Paolo Rumiz

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Paolo Rumiz (born December 20, 1947 in Trieste , Free Territory of Trieste ) is an Italian journalist and writer.

Life

Paolo Rumiz started as a reporter for Il Piccolo in Trieste and then went to the La Repubblica newspaper . He wrote reports on the political dissolution of Yugoslavia . From November 2001 he was a correspondent in Islamabad and Kabul and experienced the war in Afghanistan .

Since 1998 Rumiz has been writing travel reports from his cycling and walking tours in Europe. He also went by balloon , traveled by rail and crossed the Apennines on a Topolino in 2007 . In 2012 he went down the river in a canoe, motor cutter and sailboat on the Po . Films have also been produced from his travels. In 2014 he lived for three months on a lighthouse on a small Mediterranean island. In 2015 he went on a hike with friends on the Via Appia from Rome to Brindisi , the report in the Repubblica prompted Culture Minister Dario Franceschini to provide budget funds for a path for lay pilgrims.

Fonts (selection)

  • Danubio. Storie di una nuova Europe . Pordenone: Studio Tesi 1990
  • La linea dei mirtilli - Storie dentro la storia di un paese che non c'è più . Rome: Riuniti 1993
  • Vento di terra. Istria e Fiume, appunti di viaggio tra i Balcani e il Mediterraneo . Trieste: OTE 1994
  • Maschere per un massacro . Rome: Riuniti, 1996
    • Masks for a massacre. The manipulated war: Searching for clues in the Balkans . Introduction by Claudio Magris . Translation Gesa Schröder; Friederike Hausmann . Munich: Kunstmann 2000
  • La secessione leggera - Dove nasce la rabbia del profondo north . Rome: Riuniti 1997
  • Maschere per un massacro - Quello che non abbiamo voluto sapere della guerra in Jugoslavia , Rome: Riuniti 1996 (new edition with a foreword by Feltrinelli 2011), ISBN 978-88-07-88044-5
  • with Francesco Altan: Tre uomini in bicicletta . Milan: Feltrinelli 2002, ISBN 978-88-07-84013-5
  • È oriente . Milan: Feltrinelli 2003, ISBN 978-88-07-88045-2
  • with Monika Bulaj : Gerusalemme perduta . Milan: Frassinelli 2006
  • La leggenda dei monti naviganti . Milan: Feltrinelli 2007, ISBN 978-88-07-88306-4
  • Annibale. Un viaggio . Milan: Feltrinelli 2008, ISBN 978-88-07-88287-6
  • L'Italia in seconda class . Milan: Feltrinelli 2009, ISBN 978-88-07-71102-2
  • La cotogna di Istanbul: ballata per tre uomini e una donna . Milan: Feltrinelli 2010, ISBN 978-88-07-01820-6
  • Il bene ostinato . Milan: Feltrinelli 2011, ISBN 978-88-07-88018-6
  • Trans Europe Express . Milan: Feltrinelli 2012, ISBN 978-88-07-01927-2
  • A piedi . Youth book. Illustrations by Alessandro Baronciani. Milan: Feltrinelli 2012
  • Morimondo . Milan: Feltrinelli, 2013 ISBN 978-88-07-03042-0
    • The soul of the river. On the Po through an unknown Italy . From the Ital. by Karin Fleischanderl. Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-85256-742-6
  • Come cavalli che dormono in piedi . Milan: Feltrinelli, 2014
  • Il ciclope . Milan: Feltrinelli, 2015
    • The lighthouse. From the Ital. by Karin Fleischanderl. Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-85256-716-7
  • with Riccardo Carnovalini: Appia . Milan: Feltrinelli, 2016
    • Via Appia. In search of a lost road . Translation of Karin Fleischanderl. Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-85256-774-7
  • Il filo infinito . Milan: Feltrinelli 2019, ISBN 978-88-07-03324-7
    • The infinite thread. Journey to the Benedictines, the builders of Europe . From the Ital. by Karin Fleischanderl, Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2020, ISBN 978-3-85256-805-8

literature

  • Christine Wolter : The lighthouse in Trieste and its inhabitants , in: NZZ , June 4, 2016, p. 28
  • Hannes Hintermeier : In search of the secret Italy . Review, in: FAZ, April 13, 2019, p. 11

Web links

Commons : Paolo Rumiz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Paolo Rumiz  - Quotes (Italian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benedikt Mahler: In the belly of the Cyclops . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 21, 2017, p. VZ16
  2. ^ Paolo Rumiz: Il guardiano del faro , excerpts in La Repubblica , from August 3, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Rumiz, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste