The Beatdown Way, by Writer to Ambassador

Now he will switch sides and go as ambassador to the small Balkan country in Berlin.

Stefan Kister*

Writers are ambassadors of truth even when literary truth is subject to the laws of literature.

So they can, for example, intercede with their readers about how they feel when they come to distant Germany and ask for a bit of luck, and instead they only face problems.

Albanian writer from Kosovo Bequ Cufaj in his novel” The foreign excellence” has confessed to this: what it means to meet a people from whom one of the novel heroes says, all that can be learned from it is how a whole life can be achieved without getting rid of the difficulties.

Now years live since Cufaj and his family in Degerloc. This morning he has liked his little girl with the little girl's team in SV Hoffeld's soccer campaign where she plays- and perhaps this sympathy of father for her team to win this match with a score of three to zero. But she soon has to find a new team. Some confessions of migration may begin so that the curves have to do with the tragic-telling that Cufaj himself told him. But there is another way to his story. It's not about expulsion, it's about lying alien splendor, it's about a strange mission. That is because the writer born in 1970 in Kosovo will be his country's ambassador to Berlin.

Kosovo has marked in February the tenth anniversary of independence impossible to say that Europe's newest state has still managed to break free from difficulties. Only recently has the EU justice mission, which has turned 10 years old, stopped working in this country.

This mission, which has been faced with difficulty because of a lack of extenuating power, has also faced serious criticism.

Even on this one, Cufaj wrote in his very attentive novel: Project@party) is the book where he relates about the social, economic and political misery of a country where an entire army of aidists in the international community freeze and etabrate a kind of humanitarian regime.

In Kosovo Germany is the most beloved country

Until now, the family of Bequaj has been living face to face with the house where former German President Theodor Heuss lived. And now in front of Cufaj is a credit card to President Frank Walter Steinmeier in Schloss Bellevue. It is not surprising, when the warm and temperial writer himself cannot believe which film he has entered. And it looks like this sunny afternoon you're enjoying the last free time she's had left with Jeans and an open shirt drinking coffee before she gets into the line of diplomacy with strict public presentations.

February 20, 2008 The Federal Republic of Germany has recognised Kosovo as a sovereign state. Unlike other EU states, Slovakia, Romania, Greece and Cchipro, which have only unresolved problems with minorities and therefore recognised the new state. In 2009, Kosovo opened its embassy under which there are four consulates. Their top leader will now be a writer who 22 years ago during the armed conflict between Serbia and Kosovo was an Accredited journalist in Bonn. That world, Steinmeier was the chief of the Chancellor's office.

They're known by those times. ” Steinmeier knows everything about the Balkans”, says Bequaj. He particularly appreciates the fact that Steinmeier had come to the funeral ceremony of Ibrahim Rugova, the country's first president who was still under UN administration after the liberation from Serbia, thus giving a clear signal.

”Synyl from Berlin -- this is what people in Kosovo” expect, says Cufaj, who now no longer sounds like a writer but rather as someone trying to touch a new language registry.

German is the most beloved country for Kosovo, only in Berlin it seems no one knows. Most of Kosovo's diaspora in Europe lives here. And these people are no longer the same men they were 20 years ago. In the meantime, they are skilled, gardeners, gastronomics, academics, and god-adopted entrepreneurs, worth”.

How do literature and the official tongue go?

As much as has been achieved in the field of integration, the issue of improving communication is also a challenge. Kosovo is praised as a deeply corrupt country as a black Balkan hole. The” all Balkan countries have been enabled visa liberalisation only to Kosovo not, and this is shameful”. It especially pains him when Baden Wuerttemberg Prime Minister Winfreed Kretschmann on his recent visit to the Balkans stopped in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, but not in Kosovo, which he missed. ” This must change. Some 100,000 Albanians from Kosovo” live in Baden-Wuertemberg. Until man hears the debut ambassador, there is no way of asking if he can create literature what is called the nexthand look and contradiction? Or how are you patient to enter the alternative service of the language of the approved rules? Well, since Cuffaj doesn't see a breach at mission in question. I've always been political and in my writings I've always confessed to the need for justice in people's lives, and I'm going to do that in my new function”.

A good friend is Serbian writer Dragan Velikiq as well. He too was in diplomatic service as Serbia's ambassador to Australia. He was given instructions, as Bequouj relates, to stay away from Kosovo diplomats in Australia. But without coming well to Vnjena, he had greeted his colleagues from Kosovo's newest state. Perhaps for writers, there are other rules of understanding, more universal, beyond all protocols.

Becoming Cuffaj sees in his new task the need for relations to gain new momentum. The family rooted in the depths of Suebian enjoys the berlinez air. ” It is not always easy to live with artists“, Cufay says, moving his eyes and adding „with diplomats will be easier”. /Kankosova/

*Botgarter Zeitung and Stutgarter Nachrichten