Transport gas to the top in just 40 seconds and you can lift that takes visitors to the viewing platform at the height of 200 free meters has a top speed of 21 kilometers per hour. For safety reasons i mean 350 people are allowed on the platform at any one time and on a clear day you can see 80 kilometers. The revolving platform also doubles as a Restaurant Guests can enjoy an ever changing few joran the meal. To come in and the tables are moving so 1st of all you have to find your table and this is then you are amazed by the view that greets you so yes its very special when you come up those definite you know wow effect of. Thorsten brinkman is the boss so he gets to play. He says most visitors dont see the antenna platform at 246 meters for example. Told me its an architectural achievement and above all a mosque the full piece of engineering my colleagues thought up using slide rules and black people which is quite remarkable. The Berlin Television is not just a tool for tourists its also a very special building that can tell many times about the division of germany and reunification. And here with me now is do w. Cultures adrian canada adrian this tower was supposed to demonstrate the achievements sapir you already would say communist east germany did it really well that is testimony to german engineering but i have to tell you that not only in engineering because some of the components had imported from the west who are example the wind came from belgium the elevators from sweden and most troubling of all the stainless steel show. From west German Company over the disco ball there so this was a this was a west german disco actually secretly and as a propaganda tool for east germany in some ways the tower kind of backfired didnt it in a way because berlin is very quickly noticed that when the sun shone on and sometimes formed the symbol of cross so they gave the building the nickname the popes revenge socialism of course did not hold religion in high regard and the tallest buildings in the area up till then had been churches legend has it that the communists was so incensed about the cross problem that they considered tearing the talent down but this is just legend is actually really quite little evidence to suggest that the communists or as. Such a great problem does make a good story doesnt it the revolving restaurant in the big tower that was a pretty big hit with these germans wasnt it yes it was some suggest it has more to do with the fact that you go amazing and read views of west linn. There was a joke going around at the time that if the t. V. Tower collapsed while you having to know something not considered so unlikely thank you mine actually get lucky and in the west lucky enough to be having dinner in a collapsing tower let me get this straight the tower is celebrating its birthday on october 3rd this in germany is a big holiday marking reunification of germany but the tower itself was actually built to mark the birthday of communist east germany which would be on october 7th thats why and it did actually open to the public but it was you know created on the 3rd fortunately. Coincidentally became day of the you know the unification and. Has become something of a symbol of the unification of the young but they hadnt and they need sidestepped the thorny issue that it was actually built to commemorate the founding of the state ok so much more convenience did to commemorate this for the present germans the way to make this a monument for everyone and not just for the former communists thank you Adrian Kennedy so much for giving us that insight into germanys highest structure thank you. And crossing the iron curtain back to the west now it was the height of rocknroll and no one captured it quite like photographer norman see after brief careers as a Soccer Player and a doctor she became a celebrity photographer catching the attention of the stars with his wild and rowdy photo shoots and their exhibition here in germany pays tribute. Sax drives rock n roll ike and tina turner and body the spirit of the seventys like no one else and 975 photographer norman seif captured the energy and the studio as you can see in the background theres people around so norman all he turned his sessions into parties and he just would be doing a session and invite everybody off the street in that can you imagine there were 200. 00 people. And just getting crazy it was. Like joni mitchell. Singer van morrison what you. Want. Are comedian steve martin. So he was developing this technique of how to get these spontaneous improvisational methodology really and how to get people to be sincere and honest and real. And you had different methods to do this he wants through a car he can frank zappas fice and that didnt work at all so a huge microphone shuts the next 2 Curtis Mayfield jodie foster is being fanned with a piece of cardboard save signature style including imperfections but after a mistake on his 1st big shoot with the band he thought his career was dead on the job when chevy wrong because he might have got you know his mistake you can see the reflection of the flash in the windows on the speakers and its so he went back to new york and drove on his way home and said my career is over before it began and he just shoved the photos under bob catos the door and i was so embarrassed. So bob looked at them and loved them the band loved them they didnt know how to get hold of the one he didnt put his phone number and. Now 6 voters and display and cologne germany we caught him at a studio in l. A. To tell about his photo session with the late great child. So we need a ride he was in a bad mood and us cases as we started talking about creativity she suddenly got us where i was coming from and she started to express in some of the most articulate conversation ive ever had. What goes on. As hes working now you look like another man one formal thats incredible you would be so excited that i get commercial shots in the last 5 minutes cvs total for a child as world famous its absolutely about the relationship with your i think weve got the session ok. 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This is data when you fly from above then britains Prime Minister outlines what he says is his final offer on praxis Boris Johnson calls on the European Union to come to moscow but the e. U. Commission president sets the proposal is problematic to the johnson says mr patten let the elite of the u. K. Crash out of europe without a deal also on the program file and im too government probably