01 Christmas - market in Nuremberg the Nuremberg old main market before Christmas. Christmas tree with candles at night. Wind Orchestra plays under the Christmas tree. People filling picture. Stands of the Christmas market. Large gingerbread hearts: greeting from the Nuremberg Christmas market. Santa Claus. Barbecue stalls. Sausages. Light chain. Christmas tree jewelry. People in booths. Large Nativity scene depicting the Holy family. Plum men and gingerbread. Pan across the market. In the background the Cathedral.
sw (48 m) 02 50 years VW Beetle: film document by 1935 VW Beetle and Professor Ferdinand Porsche test drive. Color: Beetle after the war. Brightly painted beetles, with curtains. Herbie, the great beetle. Pride of place in the Volkswagen Museum in Wolfsburg. Home-built beetle in many different ways. The jutting beetle from Ahlen on test track runs with maximum speed of 285 km/h (56 m) 03. An Egyptian report on Germany Bonn Office of the Middle East News Agency. Journalist Karam Badra writes on a typewriter. Arabic characters. Federal press conference. Karam badra goes before Parliament. Flute in the House with his wife and 2 children. Karam badra actuality: "I'm here for about 2 years. I reports on political, cultural and economic matters. But what interested me, the Germans themselves.
What are the Germans? I think that the Germans are very nice people." Sw archive pictures: wall construction. Wave wall. Walls to Windows. Vopos. Color: Wall border between East and West. Karam badra on the phone. Caricatures of people.
(69 m) 04. Göttingen: Goethe Institute young foreigners as a pedestrian in Göttingen. Japanese Kayo Goda writes a letter home. Classes at the Goethe Institut. Japanese girl sitting next to colored. Bus ride. Foreigners visit brewery. Beer production. Toast with beer glasses. Students sitting around the fireplace and listen to medieval music.
(65 m) 05. Bavaria: 3-cities - rally rally car at the start. Walter Röhrl, great. Drive through town and terrain. Spinning ride. Viewers. Overtaking during night driving. Official waving banner. Winner Kalle Grundel, Sweden, with his German Ko pilots Dick man on Peugeot. Walter Röhrl on a 120 HP Audi with catalyst as 13th in the target. Spray Kalle Grundel and Dick man with laurel wreath with sparkling wine.
(54 m) 06. glass artist Hans Peter Kremer - archive D 295/1 glass artist exhibition. Light breaks into glass. Sculptural glass editing. Hans Peter Kremer in his Studio. Glass working with stone. Changing refractive index on art objects.
(44 m) 07. computer graphics computer components than painting print. Computer programs on color screen. Always new forms arise to bizarre images. Computer artists create images on the computer.
(52 m) 08: porcelain for America - Coburg: Hummel figurines Dinnerware. Table porcelain. Maria Innocentia Hummel, nun from Bavaria, at the Herstelluong of the world's popular kids characters. Manufacture of the figures in hand work. Forms are poured, glazed, painted. Hummel figurines, large. Packaging. Shipping to New York.
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01 precisely market in the old main market in Nuremberg - Nuremberg 4 weeks before Christmas.
For over 200 years, the Nuremberg have their Christmas market, which is only very inadequately described called "pre-Christmas sales exhibition". Under the open sky, hundreds of thousands visitors from everywhere experience here over and over again a small world toys and arts and crafts, pine garlands, lights, aromas of biscuits and sausages, mulled wine and spices.
In the middle of the city of the Nativity scene depicting the Holy family. Small Nativity scenes can be found at Christmas in many homes.
The plum men and gingerbread - two Nuremberg pastries of world renown spread the scent of Christmas. There, many visitors can not resist. The Christmas market is the oldest, but not the only Christmas market in Germany. Like this it looks at that time in many German cities. And more and more people let yourself be fascinated by the contemplative mood.
02. 50 years VW Beetle a film document of 1935 Professor Ferdinand Porsche, the brilliant engineer, impatiently awaits the first test drive of a revolutionary for that time automobile which he gave the name "Volkswagen". The name was: a car for everyone, technically easy for little money. The war made not just Porsches dream dashed, also many Germans who had already paid for their dream car, were empty.
However, soon after the war awakens the Volkswagen to life, is fast more than just a car. It is called "Beetle" its unusual shape due to. Volkswagen owners for the title of "most beautiful beetles" compete in the 1950s.
And movie star is also the export success of the German car industry. Thanks to his genius is Herbie, the great beetle, all competitors. Now he has a place of honor in the Volkswagen Museum in Wolfsburg, Germany, where there are still many other remarkable testimonies of love to the beetle. A car of mass, the most successful in the world, does not rule out individualism.
This is the fastest Volkswagen of the world, the jutting beetle from the small town of Ahlen in Westfalia. Top speed 285 km / h, acceleration from 0 to 100 in 3.5 seconds, multiple record holder over the quarter mile. Since 1985, the beetle is no longer built for 50 years, which made him become the most famous car in the world. His friends will make sure that also goes on to say: he runs and runs and runs and runs...
03. an Egyptians reported the Office of the Middle East News Agency in Bonn. The journalist Karam Badra in his daily work between typewriter, telex and telephone. What many million newspaper readers, radio listeners and television viewers in the Arab world about Germany learn, often enough by the Mena correspondent. Wally can participate at the Federal Press Conference on an equal footing as all foreign journalists with their German colleagues. Bonn is an open city for news Hunter.
Karam badra is not only journalists, but also artists. He received a scholarship in Cairo for his flute-playing. His wife and their two children speak now good german.
"I'm here for about two years. I reports on political, cultural and economic matters. But what interested me, the Germans themselves. What are the Germans? I think that the Germans are very, very nice people.
What's bothering me as Egyptians in Germany, is the Division of the country, is that the people even 40 years after the war cannot get together. I've lived in the GDR. Since then I know means the political division of Germany for very many people of mental suffering, what. The almost insurmountable border through the middle of the country separating parents and children, brothers and sisters. I have experienced this myself, since I see also some things in politics with different eyes.
I started as a cartoonist in Egypt. Here in Germany, I often draw people. And illustrations for Arabian fairy tales books. "Both shows my concern: as a journalist with to ensure that people will not forget the great policy."
04. Goethe-Institut in Germany in Göttingen, an ancient city in Northern Germany, is one of the 146 Goethe Institutes, which have the job in the country and abroad to maintain German culture. Especially young foreigners come to classes to learn the German language.
Kayo Goda came from Japan to Göttingen. She want to experience the Germans and Germany, learn the language, and later also here studying. In a letter home, she described first experiences.
People from many countries, with different cultures and skin tones in the classroom. If they want to communicate, they need to talk German - a useful effect.
Joint exploration of the host country. The bus will take the group to a brewery. Many had heard of the high State of the art of brewing; Here they learn from professionals how to German beer. Students can follow right after 2 months - and German drinking habits also know them.
A total offer the Goethe Institute_15. 000's programs around the world. The Federal Government financed this cultural work with rising amounts. Particular emphasis will be placed on the promotion of the German language. At least in Göttingen with success: here for example the students even with medieval German music with vocals are made known.
05. 3 cities rally for years the Germans at the international Autosport rally ride right up front. This is a Walter Röhrl, the multiple world champion, but also on German advanced technology in the automotive industry. In particular, the development of all-wheel drive for road cars brought the technical breakthrough.
We are spectators in 3 cities rally in Lower Bavaria, driven as the last run to the German Championship. For Walter Röhrl clearly beforehand, that he this time will be unwinnable. While he otherwise controls vehicles with up to 500 HP, Audi has him now a 120 - Horsepower car with catalyst missed. Here, it is clear that in rallying for the large-scale production should experience.
As in previous rounds, occupy the driver from Peugeot soon front places.
A night ride, which takes place on public roads, but must not disturb the normal traffic to each rally. The traffic rules apply also to rally driver.
In the target, the Swede is Kalle Grundel with his German Ko pilots Dick man of superior champion on Peugeot. Walter Röhrl Audi ends up ranked 13th Kalle goby has thus the German Championship 85 in your pocket. This is already a SIP champagne.
06. porcelain to America in America is growing interest in beautiful and precious table porcelain. That above all German manufacturers do better business, is perhaps attributable to the small figures that are German for many Americans the epitome of porcelain craftsmanship.
Maria Innocentia Hummel, an artistically gifted nun from Bavaria, created over 50 years ago world's popular children's figurines. Here, in the vicinity of Coburg, they emerge as ever and ever crafted. For industrial mass production is frowned upon.
There are many operations with new controls necessary, until its final form has a figure. It starts with the choice of Rohstoffc. And when the diving glaze as a speck of dust can ruin already everything.
The painting's artistic work in the spirit of the creator of the characters. From childhood she has attention with insightful drawings by and for children. There are now almost 300 variations of Hummel figurines.
All the artworks from Bavaria are sought after - especially in the United States
07. computer graphics is a work of art and a computer at the same time. The components meet their technical purpose, but an artist has determined their arrangement. Look like the beginnings of creative engagement with modern technology.
Here, a computer printer marks and points has used and created as a work of art on paper.
And that is State of the art and the art at the same time. On the color screen, new shapes and colors resulting from increasingly complicated computer programs. Already, a new art market has developed in Germany, with very young, technically interested audience in special galleries.
The artists are often barely 20 years old. Her handling of the computer is uninhibited. You understand that the new technology opens up possibilities of aesthetics.
