Close-Up: My Beautiful, Closed Laundrette
Märkisches Museum: This is where Sara Scarafia from Palermo began her descent to the underground (Photo: Sara Scarafia)
3 February 2010
Eight cities, eight journalists, hundreds of experiences: Once again, the Goethe-Institut project Close-Up relocated editorial journalists from around the world to unfamiliar surroundings – to a slum, a sealed border or laundrette – for four weeks.
Over recent months, four German local desk journalists were each guests of newspaper and broadcaster offices overseas for four weeks. In return, they were then visited by their exchange partners from Ghana, Kenya, Israel and Italy. The exchange was made possible by the Close-Up project of the Goethe-Institut. During this time, they reported about a broad spectrum of topics for their host offices, but also for their readers and listeners at home.
For Goethe aktuell, the journalists each captured one encounter, one observation, one snapshot from the new world. Come along with Munyao Mutinda in his search for laundrette, learn with Lia Venn that a slum can also be called home, and disappear with Sara Scarafia into Berlin's underworld. kann, und tauchen Sie mit Sara Scarafia in die Berliner Unterwelt ein.
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