Ljubljana

Kathrin Keller-Guglielmi
Alter: 52 Workplace: Daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz, Neustadt Topics: Local news Host workplace: Daily newspaper Dnevnik, Ljubljana Duration of stay: 2 until 23 March 2013 What I want to report on: Problems and hopes of the country since independence (1991) and accession to the EU (2004), future of Slovenian newspapers How I have seen Slovenia up to now: As a holiday destination with mountains, the sea, arts and gastronomy.

Her Slovenian exchange partner Marjeta Kralj will be reporting from Neustadt in February 2013.

Ljubljana, 23.3.2013: A Piece of the European Mosaic

Ljubljana Journal (7): Why Slovenia may be beyond the Alps, but it’s still right next door. more ...

Ljubljana, 21.3.2013: Slovenian Is Easy as Pie

Ljubljana Journal (6): Grocery shopping at the market is made easy in Slovenia – thanks to words coming from the Palatinate. more ...

Ljubljana, 18.3.2013: The “Little Model Nation” Is Stuck in a Rut

Slovenia is stuck in a recession; the national debt and unemployment are rising. Following a number of mass protests, in February the right-centrist government was ousted and replaced by a left-centrist government under Alenka Bratušek. But there is little hope for change. more ...

Ljubljana, 18.3.2013: “Hartz IV” – Is It Medicine Or Poison for Europe’s “Sick Man”?

Agenda 2010, a package of reforms presented in the Bundestag exactly ten years ago by then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, divided Germany. For some it is the epitome of social imbalance, for others the foundation of the German “jobs miracle.” more ...

Ljubljana, 18.3.2013: Prison Is “Hip”

Ljubljana Journal (5): Conversion Slovenian style – A cultural centre housed in a barracks. more ...

Ljubljana, 15.3.2013: Europe’s Atrocious Past

Ljubljana Journal (4): Encounter with an old lady who survived a concentration camp. more ...

Ljubljana, 13.3.2013: Angry Citizens Dress as Zombies

Ljubljana Journal (3): Angry at the government, citizens of Slovenia’s capital continue to take to the streets, but the steady stream has begun to recede. Saturday saw approximately 5,000 protesters marching through the centre of Ljubljana and covering both the city and themselves with stickers proclaiming: “Nasa last” – “my property.” more ...

Ljubljana, 9.3.2013: Gentrified but Green

The Green Party first gained seats in the German Bundestag thirty years ago. Back then, they were the nation’s enfant terribles. Today one of the party’s most prominent representatives – Baden-Württemberg’s minister president Winfried Kretschmann – is a 64-year-old who sings in his church choir. This is a look back. more ...

Neustadt, 8.3.2013: The Erased

Ljubljana Journal (2): There are ugly stains on the past of the yet so young state of Slovenia. The first thing I am confronted with at the newspaper Dnevnik are people who were declared non-existent 21 years ago and are still fighting for their rights today. more ...

Ljubljana, 6.3.2013: A Drinking Toast in the National Anthem

Journal From Ljubljana (1): The journalists’ exchange programme Close-Up takes the Palatine editor Kathrin Keller-Guglielmi for three weeks to Slovenia. For Rheinpfalz she writes from a country that was long considered the “Balkan Switzerland” and whose population loves to raise toasts. more ...

Neustadt, 9.2.2013: Palatine Perceptions – Slovenian Impressions

The German journalist Kathrin Keller-Guglielmi and her Slovenian exchange partner Marjeta Kralj are regularly commenting on a current topic in Germany for the Rheinpfalz – each from her own perspective. Part I: Safety. more ...

Neustadt, 6.2.2013: A Visit from Slovenia

In one way, my Slovenian exchange partner Marjeta Kralj is not a bit typical of her generation: the 30-year-old journalist likes a rustling sound when reading and turning actual pages. Paper can do that; a tablet can’t. more ...