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Saving private Saviano
Just landed back in Rome, the Rai3 special with Roberto Saviano, David Grossman and Paul Auster. One of those rare evenings in which it was worth turning the tv on. 2009-03-26 10:02 SAVIANO: CAMORRA...
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glowing visions of a poor town
Last sunday I was browsing the newsstand at the now beautiful Zurich airport and I stumbled on Dummy, a perfect magazine. I discovered in this month’s issue – dedicated to Berlin – the high-density...
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more about Berlin
A few updates…on the italian Radio 3 the “Jumping over the Wall” (Saltare il Muro) series of interviews has been on air for a week now. You can find the MP3 files below the Berlin Wall section. I kept...
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Anna in Stasiland
Stasiland, an incredible book by Anna Funder. The italian translation is very good, pity only for the title “C’era una volta la DDR”, which sounds a bit silly, actually. Funder starts in a casual way...
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ethics, c’est chic
The referendum in Berlin didn’t change the status quo. Ethics for everybody at school, as a common ground, and religion(s) on the side, only if you are interested. BerlinRomExpress celebrates with a...
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democracy, activism and social networks
There! It’s exactly what I wanted to elaborate yesterday in my post (but we had an invitation to dinner and had to rush :P ). The economist Loretta Napoleoni tells it very clearly today on D di...
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one
My friend L. is writing articles on the fall of the Berlin wall for her newspaper. Yesterday we talked over the phone and compared the best books we read on the topic, the best radio series we listened...
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Turkish path
Radio 3, our Multikulti, has started a series on the Turkish presence in Berlin on its programme called ‘Percorsi’ (=paths). Podcasts were finally loaded onto the website, you can listen to them here...
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no party-crashers in Berlin, bitte
Looking forward to November’s celebrations in Berlin, I hope the city will remain – as many Italian bars in the German capital already are – a “Berlusconi freie Zone”. A party-crash by Berlusconi would...
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Intricacies
Our lives become more and more complicated and intertwined. We have to travel, to work in different time-zones. Sometimes to live apart. The more this happens, the more I appreciate to call a place home.
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