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A ”Different” Travel Guide for Greece Released by Eberhard Rondholz

By Anastasia Chaini

Eberhard Rondholz was the WDR’s editor, of the West German Radio, specializing in Greek-German relations. He has now released a tour guide in Greece, which is very different from others.

Another colleague and friend of the journalist Eberhard Rondholz, went to Greece for the first time in the 50’s, hitchhiking with a backpack on his shoulder. And he loved it forever. Not for its ancient glory and its sunshine, but for the immediate past and the present, he learned the language, and studied it daily, as well as meeting lots of people.

On a professional level, Rondholz has been the dominant Greek-speaking  journalist of WDR, the West German Radio for decades. We flip through his book ”Greece”. The book paints a portrait of the country and it has just been released by the East German publishing house Christoph Links. It’s a guide that every tourist would read to learn about Greece’s mentality and recent political, economical and social history.

He describes not only the Greek’s generosity, but also Greece’s Civil War, the fact that Greeks built the University of Thessaloniki on the venerable Jewish Cemetery, about the priest’s kindness and the despot’s greed, pride and corruption.
It begins with describing Greek coins and the modern history and looks at Athens’ street names and talks about the old Philhellenism. It also  discusses a Turkish ”imam baildi” and explains Greece’s relations with the Turks.
It’s a very fascinating read. The author gradually introduces the reader to the diverse, multifaceted and contradictory Greek phenomenon. With particular emphasis on Greek-German relations, he refers to the Greece’s current situation and to the negative comments of some German media about Greece or to the Germany’s Occupation of the country, where he sounds very relentless with his countrymen: all in all, he brings the German reader in touch with Greek’s bitter feelings about these difficult times of Germany’s Occupation. In the whole book, there is not any emotional outburst, or a confession of love. Through Rondholz’s knowledge about Greece, there is one thing that the reader realises: his worship of Greece.

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