Gastmann finds himself in the spotlight of Paris Fashion Week, stays with a nonna who cooks for him like her own son, and learns to understand the city on the water from a gondolier. Gastmann strokes the lions of an oligarch from the Little Carpathians—and is almost fed to the tigers. He bathes in what the Hungarians jokingly call the world's largest noodle soup, amidst fire, fog, and laser light, and encounters a flower girl in a Bulgarian slum, amidst a mountain of garbage. Gastmann experiences Europe—sometimes by express train, sometimes by local train, sometimes by bus through villages where the tracks end. From the Gare de l'Est to Venice, from Trieste to Budapest, from Belgrade to Sofia, until the doors of the Orient open before his eyes. And everywhere he senses the changing times. What is the state of our continent, of the European dream?

biography

Dennis Gastmann, born in 1978, studied politics and journalism before becoming a writer for NDR television, contributing to programs such as the satirical news program "Extra 3." Since 2009, he has traveled the globe as a "world reporter" for the NDR foreign affairs magazine "Weltbilder." In 2009, he received the Golden Prometheus Journalism Prize for "Best Newcomer." For his television series "Around the World with 80,000 Questions," Gastmann was awarded the Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists in 2010.

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