Tony Ganzer
Listen to KJZZ's Tony Ganzer's reports from Germany where he brings a range of stories from business to immigration, with appeal on each side of the Atlantic. His trip is part of the Arthur Burns journalism fellowship.
25 November 2008
Prague, a city of culturePhoenix maintains partnerships with cities around the world as a way to promote culture and economic ties. The Sister Cities program includes ties with Mexico, Canada, and Japan. But it's a relations Phoenix has with the city of Prague--the capitol of the Czech Republic--that is the focus of our next story. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer traveled to Europe on a fellowship, and found a city rich in culture and history that few Phoenicians know much about, even though there are close Arizona ties.
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20 November 2008
E2 Visa: Leutenbach UpdateEarlier this year KJZZ brought the story of Joerg and Beate Bohlig, a German couple who owned a restaurant in Eastern Arizona. But their E2 Visa was denied for renewal, and now they're making a life back in Germany, while their possessions sit in Nutrioso. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer visited the Bohlig's in Leutenbach, and brings this update.
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26 September 2008
A Guest Worker Program That Works?KJZZ's Tony Ganzer continues his look into Germany's guest worker program from the 1960s and 70s, as he tries to find clues of what may be ahead if a similar program is instituted in the US. Ganzer finds some experts say Germany is still having a rough time with guest workers, and the US may not have it any easier.
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25 September 2008
Foreign Funding for Foreign LanguagesThough many students are exposed to foreign languages in high school, some parents want their children speaking second languages earlier in life. For that, many turn to private immersion schools. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer reports on one such school in Tucson that has caught the attention, and funding, of the German government.
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09 September 2008
A Generation After Guest WorkersAs a the US debate on immigration reform and a new guest worker program is stalled, KJZZ's Tony Ganzer is looking at Germany's guest worker past. He reports that decades after the programs were enacted some immigrants and their children are still having a hard time getting along, in both their new and old countries.
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09 September 2008
A Wild West-Inspired GermanyArizona's a choice spot for tourists from many parts of the globe--the Grand Canyon alone is visited by nearly 5 million people a year. But some Germans in Dresden enjoy Arizona for a different reason. KJZZ'S Tony Ganzer reports on how this Arizona Club is using the American Wild West for inspiration.
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28 August 2008
Flying toward the CockpitIn January KJZZ brought the story of a flight school in Goodyear, where German pilots get their wings. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer met with some of the students as they continue their training in Bremen, Germany.
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18 August 2008
Globalizing the Air Industry...moreAs with any industry, the airline business has had some rough times. But two different players in the industry are making moves to fend off unwanted turbulence. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer reports from Frankfurt, Germany.
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14 August 2008
Arizona's Military Service: LandstuhlAs the United States continues its military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is also still supporting the wounded soldiers, and the families of those soldiers left behind. In Western Germany the Landstuhl regional medical center is the largest U.S, medical facility outside the U.S. and is for giving care to both U.S. and coalition forces, as well as their families. KJZZ's Tony Ganzer visited Landstuhl, and brings the voices of three Arizonans in the military medical system, with very different stories.
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07 August 2008
Transatlantic Immigration LessonsKJZZ's Tony Ganzer begins an occasional series from Germany as part of the Arthur Burns journalism fellowship, where he'll tell stories that compare immigration issues on each side of the Atlantic. Germany is now coping with the results of a massive guest worker program from the 60s and 70s, which brought Turkish and other minority workers into the country during the "economic miracle." Some of the lessons of that program, may influence current attempts at immigration reform in the U.S. In this first installment, Ganzer tells why one Phoenix man's past experience with immigration issues in Europe influenced his sometimes heated future.
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