Get To Know Elisabetta

Working as a teacher and a music-video actress, Elisabetta tried out a few jobs. But becoming a reporter was a way to combine her passions. Read how she used that to share the reality from her home country, Italy.

Before working as a reporter, I studied Japanese and anthropology at the University of Venice and after that, I moved to Berlin. I had many experiences that allowed me to build my professional development - I was an Italian and Japanese teacher, Italian and Kurdish film festival PR, direction and production assistant, low-budget documentary reporter and even a music-video actress. But finally, I got work as a full-time reporter, a profession that ideally combines all my passions. My topics are social and cultural issues. For DW, for example, I was a correspondent in Colombia, I interviewed artists in Israel about the Gaza conflict and I reported on the Venice film festival.



How do you work things out?



It is not easy, but I'm convinced that crises and problems are sometimes the only way to see things from a different perspective, to gain awareness - even if it is in a painful way. It can push life in new and unexpected, fascinating directions!



Who do you turn to when life sucks?



My family, or friends. Although, actually, mostly I prefer to go straight to the cinema, which, for me, is the perfect medicine!



What was the first thing you shared - and why?



My first DW reportage. It was the story of a Naples modern art museum director, who sought asylum in Germany for his art collection. The mafia threatened him because he supported Italian artists, who denounced the corruption and criminality in Italy. It was very important to me to report his fight and to be able to share with the rest of the world this reality from my home country.