you have to go to school. we know why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own mind. d.w. make for mind. right now you could say berlin is in between in a state of flux actually like much of germany and in fact the world the lockdown continues as the pandemic spirals further out of control contact restrictions and

desire to be no real end in sight the public and large sectors of the economy are feeling the strain and travelling remains strongly discouraged traveling is far from easy at the moment and i personally am still very hesitant about taking trips so i'm staying here and berlin and my hometown and despite all the restrictions on public life the city keeps evolving rapidly so there is even now a lot to discover plus. even under lockdown the city's on the move we'll show you what's new about town. we'll have a look at how berlin that is presenting and so on line at the time of covert. and will go far far away to south africa's kruger national park. there's a new. underground star in 10 or 11 subway system was recently expanded and while

that may not seem like a noteworthy event it's the result is pretty stunning. the new extended q 5 connects a number of popular sites in the city center and many will become one in its own right. to learn more i'm reading told must clear that he's an architect and has been offering tourism for a lens most iconic buildings for 25 years. what do you think of they're going to see that house station well i think it's gorgeous it's a functional straightforward station built with fine materials but still attractive in this black and white a steadicam. you know these columns are in fact inspired by the vaulted cellars of the building that preceded the red town hall it's actually

a kind of architectural archetype vaults supports and loads in pillars that directs the entire burden of the station onto a narrow 14 between the trucks. and what's also noteworthy is having all the furnishings integrated into it so they coordinated with one another the wastebaskets the benches the information panels and so on it's all been redesigned here so it follows the same design concept. design yeah it looks very tidy. and great view of the area this is a very well placed exit if you're a tourist making your 1st stop in berlin city center. if you don't. want to say a ride on the new 5 is worth it. simply to appreciate the design. so. yes

definitely i believe these are the most beautiful and up to date subway stations to be built in modern times all the designs were chosen in competitions which means the best of the best got the chance to make their ideas a reality that's always the result of a competition even if it means a bit more effort but for berlin city center it's well worth it. to the stop at berlin's famous museum island are still under construction but its most spectacular feature can already be made out a ceiling full of stark's. swiss architect max doodler got his inspiration from the scenery of a production of mozart's the magic flute. the funnest tox stop was completed early on and has already been used as a setting for movies and opera. was on the.

particular detail that sets this station apart is what the architects call light capitals here you have daylight up above you can walk across the glass disks but of course it's also combined with auto official light that falls downward from these columns. and then you have these spotlights in the ceiling that remind you of stars it's got something cosmic even supernatural about it that i think you perceive subconsciously. because here we see the sky lights from above this is the other saudi those are the columns of. the extension of the you 5 to 10 years cost 500000000 euros and added 2 point.

another. museum that connects. to a very controversial project. if i am going to see this building a new center how do you feel about it. as an architect and i believe i can speak for many of my fellows i don't see it as the best solution to bring an imperial palace back to life. and i wonder if it's the best message to the younger generation that we didn't know any better to do.

in the center of the capital city that was supposed to take us into the future as well. tended to be very future oriented. but to choose a backdrop that conjures up over 100 years of. i have to come out and say that makes me wonder. and the decision to tear down an example of german architecture. represented a country for nearly 40 and had already achieved. and had established. i think that was pretty uncalled for actually. so i can't really warm to the palace. for it's got there was a huge debate over what to do with the site before construction began what with you as an architect and the berlin or half want it and. i would have liked to see the palace of the republic made over into

a really good center pompidou like in paris where a modern building in the middle of the old town has become a major attraction for me i would have liked to see an experiment to last for the future here that's what the home boat pharmacy posed to be but i don't think that started any favors. after 8 years of construction works the humble form was inaugurated in 2020 but because of the pandemic it remains closed to the public for the time being it can only be visited virtually. nobody knows just yet when visitors will be allowed into berlin's newest museum and while many others have reopened their doors the situation continues to be unpredictable. a little slowly berlin's museums are being allowed to reopen always that hearing to street covert protocols of course one of them is the famous natural history museum

of the city let's take a look in. order to get any you need to book that timeslot online the museum is most famous for its timeless or collection. towering above visitors and over 13 metres this crack used doris is the world's largest standing dinosaur skeleton i'm here to see. the museum social media manager how are people responding to the museum reopening of course we're going to see people come here in force. we're only allowed to open under certain conditions that we have 2 time slots per day when 250 people can come in one of the morning and one of the afternoon and in fact the tickets for the 1st 2 weeks are booked out to no time at all yeah dozens and the start of the pandemic you build up an extensive online portfolio how's that going for them as a quote that are already active on social media or from the coronavirus sped something's up when it was added with a lot of turns on instagram

a new to talk time to bring in for example the generation sears and we offered a guided tours on you tube that gives users various perspectives on the exhibitions and on the research collections we also added to podcasts beats and bones zeus's. the podcast into it and then a value to interview could isness museums from the tool can. find all didn't visit the. box like. ridiculous lead one to 12 forced. devices me only. 6000 so i definitely want to listen to you about some the fashion for. that and how do you measure the impact of what you're doing that's a. very popular at the just sure you had over 1000000 views on a digital form so i think you could call that

a success we have the figures from the social media challenge when i'm rich and you're well my instagram for instance my one 3rd to irving berlin with i do the 3rd and the rest of germany and the other 3rd are world wide and so we're producing in 2 languages price particular topics. for a let's natural history museum as one of the biggest of a kind in germany their collection encompasses 30000000 specimens since we were there the museum has actually closed again because of the worsening pandemic situation. oh it has fast tracked global digitise ational the music business is no exception the sector is among the hardest hit during the crisis with concerts here in germany can fluently relegated to our line platforms here is a look at one for a lens music scene still has to offer these days even if it's only 0 and $1.00. the berlin are full armani the city is premier concert venue is for the present

closed. even so the berlin philharmonic one of the world's premier orchestras is holding concerts they can be heard on what's known as the digital concert hall an online platform. the digital concert hall was actually founded over 10 years ago concert recordings as well as documentaries and portraits of musicians can all be retrieved from the vast archive for a feat. balin hands 3 major opera houses the undisputed 1st among them is the battle in state opera on today in linden boulevard which began as the royal opera into the pandemic is keeping the stage dark the house had been reopened in 2017 after 7 years of renovations primarily to make optimal use of state of the arctic used to design.

in spite of the coronavirus the house has also been holding primaries already planned though come to the minimum in the form of online productions. there's a am. program trans are you going to. back to the premieres we held on t.v. and online during the time of corona and the own corona program as well had bigger audiences than otherwise 5 from corner number one should be pliable the online performances we chalked up an average of $10000.00 viewers per day and now for our broadcasts of lohengrin and general far from what we sense that they met with lots of energy and they enjoyed a wide distribution cuffed in the spec and if you consider that we've got 1377 say

2000 and then these numbers the upper is reaching now a very encouraging album because they were taken. in addition to opera the concerts by the house orchestra at the shops capella palin are also going online though because of the pandemic with repertoire for small ensemble. 'd ringback 'd the digital programme of the starts on to the nandan is excessive all free of charge but generally for 30 days only. music lovers the world over would do best to catch the shows on.

limbs club scene is of course world famous it's been languishing for over a year now the clubs and d.j.'s have meanwhile banded together to form an online network called united we street. and the livestream and it's united we stream was conceived on march 18th 20 twentieth's by the berlin club commission . and the we claim club culture network is a fund raising and streaming initiative to help berlin's clubs through the crisis. in venue not copes in their closer to home from. the ninety's we stream writers can experience deejays in and t. shirt of clubs and on behalf of unraveling the usual places around us here in t.v. towers in the natural history museum. down the platform has moved beyond to become

a worldwide active network. as things stand now the best way to experience berlin as a tourist can also be found online be about berlin app it's one among many possibilities. the about berlin app may not be a lockdown baby but it really does do the trick if you're yearning for some berlin and your life initially it was developed as a guide for history based walking tours of the city well now it can be excellently reappropriated as a teaser of what tourists can expect once the city rio. vincent store so that.

the about during the cold crisis the about for elin app has taken on a somewhat different role normally it would be aimed at people wanting to take a self guided walking tour how has this app function of volved during the crisis itself and. regionally of course it was an app for our guests it's in 2 languages english and german for our international guests and so now we've discovered that berlin is who have to stay in town are getting interested in it and getting to know their own city a little better and for that it's ideally suited to is on the phone why did you decide to build the out around the city's history. that. guests have told us we know that history is a strong motivator for them to come here and so we've conceived it a bit differently as a story when you think of history you probably think of dates but we didn't do that if we took a completely different approach we thought ok we'll experience history through stories and the halls are not just hoping for recovery for lens tourism sector

you're actively planning for it but how can you when everything is still up in the air. basically it's not all that hard to plan since where well there are hygiene concepts this touch of the ticketing there are times thoughts and so on what's a little harder is finding out when we can start to run. a bit but don't know when we can start over. and the other highly anticipated moment is the reopening of the nih and that's. today it's still a construction site the original building dates back to the 1960 s. it was designed by german american architectural legend me. ask. 6 years of renovation of the emblematic building opened in august covered allowing of course that's what i did and you know what does the law enough to mean to berlin and to berliners it was a premier building for art in 20th century berlin built in 1968 when the wall was

still up so it was the building for art in west berlin and today in the reunified city we have several national galleries ultimates you know gallery for the art of the 19th century and this one for the art of the 20th century designed by nice vandar. yes but they are like busily renovating now what can visitors look forward to after the renovation it's not. renovated the building very strictly as nice found out or originally planted in 1968 we wanted to preserve as much of that as possible and so we'll be reopening with an exhibition that i think he would have liked very much namely of alexander calder an artist who made quite a few mobiles and large sculptures and would like this sculpture exhibition to recall the great age of western modernism in which this building to was created. the thetan that was sort of nice would have left it at that time really structural

it must have been a huge undertaking to get a building like this in shape for the next 100 to 200 years. what were the biggest challenges he led it's actually a much larger building than you'd think at 1st because from here you only see there's 1000000000 but it has this vast underground level for the collection and they've really taken everything apart some 40000 individual components have been taken outside the city refurbished and brought back again they regarded the entire building as one big work about the tufted that's what's the most special part of the new annoying that you know. i don't want to smash about it is that we actually took nice found or very seriously even in the technical specifications so when you stand here on the terrace you'll notice it has no incline every normal terrace has an incline to let the water runoff but means didn't want that he wanted this truly

horizontal surface and to achieve it wasn't all that simple. we did it anyway exactly the way he passed. all the while but it's impractical but then it's very beautiful and elegant and. countless institutions around the world are anxiously awaiting the end of the pandemic so they can get back to business meanwhile the adam inhabiting south africa's kruger national park couldn't care less about this whole mess and this week's meet a local we catch up with a man who knows the place like the back of his hand. the chief ranger of the park.

hi guys my name is bond and to join a ranger in the crew going to shell park i'm ready to take you out on the safari come with me let's go. i'm from the eastern cape corps born in canton and see which is. put in is a bit of contesting the waltz ever since i was born. so walden less is more price of the fields god i have already learned to work in the group of pockets so amazing because kruger is so big they don't versity all the want like it's so rich. that is a a muscle in both sides one of the largest groups are wrong and those eagles actually went in a fully grown they can pick up a baby impala they specializes in morning time visits we can see the tired sort of banging on the other side of the tree off the lizard that this meeting will.

every time i drive in these roads it's a new day every day i mean look at this vastness just open. is just it's. good to be not happy. with. him. there's never a magical moment. while come to. train on the bridge this is where we're from with me. this special knowledge it's amazing because they utilizing what's been there as part of the history so it's

a heavy but actually train with accommodation i think to most places where you actually sit and look at the water but not the water flowing underneath so it's very very unique to have that sound of the heap of good people the whole ecosystem is here actually wanting to sometimes you don't need to go in the game you can just sit outside and literally the wild will come to you which is fantastic it's a sign of hope because last year was a very tough year for the tourism industry and then most of their colleagues they've been laid off and there were. no money in every day you estimate about apart from that 800 driving through the park every day i mean with along. a single vehicle driving literally the animals would you know when haven't seen literally big elephant dung on the road lions

leaping everywhere because there's no one there it's like they're begging for the top. as for combat but the sense. i would suggest people they should come and explode kruger national park this is the best place open. for let a metropolis between paralysis and relentlessness being stuck in this limbo as something extraordinary even for a city as used to transformation and disruption as berlin. how does scribe the current 5 in berlin nothing's really normal nowadays as it does feel like the city is awakening from a deep slumber slowly timidly and with a lot of skepticism regarding the future but who knows maybe we'll soon be able to travel safely again i certainly hope to see you next time somewhere in germany or

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