Am 11 September 2013 sendete die BBC den Filmbeitrag von Samuel Girona, siehe Ende dieses Beitrages, und Patrick Jackson, BBC News, Berlin, veröffentlichte folgenden Artikel auf dem Internet-Auftritt der BBC. Die deutsche Übersetzung finden Sie unter dem Titel „Übersetzung des englischen Artikels: “My Germany: Student fencer”„.
Ahead of the federal elections in Germany, the BBC talks to people from different backgrounds about their lives there. In the first in the series, those at the privileged end of society talk about their student fraternity.
Nils Hempel, 26, values his friends as much as any man but perhaps never more than when he is slashing at their faces with a sword.
A law student at Humboldt University from Bremen, he belongs to one of Germany’s oldest all-male college fraternities, the Corps Marchia Berlin, in the German capital’s well-heeled suburb of Dahlem.
Life there revolves around the fencing match or mensur (literally the prescribed distance between swordsmen).
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