(6 June 2016) Two writers – one German and one Italian – accompany the audience on an imaginary journey through their two home countries, comparing Italy and Germany of yesterday and today. It is Feridun Zaimoglu and Federico Italiano: the rendezvous with the debate “Fahrkarte nach Italien – Tickets for Germany” – which will be moderated by Francesco Bravi – this Thursday, June 9 to 19 at the Italian Cultural Institute of Hamburg that has organized the meeting in collaboration with the Institute of Romance Philology and the Institute of German Studies of the University of Hamburg and the Kiwi Verlag publishing house. In 1816, “Journey to Italy” was published for the first time by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. This travel story has left a strong mark for 200 years in the German collective imaginary. But today what happens if we buy a ticket to Italy? How do Germans live in a modern perspective what was once their “Sehnsuchtsland”? And, conversely, what do Italians think of Germany? The two countries have always been linked by cultural and privileged political relations, expressed in many literary events that to this day represent this mutual interdependence. (Red)
