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					01.10.2008 ”Create Europe” – a competition for young fashion designers, supported by the Goethe Institute. Cem Cako is one of the finalists. This talented young man is on his way to becoming a top fashion designer. DW-World: Lithuania: Referendum on Ignalina DW-World: Germany: Create Europe DW-World: Italy: The Garbage Fairytale of Castelbuono DW-World: Romania: Ethnic Germans Take Over City Halls DW-World: France: The Facade Climbers of Paris Video: Video on demand	02.10.2008 In Good Shape	03.10.2008 German schoolchildren know very little about the former East Germany. An internet portal is set to provide help. On it, young people are to collect stories and in doing so, learn what German unity means. DW-World: Punishment at the Polls – The CSU Election Debacle and the Conservatives DW-World: Industrial Espionage – The German Economy in the Sights of Foreign Spy Services DW-World: Emergency Manager - Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück and the Banking Crisis DW-World: Classes in Contemporary History - German Reunification on the Internet DW-World: Question in the Forum	04.10.2008 60 years Israel. For author Assaf Gavron and his friends, it’s reason to take stock. Four contemporary Israeli artists convey a sense of the mood in their native land. DW-World: 60 Years of Israel – How the Writer Assaf Gavron Experiences his Country DW-World: Sinti Swing – Jazz Singer Dotschy Reinhardt DW-World: The Murakami System – A Liaison between Art and Fashion DW-World: TOP 3


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05.10.2008 The Black Madonna	05.10.2008 In a special edition of Discover Germany we concentrate on a single region, the French-German border area. We'll show you some of the highlights on both sides of the border DW-World: The 'Green Route' – Discover Germany heads for the Alsace region along the French border DW-World: This week's recommendation comes from artist and transnational Helmut Lutz, who lives in Breisach DW-World: Strasbourg – a round trip tour through the Alsatian 'Capital' of Europe Alsace France DW-World: The Völklinger Ironworks – a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Heart of the Saarland DW-World: My Black Forest - Antoine Linder, Photographer Neuf-Brisach (F) on a Journey to Germany	06.10.2008 Clean drinking water – produced with simple and inexpensive technology: That’s the goal of physicist Michael Kreisel. His solution: Blue LEDs. He’s doing all he can to prepare a device for mass production. So contaminated drinking water can be easily cleaned anywhere. DW-World: Blue LEDs: Clean Drinking Water for Everyone? DW-World: Brilliant Minds DW-World: Robotic Dogs Help Autistic Children DW-World: Studio Talk DW-World: Medicanes—Cyclones in the Mediterranean	06.10.2008 People in the industrialised world people eat too much -- too much fat and above all, too much sugar. But an herb from Paraguay could help. Stevia is a sweetener that's 300 times sweeter than sugar and is virtually calorie-free. DW-World: Joe Madiath - Social Entrepreneur (video) DW-World: Garbage in the Sea – How Plastics Endanger Both People and Marine Life DW-World: Questionnaire - Wendy Chung from Taipei, Taiwan (video) DW-World: Gambia – African-Americans Tracking Down Their Ancestors DW-World: Sweeter than Sugar - The International Career of a Plant from Paraguay DW-World: Focus: Indigenous peoples	07.10.2008 In this edition of MADE IN GERMANY: Outsourcing – investments abroad create jobs at home. One example is the company Herma. Its flourishing business abroad enables the label manufacturer to invest in a new production line in its headquaters in Stuttgart. DW-World: A Shambles – The Financial Crisis Reaches Germany DW-World: Globalisation – Engagement Abroad Creates Jobs at Home DW-World: Studio Guest – Monika Schnitzer on Outsourcing and Globalization DW-World: Philipp von Württemberg – Success with Exclusive Art DW-World: Blumenau – Why Germans are Investing in Southern Brazil	08.10.2008 Construction boom in Bucharest. The Rumanian capital is rapidly changing. Despite the international financial crisis, the building industry’s revenues have reached a record high – property prices are rising. But here too, concerns about a real estate bubble are growing. DW-World: Finland - Will the Finns Finally Join NATO? DW-World: Romania - Bucharest's Building Boom DW-World: Portugal - Fish in Distress DW-World: Britain - Judges Ditch Their Wigs DW-World: Italy - A Tunisian Makes Rome's Best Spaghetti Carbonara Video: Video on demand	09.10.2008 In Good Shape	10.10.2008 Anglicisms in the German language. It’s hard to imagine everyday life without English words and expressions. But more and more often, what’s being communicated sounds like gibberish. Slowly, resistance is growing. Organizations, businesses and politicians want to strengthen mother-tongue German– So that messages can once more be clearly received. DW-World: The Taliban's Propaganda War - The Islamists' Cunning Media Strategy DW-World: Financial Crisis in Germany - Who is Responsible? DW-World: Protest at the Ballot Box - The Repercussions of the Free Voters' Electoral Triumph DW-World: Resisting English - Why the German Language Needs Rescuing DW-World: The Question in the Forum	11.10.2008 Turkish culture has never been so much in focus in Germany as it is this fall: Turkey is the guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair and also in the spotlight at this year’s international music industry trade fair, Popkomm, in Berlin. Join us in discovering the Turkish cultural scene! DW-World: No Longer Guest Workers – The Cultural Impact of Turkish Germans DW-World: Three Generations, Three Novels, Three Worlds DW-World: Hip-Hop Siblings from Istanbul DW-World: TOP 3		05.10.2008
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	12.10.2008 Regensburg’s Old Town is really something special: many of the buildings at its center date back to the 11th century and are still in exceptional condition. Not to be missed are the Stone Bridge and the famous Regensburg Cathedral dedicated to St. Peter. In 2006 Regensburg’s old town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site DW-World: Regensburg – A medieval city on the Danube River with a rich history DW-World: Recommended - Christine Eckert, Prefect with the Regensburg Cathedral Boys Choir, shows around town DW-World: A Bed at Heavenly Heights – A very unusual hotel in Ratzeburg DW-World: The Hermannsweg – Following the trail of the Cherusci through the Teutoburg Forest DW-World: My Berlin – Bernard Reicher from Melbourne, Australia	13.10.2008 In this edition of "Tomorrow Today"--Italian scientists discover a giant underground lake, which they hope will play a major role in supplying the country with potable water. DW-World: Honored – German Virus Research Wins Nobel Prize DW-World: Studio Guest Achim Schneider DW-World: La Foce – Cave Diving in Italy DW-World: Brilliant Minds: Australian Climate Researcher Noel Keenlyside DW-World: Smog Warning – Cycle Couriers Check it Out Air Quality	13.10.2008 The "Open Street Map" project is made up of volunteers who measure the world -- cities, villages, forests and fields -- with the help of GPS technology. Like Wikipedia, anyone can contribute. The ultimate goal is to document every inch of the world, and make the information avilable to everyone -- but not for profit... DW-World: Focus: Indigenous peoples DW-World: Solar Lamps – An alternative to the public electricity grid DW-World: Questionnaire Denmark DW-World: The Ainu – How Japan marginalises its indigenous population DW-World: The Philippines - Ancestral Domain Claims DW-World: Measuring the World – The Internet community that makes public maps	14.10.2008 In this edition of MADE IN GERMANY, we look at the effects of the global financial crisis on German business. We asked experts for their solutions to the troubles. DW-World: No Credit - The Credit Crunch Hits the German Economy DW-World: At the Heart of the Financial Crisis – Frankfurt Banks DW-World: Studio Guest – Thomas Straubhaar, HWWI DW-World: Portrait Georg Kessler - Publishing Cookbooks DW-World: Pocketing It – The Family Firm Bree	15.10.2008 Iceland facing bankruptcy... The banks speculated badly. The government has assumed the huge mountain of debt. The crisis is starting to affect the ordinary citizens. Credit is now dramatically more expensive; The cost of living is rising by leaps and bounds... Many Icelanders are afraid for their livelihood. DW-World: Iceland: A chill wind blowing DW-World: Britain: Reaching for the Piggybank DW-World: Poland: More rights for ethnic Germans DW-World: Czech Republic: A shattered glass industry DW-World: Netherlands: Mussel farmers combat green activists Video: Video on demand	16.10.2008 In Good Shape	17.10.2008 Frank Walter Steinmeier and Franz Müntefering: Two politicians, who couldn’t be more different... They are the SPD’s new leadership duo! The candidate for chancellor and the designated party leader. Together they want to make the Social Democrats successful again. DW-World: Crisis Management - Chancellor Merkel passes the confidence test DW-World: Question in the Forum DW-World: Financial Crisis - Why Germans are wary of bankruptcy DW-World: SPD Tandem - A difference of opinion between Müntefering and Steinmeier DW-World: Monumental Dispute - A hotel owner resurrects a Hindenburg statue	18.10.2008 Graphic Novels - they tell complex stories with pictures. The comic books for discerning readers are a very special art form. And the winner of the German Book prize, Uwe Tellkamp. DW-World: The Day After – Marketing the German Book Prize Winner DW-World: History as Comic – The Trend toward Graphic Novels DW-World: "Let's Make Money" – A Film about what Banks do with our Capital DW-World: Young Theatre 2008 – The Actress and Playwright Laura de Weck DW-World: TOP 3		12.10.2008
										13.10.2008 euromaxx highlights On this edition: - Ocean Challenge: The toughest sailing race in the world gets underway - Big Picture: The very expensive work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky - Screen Aria: The opera "La Boheme" has been made into a movie - All That Jazz: Nils Wülker plays the Enjoy Jazz festival in Mannheim Video: Download here (mp4)
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	19.10.2008 Situated in a lush valley surrounded by forests, vineyards and hills, Stuttgart’s climate is comfortable year-round DW-World: Stuttgart – The city known for its Swabian approach to life DW-World: Stuttgart - Opera tenor Matthias Klink takes around town DW-World: The Saxon Wine Route – Romantic vineyards and old castles DW-World: On Board the Weisse Düne – Go for a sail off the coast of Usedom DW-World: My Darmstadt – Marion von Katte from Colorado, U.S.A.	20.10.2008 In this edition of "Tomorrow Today"-- high resolution images of the Red Planet were shot with a cutting-edge camera made right here in Germany. And its designers are now working on a whole range of applications for back here on Earth. DW-World: Eye from the Sky - Mars Camera Comes Down to Earth DW-World: Studio Guest Gerhard Neukum DW-World: Tangible Mathematics - The Science of Soap Bubbles DW-World: Mouse Alarm - Fast-forwarding Evolution DW-World: Deep Drilling - New Geothermal Energy Source below Iceland	20.10.2008 Is the European fear of an invasion of African immigrants exaggerated? That's one of the themes in this show. Not every African refugee wants to leave the continent forever. Many are not fleeing for their life to a distant promised land, but to neighboring countries like Senegal, away from civil wars, poor environmental conditions or simply to find work. DW-World: Looking for Happiness - stranded on the way to Europe (video) DW-World: Migration in Africa – They're not all dreaming of Europe DW-World: Questionnaire: Dr. Shabana Sewani from Mumbai, India (video) DW-World: Tasmania and Big Business – Truffle production in Australia DW-World: New Jobs, New Faces - the revival of Argentina's shipbuilding industry (video)	21.10.2008 Next week in MADE IN GERMANY we`ll have a look at one of the biggest European logistic centres. DW-World: Logistics Center Leipzig – Global Gateway DW-World: Mister DAX – with Dirk Müller on the trading floor DW-World: Studio Guest – Bernhard Jünemann, Börse Online DW-World: The effects of the financial crisis – a journey to the heart of Germany's furniture industry DW-World: Wine Grower Eva Pauser – quality red wine from Germany	22.10.2008 Turkey’s Aegean coast is a vital agricultural region. But the fertile soil also harbours precious metals. A gold mine threatens farmers’ livelihoods and the environment. Dirty gold – Turkish farmers fight for survival… DW-World: Poland: Chemical Castration for Pedophiles DW-World: San Marino: Winner in the Bank Crisis DW-World: Germany: Europe’s First Cemetery Exclusively for Soccer Fans DW-World: Turkey: Gold That Doesn’t Glitter DW-World: Finland: The Sole Brewery on the Åland Islands Video: Video on demand	23.10.2008 They’ll ease general complaints and nausea - and are said to harmonise the body and release blocked energy. How to use Chinese healing teas correctly… DW-World: Special Treatment - To Combat Strokes DW-World: Special Circumstances – Why We Gnash Our Teeth and What Helps DW-World: Special Delight – Traditional Chinese Tea for Health and Healing In Good Shape	24.10.2008 Approximately one million people live in Germany illegaly - without a residence permit, in constant fear of deportation. Do these people have any hope of becoming naturalised citizens? A life in hiding. DW-World: The Financial Crisis DW-World: Waiting for Help - former residents of children's homes are demanding compensation DW-World: Question in the Forum DW-World: How to become German DW-World: Illegal immigrants - how hundreds of thousands of people live in Germany illegally	25.10.2008 ”A Woman in Berlin” – a film of the best-selling book, with Nina Hoss in the lead role, opens in cinemas. Graciela Iturbide’s themes are tradition, modernity and death. For her lifetime achievement, she’s now being honoured with the most important international photography award. DW-World: Breaking a Taboo – A Film Tells the Story of the German Women Raped by the Red Army DW-World: Graciela Iturbide – At Home with Latin America's Best-Known Photographer DW-World: When Architects Dream – Visions of the Future at the Venice Biennial DW-World: The Writer Galsan Tschinag – German Language Literature by a Mongolian DW-World: TOP 3	25.10.2008 German directors have returned to the Alpine drama – a genre that had its heyday in the 1920s. The latest attempt to storm the German charts is Philipp Stölzl's NORTH FACE. Pepe Danquart shot the documentary TO THE LIMIT about two world class German free climbers... KINO tracks this new cinematic trend. DW-World: The Call of the Mountains – Young German directors rediscover the Alpine drama DW-World: Wounded Hero – A German soldier with post-traumatic stress syndrome DW-World: SHORTCUTS DW-World: Potsdam gets its close up – Germany's first director-in-residence DW-World: 10 SECONDS	19.10.2008
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	26.10.2008 In this new edition of Discover Germany we travel north to Mecklenburg, land of a thousand lakes. We'll also try our hand at deep sea fishing off the coast of Helgoland and visit Erfurt, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in Germany DW-World: Mecklenburg Lake District – Land of a Thousand Lakes DW-World: Recommended - Veterinarian Bernd Linke and his tips for Mecklenburg DW-World: Erfurt – Old and new from the city in the center of Germany DW-World: Berlin - Germany's Fashion Capital DW-World: Petri Heil on the North Sea – Deep Sea fishing off Heligoland DW-World: My Göttingen - Angel Trinidad from Manila, Philippines	27.10.2008 This week's "Tomorrow Today" focusses on doping and hopes that investigators might be one step ahead of the perpetrators this time. They are already developing testing methods to combat a new form of performance-enhancing fraud called gene doping. DW-World: Navigating like Bees: nature inspires a new generation of flying robots DW-World: Telemedicine – remote controlled treatment for diabetes patients DW-World: Gene Doping - a race against time DW-World: Studio Guest Dr. Patrick Diel	27.10.2008 One of the topics in this week's show: "Computers for Everyone!" How Social Entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio tries to bridge the technology gap. DW-World: "Computers for Everyone!" Social Entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio from Brazil DW-World: Questionaire: Baris Kara from Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany DW-World: Oil Rush in Canada -A boom and its consequences. DW-World: SODIS - Clean water at an affordable price DW-World: Controversial Water Clocks - Soweto residents fight for their right to water	28.10.2008 How about a heating system that's in your own garden, coming from deep inside the earth. MADE IN GERMANY is looking at this environmentally friendly alternative to gas and oil. Heating specialist Vaillant, is now about to make it even more affordable. DW-World: Vaillant – New Markets for New Technology DW-World: Studio Guest – Christine Schweikert on the Effects of the Financial Crisis on Commodity Prices DW-World: Gold – Supply Shortages DW-World: Family Businesses – The Lorenz von Ehren Tree Farm DW-World: Car Sales – Hard Hit By the Financial Crisis	29.10.2008 Routing out drugs in Prague. Daily, the police wage war on illegal Labs – specialised in producing Crystal Meth. It’s extremely dangerous and the ingredients are easily secured. A drug problem – that’s getting worse and worse. DW-World: Britain: Muslims in London DW-World: Czech Republic: Crystal Meth DW-World: Poland: Life without a Bank Account DW-World: Spain: Job exchange for Romanians DW-World: Croatia: New Life in Istria's Villages Video: Video on demand	30.10.2008 Back aches. A major source of pain for many people. What are the causes? And What can one do? DW-World: How to Treat Back Pain DW-World: Close Your Eyes – what really puts insomniacs to sleep DW-World: Open Wide – dental care and the apple DW-World: Hands Off – dangerous cosmetics and how to avoid them In Good Shape	31.10.2008 Ever more German soldiers are paying for their country's engagement in Afghanistan with their lives. Thirty German soldiers and police officers have died, and hundreds more have been traumatised by their experiences there... DW-World: Inheritance Tax - Why the Politicians Are Fighting Over It DW-World: The Census - Why Personal Data is No Longer Personal DW-World: Afghanistan - Why More and More German Soldiers Come Home Traumatised DW-World: Unemployment Falls - Why Germany's Jobless Rate Has Hit a New Low DW-World: Question in the Forum Video on demand			26.10.2008
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”Create Europe” – a competition for young fashion designers, supported by the Goethe Institute. Cem Cako is one of the finalists. This talented young man is on his way to becoming a top fashion designer.

German schoolchildren know very little about the former East Germany. An internet portal is set to provide help. On it, young people are to collect stories and in doing so, learn what German unity means.

60 years Israel. For author Assaf Gavron and his friends, it’s reason to take stock. Four contemporary Israeli artists convey a sense of the mood in their native land.

In a special edition of Discover Germany we concentrate on a single region, the French-German border area. We'll show you some of the highlights on both sides of the border

Clean drinking water – produced with simple and inexpensive technology: That’s the goal of physicist Michael Kreisel. His solution: Blue LEDs. He’s doing all he can to prepare a device for mass production. So contaminated drinking water can be easily cleaned anywhere.

People in the industrialised world people eat too much -- too much fat and above all, too much sugar. But an herb from Paraguay could help. Stevia is a sweetener that's 300 times sweeter than sugar and is virtually calorie-free.

In this edition of MADE IN GERMANY: Outsourcing – investments abroad create jobs at home. One example is the company Herma. Its flourishing business abroad enables the label manufacturer to invest in a new production line in its headquaters in Stuttgart.

Construction boom in Bucharest. The Rumanian capital is rapidly changing. Despite the international financial crisis, the building industry’s revenues have reached a record high – property prices are rising. But here too, concerns about a real estate bubble are growing.

Turkish culture has never been so much in focus in Germany as it is this fall: Turkey is the guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair and also in the spotlight at this year’s international music industry trade fair, Popkomm, in Berlin. Join us in discovering the Turkish cultural scene!

In this edition of "Tomorrow Today"--Italian scientists discover a giant underground lake, which they hope will play a major role in supplying the country with potable water.

In this edition of MADE IN GERMANY, we look at the effects of the global financial crisis on German business. We asked experts for their solutions to the troubles.

Frank Walter Steinmeier and Franz Müntefering: Two politicians, who couldn’t be more different... They are the SPD’s new leadership duo! The candidate for chancellor and the designated party leader. Together they want to make the Social Democrats successful again.

Graphic Novels - they tell complex stories with pictures. The comic books for discerning readers are a very special art form. And the winner of the German Book prize, Uwe Tellkamp.

Situated in a lush valley surrounded by forests, vineyards and hills, Stuttgart’s climate is comfortable year-round

In this edition of "Tomorrow Today"-- high resolution images of the Red Planet were shot with a cutting-edge camera made right here in Germany. And its designers are now working on a whole range of applications for back here on Earth.

Next week in MADE IN GERMANY we`ll have a look at one of the biggest European logistic centres.

Turkey’s Aegean coast is a vital agricultural region. But the fertile soil also harbours precious metals. A gold mine threatens farmers’ livelihoods and the environment. Dirty gold – Turkish farmers fight for survival…

They’ll ease general complaints and nausea - and are said to harmonise the body and release blocked energy. How to use Chinese healing teas correctly…

Approximately one million people live in Germany illegaly - without a residence permit, in constant fear of deportation. Do these people have any hope of becoming naturalised citizens? A life in hiding.

”A Woman in Berlin” – a film of the best-selling book, with Nina Hoss in the lead role, opens in cinemas. Graciela Iturbide’s themes are tradition, modernity and death. For her lifetime achievement, she’s now being honoured with the most important international photography award.

In this new edition of Discover Germany we travel north to Mecklenburg, land of a thousand lakes. We'll also try our hand at deep sea fishing off the coast of Helgoland and visit Erfurt, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in Germany

This week's "Tomorrow Today" focusses on doping and hopes that investigators might be one step ahead of the perpetrators this time. They are already developing testing methods to combat a new form of performance-enhancing fraud called gene doping.

One of the topics in this week's show: "Computers for Everyone!" How Social Entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio tries to bridge the technology gap.

How about a heating system that's in your own garden, coming from deep inside the earth. MADE IN GERMANY is looking at this environmentally friendly alternative to gas and oil. Heating specialist Vaillant, is now about to make it even more affordable.

Routing out drugs in Prague. Daily, the police wage war on illegal Labs – specialised in producing Crystal Meth. It’s extremely dangerous and the ingredients are easily secured. A drug problem – that’s getting worse and worse.

Back aches. A major source of pain for many people. What are the causes? And What can one do?

Ever more German soldiers are paying for their country's engagement in Afghanistan with their lives. Thirty German soldiers and police officers have died, and hundreds more have been traumatised by their experiences there...

”A Woman in Berlin” – a film of the best-selling book, with Nina Hoss in the lead role, opens in cinemas.

Graciela Iturbide’s themes are tradition, modernity and death. For her lifetime achievement, she’s now being honoured with the most important international photography award.