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Just 50 years ago, women in Switzerland did not have the right to vote. This is unimaginable for young politician Kelly Jessica. She meets four women who fought for suffrage, at a time when Swiss women could not open a bank account, much less expect to have a career – or a say in how their country was run. This right was not granted until 1971, 53 years after their neighbours in Germany and 52 after those in Austria.
This programme of the Swiss channel SRF  is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

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Overcoming exclusion

Just 50 years ago, women in Switzerland did not have the right to vote. This is unimaginable for young politician Kelly Jessica. She meets four women who fought for suffrage, at a time when Swiss women could not open a bank account, much less expect to have a career – or a say in how their country was run. This right was not granted until 1971, 53 years after their neighbours in Germany and 52 after those in Austria.
This programme of the Swiss channel SRF  is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Swiss women only got the right to vote in 1971. Politician Kelly Jessica meets women who fought for suffrage.

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Christine Hug is the first transgender high-ranking member of the Swiss armed forces, something that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. Lieutenant Colonel Hug invites us into her world, telling us about the path that led her where she is today. Alhough transgender people are more visible in society today, even in institutions like the army, this is a journey that often remains painful and difficult for both them and the people around them.
This programme of the Swiss channel SSR SRG is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

We follow the journey of Christine Hug, the first transgender high-ranking member of the Swiss army.

You will be a woman, my son

Hugo Clément speaks to several people currently living with HIV, notably Adam Castillejo, who has a message of hope after becoming the only person in the world to have been cured of the virus.  In-focus look at the preventative methods used against the virus, such as PrEP.  And, are the new generation well-informed?  7 young people confront their misconceptions about HIV.  
 
This documentary series by France.tv is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Hugo Clément hears from people currently living with HIV, including Adam, the only person in the world who has been cured of the virus.

HIV positive - so what?

Théo Curin is a French Paralympic swimmer. In November 2021, he made a daring attempt, together with two able-bodied swimmers, to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Théo Curin is a Paralympic swimmer. In November 2021, the Frenchman made a daring attempt to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Re: Swimming through Adversity

Driving heavy goods vehicles is a male-dominated sector. But today more women are getting behind the wheel of HGVs like Poland’s Iwona Blecharczyk, who has also become a global influencer online.

Re: Female Truckers Take the Wheel

Overcoming exclusion - The European Collection

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In 2017, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev was living and working from the separatist region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Critical of the self-proclaimed republic, he used pseudonyms to protect his identity. But one day he was exposed which led to his imprisonment and torture in the notorious Izolyatsia prison

The story of Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev who was imprisonment and tortured in the separatist region of Donbas.

The Torture Camp on Paradise Street

Three Japanese men have fallen under the charms of high school student Rinko, a character from the video game Love Plus. The game finally leads them to the seaside resort of Atami, where the virtual world and real life collides.

Three Japanese men have fallen under the charms of high school student Rinko, a character from the video game Love Plus

Petit ami parfait

With May the 9th Europe Day, Karambolage asks what Europeans living in France and Germany miss from their home countries.

European Expats in France and Germany

Karambolage

Halfway between social commentary and poetic meditation, a documentary showing life on the margins in a small town in the south of France.

Money Doesn't Buy the Poor Happiness

Karambolage looks at the peculiarities of the French and German everyday culture. Today: the word 'Cagole'; Yucheng Sun presents a Chinese object that was imported into France ; and 'Kneipp medicine', which is practiced in Germany.

The word 'Cagole' and an unexpected departure from France's usual chic

In August 1961, when the Berlin Wall was built, Karin was on vacation. But when she returned to the University of Leipzig, that's when she realised how harsh the East German regime could be. So she decided to try to find a way out.

Refugees in Their Own Words

Karin wanted to escape East Germany. But her attempt to flee would cost her everything

Escape From East Germany

In honour of Europe Day on the 9th May, Karambolage takes a look back at what Europe is and how the European Union works.

How Does the EU Work?

Khalil fled Syria in 2015. He currently lives in southern Germany. He realised that people's attitudes towards him totally changed when they heard him speak their language and their dialect. So he decided to immerse himself in the language. By playing with German words, he makes people laugh. 

When Khalil fled to Germany from Syria, he knew if he wanted to flourish in his new life he had to live and breathe German

From Syria to Germany

The coronavirus pandemic raises big questions about trust in politicians and how to interpret scientific advice. German science youtuber Doktor Whatson asks what would happen if scientists were in power rather than politicians. How would they solve another pressing problem, the climate crisis?

What if Scientists Were in Charge? with Doktor Whatson

Time to Question

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The planet's jet streams are being affected by rising temperatures in the Arctic. These streams are part of a wind system that circulates at high altitude around the Earth, and they have an influence on extreme weather events. Changes in them are bad news for life on Earth.

How Climate Change Makes Storms Worse

Changing jet streams are bad news for life on Earth

Winds of Change

An investigation into a little-known story from the Second World War. Having planned and executed their mass murders, the Nazis meticulously eliminated traces of their crimes against humanity between 1942 and 1944: The so-called Operation 1005.

How the Nazis Covered up their Crimes

The Nazis meticulously eliminated traces of their crimes against humanity between 1942 and 1944: The so-called Operation 1005.

Operation 1005

It has its own currency, flag and government. Yet the state of Transnistria is not recognised by the international community. Wedged between Ukraine and Moldova, 450 kilometres long and a few dozen kilometres wide, it claimed independence in 1990.

Transnistria: Back to the USSR

It has its own currency, flag and government. Yet the state of Transnistria is not recognised by the international community.

ARTE Reportage

To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing. He's always been fighting for our right to enjoy a better future than the one we are making for ourselves. Perhaps a strange mission for someone with punk musical roots?

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Sting was an ecologically-conscious yogi hipster before it was even a thing

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The literary source for Richard Strauss’s opera immortalizing the degeneracy of Herodes Antipas, King of Judea, and his step-daughter Salome, was supplied by Oscar Wilde. It tells of Herodes, who is keeping the prophet Jochanaan captive inside a cistern. Salome tries to seduce him and on being rebuffed, forces her stepfather to serve her the prophet’s head on a silver platter.

Directed by Christof Loy in Helsinki

Rejected by the prophet Jochanaan, Salome forces her abusive stepfather to exact revenge.

Richard Strauss: Salome

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

Lockdowns, crop failures due to climate change and the war in Ukraine are all to blame for soaring prices around the world.

Geopolitics of Inflation

Mapping the World Essentials

The Maginot Line is a giant: Thousands of underground bunkers and concrete defences lining the French border, from Belgium to the Mediterranean. In its time it was celebrated as a technical masterpiece and thought to be impregnable, today it also stands for the trauma of the French defeat in 1940. The documentary looks at a military construction that is as fascinating as it is controversial.

France's Defensive Barrier

Thought to be impregnable, the French defensive barrier did not halt the German invasion in 1940.

The Maginot Line

Far away from the South Korean capital of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple. Three nuns live, pray and cook together here as they preserve the knowledge of centuries-old temple cuisine. The abbess of this small monastery is the charismatic Wookwan Sunim, revered in Asia as one of the best cooks in the world.

South Korea: Magic Temple Food

Far away from the South Korean metropolis of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple where three nuns live, pray and cook together 

Geo Reportage

Ordinary Ukrainian citizens are preparing to resist the Russian invader by joining the army and helping the resistance in any way they can.

Ukraine: Resisting the Agressor

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the people of Kyiv together like nothing else. Calling on the spirit of the Maidan Revolution of 2014, they are ready to resist.

Ukraine: Maïdan Spirit

Pianist Maria-João Pires joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann.


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Felix Mendelssohn - Ein Sommernachtstraum (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Overture, Op. 21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, K. 271

Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, "Spring", Op. 38

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival 2022

Pianist Maria-João Pires joins the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in a concert featuring the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann.

Maria-João Pires plays Mozart

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn. He performs his new album live: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

ARTE Concert Festival 2021

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Located about 100 km east of Odessa, in southern Ukraine, the city of Kherson was quickly taken by Russian forces on 2 March. Since then, the inhabitants have been living under Russian occupation. Our Ukrainian colleague Svitlana Pavuk reports on daily life there for TSN 1+1.

Kherson: Life under Russian Occupation

Dispatches From Ukraine: Local Journalists Report

"They called us: 'Tutsi! Tutsi!' They took you out of the tent and did what they wanted with you." 

Prisca, Marie-Jeanne and Concessa say they survived the Rwandan genocide and sought safety in refugee camps, only to be repeatedly raped and abused by the French soldiers sent there to protect them. All describe similar horrors: abduction from their tent, the gang rapes, and the photos of the assaults taken by the soldiers. “We naively thought that the white man was a saviour, that he would bring peace,” sighs one of the women. While French army denies all accusations of rape, the three women filed a complaint with the French courts in 2004 and 2012. The investigation is now at a standstill.

Rwanda: The Silence of Words

Three survivors of the Rwandan genocide level terrible accusations at the French army

After two months of fighting, the Russian troops had their advance towards the West blocked by fierce Ukrainian resistance. Forced to leave the suburbs of Kyiv, the occupying army left behind mass graves and horrific accounts of rape and abuse in their wake. Russia is now turning its efforts to the Dobas and the coastline along the Sea of ​​Azov. In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled.

 In Kyiv, the return of spring is also the return of many residents who had fled

Ukraine: Kyiv in Spring

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 30,000 Russians have left their country for Georgia. This is the case of Artyom Petukhov, organiser of an anti-war demonstration, who fled Putin's regime with only his smartphone in hand.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 30,000 Russians have left their country for Georgia.

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