Laptop instead of lederhosen.

The beautiful region of Alto Adige in northern Italy in Bolzano treat Edeluni a luxury for a study with Alpenblick. With only 3000 students Everybody knows everybody - it carries an academic life as a wallpaper image, albeit with a night life like in Delmenhorst.

 

Admittedly, the most important breakthrough for science in South Tyrol is more than 5000 years ago. More precisely, it was a Durchschuss: An arrow pierced the shoulder of a lonely wanderer in the high mountains, shot down by an unknown enemy. The Gemeuchelte behind wohltemperiert now rests in a shrine, his fur leggings and goat leather underwear are issued separately.

"Iceman", the leathery-brown glacier mummy from the Stone Age, is indisputably the top tourist attraction Bolzano. On their way to the Archeological Museum, tourists carelessly pass a sober facade - behind the second academic attraction of the city, just ten years old: Since the autumn of 1998 runs of teaching at the Free University, Südtirols first and only university.

3000 students are distributed among a handful of faculty at the three sites Bolzano, Bressanone and Brunico, including about 200 Germans. The guests from the North appreciate the good study environment with relatively friendly fees: "I will pay as much as in Germany, but getting a top university," says Franca Liza fire Mueller, 25 The Nürnbergerin studied economics and management, she is very happy about their place.

Leather Lesecouchen and a lecturer for six students

Germany's measured, provides a degree of Bolzano de luxe. The main building in the middle of the town, designed by architects Züricher duo Matthias Bischoff and Roberto Azzola, an advertising agency would also credit: black stone floors, art objects, large window panes. Before the library fläzen newspaper readers are leather-covered seating areas.

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In any teachers, only six students, the new international Bachelor and Master degree programs, the Free University has long introduced.

A sentence you never hear, only because of the low age of the college, says Brandmüller: "We have always done so." Brandmüller is student representative to the economists, they and their colleagues reside on the top floor of the main building of the offices will open after several pages of the panoramic view of the towers of the city. Behind this rise, even in the late golden yellow shining, the vineyards, the distant mountain peaks are covered with snow. On the adjacent rooftop, the students at the time of the European Soccer Championships set a screen - television still photo wallpaper.

A club-like job in Delmenhorst

Bolzano is pretty, alpine bay flourishes in harmony with Italian boutiques and delicatessen shops. Even in November the people sitting in front of the cafes in the sun. The market trader selling flowers, mushrooms and spices, pasta, he smells of roasted chestnuts.

Only the night life was rather unspectacular, tell the students. Usually we meet in a bar to Veneziano, an orange drink from Prosecco and Aperol. The dance like you have more private desire - the range of clubs remind them of their home town of Delmenhorst, joked graduate Kristina Hartjen, 28

After completing it attracts Norddeutsche because even in a big city, Hamburg and Berlin, where she Kommilitonin with a design agency wants to establish.

The South Tyrol in itself was just a little "knospig" closed, said design student Kronbichler Thomas, 23, even Südtiroler. So much the better, then, that the university is so small and manageable, so the students learn each other, then it easy to know. "At large universities is to be anonymous, where the professors feel personally attacked when I'm missing," said Bettina Schwalm, 24

The Munich in Germany was around before they opt for the local design faculty decided. While elsewhere in the home at the desk potter must have Bolzano well equipped Workrooms.

Of these, the aspiring designers will soon have even more: In the courtyard of the campus excavators have excavated a large pit, here are nine million euros for new workshops and studios were built. "I was here with a blank sheet of paper to start," said Kuno Prey, who came from Weimar, a dean at the Faculty of Design building. "Bolzano is for Südtiroler the navel of the world, because the money is flowing more easily."