Trieste

Karl-Heinz Fesenmeier
Karl-Heinz Fesenmeier
Age: 54 Workplace: Daily newspaper Badische Zeitung, Freiburg Department: Politics Host workplace: Daily newspaper Il Piccolo, Trieste Duration of stay: April 2013  What I want to report on: How is the country dealing with the financial crisis? What relationship do the Italian people have to politics? How I see Italy: As land moving between dolce vita and social problems.

The exchange between Trieste and Freiburg is part of the exchange programme Tapetenwechsel by the Goethe-Institut in Italy.
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    Trieste, 28.4.2013: Learning about Germany

    Three weeks in Trieste are many months too few. I have nonetheless learned a great deal about people, about Italy and about Germany. From afar, you perceive your own country differently. Most of all, I have learned a great deal about and from Trieste – a city that unites many things that elsewhere do not fit together.More ...
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    Trieste, 23.4.2013: The Forgotten City

    Trieste has a pronounced historic memory. The city does not deny its history; it lives it. Everything that ever was comes together and is still alive.More ...
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    Trieste, 18.4.2013: Porto Vecchio, the Late Beloved

    There are cities that reveal themselves to visitors at first sight. You see them and you get an approximate idea of their history, their people and their way of life. Trieste is not that kind of city. Even at second glance, the city remains full of secrets.More ...
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    Trieste, 16.4.2013: Italian Scandals? Crime and Comic Opera.

    Germany cannot understand Berlusconi’s comeback. And Monti’s flop could surely not have been above board. Why we Germans cannot comprehend Italian politics.More ...

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