if you know the ukrainian conductor. is definitely want to watch in the classical music scene she's receiving accolades from musicians and critics alike and this in a profession that is still predominantly male apart from being in great demand around the world she started a festival in western ukraine and this year is opened with a special concerts to remember the jewish population who were decimated in the 2nd world war. the cottage symphony by leonard bernstein based on the jewish prayer of mourning. this year the lives mozart festival opened in the town of brody population 24000. on stage $200.00 artists from ukraine and around the globe at the site the town of brody has never before seen and it's difficult 1000 year history. cut this.
conductor oksana lino it was determined to have the concert here. these are the ruins of brody's great synagogue destroyed in world war 2 for. today the ruins are surrounded by homes. the whole town of bertie turned out to listen even to the rehearsals. the sis yeah that this is more than a concert. it's more than just music for a listening pleasure or a pleasant way to spend an evening why is it in this is to remind us of who we are where we are. i want this continent to commemorate the many jewish p. . bill he lived in the city until no longer here he didn't survive and for now at
least now doesn't give us new tab. in the late 19th century almost 90 percent of bertie's population was jewish in 1945 after pogroms and the holocaust only $88.00 members of brody's jewish community were maimed today there's 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 she's also got a mission to put the historical region of the least now straddling the ukrainian polish border back on the world's cultural map that was one reason she helped found the festival 3 years ago. that's about
a one side is the individual festival was started to highlight the historical background and cultural connections between the crane especially western ukraine and western europe was best ok in that and to present these connections on an international stage. all the internet's an eyelid the now so what is in. this year's 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 all that died in exile and. now finally the writer's 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 leaners commemorated hordes with a stunning calm. incidentally
joseph root novel job about jewish life in eastern europe features in our series 100 must reads and you'll find more on our website a d w dot com slash said to be in a dietrich favorite book in the meet the germans our intrepid reporter rachel stewart investigates the special traits and 4 goals of this country's it have a chance today she's looking at the relationship germans have with america the culture the language and even the cakes. i am a day that's like this john f. kennedy sometimes accused of having said in his iconic 963 feet in well. yes in german could refer to a person from but in all this kind of jam filled donut but many germans refer to
this as a club and in the lead it's known as a pun cool which translates confused me to. the american president had been more little and claim to be an american it wouldn't help to much either in germany this trigger retreat is known as an americana or american ok enough of the baked goods today we're taking meet the germans on a transatlantic trip i want to find out just how sweet our german u.s. relations. some negative in for and that is could mean with one misspelling them for. now we have either the but you'll hear leadership. distinct in my most evil sort of bunch of peoples even thing is seems an office was a foreign place by so. obviously it's because if is in. thanks for trying to feed our numbers had to do this does hollywood for a bit amount of some bassoonists jed babbin does joke there feel hope alice given that sometimes you have to call to admit can be on the other end to affect girls
yet so we will but there's no denying this relationship has had its ups and downs over the past century ok here comes the history part but let's keep thinking a little more exciting here's 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 benefit of $936.00 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 see the germans the american way of life and want to do this was to support. the cold war period so the us and west germany unite against the common enemy of communism and the soviet union and in the run up to $989.00 the us encouraged the reunification of east and west germany the 80s also saw the establishment of the current form of the baseball
in germany which is still going strong today. many staples of us culture today have very german roots thing christmas trees sumburgh and sauerkraut there are also hundreds of annual october fest celebrations in the us from california to alabama and that's 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 fifty's and sixty's it was rock'n'roll music. these days that young say that there is. still other. germans also have a somewhat bizarre interest in native american culture take for example the stories
and films of the character. unfortunately they haven't quite kept up with the debate surrounding cultural appropriation germans dressing up of native americans for cannibal can come as quite a shock to visiting american there's also been a fair amount of linguistic trading between the 2 nations if it is where the americans be without a can they got. the germans without their top meeting marketing. and jet lag coupled and this week meet the. human. 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 sixty's and she's still doing spreads the talk fashion magazines to this day but also. photography as well as a current exhibition here. sultry
gazes. fashion style. dignity. provocative and nonchalant at the same time. portraits are all about attitude. true to just plain beauty. without a person who interests me doesn't interest me i'm interested in that piece or i focus more on the foot of coffee if i. started taking pictures in her early thirty's after working as a model she was tired of posing for 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 udo keir is no different. the inspiration for the series came from the french neurologist cose studies of supposedly hysterical women. it's. a more time studied fashion before her swinging sixty's modeling career she married the artist. 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 and the same time kept taking pictures her gift is stringing her subjects along until she finds just the right moment to have a day off because 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 4 legged well i'm defo how he didn't pose at all he just stood there then i came up with some lighting for him that was relatively complicated as him and he's the c.e.o. complete see it is the other stars she says don't need special lighting to be complicated. like i'm still on. the chart that was rough because he was a total control freak and tied up because he does everything saying precisely he's not relaxed at all in all honesty. is the most times portraits of stars movie stars and models go beyond the basic her strength is in finding substance beneath the shining surfaces of commercial photography her images are impressive for their psychological depth and a vision of beauty that doesn't have to be beautiful. to paint just the same.
exhibition is here in the. mall about all things artistic and cultural around the world on our website at. all. over this edition of frank's watching for myself and all the crew here.
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