Personal site of journalist, baker, and storyteller Tony Ganzer.
Like much of Europe, Bremen has a well-stocked cabinet of ancient buildings and interesting avenues. After a quick visit to Berlin for an interview I took a morning train to the port city for a talk with Lufthansa student pilots I had first met in Arizona. I also went to Groepeling to profile an Elternschule, classes for poor, young parents. Despite the requisite rain, Bremen offered some tid bits of interest.
In Western Germany the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest US military medical facility outside the U.S. and gives care to both US and coalition forces, as well as their families. KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer visited Landstuhl, and brings the voices of three Arizonans in the military medical system, with very different stories.
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If you take the DW bus line, or follow the DW road signs, it comes upon you like a whisper in darkness. One moment you’re drowning the sound of noisy Mercedes, Audis, and VWs on Bonn’s busy Reutersstrasse, and the next moment you’re breezing under a canopy of helpful trees. You can see the corner of a former government building. But when Bonn lost its placing as Germany’s capitol, Deutsche Welle was drafted to fulfill the immense structure’s potential.
This is not London, but to tease the rest of this post I’ll borrow from Ed Murrow. “This is Bonn, and there is ‘life’ going on.”
Immigration is a hot-button issue in the Southwest, with an ever-present debate on how to manage border security and labor. But immigration affects many nations in many ways, with some situations all too closely mirroring that of the U.S. This morning we have the first in an occasional series from KJZZ’s Tony Ganzer who’s in Germany on an international journalist exchange. Tony will be looking at immigration and guest worker issues from perspectives on both sides of the Atlantic, and in this report, he tells how one Phoenix man’s past influenced his sometimes heated future.
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