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It is Sunday, 11.55 clock. Our plane is flying slowly on the island city. In five minutes the start of the Carnival of Venice correctly and the captain was on our demand so friendly, with an extra round tower over the city to negotiate. The traditional "Flight of the Angel" - nowadays usually glides with a prominent guest at a steel cable across the Saint Mark's Square - the larger opening ceremonies of the next ten days. Is it a good omen that we are at the same time as the City of Angels fly over the St. Mark's Square? We will see, are excited and looking forward to the poetic and bustle in the city.
Around 1.5 million people were on average in recent years at the Carnevale di Venezia. The visitors bring the businessmen of the city around 80 million euro. This year it is likely because of the crisis, also strongly Venice feels a bit less. But many Venetians will still be too much hubbub.
We come regularly for ten years during the carnival. Each year is something special. Especially for passionate costume makers like me. It is true again and again the same people, but everyone invents itself every year. Bigger, more beautiful and unusual garments must be. From the most exclusive venues of costume crazies can be found only if after a few years really it.
Who throws a "black party" behind closed doors? Where to meet for the masked photo shoot at dawn? How to be invited? Who tummelt to the illustrious balls in the magnificent palaces, the 250 to 1000 euro entry cost? Who will be the international competition in St. Mark's Square this year to win? Some of these stories, which go far beyond the cliché of Carnival in Venice beyond, we want to tell the next few days.
With Excess in the barge
Happiness seems to us to hold this time, because all are exceptionally suitcase arrived. Often we had been for days on luggage to wait in Venice because it always lasts until the delivery via barge their way into the city takes place. And the weather also seems to play: Unlike the cold, cloudy Germany is the sun in the bright blue sky and lets the 6 degrees felt like 15 effect.
Everything because, well, then go. The bus route number five - with 2.50 euros the cheapest unbeatable way from the airport to Venice - juckelt cozy and rammelvoll in half an hour to the Piazzale Roma, the bus station in Venice. There, the usual game with Wasserbusfahrern: "How so big boxes and suitcases? No, no, no .. Signora." "But, signore, it is Carnival, the costumes ... please, please ..." Our caretaker Signore Franco, who collects, governs the issues.
About the Grand Canal full drag boats, our sets just behind the Rialto Bridge. Even a few corners, then we arrive at our accommodation, which, according to Donna Leon's house Commissario Brunetti is. At least the address is derived from Leons books. But the rest is literary freedom. The staircase has no real resemblance to the book, the roof and the illicit cultivation, there is not. Ironically there is an amusing live illusion - like many in this city.
The first day run more quietly, gradually come to the costume maker with thousands of bags, suitcases and boxes. Some even travel with a truck on. For example, our friend from Bologna Allessandro. He was in last year's second competition and is highly motivated this year to give everything. And Allessandro there a lot. 2008 "rode" he Bourbon gentleman dressed in a tied around his belly polyesters horse, led by a squire. In September 2008 he got a quadruple heart bypass and now, a couple of months later, he grabs a truck packed with even more costumes. You have to be mad to the carnival as to love. "You only live once," says Allessandro just laconically.
With nine costumes in competition
But we also belong to the hard core of about 20 costume freaks who
For years the major international competition to represent. This year I have made a total of nine costumes. Why one is not enough? I have so many ideas that I never can decide what costume I make.
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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
I was already accused of winning was my only goal. But it is not. Like many others who keep coming back, I just love making and wearing the robes that you otherwise in modern life could never create. The spirit is free in Venice. Here, every two weeks so as it is in the heart or would like to. Colorful and flashy, elegant and refined, mysterious and playful, everything has its place here. You are respected and observed.
Nevertheless, in Venice is more quiet and restrained. There is little loud Bohei. The delicate poetry of the crumbling, faded town is their strongest argument, here and not somewhere else to experience the carnival. Venice, with its morbid, but the authentic charm, the half of the atmosphere. It runs not only through any street in any town to celebrate. Without the city itself, which merges with the people, the carnival would not be the same here. Here is blurring the old with the new and the here and now. Therefore, it is never boring. Many come for half her life ever again here in the carnival and find a balance for their civilian lives.
Today we still, in many hotels and apartments to suit all people present: unpacking, sorting, transport, damage repair, costumes unfold last reassemble constructions. And first breath, even through Sestiere, the district electricity, a beloved Käffchen in the bar on the corner and take a moment, looking anxiously at the sky: I hope that we keep the good, dry weather.
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