Staged 200. 00 artists from ukraine and around the globe at the site the town of brody has never before seen and its difficult 1000 year history. At this. Conductor oksana lino it was determined to have the concert here. These are the ruins of brodys great synagogue destroyed in world war 2. Today the ruins are surrounded by homes. The whole town of brody turned out to listen even to the rehearsals. This is yeah that this is more than a concert. Its more than just music for our listening pleasure. Or a pleasant way to spend an evening not quite so it in this is to remind us of who we are where we are it i want this concert to commemorate the many jewish people who lived in the city until are no longer here he didnt survive and for now at least now doesnt give us me now i believe time. In the late 19th century almost 90 percent of berties population was jewish in 1945 after pogroms and the holocaust only 88. 00 members of brodys Jewish Community remained today theres little left to testify to what was once a Jewish Cultural Center known as the jerusalem of policial. Oksana linnet who conducts concerts around the globe grew up just 2 blocks away from the synagogues ruins for her the concert is also a homecoming this is where her roots are where she comes to rest and recharge but shes also got a mission to put the historical region of the least now straddling the ukrainian polish border back on the worlds cultural map that was one reason she helped found the festival 3 years ago. Thats about a one side is delivered from a festival was started to highlight the historical background and cultural connections between crane especially western ukraine and western europe was best ok in that and to present these connections on an international stage. All the internets an islet been so good as in. This years festival is dedicated to the jewish author joseph forte born in broady 125 years ago and his short life old became one of the greatest german language authors writing about an Eastern European jewish culture which no longer exists the nazis burned his books a lot died in exile and. Now finally the writers home town has a monument to his legacy put up in conjunction with the festival. The bust was paid for in part by germany and austria. With 200. 00 musicians oxana commemorated aboard with a stunning concert. Incidentally joseph root novel job about jewish life in Eastern Europe features in our series 100 must reads and youll find the more on our website a d w dot com slash said to be on in a dietrich Favorite Book in the meet the germans our intrepid reporter Rachel Stewart investigates the special traits of 4 bowls of this countrys it have incensed today shes looking at the relationship germans have with america the culture the language and even the cakes. I am a day about john f. Kennedy sometimes accused of having said in this iconic 963 feet in what was. Yes in german could refer to a person from but in all this kind of jam filled dont know but many germans refer to this as a pop and in the lead its known as a punk which translates confused me to. The american president had been more little and claim to be an american it wouldnt help too much either in germany this trigger retreat is known as an americana or american ok enough of the baked goods today were taking meet the germans on a transatlantic trip i want to find out just how sweet our german u. S. Relations. Get some negative unfair and that is good men were throwing their spawn them for a muffin i know we have idea but youll do your leadership just to stink in my most evil sort of bunch of place to hide something is seems an offer for her fleece by so. Obviously its because if is in essence. About numbers had to do this does hollywood for a bit model some. Jokes the ophelia hoping ill skip on that sometimes you have to admit i do enjoy faked girls or we will but theres no denying this relationship has had its ups and downs over the past century ok here comes the history of pop but lets keep things a little more exciting heres a brief history of us german relations told through the medium of baseball the 1st official baseball game on German Ground was played at the bet and in 1936 no other countries ended up sending a team so the u. S. The u. S. And the u. S. Would be. The 2nd world war and surprisingly so u. S. German relations hit rock bottom Major League Baseball players were drafted into the u. S. Military and the sport all but disappeared in nazi germany after world war 2 things got a lot better as the u. S. Helped to rebuild a modern democratic germany still keeping americans want to seek the germans the american way of life and want to do this was through sport. The cold war period so the u. S. And west germany unite against the common enemy of communism the soviet union and in the run up to 989. 00 the us encouraged the reunification of east and west germany the eightys also saw the establishment of the current form of the baseball but it is neither in germany which is still going strong today. Many staples of us culture today have very german roots thing Christmas Trees number goes and sauerkraut there are also hundreds of annual october fest celebrations in the us from california to alabama and thats no surprise because around one 5th of all americans claim to have german heritage. Among the 1st german immigrants to the us was a group of mennonites who claim they arrived in philadelphia in the 1600s leaving religious persecution they named their new settlement wait for it. Us culture always seems to carry a particular cachet among the younger generations in germany. Back in the fiftys or sixtys it was rock n roll music and cocacola. These days that young say that there is. No other. Germans also have a somewhat bizarre interest in native American Culture take for example the stories in films of the character. Unfortunately they havent quite kept up with the debate surrounding Cultural Appropriation germans messing up with native americans the cannibal could come as quite a shock for this that in america. Theres also been a fair amount of linguistic trading between the 2 nations over the is where would the americans be without. The germans without that top meeting marketing. And jet lag couple from this week me to say you know. Now the austrian fashion photographer started her career as a fashion model but after a short time on the catwalk she managed to make the difficult leap to the other side of the camera this was back in the late sixtys and shes still doing spreads fashion magazines to this day but also. Photography as well as a current exhibition here. So treat gazes fashion style dignity. Provocative and nonchalant at the same time. Portraits are all about and attitude. True to just plain beauty. Without a person who interests me doesnt interest me im interested in the people i 1st off the foot of coffee if i. Started taking pictures in her early thirties after working as a model she was tired of posing but her flair for theatrical moments and gestures remains this campaign of hers features hands that bear not just pretty jewelry but the experience of old age her ads and editorials are all about character. This fashion editorial starring german actor would ok here is no different. The inspiration for the series came from the french neurologist cose studies of supposedly hysterical women its. The more time studied fashion before her swinging sixtys modeling career she married the artist quit cold hotshot and became a mother. After his death she married an even more Famous Artist performer painter and sculptor. His death in 1907 after a 2 time widow. Visit one time kept taking pictures her gift is stringing her subjects along until she finds just the right moment to have a day off him i took the whole time i talk a lot i want to distract my subjects from themselves from what they look like or what they might look like. Sexy or wild debonair or casually elegant she makes stars look like stars. Be the william the fall liked it well and to follow how he didnt pose at all he just stood there then i came up with some lies in my hand that was relatively complicated him and hes the c. E. O. Complete see it is other stars she says dont need special lighting to be complicated. Like ben stiller. 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