Stefanie Bisping
Picus reading tours, 132 pages, ISBN 978-3-85452-971-2, € 14.90
. Publisher Info: stimulating digressions in a country on the cusp between Europe's east and west
Just now arranged in Estonia as involuntary Soviet Republic Party and the planned economy, since it started already as an EU country and NATO member into a new life: the young State has been the "singing revolution" 1989 more experienced than other countries in a hundred years. Since independence, the clocks seem to run at twice the speed here. There are already more mobile phones than people, and the first nation in the world were able to choose their Estonian Parliament online. Stefanie Bisping drawing the picture of a country on the cusp between East and West, between tradition and renewal. From the small IT capital Tallinn, the European Capital of Culture 2011, she travels to rural Estonia, where storks walk through the fields, ancient boulders in the "Land of the bays," adorn the coastline and ancient superstition is still alive. She meets artists, masters and Estonia's first television chef, can be of gods and ghosts tell and does in the swamps and marshes of Southern Estonia in search of brown bears and wolves. 
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