{"id":30952,"date":"2026-08-26T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globale-literaturfestival.de\/01-11-marco-balzano-230-p-m\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:36:25","slug":"01-11-marco-balzano-230-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globale-literaturfestival.de\/en\/01-11-marco-balzano-230-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"01.11. Marco Balzano, 2:30 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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01.11. Marco Balzano, 2:30 p.m.<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Trieste, 1920. Mattia is a fascist from the very beginning. His face is still beardless, which is why people call him \u201cBambino,\u201d but his punches are so hard that half the city fears him.
Mattia doesn\u2019t know who his mother is. Could she be one of those from over there? A Slovenian? His father, the anti-fascist and watchmaker, won\u2019t tell him. Amid the mud and chaos of World War II, Mattia eventually loses all sense of certainty, and he learns that today\u2019s winner can be tomorrow\u2019s loser.

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Moderator: Elisabeth Arend<\/strong>

Live Translation: Valeria Casagrandi<\/strong>

The event will be held in German and Italian.<\/em>

In cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Hamburg, the German-Italian <\/em>
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