anti-semitism for beginners which pokes fun at anti jewish stereotypes the new york born writer of jewish descent who has german roots came up with the book project at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. immediately old conspiracy theories started circulating like the jews are to blame for the coronavirus that really bothered me. so i told myself i no longer want to get angry i want to laugh about this instead. we're at berlin's jewish literature bookstore books from our yellow publishing house germany's 1st jewish publisher of

children's books are on sale here high pushed on founded 11 years ago these days she's also releasing books for adults like the kosher comics. jewish humor takes a difficult or a sad situation or what have you. and exaggerates it or adopts a new perspective on it. and that creates a sense of relief. come on in russian jewish novelist buddy meir come you know has lived in berlin for 30 years his humorous works about everyday life of one of millions of fans he contributed a satirical text to hyper stems and and says humor is perfect for countering anti semitic conspiracy theories. therefore i was wrong of course but it's

a nice fantasy imagining of china does not simply circle about someone who's actually directing communicating and controlling everything. but i don't think it's the jews. at least not those i know. the bestselling author says the humor in his novel stems from the train tragic scene. is that of course remaining detached is key i've always had this detachment from the world given my jewish roots which i never chose. we were always treated like strangers we were always outsiders kind of like living in a guesthouse the gulf coast but that i believe has helped me over the years like god is the good quote from you know i'm sorry jokes about jews and jewish humor are not the same thing. and i. am assuming it's. it's insane so it's ok to be unkind outperforming the

jews are to blame a satirical song written in 1931 by flea holland mocking the nazis anti semitism. in poland our german composer and humorist of jewish descent who was later forced to flee to the us. holland square has been named in his honor maybe i'm cut off and performs holland. she's also contributed a satirical text to me on how bush bombs and polish. and deal with the weather it's a virus spreading or a runny nose whether it's a failed relief package or a heavy cough whether it's climate change or rising sea levels whether it's a prolonged holiday or wages being cut the jews are to blame the jews are to blame for everything then and i'm sure she says humor is the best way to tackle anti-semitism. because it's so grotesque and absurd that 75 years after the end of

the war we're still asking ourselves have people learned from the past and you feel that no they haven't that's why miriam her book is so fantastic because at the end of the day laughing is the best medicine latham is the best the middle c. and. so miriam her sham plans to continue publishing books that provide a humorous and lighthearted take on jibberish life. for more arts and culture news check us out at d.s.w. dot com slash culture but for now i'll leave you with some images from spain where traditional perceptions ahead of easter have been canceled now for a 2nd year in a row to the coronavirus now some people in the city of visiting a holy week exhibition instead.

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