ARTS.21 series: My Treasure
March 18, 2007
"My Treasure" is a collaboration between DW-TV and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Join us now on our exclusive guided tour!
Episode 1: A Museum without Walls
Star architect David Chipperfield explains the magic of Berlin’s temple for 20th-century art, which was designed by legendary Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe.
Episode 2: Monk by the Sea
Bin Chuen Choi, an artist from Hongkong, muses on why Caspar David Friedrich‘s «Monk by the Sea», an icon of German romanticism, is so universally understandable.
Episode 3: Madame de Polignac's Moody Harpsichord
Usually museum visitors are warned to not touch the exhibits. But at Berlin’s Musical Instruments Museum Mitzi Meyerson has permission to play her favourite harpsichord.
Episode 4: Plum Blossoms in Moonlight
The American composer Maurice Weddington finds inspiration in Berlin’s Museum of East Asian Art. He shows us an ancient Chinese masterpiece by Chen Lu that is over nine meters long.
Episode 5: The Odyssey of an African Throne
At the Ethnological Museum German-African designer Mark Kwami marvels at the royal throne from Cameroon, which was given to Kaiser Wilhelm the Second as a birthday present.
Episode 6: The Miracle of the Fountain of Youth
For the German-Egyptian filmmaker Samír Nasr Berlin's Gemäldegalerie is a treasure-trove full of surprises. His particular treasure is "The Fountain of Youth" by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Episode 7: In the House of the God Ptah
A restorer shows us a family tableau from the time of the pharaohs. And she takes her own family along on this trip to Berlin's Egyptian Museum.
Episode 8: The Baroque Wedding Dress
What did brides wear in the 18th century? A Korean fashion designer takes us to Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts to tell us all about courtly customs and sumptuous bridal wear.
Episode 9: Apollo, Daphne and Hyacinthus
Japanese dancer Yui Kawaguchi showa us the statues of ancient Greek Gods at Berlin’s Bode Museum and reflects on the unhappy love affair of Apollo, Daphne and Hyacinthus.
Episode 10: Joseph Beuys' Fat Sculpture
by Joseph Beuys
Hamburger Bahnhof, BerlinImage: DW-TV
Thomas Schnalke, a medical historian at Berlin's Charité hospital, explains a key work by Joseph Beuys at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum for contemporary art.
Episode 11: Battle between Gods and Giants
Yasar Özbek from the Turkish embassy takes us to Berlin's Museum Island, to show us the world famous Pergamon altar.
Episode 12: The Original Score of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
The original manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony only rarely leaves the safe at Berlin's State Library, but conductor Marek Janowski is allowed to study it whenever he likes.