01 (113) of the new man in the Cabinet--Environment Minister Wallmann Rhein. Nuclear power plant. Environment Minister Walter Wallmann speaks to experts of the nuclear industry in Vienna. Forest walkers. Forester. Dying forest, diseased trees. Lime is sprayed as Schadstoffneutralisierer. Car parking. Catalysts, large. Leaded and unleaded petrol tank column. Wallmann at Cabinet meeting. Aerial view of forest. Wallmann in conversation with Minister of education and science Dorothee Wilms, great. Coal plant. Brown coal mining. Smoking chimneys. Laboratory ship on the Rhine River near Cologne. Taking water samples. Water discharge into the river after clarification. Mud is taken. Laboratory studies of the Rhine water. Fishing on the river. Walter Wallmann actuality to Secretary '... Note on the water resources Act in connection with the sewage charges. "Wallmann works at his desk. Solution immediately before him.
02. the Vikings in Schleswig dressed 2 street musicians as a Viking. Transparency of the Viking days. Little girls on shoulders of man as listener. Small cakes are fried on grill. Bellows. Children paintings to the painting competition Viking. Faithfully reproduced in the harbour ship from the Viking age. Legacy of the Vikings in the Museum, from Hedeby, the significant endendsten commercial square of the Vikings at the gates of the city. Pieces of jewellery. Tools, parts of a Viking ship. Weaving on a loom. Armour and costumes with battle axe and Buffalo Horn.
(56 m) 03 historic train ride from Murnau to Garmisch platoon leader. Old-fashioned steam train trip. Compartments with wooden benches. Driving record of the landscape. Train arriving in bad Kohlgrub. Band playing. Locomotive will be visited. Replica of the Adler, the 1st locomotive in Germany, driving through town. Children to ride on model railway. Town band plays. Stationmaster are exit signs in historical uniforms. Train runs through mountains.
(50 m) 04. Stuttgart: Factory of the future - planning of the scientists of the female courtyards society give big, watch Maschinen-automation. Empty factory Hall. Machines edit castings. Robot run commands. Würzburg: Siemens plant. Fit on assembly line workers electric motors. New Hall with production line by robots. Control room. Assembly of engines and car seats. Businesses create new jobs and not unemployed with modern manufacturing techniques and good products.
(64 m) 05. force of nature work Trave the river Trave in Schleswig-Holstein. Small river flows between meadows. Paddle boat on the river. Mr mill Weir. Former mill generates electricity with hydropower and power supplied in 77 households. Owner lubricates turbine. Supply of E-mast to E-Werk.
(42 m) 06. Rhine-Main Danube Canal: barefoot water ski championship race feet tall. Man puts on helmet. Motor boat launches with barefoot runners. Jumps over hill with case and stand. Character run. Audience, great. Water squirts up. Recordings of the runner from the boat.
(60 m) 07. US: Munich: Amerika Haus Karolinenplatz. The Amerika Haus. Library. Readers in the library. Meeting of the team of the America House. Screen information on books, brochures and magazines. Quilt Exhibition.
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01. the new man in the Cabinet does not - need nature people but people need nature. And therefore nature and Unweltschutz is an important area of policy for the Government of Chancellor Kohl. This includes the safety großltechnischer plants, first of all the nuclear power plants. The Chancellor was the first head of the Government, which encouraged cine International Conference after the Soviet nuclear accident at Chernobyl. Little later Walter Wallmann before experts convened in Vienna appeared before the television eyes of the world. Helmut Kohls of newly appointed immediate demanded the highest possible security standards for all nuclear power plants and more cooperation for this purpose.
Nuclear safety is only part of the responsibilities that were transferred to the new Department of the German Government. The forest is in danger. Pollutants in the air and notorious acid rain have allowed many trees are sick.
A help are only transitional like lime fertilizers and pollutants neutralizer. Such measures should help the forest to hang up fewer pollutants the air charge from the car traffic. Strong promotion by the State, and new strict laws make the catalyst more and more to the standard equipment of motor vehicles. Around 90 percent of the pollutants are zurückrkgehalten for exhaust gas cleaning - less load on the air already.
In Germany, the respect nature for every driver now worth: unleaded fuel is significantly cheaper than lead thanks to tax relief.
The new Minister at a meeting of the Cabinet of Chancellor Kohl. Because environmental protection and nuclear safety are far above in the interests of national and international public, Walter Wallmann is everywhere much attention.
The forest and the coal-fired power plants. The Federal Government in recent years has ensured that requirements of detoxification about of power plants significantly increased, that burn here sponsored pollutant-rich lignite. After the necessary laws are enacted, the battle for clean air is here hopefully be won in a few years.
The Rhine at Cologne. From a laboratory ship, scientists regularly take water samples.
The sewage that initiate towns and industrial plants in the River, are compared to earlier significantly cleaner. Ensure new sewage treatment plants.
For many years the scientists reported new horror figures: Germany's biggest river, the Rhine, threatened to finally become a dead sewer, which transported tons of salts, heavy metals and toxins of all kinds to the sea.
However, the Rhine has recovered noticeably. The pollutant cargo is only one-tenth of what was common years ago when many dangerous substances. The Federal Government has with ensured together with neighbouring countries. Positive as for the Rhine, the balance sheet for almost all other rivers in Germany is similar.
Now, anglers go fish on the hook, believed to be already extinct. And the Minister committed in Bonn, that modern civilization and intact nature are no contradiction.
Minister Wallmann has set already, political course in just half a year, but he didn't really own Office yet. He is "Lodger" when the Chancellor - no time for house search, going on the environment.
02. the Vikings in Schleswig are we in the oldest town in Northern Europe, in Schleswig. The rätselhalfte until today people of the Vikings established the first 804 mentioned settlement. At their 'Viking days' remember the Schleswig of their ancestors. Craftsmen and artists re-enact how the Norsemen may have lived.
The famous Viking ships - theme of the drawing competition for children. Ships faithfully reconstructed in the port. The Vikings long before Columbus America reached with such open boats.
Here, just outside the city of Schleswig, Hedeby, the most important trading place of the Vikings was once. Their legacies will be shown at the new Museum: port, Schnuckstücke, and things of daily use.
An original Viking ship was recovered from the mud of the harbor until 1980.
The people of the Viking had its heyday from about 800 to 1100 ad. The Norsemen were skilled craftsmen and successful merchants, whose trade routes ranging from the Black Sea to Greenland. Above all, however, they were warriors before their robbery lust and cruelty, half of Europe shivered.
So they may have looked like-one the axe in the the Büffelhom filled with beer in the other hand. Her name was program: the word Viking bodeutet pirate.
03. from Murnau to Garmisch a ride on the railroad through a romantic piece of Bavaria. It is no ordinary train. Locomotive and car are almost technical antiques. They date from the early years of the century and are used only for specials like this. The passengers on board want to combine her love for the old railway with the experience of the pre-Alpine landscape.
The station bad Kohlgrub is prepared for the historic train and its passengers.
First provides opportunity to marvel at the last, with which the electric operations started two of the locomotives. A replica of the legendary "Adler", the first steam Rosses in Germany at all, driving the tourists through the town. A robust model train is available for the children.
The town band plays on, the station master who created the uniform of its previous predecessor. Nostalgic memories are on the good old days of the railway in Germany increasingly popular - as here in one of the most beautiful landscapes of southern Germany.
04. Factory of the future of the human and the machine - a good team or competitors? Scientists worldwide are the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Stuttgart at the top when working on the deserted factory. Machines to perform dangerous or monotonous work in the future instead of people - as in this edit of castings.
A Femsehkamera makes seeing the Rcboter. By comparison with stored Bildem the machine can distinguish different items - the smart Hoboter works at least here in the lab.
Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany. Here is one of the works of the Siemens electric company.
Still, many helping hands on the Assembly line with day after day the same handles mount small Elektranotoren. After previous ideas is produced here efficiently and at a high level of production technology. But the future has already begun. In a new building next door a good step will set up a new production line with computer-controlled robots - to the almost deserted factory. Staff is required here soon only to control and monitor. The 50,000 small-power Motors produced largely automatically.
Heart and brain of the robot are computers whose programme znählen to the kept secrets of this factory of the future.
Here at Siemens Rcboter hold increasingly in German Industrieunternmehmen for years. You free more people from unhealthy and monotonous work and at the same time safeguard the international competitiveness of German products cost advantages. Here, there are electric motors that go for many purposes in the world. Here the robot because no one will be unemployed. On the contrary, firms create new jobs with State of the art manufacturing and intelligent products in Germany.
05. Amerika-Haus Munich the Karolinenplatz located in Munich, the capital of the free State of Bavaria.
The America House, part of the global "United States information agency", which aims to promote the understanding of the United States in over 100 countries with its own facilities, last but not least, where's here just started using American literature and numerous newspapers and magazines in Munich after the war. Many Germans felt for insulation and censorship of the Nazi dictatorship the free reading offer as a "spiritual care package", as at the time a newspaper wrote.
The Director's American - finally all costs borne by U.S. taxpayers. However, the team of the America House is colorful deutsch-amerikanisch mixed. This has been proven, as the German public can better be addressed.
Long screen and computers have entered: here, information from American media is stored.
To all students use the offer that complements books, brochures and newspapers. Events of all kinds - from concert on the political discussion up to the poetry reading - lure 2,000 visitors in the Munich-based American House every month.
An example is this patchwork exhibition, which gave many de seekers suggestion to do it yourself. This belongs to the order of the Cultural Center: a credible ambassadors of America and at the same time part of cultural life in Germany to be - the Amerika Haus München creates that for 40 years.
06. barefoot water skiing on the feet comes naturally on and cool head.
And then we go to one of the many streams of the Barefoot water ski World Cup on the Rhine Main-Danube Canal in Bavaria. Championships in Australia, Mexico and the United States are the cracks of this young sport for the first time in Europe.
Thousands want to see whether and how succeeds, at exactly 72 Kilometem per hour without boards on the water slide and to show daredevil jumps. The figures are exactly defined - as the normal water ski - and be evaluated with points. But first it means: stop, stay up.
Australians and Americans are leaders in the Barefoot water skiing, especially in the trick - and figure running, they are hard to beat.
But even the best of the 100 athletes who came to Bavaria, found often enough in the place on the water again. If not to take the Americans was already the victory: barefoot water skiing has found many new friends here right off the bat.
