Delicate aroma of coffee beans from Ethiopia

Cornelia pointed Villingen. Ethiopia was suddenly in the new concert hall. The earthy smell of freshly roasted coffee beans moved into thick clouds of smoke over the stage, the visitors breathed relish, some with closed eyes, and the first travel documentary series by Michael Hoyer's "story VS" took its course.

Beautiful landscapes, even gamely, then fissured, gorgeous rolling green landscapes on the one hand and on the other bone-dry deserts, villages with the very simple round huts of the natives, and deserted landscapes of a still active, bubbling volcano. And every now and again: coffee break, no: Ceremony, when Ethiopian women the beans by hand over an open fire roast, crush with a mortar and take time to enjoy the most beautiful kind of coffee: in a familiar, relaxed atmosphere with friends and the family.



The familiar round of course had to give the audience in the sold-new concert hall, the traditional coffee ceremony, but that did: live on stage, with roasting over an open charcoal fire.

Not very spectacular was the story that presented itself to the public. But even more surprising: starving children with snotty, distended bellies and bulging eyes were sought in vain.

No, what the Touratech-founder Herbert Schwarz and his wife, Ramona, a photojournalist, showed in her film, was Ethiopia, as the audience did not expect. And they themselves do not - certainly not collect after Ramona Schwarz had already in 2001 dubious travel experience in Ethiopia may, culminating in the fact that they had been arrested: Only almost of an apparent savages, he was naked, "wore an ammunition belt and scars "for the enemy, whom he had killed, then, to her happiness, of a man whose function of a police officer is likely to come next and just saw a chance to save Ramona Schwarz and her former traveling companion in front of the warrior: You caught to take.

Long Ramona Schwarz is free again - and this freedom she feels in common with her husband Herbert only too happy to wide-sweeping journey through the wide world on a motorcycle. But they also gave Ethiopia a second chance - and they should not regret. Their motivation: to know the country in which "the best coffee in the world" comes the order, the two already in the form of green beans to roast and then himself, grind and brew.

On Saturday night, they invited their Ethiopian journey into the New Concert Hall and left a deep impression: a phenomenally illustrated film factory backed, sometimes with cinematic melodies, then again with the singing of local people insights into Ethiopia, as they probably only get in those individual travel, and one speaker pair told wonderfully natural and unaffected by his impressions.

Only one that would have required a lot more: a cup of coffee from Ethiopia, which was originally prepared in this form only to those persevering patiently in front of the stage, has been bestowed.