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 playwright battered. 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 my record like. 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 and 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 19331900. but the issue could not be more topical the

author on a sakers nobel peace prize winner thomas mann. the list of exiles is long. it is a saga of fates that have been scattered throughout the world sometimes these weren't just saved but these people also became the nucleus of a culture transfer of unbelievable magnitude. these weren't just any old people who left the country the ones who left were intellectuals democratic liberals scientists artists you could say they were the elite of the weimar republic. and escape. the new museum will focus on those who fled during the nazi regime but there are parallels today 65000000 people are refugees right now fleeing all over the world living with the feeling of being outsiders homesick for where they came from. the history of the exiles of the past is very modern and of course those in exile today see their face mirrored in the past we want to show how the past and present are intertwined. the museum will be a multimedia center directly behind the ruins of berlin's former central train station the location is in symbolism a place where people said their goodbyes for mo

for 5 generations thomas mann this family has been transporting tourists across the rhine falls basin they've always respected the force of nature not through and of inflation of the fascination for the rhine falls stems from the spectacular nature here in late may the force of the water dog water is the element which beats all others more powerful than stone or fire or anything else and to see this fascination in the visitors eyes is what motivates me every day. most of the around one and a half 1000000 tourists who visit the rhine phones every year only experience it as a snapshot. they are tony only those installation aims to show how the phones change over the seasons. yeah your the image of all of the immersive art projects we set up 4 cameras each taking a photo every minute. i photo that's about $2000000.00 pictures over the course of a year old build up. in 40 minute film resulted from the vast number of pictures as well as drone and underwater recordings 28 projectors create a panorama show in a specially designed room it puts visitors in the center of the event it's a multim