City of plagiarism.

Venice is strangely empty: The locals have fled before the carnival, and fans are still not there. Whether the financial crisis is to blame? Even with the mask saving ideas seem to be announced - Tanja Schulz-Hess has copies of their winning costumes discovered.

 

We are surprised us the other day that there are still as comfortable in Venice is empty. At this time it was in the last few years, always full, and there were many interesting costumes to see. This morning at 7 clock - Tobias had been the early rendezvous at sunrise packed with masks - were about 50 photographers while at St. Mark's Square, but only about 20 masks, half of which has not been particularly good times.

Strange. If the economic crisis too, and many people simply stay at home, as well as some of our friends, who otherwise could not have omitted Carnival? Or people simply later and shorter, to save money? If you ask the Venetians, the only: "Yes, the crisis we have to remember much, but the carnival was always a safe bet, and we hope for good sales."

Among the less some of the costumes are really hard-boiled "usual suspects". With amusement, I have two copies of my two costumes winner at St. Mark's Square view. Even an old acquaintance, my idea of Montgolfiera up and tried to have a thing to set. Venice is a city of just plagiarism - sometimes better, sometimes worse. Let's see what the jury, this time by the Oscar-winning costume designer Gabriella Pescucci is given, and whether it says the winning ideas of the past two years will once again reward.

Who lives like already Presented at the Eller

Today, I throw myself the first time in my shell and meet with a photographer who for 26 years photographing the Carnevale. The Munich Thomas Schuster had me quite surprisingly great photos of us from the last few years, clever, and we agreed we have a decent photo session on the calm days. So it often goes in Venice. Photographers and face masks for years from afar and suddenly start to talk to each other to provide mutual inspiration and stories and experiences. Often created by wonderful friends and wonderful photos.

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Tanja Schulz-Hess

Tanja Schulz-Hess, 38, prefers it for ten years at the Carnival of Venice. 2007 and 2008 won the publishing business from Hamburg with their robes "Luna Park" and "Montgolfiera" each took first place in the competition of the costumes.
For blogs online, it will take effect on Monday in her diary from the tumult of the "Carnevale di Venezia 2009" report, about intrigue, rumors and the world behind the masks.
www.worldofcostumes.com

We forgave us in the Venice off the beaten track, the Venice of the Venetians. Apropos: The ratio of the Venetians to the tourists and especially the carnival is very ambivalent. Many locals live on tourism and curse him and the curious people simultaneously. Who lives even in the happy ever Presented Eller. But for centuries, it was never different in Venice: the city since the monetary benefits of the guests discovered and learned to use.

Nevertheless, for the few Venetians are slowly umherschlendernden tourists often simply a traffic barrier. Especially on the vaporetto, the water buses. Although the residents would have to someday get used to it, but what they do as little as some hamburgers, the ever-on "wet air" (ie rain) lament.

If it is Carnival in Venice, then a mass exodus occurs one. Anyone who can disappear for skiing or other trips, at least for one or two weeks. This is a very lucrative deal for many enterprising townsfolk. Because some other home for this time of Carnival addicts exorbitant rents for sublet. Over 1000 euros per week are not uncommon. As is one's own travel funds quickly, and it has not the whole hubbub. The Venetians are already smart.

Fresh fish from the Rialto market

Yesterday, I was still almost silent, but the antibiotics seem Dottore curb the problem - at least for the Carnival. In God all morning, I went to the wonderful vegetables and fish market at Rialto. The still air and the cloudy herumeilenden Venetians float me a relaxed, happy smile on the face. In a small bar around the corner, I stand fast in a cappuccino - just as the Italians do. BTW: After 10 clock is coffee with milk gives only drunk by tourists.

 

The Rialto market is a magical place, especially so early in the morning, when the dealers their goods built and beautifully decorated. The light on the Grand Canal will slowly from milky to clear, and the sun glows through the bright red curtains in the fish hall. With a bag full of fresh fish and green stuff, it does not exist for us, and blessed feeling I saunter back. In the evening we will be in our small kitchen to cook. A leisurely day, just right before the "hot days" a little energy.