for the berlin wall was built east berlin is also front to the festival. the city was rebuilding itself and that is all past cinema was built in the western city center it became a venue for the pearl in international film festival in one nine hundred fifty seven. in the following years the festival became increasingly political it showcased maverick such as director hina venner fassbinder one of the most important exponents of new german cinema. provocation was on the agenda in one nine hundred seventy four joining the cold war the festival showed its first soviet film. a year later became an east german film. jacob even won a silver back. by the diamond and not. after the wall fell and nine hundred eighty nine the berlin are also rolled out the red carpeted cinemas in former east berlin here the keno internazionale. since two thousand the festival's main venue has been the movie theater on potsdamer platz berlin and it is still open to the general public and it's popular despite the fact that it's becoming increasingly hard to get tickets some are sold o

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then he and berlin became greater berlin in one nine hundred twenty and i'm all good nation of towns and dozens of villages and estates. swanson's good spits was the result was a city with almost four million inhabitants and if you. lend was booming and all branches of business set up shop in the city industry banks and factories berlin had once been germany's industrial capital and his and. ninety percent of berliners lived in the tenement blocks that had been hastily thrown out in the decades before the first world war the tiny yard separating the blocks of each building were really only subject to one stipulation that they were big enough for fire engines to turn around for the average family rent cost them one third of their income most apartments only had heating in one room down and mold on internal walls were common place among. them and blocks had little to no air and sunlight. and they had a series of backyards some of which were in complete darkness you know what we would call a decent apartment today it was then. luxury. of one of the apartments were very small flinty comp

the director went on to rediscover berlin's roaring twenty's. and he brought leonard bernstein west side story to the coma. six feet. today a coalition without kosky is almost unthinkable. in his latest production designer and demise are bedfellows as is so often the case with put genie. in the d.n.a. of all great operas the dealing with the subjects the erotic and and death of a walk hand in hand was. so it's inevitable that in lebanon and mimi must die in the most dramatic way it's the female characters mimi and who's etta who set the tone here with the cine there is no question he's on the side of women we've tried to present to me that's not this do move fragile little flower she's just this young girl. koskinen meets puccini. and once again. it's a grand opera. that is definitely an opera house with a difference moving of a to the world of literature if you're not sure what book to read next d.w. has the one hundred says in fact my called david leavitt's is the prisons are of all series one hundred german must reads david welcome now we'll

news from berlin coming up next part one of our documentary series berlin truffles of crime looking at the german capital's turbulent years leading up to the nazi era that are more still to come. state by state. the most colorful. the liveliest. the most traditional. find it all at any time. check in with a web special. take a tour of germany state by state. t w dot com. mikhail soft of the first world war rented rooms redundant. and people now had this absolutely insatiable lust for life because they'd survive the war and the one bought. up by suddenly criminal behavior became routine. they must have been really smart safe cracker's they had the entire berlin crime squad pulling their hair out from them it didn't seem. you didn't see the coroner's concluded that the body parts belong to twenty three different women swallow. just by what it from what we now call profiling was essentially being practiced back then by inspect again not. you know a lot of detectives were celebrities some even had their own newspaper columns and wrote books would prove. berlin the bustling burgeoning capit

five major museums are crowded on to berlin is museum island in the river. which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the arts and. nineteenth century on. which cuts the cost of egyptian. among its collection. the palpable museum currently undergoing renovation with its famous part of an altar. and the boarded museum which boasts an impressive collection of sculptures. every year more than two million people visit this unesco world heritage site. i really like so many museums being in such close proximity to each other here and. so for. us from germany there are a lot of transferees from conference so it's very interesting to me the noise or new museum was heavily damaged in world war two and stood in ruins for many decades in two thousand and three british architect david chipperfield and his team began major restoration work on it at first not everyone appreciated his plan to combine historical and modern elements but now his work is celebrated as an impressive architectural achievement. but did chipperfield started on this project in one thousand

where he's the festival headliner and will disclose why his career first took off after the fall of the berlin wall. a boy from the g.d.r. with big dreams goes on to become a globally recognized brand but he has power becomes paul van dyke he can now look back on more than twenty five successful years in the business areas on topic sports special. wet and cold place festivals he's usually the headliner his name is synonymous with the trance young rock and his music in joints you know like playing. for me when i'm from the electronic music just brings people together from completely different cultural backgrounds it doesn't matter which god you believe in which religion you follow or what your nationality is it's all just about people getting together and celebrating this music. called still flies around the globe more times a year than your average professional pilot music magazines have voted him the world's best d.j. time and time again as a young boy back in east germany he could never of change of a life jetting around in his own private plane but his passion for music has been with him fr

treasures from berlin's enormous collection. prussian rulers started these collections over two hundred years ago today they belong to the prussian cultural heritage foundation the key player in the new book for. around five hundred thousand exhibits will be on display from all continents mostly acquired in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. known busta here competition to be the provenance of the history of the exhibits there biographies how they were made what their original function was how they were acquired and how they made their way into various german collections that's a part of the research on these objects which has become a key focus in recent years. and it's now an emotional wreck and in focus could. the times when cultural artifacts could simply be put on display in european museums are over. the flagship project at their home board forum is raising questions about the provenance and history of objects shedding light on german colonialism a chapter of german history which was long suppressed in the public cons

but i always listen to west berlin radio and for me it was the only connection to the outside world from. usually i'm single or something which i was amazed by the only nineteen is shortly after german reunification and the burn in techno club paul van dyke finds his vocation electronic music. testing goes on professionally because i'm a d.j. because i love music and because i'm a total freak going to total fanatic when it comes to this kind of music. then becomes the center of the techno movement called bundling delivers the soundtrack to major events such as the love of her age. he starts producing his own tracks with the success of his single tell me why reach is number seven in the british charts. one of his albums is nominated for a grammy. place . called bundle like then set top his own record label bondage records and presents radio shows in germany and music usa. but in spite of selling five million albums from twenty thirty none of his singles make it to the challenge. must be an explosion was equal to what was different about electronic music or the whole scene was that althoug

dyke moved to berlin and explores the city. they don't want to name the many good companies that existed in east german our of course not economically compatible nothing worked there so all of a sudden there were all these empty promises of it no one was prepared to take responsibility for and if you're going to interfere all came along and they brought a few beer crates and started their turntables on them have you got some loudspeakers sold to run their turns on your comments on the berlin club scene got started and necropsy in the focus on food here in berlin is called club van dyke shapes the beginnings of the techno movement. as a lot of looking back at the small subculture now basement somewhere and seeing how it turned into one of the biggest music scenes in the world a future city and believe they could put a vegetable on. the obvious mental i've got some great memories of that time and i'm really glad i could be part of it all. in two thousand and five he performed the song isn't via which means we are us with singer p

and his restaurant in berlin the other famous checkpoint charlie is our first venue on the so and what it ranks among the top fifty restaurants worldwide while while while you're there they need to be honest the arts and most important water ever gather and we're so proud of because people from around the world are travelling just haven't a plate of food here if you were you were born in berlin you grew up here but if you're cooking your cousin house often. well lots of asians into lenses why is that totally the only thing what i'm missing is the outside looking more asian than i am but on my palate in the way of cooking i'm totally asian i mix the thai flavors i use chinese skills at least the japanese prism and out of the three main issues we creating our own dishes we are creating our own call in every world. a german chef would love to create asian dishes there is much more to find out about him at all as you can see in our first report. creative moments in the kitchen this is what it looks like when tim creates a new dish he develops about ten to twenty of them per year it always

some half a million objects are held in berlin's ethnological collections many of them originated in former german colonies. the collections are due to move into the who built foreign currently nearing completion in the center of berlin but a controversial issue has cast a shadow over the opening in twenty seventeen french art historian benedict stuff while raise some unwelcome questions she asked where did the objects in the collections come from. were they looted. is their history a bloody one these questions shine a spotlight on the long repressed historical chapter germany's colonial past. investments in is good news e m snow pretty well what they have all we at universities know but the broader public didn't know that and i thought that wasn't right but now the debate has started and everyone knows that these collections have a difficult history behind them and i think that has resulted in an important step forward and. the prussian cultural heritage foundation has been researching the provenance of its collections for some time but now it's taking an even closer look the return

here in berlin is called club is the one van dyke shapes the beginnings of the techno movement. looking back at his small subculture not basement somewhere and seeing how it turned into one of the biggest music scenes in the world i think it's a pretty unbelievable could put a vegetable on. the sabbath now from got some great memories of that time and i'm really glad i could be part of it all. music playing in two thousand and five he performed the song his india which means we are us with singer paid to have now playing live at the ceremony for the fifteenth anniversary of german reunification it was paul vandyke's musical tribute to the historical event. where are we from and where are we heading. for you. let's. play. a little. slip of. the i'm. eleven. eleven . eleven eleven. and the death of four guys. just shows coming along the path it's just that they give you the common touch your love my face. because of. the bombing of my thank. you so much. thirty minutes w. . climate change. sustainability. environmental projects. globalization. biodiversity species conservation exp

this is the news live from berlin austria and germany brace for boring screen weather mercy crews are ready for as much as another meter of snow fall meanwhile the death toll keeps rising from the worst winter storms that hit the region in two decades also coming up the u.s. ambassador to germany issues a stark warning to german companies to stop working on a controversial gas pipeline linking russia and germany or face american sanctions . and for some they were dangerous revolutionaries but for people like these they were heroes one hundred years after carlin can send rosa luxemburg or murdered you look at the legacies of the german communist leaders. i'm called aspen thanks for joining us more storms and heavy snow are forecast to strike across the alps in the coming days and avalanche warnings are still in effect there as well at least twenty four people are believed to have died in weather related incidents across the region. after a short break in the weather the snowfall in southern bavaria has been relentless this mountain prost was closed after an avalanche swept down from th

this is deja vu news live from berlin it was one of the world's most repressive countries now who's in pakistan says it has changed its ways as the country's president visits germany we talk to him whose back journalist who says he was tortured in prison and asks if the country really has changed direction also coming out. trying to break the pressure that law of the british prime minister presents her plan b. today before leaving the european union but will it be enough to satisfy a deeply divided parliament. and is being called the super blood wolf moon the moon turned this mesmerizing shade of red today we'll have an expert tell us more about a spectacular lunar eclipse. and hopes for an end to nearly fifty years of on rest muslims in the southern philippines vote in a referendum on autonomy we talk with rebels who have been fighting all their lives . i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us the president of pakistan is in berlin for talks today president chavez caught years ago yaffe wants to deepen ties with berlin his trip comes at a time of change for this central asian co

our very own jonathan cray for me and the rest of the team here in berlin dr. black forest and winter own reporter nicole is in her element. i really enjoy winter sports and i'm going to do my very best to try everything the black berry to offer. because there's so much to do. to black forest a winter wonder my. next. you're a populist a nationalist parties and gearing up to try and make a splash coming european election my guest this week is michelle modicum of a corporate lawyer who's working with president trump's former strategist the founder to try and coordinate those parties activities very may say it is to drive a stake through the heart of the brussels complex of. sixteen agenda for dealing. how do you want to. discover your concept discover it with the powerhouse. school. much and off to one hundred lives the ideals of the fox are more relevant today than they were a hundred years ago missionaries are shaped things to come out of all of the past few players to design is a way of shaping society. with ideas that are part. of our house world this week o

you believe the dome is very poorly illuminated here in berlin. visitors can appreciate the way they could amid the light conditions in the alhambra for them so our aim is to recreate those lighting conditions virtually to allow visitors both here in the berlin museum and visitors to the alhambra and experience of the dome in its original context. invasion context before. in eighty ninety one the banker arthur fund when i was granted commissioned by the spanish authorities to move the dome to germany he had acquired a small palace on the alhambra from a spanish opera singer and later bequeath it to the spanish state but he decided to keep the don't feed himself for a time it decorated his villa in berlin before he donated it to the museum. they don't was originally painted and gilded it's crafted from cedar and popular wood and consists of dozens of parts a star ornament of heavenly beauty. one of the world's most important prehistoric landscapes is located in a bend of the highlands river born northwest of dublin. the passage graves of new grange

news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will see you again with more news at the top of the. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised the painter she protests want to be shot now and if your newspapers when official information as attorneys i have. many can trust and fall.

the game designers are working with berlin archaeologists call maya hit technology mates ancient history their cooperation has yielded some surprising discoveries for example the hittites had not unusual reading technique. these are here for this one from left to right this one from right to left this one from left to right this again from right to left then back again yeah like in wavy lines that's awesome. as it's a missin that archaeologists are anchored in past centuries and that applies to their methodology to. the ashes of the rapid development of computer technology in general but also a virtue archaeology is still something we need to get our heads around. on come on and when i tell people i'm working with a game designer they just shut down because gaming technology sounds so frivolous but in fact this work is just the opposite views on what this is a goddess with is wrong with. this looks like a video game but in fact it's a highly accurate copy of a real temple it's the temple of the weather got from aleppo one of the most important day it is in the ancient middle east the old

news coming to you live from berlin the u.n. calls for calm as venezuela descends into crisis embattled president nicolas maduro says he's the victim of a foreign backed coup the u.n. wants an investigation into claims his security forces are killing anti-government protesters also coming up move over football handball fever grips germany as the national team aims to book a place in the final of the world championship. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us u.n. human rights chief michel bashar has called for deescalation talks in venezuela and an investigation into claims that security forces have killed at least twenty protesters the alleged crackdown followed a bid by opposition leader to oust president nicolas maduro but says he's the victim of a u.s. led to and has cut off diplomatic ties with washington. a defines nicolas maduro has gone on the offensive severing diplomatic relations with the u.s. a day after washington codman duros regime in egypt amount i. get you couldn't move i think there is no doubt in the w

reconstruction of this of the baroque city palace of the german emperor is located at the heart of berlin now the allies did bomb it in world war two it could have been saved but no socialist east germany had other plans they tore it down and put up the palace of the republic in its place that's their parliaments and cultural center hideous yes but also kind of great in its own way i think. it is you are right with hideous war you know a lot of people were still yes it is but still a lot of people were sad that it got torn down to put up this new version of the city palace because the point is why create a historical replica. of a building instead of maintaining an actual historic building ok but that's all done and dusted this forum is well underway in the replica or i should say in the image of the kaiser's palace and now the controversy is of course it's going to house two museum collections many of the objects in them were obtained under the kaiser and some pretty dubious circumstances indeed they would and this whole thing . is taken for most african countries is the big debate right

i'm seeing beers in berlin thank you. donna. it's one of the kind of low flying. blind girls chamber orchestra learning to play an instrument as a blind person because it's a plane and possibly it's. the flying musicians the orchestra is the chance to meet a self-determined life and create audiences with them in. three thousand sixty minutes d.w. . where is home. when your family is scattered across the globe. with the kids if you didn't do it because it's a journey back to the roots as you get a minute of the. bush family from somalia lives around. one candidate urgent assistance. global family starts january twenty third t.w. . how did you. discover your concept discovered with the bomb house. school. off to one hundred gives the ideals of the fox i'm more relevant today than they were a hundred years ago missionaries from shaped things to come to ball in the past people understood designers and with shaping society. with ideas. powerhouse world this week on t w. last week british lawmakers shot down on her brakes at plan for taking the u.k. elves of the europea

i miss them in berlin. they're just a aren't as gooood here. this is the only place where the fries are better than in holland or belgium. reporter: a portion costs betwtween 5 and 1010 euros. and of course, takeout is also an option. vladislav: we love chips, but it's not like we would kill for chips. we just wanted to fill a gap in the market. kajo: that's right. usually you just get chips on the side when you order a curry sausage or a burger. but we were thinking about things that berlin doesn't have, and we decided it was chips. reporter: and for the really diehard fry-fans, there's s evn video art devoted to these deep as ever, w we love hearing frm you, so drop us a line, global3000@dw.com, and take a peek at our facebook page, dw global society. see you next time. till then, take care. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for itsts captption content t and accur. 01/25/19 01/25/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from m pacifica, this is democracy now! >> i think there is n

this is deja vu news live from berlin trying to break the bright six that block british prime minister theresa may prepares to present her plan b. for leaving the european union but will it be enough to satisfy a deeply divided parliament also coming up. as one of the world's most repressive countries now is back as then says it has changed its ways as the country's president visits germany we speak to his back journalist who says he was tortured in prison and asks if the country that really has changed course. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us the british prime minister treason is set to announce her plan before breakfast today as she tries to keep britain from crashing out of the e.u. without an agreement the prime minister is expected to focus on the so-called irish backstop that's the plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic this comes after lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected her deal with the e.u. last week. joining us now live from london the state abuse barbara vai's all barbara do we know anything about teresa mayes plan b. yeah we

built for the purpose next to berlin's pergamon museum. i don't care if i have known pergamon since i was a child and i've also been very fascinated with that in terms of the architecture and the way this acropolis was built as a pile we say it's almost modern architecture also the way they found this location this mountain in terms of urban planning. in preparation for his new panorama yet it got a c.c. has made six trips to the real park amman in turkey today the town of jericho. there he scrutinized the area from every angle hoping to find more inspiration for his project. the month or so but through that when you visit the actual location you get a very personal impression. nothing can beat that. so it's an unwritten law for me that when i'm working on a project i have to go to the actual site. so. he took photos on location for his original panorama but for this new version he staged additional scenes in berlin with some forty actors. among the scenes are a stone masons workshop. a slave market. and a sacrificial altar. even immortali

news live from berlin the u.s. president says he's ready to compromise donald trump comes up with a plan to end the longest government shutdown in u.s. history and to get his mexican border wall built a short time ago but the democrats say no we'll tell you why and also coming up next how did it top spin the vice president of nigeria. and not one but soon no shows for nigeria's historic presidential debates made their president nor he.

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celt has been stuttering this season will they start twenty nineteen all right and can to berlin early bird who has been a walk in the park opponent for most put him to have any trouble with the promoted sub. joining me in the studio for sunday's powwow are all over cannot but is that a reporter for berlin newspaper welcome back to the show oliver how are you good to be here thank you glad to hear it and we have our very own jogging crane j.c. how are you doing a great set of rense a break from fox here alongside i'm even more raring to go chris looking forward to it ok we are of course starting with goldman now we saw a mark. up inside snap life six unbeaten run at home surprised at life they were able to pull one back at least well they had their chances but it was bookie who kept. the win four for dalton basically and you mentioned michael royce. you know how many games he missed this is this season so far usually he misses like five ten or so it was the very first game that they didn't have roy's in the lineup so they just want to protect him a little bit and that's why. the precau

this is t w news line from berlin the u.s. government shutdown is over at least for the time being. short while i will sign a bill to open our government for three weeks until kind of worry fifty. i will make sure that all employees receive their back ok very quickly or as soon as possible will happen. but president trump still wants his border wall and is threatening another shutdown if he doesn't get what he calls a fair deal we'll get the latest from washington also coming up in this way less self declared president ramps up his profile want calls on supporters to press on with their fight until the incumbent president nicolas maduro agrees to fresh elections we don't toast his supporters he won't surrender. and campaigners take to the streets as germany prepares to face south coal crunch thompson berlin are due to come up with a landmark decision about the nation's future energy and. i'm calm assman welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump says he has reached a temporary deal with congressional leaders to reopen the government ending the longest shutdown and u.s. histo

berlin cast lead to the most weekly date find last. in the mantra can outlive the river spray played such just body part of such a place because the german capital in a choke hold the place where such a claim because of all it's going to the top of a manisha tank issue here to miranda take a stand stop the crime scene check out using such displays don't reckon with a. detective superintendent const cannot go above allusion ises feelings of procedures and a stud which has an extensive record system playing the foundations for moslems following us i would imagine it's was doing back then was basically the same as today was and that's how come up the following metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth slowing on t.w. . played. cif british prime minister theresa may has survived a no confidence vote in parliament by a vote of three hundred twenty five to three hundred six the opposition had called the vote after rejected mais treaty puts taking the u.k. out of the lead you may has now until next monday to come up with a new plan.

well thousands of people have been demonstrating in berlin as well calling for reform of the government's. policy in favor of organic farming although germany has a reputation for promoting environmental veyron mentally friendly policies it lags behind other e.u. nations when it comes to organic farming the protesters want the german government to promote environmentally friendly farming by directing more e.u. subject subsidies to organic farmers linda fear has this report. in our usual side in the german capital organic farmers and their tractors fish spindler drove a truck to for six hours to get to berlin. i'm here to stand up for what i do think this is the best moment to do that because we're all here to make our voices heard we're never all in the same place at the same time and. this is face been just farm in north germany a couple of days before the demonstration she bought the farm five years ago along with twelve peaks and twenty five dairy cows the cows spend their days grazing in the pasture at night they're in the bar hm. the milk is turned into organic cheese and yogurt. cou

as a chef it's hard to climb higher than tim howard on the career ladder but this berliner is always keen to do himself he knows there is still room for more. tomorrow you come from a humble background and now you're a star must have been a long journey you can you tell us more it was a long journey bad thing for these days i'm just waking up in the morning and i do the business i have to do because i'm operating now trial for restaurants so i'm not thinking what was in the parcel will be in the future it's just daily business ok you say you have twelve restaurants be honest how much time to actually spend cooking cooking is. fifty percent of my job these days but i'm creating all the dishes which will be served in all the twelve restrooms and to be honest really cooking i'm only doing here at the main restaurant because they need me to be in the kitchen they need me to lead the flavors in the dishes because cooking you know is is a craft a man's work on one side but it's also a bit of art and the art i see in in creating these flavor worlds on the pilot and this is really subjective