features
The sound of Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" echoes powerfully through the Protestant Heiliggeistkirche church in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in south-west Germany. Singer Tine Wiechmann stands at the microphone at the front, accompanied by band members on piano, bass and drums. The church's pastor, Vincenzo Petracca, claps along enthusiastically. The visitors sway and dance in their seats, many of them singing along to the 34-year-old's global hit. About 1,200 people from all age groups attend two pop church services with live music by Taylor Swift. Almost all ...
DPA International
The sound of Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" echoes powerfully through the Protestant Heiliggeistkirche church in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in south-west Germany. Singer Tine Wiechmann stands at the microphone at the front, accompanied by band members on piano, bass and drums. The church's pastor, Vincenzo Petracca, claps along enthusiastically. The visitors sway and dance in their seats, many of them singing along to the 34-year-old's global hit. About 1,200 people from all age groups attend two pop church services with live music by Taylor Swift. Almost all ...
DPA
The marial art of karate originated in Japan's southern region of Okinawa. Evolved from the island's own art of self-defence called Ti, modern karate emerged amid influences from other parts of Asia. At a time when Japan has transformed into a country with one of the lowest crime rates worldwide, what compels people to still learn the defensive skills today? In one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & features desk, we visit a modern karate centre in Okinawa to find out. Each feature comes illustrated with high-quality photos ready for publication online or in print. D...
DPA Breaking News
Immersive art shows are all the rage, enveloping viewers in works displayed on an outsize scale and in a range of different media. Often the shows involve digital displays, projecting works by Claude Monet or Salvador Dalí onto the walls of huge exhibition halls, so viewers feel like they are in the painting itself. That saturates viewers in colours and shapes as they explore the elaborate shows that are often accompanied by music. Sometimes, the artists' biographies are told on film, too. Organizers say visitors can surrender themselves to the intoxicating power of the images - in shows that ...
DPA International
Excelling at karate starts with your outfit. You need to tie the loops of your suit correctly - not easy for a beginner. Terumitsu Taira helps learners out until the snow-white suit no longer slips. We move over to the lawn of the Okinawa Karate Kaikan training and museum complex where Taira set up two cement blocks and laid a layer of roof tiles over the space between them. The tiles are not made of clay, but of hard plastic that can be broken and reassembled. But they are just as hard as clay tiles, he says, before donning gloves and demonstrating his skill. Taira steps in front of the block...
DPA International
Ukrainian Katerina Silvanova and her Russian co-author Elena Malisova never expected their book about two teenagers falling in love would be such a hit - and a reason to flee their countries. A coming-of-age story about the love that grows between two boys at a Soviet pioneer camp, the book, with its two engaging star characters Yura and Volodya, is popular in Russia. But following its publication, author Silvanova was forced to flee to her Ukrainian hometown of Kharkiv, despite it being under Russian attack, while Malisova wound up having to begin a new life in Rostock, Germany. Their first w...
DPA International
"He's really old." That was Beate's first thought when she saw Ulrich Heinen, a Franciscan monk, for the first time - and she remembers that till this day. But at 65 at the time, it was not like she was exactly a spring chicken. And after all, at 53, he was more than a decade younger. Yet neither age nor religious rules could stop the two from living together, and the former nun and the former monk ended up as a married couple. The two met 15 years ago when Brother Ulrich dropped by the home of Beate, an artist, trying to get her to take part in a dialogue in the monastery. "The intention was ...
DPA International
Immersive art shows are all the rage, enveloping viewers in works displayed on an outsize scale and in a range of different media. Often the shows involve digital displays, projecting works by Claude Monet or Salvador Dalí onto the walls of huge exhibition halls, so viewers feel like they are in the painting itself. That saturates viewers in colours and shapes as they explore the elaborate shows that are often accompanied by music. Sometimes, the artists' biographies are told on film, too. Organizers say visitors can surrender themselves to the intoxicating power of the images - in shows that ...
DPA
Excelling at karate starts with your outfit. You need to tie the loops of your suit correctly - not easy for a beginner. Terumitsu Taira helps learners out until the snow-white suit no longer slips. We move over to the lawn of the Okinawa Karate Kaikan training and museum complex where Taira set up two cement blocks and laid a layer of roof tiles over the space between them. The tiles are not made of clay, but of hard plastic that can be broken and reassembled. But they are just as hard as clay tiles, he says, before donning gloves and demonstrating his skill. Taira steps in front of the block...
DPA
Ukrainian Katerina Silvanova and her Russian co-author Elena Malisova never expected their book about two teenagers falling in love would be such a hit - and a reason to flee their countries. A coming-of-age story about the love that grows between two boys at a Soviet pioneer camp, the book, with its two engaging star characters Yura and Volodya, is popular in Russia. But following its publication, author Silvanova was forced to flee to her Ukrainian hometown of Kharkiv, despite it being under Russian attack, while Malisova wound up having to begin a new life in Rostock, Germany. Their first w...
DPA
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら