Reportage

The Pepperellas - New Burlesque in Germany

The Pepperellas are the biggest German amateur burlesque group. In daytime they work as bartender, vendor or telephonist. By night they become Wanda Widowmaker, Foxy LaScar or Kitty GoWild. Their performances are visited manly by a woman public.

The greatest art forgers since 1945 - Wolfgang Betracchi!

The first embrace in freedom of the couple Beltracchi after a year on remand.

The Cologne regional court has spoken its decision on Thursday in the biggest counterfeiting scandal since 1945. The art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi be for six years in prison, his wife Helen gets four years in prison, the defendants Otto Schulte-Kellinghaus and Jeanette Spurzem, five years in prison and one year and nine months on probation.

Occupy Frankfurt - Work in Progress

2011 was the year of global protest against the financial industry. Citizens in more than 200 countries have found themselves together into a global movement. The Occupy protest movement. As part of the world wide occupy movement Franfurt is the biggest camp in Europe. It's still running.

God's country

In the morning allready thausends of people are going through Altötting. Here the Basilica with garden in the background

In September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. has made a six-day trip through Bavaria. The visit has attracted hundreds of thousands of believers, employed thousands of security forces and cost millions of euros. On his trip, the Pontifex Maximus attended, the cities of Munich, Freising, Regensburg and Altötting. For the Catholic dominated Bavaria his visit was an appreciation. Today, years after the visit, you can even go out on a tourist trail of his visit. His itinerary of the 2006 is offered as a group and individual travel.

Farmers against nuclear power

farmers from Luechow-Dannenberg protesting against transport of Castor containers to nuclear waste storage site in Gorleben Wendland Lower Saxony protests opposition demonstrators protesters anti-nuclear activists radioactive waste politics Europe Germany.

Wendland in a new era has dawned. Since 1977, in the

Dublin Pony Kids

The children are not to be overlooked. In bareback piebald ponies they ride on streets, public squares, sidewalks around the city. They come from the bleak high-rise developments in the suburbs of Dublin, from Ballymun, Clondalkin and Finglad. Until the 1980s, their families were traveling people.

With their caravans and horse-drawn cart they traveled trough Ireland's roads, and were less and less welcome. They took leave of her vagabond life, but not of their ponies. So the origin and undemanding animals were tethered in the dim green between the skyscrapers or in public parks, some took his piebald also in the apartment.

Rio -Santos 9 Places

Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro: BRASILIEN, RIO DE JANEIRO, BARRA DA TIJUCA, BRAZIL,: Jogging am Strand - Dirk Gebhardt -

Rio - Santos 9 Places is a report of nine sites along a small coastal road in Brazil. Between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Dirk Gebhardt tried the whole spectrum of Brazilian society to represent.

15 Years after the genocide - Orphans in Rwanda

Skulls in the central memorial site in Kigali

UNICEF estimates that over 1,000,000 children were orphaned as a result of the 100 day Rwandan genocide (equal to 12 percent of the entire population of Rwanda). Currently, approximately 42 percent of the population in Rwanda is under the age of fourteen. Unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that Rwanda has the greatest number of orphaned children worldwide. Some of these children are responsible for up to four siblings, and according to UNICEF, 95 percent of all children in Rwanda have been witness to violence or death; it is suspected that

Age of Kali - Aid for AIDS in India

While western media are still writing about the African AIDS tragedy, an new and more powerful crisis is on the rise in India. As Indian governments for a much too long time rejected the existence of HIV in the subcontinent and projected the illness to the demoralised western societies, the virus already holds the Indian nation in a tight grip. From big cities to small villages in the country side. And even more, the expectation are, that India will be hit much harder by AIDS in the next few years, than most of the African countries. 2003 had seen 520,000 new infections in India, the Health Ministry said there were just 28,000 in 2004.