German photographer Peter Langenhahn has specialized in capturing a particular aspect of sports events in a single photo collage. Langenhahn takes as many as three thousand pictures and then puts them together on his computer to create a single image. One of his compositions documented all the fouls in a football match.
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Celebrated British artist Keira Rathbone creates much of her art using a typewriter. In this digital age Rathbone has decided to use a more old-fashioned technique. A traditional keyboard creation can take her up to 90 hours to produce, and some of her work can be seen on book and magazine covers. Rathbone owns 30 typewriters. We visit her in her atelier in London.
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Their manifesto has won them plenty of fans: free Internet access, a minimum wage and free public transport. And now the Pirate Party has stormed the Berlin state parliament, capturing an astonishing 9% of the vote. We accompany the young politicians as they ride the wave of success, and compare their breakthrough with that of the Greens some three decades ago.
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Estonia has two reasons to celebrate in 2011. First up it's the seventeenth country to join the Euro zone, and second, Tallinn is one of this year's European Capitals of Culture. euromaxx visits a relatively small capital that enchants visitors with Hanseatic buildings within medieval city walls but also startles with some modern architecture.
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We visit this Ruhr Valley city which becomes a European Capital of Culture for 2010. It was once renowned for its industry,but has now transformed its factories into cultural treasures. On top of that Essen has big parks,impressive architecture and is a mecca for shopping. The old factories now house such creative establishments as the Design Center NRW.
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More than forty years ago, car lovers the world over watched as the Mercedes C 111 rounded the track. Presented in 1969 as a two-seater with a fiberglass body and Wankel engine under its hood, the C 111 created a real stir in the motor world. True to the Mercedes motto"only the best is good enough,"it was developed almost to the point of going into series production.The C111 was widely praised for its unusual design, but the 1973 oil crisis blocked it from getting onto the road. The Wankel engine was thirsty, not thrifty, so the car was sent out to the track instead. drive it! recalls a much-loved model that never made it into the showroom.
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Check out some of the Spanish capital's most famous landmarks in the city as well as some lesser-known locations. Places include the Puerta de Alcala, the Cibeles Fountain, the Royal Palace and the Plaza Mayor. The locals love the city's parks, like the Jardin Botánico. And they also love eating tapas in one of the city's numerous bars.
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Heiko Sahling is a biologist and deep sea geoscientist at the MARUM Research Center. The area he studies is in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Pakistan. There, at depths down to 3000 meters, something fascinating is happening. Natural gas is emerging from the sea bed, to produce a surreal world of millions of tiny bubbles, which has already spurred the fancy of science fiction authors. In these exotic surroundings, the scientist has discovered both new animal species and communities and new geological truths. But the main questions that drive him are concerned with the methane gas emitted here. How much is emitted, how does it affect the biological world of the deep sea, and how much reaches the surface to enter the atmosphere? That is also relevant to climate researchers, because methane is a major greenhouse gas that increases global warming. Heiko Sahling takes Tomorrow Today viewers on an expedition on the METEOR research vessel. He tells us about life on board, about burning ice and about organisms that no one has seen before.
The medieval town in Bavaria ranks among the most popular German tourist destinations for international visitors. Its picture postcard look is so perfect it could almost be mistaken for a film set. The most colorful time to visit Rothenburg is during the Christmas season.
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We report on the 2012 Record Store Day. Independent record stores the world over offer their customers limited editions that are made specially for this one day of the year. Find out more: www.dw.de/dw/episode/9798/0,,15846776,00.html
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Ai Weiwei is China's best-known artist,blogger and critic of the government. The Haus der Kunst in Munich is now hosting his largest solo exhibition to date. Ai Weiwei enjoyed long years of freedom,but ever since he investigated the victims of the Szechuan earthquake,he's come under pressure in China. Nonetheless,Ai Weiwei won't let himself be intimidated. ARTS.21 presents a portrait of the artist.
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Britain's Thomas Heatherwick transcends the borders between architecture and design and calls his works simply 'three-dimensional design'. He's been chosen to create the British pavilion at this year's Shanghai Expo.
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The smartphone game Angry Birds has become incredibly popular with 50 million downloads occurring in just one year. In the game you shoot birds at pigs using slingshots while the pigs try to protect themselves. The Finnish company Rovio invented it. In fact, the firm was the first to develop and release video games as an app for mobile phones. Up to now it has invented more than 50 such games.
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David Chipperfield is one of the most important architects of our time even though his architecture is anything but vain and conspicuous. He works with clear lines instead of elaborate effects, building the perfect containers for the worlds best museums.In June, Chipperfield was presented the European Unions coveted Europa Nostra Award for the Neues Museum in Berlin. ARTS.21 reveals the discreet signature style of the English master architect.
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With a retrospective of Turner Prize winner Cragg's works on show in Duisburg in February, 2011, euromaxx looks at the career of one of Europe's most successful sculptors. Originally from Liverpool, Cragg is known for his use of unusual materials. He is dean of Düsseldorf's Kunstakademie (Academy of Arts). His retrospective at Duisburg's Museum Küpper includes 60 sculptures.
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Eradicating world hunger has been declared one of the priorities for the 21st century. According to the UN,1.2 billion people will not get enough to eat this year -- the highest number since 1970. While the global economic crisis has made the problem worse,inaction by political leaders is also very much to blame. That's not the case in Belo Horizonte,however.The Brazilian city's Zero-Hunger program has demonstrated how hunger can effectively be ended.
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A new Ferrari museum opens in Modena, Italy. The ultra-modern structure pays homage to the car's creator Enzo Ferrari with many of his personal items on display.
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Euphoric Japan fans celebrated their side's historic victory on Sunday after Japan took home the title for the first time.
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US soccer fans in Berlin are optimistic their team will come out ahead in the Women's World Cup final against Japan on Sunday. Their team is favored but Japan has already pulled off several surprises.
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When it comes to the fashion industry you'd probably think of places like Milan, Paris or New York, and not the Faroe Islands between Scotland and Norway. But this is where you find GudrunGudrun, a label for knitwear that was founded back in 2006 and has since been featured in top fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue.
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Anke Domaske is a 28 year old biologist and fashion designer who makes clothes from a very unusual fabric, milk yarn. She has come up with an easy and environmentally friendly way to extract fibres from milk and her designs are proving very successful.
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He was a millionaire in his early 30s. Karl Rabeder from Austria made a fortune making candles. He later took part in world championship competition as a glider pilot but it wasn't until he visited a South American orphanage that he realized his true vocation.He's now been working exclusively as an aid worker for several years. The planes and the limousines were sold off long ago. Now he's selling off his villa by lottery. 300 square meters with a view of the Inn Valley and the mountains. Price per ticket: 99 Euro. As for Rabeder himself, he manages to live on a fraction of his former income.
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MARUM scientists Ursula Röhl and Alex Wülbers are investigating what the ocean floor has to tell us about the climate in the past. The geologists are part of the international IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program) project. In this report they talk about an especially challenging expedition; how with a drilling ship they navigated the Arctic ice to the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater shelf that extends through the northern polar region. There, where the once supposedly "eternal ice cap" has begun to disappear, drillings can now be carried out deep into the sea bed. The cores of sediment the scientists drill out of the ocean floor are kept in cold storage at MARUM. The collection plays a central role in the IODP project. The two researchers tell us about the fascinating information they are trying to extract from the deep-sea core samples.
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Marine geologist Claudia Wienberg studies animals whose existence was unknown until a few years ago -- cold water corals that live in the cooler regions of the Atlantic or the Mediterranean. Like their tropical relatives, cold water corals can form gigantic reefs which serve as habitats for many different ocean animals and plants. For some researchers they are fascinating for other reasons as well: because the growth of the reefs is influenced by environmental conditions, their structure can provide information about the climate in the past. Extreme changes in the environment can be deadly; in more than 20 percent of the reefs, the corals have died out. In the course of her expeditions Claudia Wienberg made a remarkable discovery. In the Gulf of Cadiz off the Spanish coast she found giant fields of coral remains. Now she is devoting part of her research to finding out the causes of the coral death. Her initial hypothesis is that over the past centuries the water temperature and nutrient levels have changed drastically. The results of Wienberg's study may help predict the fate of the living cold water corals found off the Norwegian or Irish coasts.
French President Nikolas Sarkozy has announced drastic measures against the Roma and Sinti minorities. He wants all illegal camps closed within three months, and Roma without legal papers are set to be deported.Opposition parties and human rights groups have criticized the move, labeling it xenophobic and racist. Sarkozy's policy turnaround was prompted by recent clashes between Roma and the police in Brittany, where a Roma youth was shot while fleeing from a police traffic spot check. Later, a group of angry Roma vandalized the local police station. Some believe Sarkozy is using the issue to divert public attention away from the tax and donations scandal involving L'Oréal heir Liliane Bettencourt.
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Talking Germany host Peter Craven speaks to Marina Weisband about political goals, internet piracy, and role-playing games. Read more: www.dw.de
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Until 1975, Angola was a Portuguese colony. Independence was followed by a lengthy civil war, which left the country in ruins. Now the tables have turned, and the former colony has become a booming economy and job engine for its former colonial master. 100000 Portuguese have emigrated to Angola since the eurozone crisis began. The trade in diamonds and oil has sparked a construction boom in Luanda. Ourreporter meets an architect from Portugal who is shaping the new Angola.
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The beginning of this year saw a change of administration in Transnistria. It's trying to gradually open up to the international community. After 20 years of isolation, the region's economy is in tatters. Find out more: www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15902388,00.html
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Miniatur Wunderland, with its small-scale model trains and landscapes, is one of Hamburg's biggest tourist attractions. This month, it unveiled its latest addition: the world's largest miniature airport.
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Indian Sikhs are perhaps the least known of Italy's ethnic minorities. But the country is dependent upon them for their cheese production. Several thousand Indians have taken up residence in the Po Valley, where they tend to the cows whose milk is used to produce Italy's famous Reggiano parmesan cheese. One of Europe's largest Sikh temples is located in the town of Novellara.
Would the demise of the euro mean the demise of the European venture and indeed the global finance system? The current crises are shaking the foundations of economic theory. Now a group of the world's most renowned economists are planning nothing less than an overhaul of their field. 300 great thinkers and maverick minds like Joseph Stiglitz meet in Berlin to debate the future of their profession. A look behind the scenes. Report by Carmen Meyer. For more go to www.dw.de
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Loud, piercing and sharp...a whistle is hard to ignore. But whistling languages are in danger of dying out. But residents of Kusköy on the Black Sea coast still communicate by whistling.An ee sounds higher than an ah. Consonants are distinguished by changes in pitch over different intervals of time. Eskimos communicate with whistles; so do indigenous people in the Amazon, and in Europe shepherds keep boredom at bay and communicate by whistling to each other. But the world's 70 whistling languages are slowly becoming extinct. Kusköy in Turkey is defending the tradition.
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German chemicals giant BASF is closing its biotech division in Germany. The move was prompted by massive resistance to genetically modified food among both the public and politicians. GM opponents are jubilant, while some researchers are complaining this is another case of German hostility to technology.
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If it's good enough for Paul McCartney of the Beatles,it's good enough for most. In our series on successful German musical instrument companies,we look at world-renowned Höfner guitars. McCartney called his instrument My little Hofner Baby . The Höfner Bass was first produced in 1956. After McCartney discovered it in a Hamburg music shop in 1961,it got the nickname the Beatles Bass .
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Gerhard Richter is among Germany's most celebrated contemporary artists. Richter usually shuns the media spotlight, but he granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio and allowed her to film him at work. The resulting documentary provides a unique insight into the painter's creative process.
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The Model B3 Chair,known simply as the Wassily Chair is a symbol of modernism and probably the most famous Bauhaus product. With its clear construction and usage of new materials the chair marked a radical break from the standard designs of its time and paved the way for a new chapter in the history of furniture design.
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A recent slew of Hollywood movies has made comic book heroes more popular than ever. As a child,Marko Djurdjevic was fascinated by comics long before the films came along and now he is the only German in the international top league of superhero illustrators.
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Airbus reckons that the number of cargo planes is set to soar. Both Airbus and Boeing have full order books and can't keep up with demand. 'Elbe Flugzeugwerke' in Dresden converts passenger planes into cargo planes. It was founded in 1955 under the communist regime in East Germany and now belongs to EADS, which also owns Airbus.
British designers are aiming to bring back the age of luxury air travel. With an ultra-modern, environmentally friendly take on the zeppelins of the early 20th century, these gigantic flying hotels could send travelers soaring quietly - and comfortably - to destinations around the world by 2015.
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