A historical for the archive in london. Tonight grooves a brand new Music Program comes to d. W. And moroccan experience samples from traditional creatin from the market here in berlin. Well the getty images help an archive in london is a veritable treasure trove of photography and as its stock of pictures from the last century and a half is painstakingly digitalized to preserve them for future generations ever more stories come to light all the pictures range from historically relevant events and personalities to everyday occurrences many capturing the zeitgeist of an era past better than a written article ever could so we met up with the archives Vice President what this stunning collection has to offer. Top stars Keith Richards and david bowie. Ernest shackleton expedition of one nine hundred fourteen. Artist pablo picasso. The berlin november one thousand nine hundred nine. Mohammed alis title fight one nine hundred sixty five. All these photos along with many many more can be found here at the getty images held in london eighty million pictures from one hundred fifty years of photographic history. Vice president matthew but is the guardian of this treasure trove. Even though hes worked here for thirty years he doesnt know every photo by a long stretch. Plenty of stories to tell. Dietrich. And this is just one particular fall we have. The country holiday. I love the show so. These were. Teaching the little. Trainee chefs. To hold an archive is the property of Photo Agency Getty images a staff of twenty five worked to make the stocks of Images Available to the media galleries and private individuals. Theyre responsible for gems like the original film stills and studio photos from the shooting of fritz langs classic movie metropolis in one thousand nine hundred seventy. Now youve got the very famous shots that everyone you know will recognize and maybe certain shots that you dont recognize now this is where for top three becomes even though it wasnt shot for that purpose. So far fewer than one percent of the pictures have been digitized. For twenty five years now Richard Davis has been working to increase that percentage here digitizing is more than tossing a picture onto a scanner but generated files have to satisfy the most demanding criteria and so the process can be very involved in time consuming. For example making a decades old faded negative look like it did when it was taken. Now you have to understand you have to understand when you add and subtract colors to an image what it. Is the shadow. Of the sky and when you look at a sky one hundred percent which is not now. The highlights. Even. Finding suitable images for a wide range of different clients can be a real detective work. And you know often results in surprises. Were still only scratching the surface. Is a rough indication for everyone online theres two hundred prints in the fall as for every one of those prints in the files which weve seen is potentially two hundred negatives have never been seen and thats the exciting is pleasure. In addition to digitizing also has its own darkroom were technicians with decades of experience making analog prints in any desired sign. A kind of hail to the. A modern digital player and. We can say by experience. Last kept. The last fifty. But just about digital. The archive isnt limited to pictures of stars politicians and historic moments matthew but soon is especially fascinated by every day photos of ordinary people doing ordinary things this is a cultural resolves and although we generate revenue off the back of that three licensing to newspapers books magazines even appetising its more than that its a Cultural Heritage and to look after that. Helped an archive is a photographic treasure trove for the images from one hundred fifty years of Human History with plenty more stories just waiting to be uncovered. And good news for music fans as this week saw the launch of a Brand New Program here on d w night grooves is a combination talk and talent show featuring featuring well known personalities from the music world both here in germany and abroad and guests are invited to perform and interact in an intimate home setting and before it debuted we got a behind the scenes preview. Again shes anastasia performing a duet. Just one of the highlights of my grades a new show here on d w. I would love to have more shows like this i would love to have more shows that are more organic and more geared towards the music. Of. My groups is a mixture of music. The idea is to invite two to three acts to perform in a private atmosphere before a small audience the show was hosted by kim fisher and. Its about music but also the people behind it and how they live. In my apartment or not handle painted wooden puppets everywhere little cut glass cups everythings kitschy and cozy and you know so a bit decorate of his i sang some simple feet on. Him and has expressed to be sent to board as a memento writer i am i almost blabbed out some pretty risque stories. But when youre sitting there and everyones chatting and relaxed you feel it ease. Cleverly done if you want to get people to share their secrets i miss the hundred. Graves is shot in the back. Its a unique setting for a weekly private concert show cameras are there to film the action the music and the interviews. Develop the idea for the show together with german public broadcaster and d. R. We would get. The basic ideas intercultural dialogues of the film. The whole thing takes place in the area of music. We try to truly bring together german and International Musicians and hope that this setting on this very special place results in some special music because. The setting truly is extraordinary house is known the world over it was built in one nine hundred thirty three in the town of labor in saxony based on a design by german architect our own the villa is considered one of the best examples of the new objectivity style in architecture and combines organic forms open spaces and a link with nature. Today house formally home to a factory owner is a public monument. Is still with us going all of us so i think that this show illustrates how this building can be used for television for mass the building just seems to lend itself to being used like this combines transparency connection to nature and the private spaces once used by the shrink if its a great story one that tells what the house was originally conceived for. Well. Nigh grooves makes the has come alive and offers a lot of space for improvisation. This show countries are challenges can fish or two of us. Take out the boning tess anastasias downscale. Accompanied by rock band silly. This is they. Say. Its impossible to say precisely what will happen on any given evening in house or. In the basement director falco fica and his crew try to capture moments or spontaneity but the state of. The challenge is to bring together the house the location. The fact that these bands are interacting with one another and with the hosts we want to capture those interactions with music and recruit its music without filters. Yet. Here bridges musician marlon redact made which stars in communist east germany and discovers they all have a lot in common. I think this show is so important to bring great live musicians together small crowd intimate vibe. A lot of free styling a lot of Different Things happening its not you know strict and that makes you feel like you can breathe as a musician. Musical moments brought to you every week in our new show my craves. Still love me. Lets go. Down. The. Aisle its no exaggeration to say the german capital is a melting pot of cultures these days as people from no less than one hundred eighty Nine Countries now call it their home so it stands to reason that they have influenced the citys callen area scene as many of them have brought a taste of their homeland and their cultures with them one of them is this how group from morocco who has recreated his very own cause. I think if it syncs would attack me for between to get in because hes the greenest city in europe and also i loved this side of bailey. And it tends in every day and i love it. Thats why i do so good open does mark in restaurants because but in the middle district of former east berlin. The area is also a college fund our forces not many Old Buildings here are over a century old. Most buildings are listed. The district is also known for its many art galleries. Has been serving dishes from his moroccan homeland that caused by since two thousand and three besides good food he offers an insight into moroccan culture. Doesnt i leave him no part of him i. Could. And i want my county to have pot in toilets and into money especially in between when people come to me and they go to my local only over these things and decor and i. Its like michael into the exists and until money. Trees are good decorator is restaurant like a moroccan salon where people meet to drink tea and dine. He had the furnishings built in his home town of face according to his own design. In morocco people generally eat with their hands. After theyve cleaned them with rose water are good has made this a small ritual for his guests. When am i excited to test if every second and a coke it is like a cool kit for a home i dont have to coalesce and destinies it be deaf aims in my seating in face. American cuisine often combine sweet and spicy ingredients. Lamb is the most popular type of meat in morocco. Preparing the meals is painstaking and time consuming. To get the right consistency and unique taste the meat is first marinated. And then cooked slowly at a low temperature. The meals are flavored with rose or orange water and honey. I tell jeanne is a typical feature in american kitchen its the name of the meal and the product in any dishes are prepared gently and with great care. That this is fairly costly thats usually people you dont. Do it every day and it takes a long time so it was only when you had some good friend of my pond coming home. Good was born in face moroccos Third Largest city in one thousand nine hundred sixty two at the age of seventeen he went to paris to study to become a structural engineer. Afterwards he moved to london and because he was short of money he worked as a dishwasher and waiter. After he met his german wife ingrid they decided to move to berlin in two thousand and two and opened their own restaurant. All my family didnt like it he said to me are crazy because i give notice to my job i put my flattened. I just came here and they dont speak german and how im going to end my living and he told me that it would be hard but i like it because this kind of life is not a one in life and they love it. The heart of every American House is the riyadh organ or courtyard its a small oasis of tranquility in the busy city. Because as a reaction to in greece opens it for guests in the summer. Theyve not doesnt have a. Bunch of the or not hosea does. Italian island of sicily is hardly known for its modern architecture but were off to visit a luxury home there in the southeast of the island that combines traditional architectural components with modern conveniences all the while keeping sustainability as a top priority. Spoto zone lies beneath cicelys scorching sun. The house looks as if it was shaped by the wind welcome to my place. Full of. The building blends into its natural surroundings and has practically no corners. The first side is line based plaster but traditional Building Material in sicily. The flat rounded form of the house is influenced by traditional mediterranean architecture specially that from the islands around. North africa. In particular that moves us. But the lady had little i dont fill out a city. Traditional moroccan and. From my group. Thats what inspired us. A spacious kitchen dining room is the focal point of the one hundred twenty square meter house colorful excess reason are provided the only access to the stark white to the interior. This is meant to be the heart of the house the warmth. From year on. We have the sun coming in the chimney right behind your shoulder the colors and as of the place its all here and all the activity supposed to start from here anybody its the rest of the house. Titus portos spend several months of the year here with his family the furnishings are practical but well designed. A freestanding bathtub helps residents cool in the summer. Even when the mercury climbs to forty degrees celsius its still cool indoors the windows are laid out so has to circulate cooling breezes within the house and the thick walls insulated from the his well. Two actually two one is built perpendicular the other one is diagonal and leave in the middle create a space of a space between the two walls which is supposed to isolate properly we dont even turn on the head condition action. Outside an olive tree more than a century old provides more shade and the further away you get from the house the wilder the surroundings become. Leads down to a pool that was intentionally built some distance from the house. And the pos. From the passage of gradual wilderness fading until you get to the loan which is all planned and finally. The businessman has realized a childhood dream in the garden hes built a tree house in a carriage hideaway for young and old alike i thought it was also a possibility. From the crowd from the rest of the family and friends where you can come here and read and even sleep. And thats why i. Decided to do. Two roof terraces provide more space for relaxation and feature and bonus a view of the neighboring nature reserve. Of the mediterranean. Well this year in october marked five hundred years since Martin Luther famously nailed his ninety five theses to the door of the Castle Church in vision back sparking a movement that became known as the protestant reformation or one highlight of this anniversary year is a huge panoramic photograph just i. And by german iranian artists yet the exhibition luther fifteen seventeen depicts life as it would have been during Martin Luthers time and like a sees other works its about as close as youll get to travelling back in time. Imposing full of history and attention to detail if it can bear it invites visitors to take a trip back in time to the reformation and experience the lives of monks beggars merchants journeymen and prince electors. To be precise in the year fifteen seventeen and the birth of the reformation a three hundred sixty degree panorama shows thirty years in the life of the man who got the ball rolling Martin Luther. And this is where it all began luthor is said to have nailed his ninety five theses to the door of the Castle Church triggering the attends conflict between the Catholic Church german princes and scholars. This site has a special meaning for artist yet bigger a c. Z. This then. We are standing on the very spot about ten years ago while i stood in front of the gate after visiting friends and suddenly wonder how a man mailing a few scraps of paper on the door changed the world why wasnt i told as a child what happened here on the bus but here. In the Palace Church is a central motif in his three hundred sixty degree panorama move through explains his theses to the people shaking the Catholic Church to its core. Assisi and his fifteen member team work for six years on the monumental work a period in luthers life on a canvas fifteen meters tall and seventy five in circumference. One major theme is the churches sale of indulgences which outraged luther. So much the guns representatives of every social class stand in line to buy indulgences and the seller of indulgences is over there looking this way. There you see luther tearing letters of indulgence from peoples hands and saying are you mad indulgences are part of the true church theyre not divine the church must not corrupt itself this way. Yet it also took a critical look at luthers role a jew was expelled from the city common in that era luther an adversary of the jewish faith stands to one side. In another scene women are declared witches and burned at the stake just looking luthor never said a word against burning witches at the stake that shows that he too was a man of his times i cant reproach him for that he was only human. And his team staged the thirty years from luthers life and work with actors and local extras luthor himself was played by the actor mathias pike who was especially fascinated by how luther his character changed. He went through a lot of experienced a lot in my day aged in many struggles you see it in his outward appearance but also in his actions. About him all things and. This is yet to go as easy as twelfth cyclorama he showed his first in two thousand and three it was a huge panorama of mount everest. But there is a larger and more spectacular followed like the nature panorama titled amazonia. For his cycler him of paragon as easy travel to turkey and recreated a day in One Hundred Twenty Nine eighty. Since two thousand and twelve his berlin wall picture has shown people looking across the border from west to east berlin on a gray november day in the early one nine hundred eighty s. Now visitors can immerse themselves in the world of the reformation in britain there. The rotunda will remain open for another four years meanwhile yet augustus easy is already working a new panorama. And thats all for this edition of our highlights so until we meet again i must go to all spending troops. The Ottoman Empire it ruled over three continents seven seas uniting different cultures and religions. The ottomans reign for six centuries. But what happened in the Nineteenth Century what triggered the empires collapse the end of the sublime multiethnic states in the Ottoman Empire. Fifteen and. Theyre black and living in germany. Is reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter john up like this not being able to blend in and i was. The. Group and you know different than the way. She traveled across germany to meet other black people and to hear their stories. Its. I grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely a challenge. She decided to put me up for adoption. So the main thing was to keep your head down and your mouth shut of course of the phrase like this i could never completely disappear if you see all these stereotypes about africa its good to see you. Do something for your country but youre still the black guy with an. Afro germany starting december tenth d. W. Meet the germans new and surprising aspects of noise and culture in joining. Us American News out takes a look at joining idiosyncracies at the trip. Sions everyday lives and language i can just come out of my lungs i was on so im young good. Looking back i am much d. W. Dot com me the germans. Much of it i forgot. Your link to news from africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions from the news of easy town while website d. W. Dot com slash africa join us on facebook at g. W. Africa. This is g. W. News live from berlin the ongoing cattle on independence saga takes a new turn alice put your money and turns himself in to Belgian Police the ousted Catalan Leader and four former ministers were taken into custody and will appear before a prosecutor