thomson culture is up next after a short break and we'll have more news headlines for you at the top of the hour in the meantime as always our web site as d.w. dot com you can follow us on social media as well which at data 1000000000 news i'm rebecca richest in berlin thanks for watching. my 1st by state mosul sewing machine. where i come from women are going to buy this ocean for. something as simple as learning home to write a bicep poses and. since i was a little girl i wanted to albums buys a lot of my home but it took me years to going to buy them. finally they gave up and went on buying young lives like this but return to people sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than writing a bio and no i want to reach all those women back home who are bound by their

duties and social goals and informed him of old dead basic rights my name is the about of people home and a war that's going to. be. coming up on arts and culture beauty or the beast these concrete structures divide opinion but here in germany there's a growing movement to preserve them. and a photographer who's turned his lens on people and their canine companions. but 1st to the bosnian capital sarajevo weather named walter conjures up memories of national hero vladimir parritch he died leading a resistance movement against sorry a voce nazi on. at the end of world war 2 later walter became

a household name depicted in comic books that once flew off the shelves fast forward to present day sorry ivo where one bookstore owner is intent on rekindling walter's memory and spreading his own passion for comics. evil nazis and heroic partisans every child growing up in the former yugoslavia knew the story while to defend sarajevo as well as the film it was a comic book that had millions of fans around the globe. comics were hugely popular in the former yugoslavia and alya shall each hopes to preserve this tradition has been a comic enthusiastic it's childhood he founded design publishing company this courtyard in sarajevo is home to a coffee comics as well as a shop which sells comic books and graphic novels there really it is more of a refuge with the dallas fort worth they're trying to think anyone in bosnia today

would enter the comic book trade purely as a business venture the worth of a 3 pour you need to love comics or the children can bring in a comic they've already read and exchange it for another shot it earns nothing from this but he says that's not important he's too busy trying to salvage whatever he can his collection of comics is now larger than the one held by boston his national library. in the 1960 s. seventy's and eighty's everyone in yugoslavia read comics the break of yugoslavia also spelled the end of this comic culture since then sales have been sluggish back in the early seventy's a comic issue could easily sell 800000 copies. today young artists like and his cheech ish have a tough time living from their work she just says the market has been decimated

even though the internet is creating new opportunities he says what's missing are publishers like challenge and his publishing company. which only was doing with regard to comics so with the publishing house on the comic book store there's a good step towards creating what bosnia lacks a coffee comics has brought out a new edition of wall to defend sarajevo the story has also been republished in german and chinese in china the tale of walter the resistance fighter who took on the nazis is well known chinese tourists visiting sarajevo flocked to his memorial there though until the end the nazis never knew who walter was you know who water is tell me his name at once. issue it in fact i will show him to you. you see the city. this is voters.

in sarajevo walter is once again a symbol of resistance now against the political corruption that paralyzed bosnia for decades. within those who were the more people are sick of having to just survive on their own. and walter's message to fight for others to fight for others' lives and all of us work with the other goals of those to make something of our lives here and sorry who and in bosnia i mean she held each is optimism in the face of all odds is reminiscent of walter's message never give up even in times of great resistance. someone else who is staying strong in the face of adversity is french d.j. i tell you who when the phones stopped ringing during knocked down the electronic music maestro picked up his decks and carried them up

a mountain he's now released this video filmed in the middle of the swiss alps it's 3000 meters up it could be the world's highest. now this building looks like a nuclear power station that's according to britain's prince charles in fact it's london's national theatre it's a classic example of brutal ism a no frills architectural style popular in the 1960 s. and seventy's often called bleak and institutional many such buildings are at risk of demolition including this form of the bart tree in berlin now thousands of people have signed a petition to rescue it from the bulldozer is the part of a growing movement to preserve the city's architectural history. the architecture style known as brutal ism can be described as monumental colorless

and inhuman these edifices tend to polarize to some their eyesores while others a growing number of architecture aficionados the world over are rediscovering burleson. brutalist most of us i find burchill isn't so shaznay thing because it's so antagonistic and controversial on the one hand the buildings are written off as ugly and many of them do take some getting used to. but once you look behind the scenes and begin to understand why these structures look the way they do it's a whole architectural cosmos open as out if. you take a course most. this is a 17 story apartment block in berlin was designed in 1957 by french swiss architect . the man who coined the term brutal as an architect or historian and photographer felix talker sees it as one of the city's principal examples of the style. the

building with its 530 apartments has been called a machine for a living. museum was unable to carry out his plans for the interior but this one apartment was later remodeled to reproduce the architect original idea it's based on his color theories they're called breezy granted color the same importance as the floorplan and leo hendrix pedler and bought the apartment and most of its furnishings. we were not going to change the colors of these of course never it's like a house of cards sticking everything can just fall down if you if start changing too much. also left unchanged since the late 1970 s. the czech embassy building in downtown berlin and the architects even designed the lamps tables and armchairs. recently a british publisher put out a series of city guides focusing on brutal as

a felix torker curated the berlin edition increasing support for brutal is among social media put a hold on some demolition plans including at this former animal testing lab nicknamed the mouse bunker in the 1960 s. when these buildings were planned a great number of stretches from the mid to late 19th century were torn down buildings that we think of fabulous today and a horrified at how much beautiful old architecture has been lost at the time many of them were only around 60 years old exactly the same ages these buildings are today so we have to think about whether or not we want to repeat the same mistakes . all the while new. he told ngs are going up in the neo brutalist style this berlin apartment building called the lobo block has already won several awards. it's unfinished look was meant not only to be stylish but to reduce construction

costs and to keep rents down. more than 6 decades after it hit the scene brutalist architecture still polarizes and fascinates people today. they say just 15 minutes spent petting a dog can lower your blood pressure so that skinny will say keep you company and she you up as many people have found out during the pandemic you know down sent the dimanche the animal companions soaring when human commissions dried up for 1000000000 based photographer he found himself any projects. as the saying goes. man's best friend and these dogs owners regardless of gender love campaigner and the family seems to be linked to it. but the talk of her thomas doesn't have

a dog and never heard from him. honestly i've got to admit that i'm a little bit scared of dogs the bigger and more boisterous they are the more they scare me so it's a challenge for me now but it's always good to learn something new in life right. timing and an art that thomas will have to market for the price that. not all dogs love to be photographed. bribery is the main ploy to get the perfect picture. in comparison of human beings are the easiest subject. will be the idea that the congress meeting dog and owner in iraq is really exciting. sometimes the similarity between dogs and their owners it's quite amazing when you see them next to each other. similary going because not. only is resembled a dog or vice versa. but i haven't really seen that.

with the corona pandemic above all the latest person dog project i think. i think maybe i wasn't getting many of the targets. i mean what's the time to go in for a walk that's when i had a closer look at the dogs and owners i ran into the whole. he's already photographed paris. has already applied to his most successful projects so far. for 100 years he focused on the person during the course of their life from an infant centenarian in another project called born portraits of people wearing. his works have. found that deeply looking into the eyes of a person or an animal creates a connection. whether promised. some point established a deep connection with the dog is uncertain and more likely his human hand photos

will appear in a volume of his latest photographic work to the delight of not. and. you may have heard of tom cruise's plans to take hollywood to outer space cruise is due to start shooting a film this october at the international space station well now he's got home picture russia's space agency has announced plans to sheet a russian feature film on the i s s also. the film crew will undergo astronaut training before taking off just space let's see who gets there 1st. and tom cruise is back on screen next year with the 7th film in the mission impossible franchise the 1st one came out in 1996 meaning cruise's alter ego ethan hunt has been protecting the world from impending disaster for 25 years we leave you with this look back to our.

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