Your donations to “Swiss Review” remain as important as ever Your donations are a great help to us. They give us huge motivation to provide the Swiss Abroad with top-quality content. Every “Swiss Review” is your own little home from home, regardless of where you live in the world. But “Swiss Review” also costs money – and is still feeling the squeeze. Please show your solidarity and donate. With your help, we hope to safeguard the magazine’s future and continue to produce the independent, quality journalism that our editorial team stands for. Can we count on your support? WALTER SCHMID, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Please donate now – every little helps in securing the future of “Swiss Review”. Donate via credit card: www.revue.link/creditrevue Donate via PayPal: www.revue.link/revue Bank account for donations: IBAN: CH97 0079 0016 1294 4609 8 Bank: Berner Kantonalbank Bundesplatz 8, CH-3011 Berne BIC/SWIFT: KBBECH22 Beneficiary: BEKB Bern, Account 16.129.446.0.98 Organisation of the Swiss Abroad, FAO Mr A. Kiskery, Alpenstrasse 26, CH-3006 Berne Reference: Support Swiss Review Email: revue@swisscommunity.org 1/800 000 The “Fifth Switzerland” is a colourful, varied and multilingual puzzle with well over 800,000 pieces. Today’s puzzle piece is ... … Marcus Deiss, born in 1973, an ICT/B2B adviser and author who has been living in Zambia since 2022. Deiss writes books that explore landscapes, cultural identity and the stories of places. His work includes the three-volume series “Timeless Switzerland”. What does ‘homeland’ mean to you? Home to me is not a fixed place but a feeling of familiarity. It is the moment when landscape, language and behaviour need no explanation – they are simply understood. Is it possible to have several homelands? Yes. Home is where you live, take responsibility and build relationships. Switzerland is where my roots are – Zambia is the place I currently choose to call home. What is it like for you being connected to more than one country? It creates distance – but also gives clarity. You begin to see differences more clearly and question what you used to take for granted. This perspective has a direct influence on my writing. What relationship do you have with Switzerland? A calm and consistent one. It manifests itself less in the day-to-day and more in how I see the landscape in which I live, and in my view of orderliness and cultural structures. Many things about a place only become apparent when you no longer live there. What do you miss the most about or from Switzerland? How the whole country is easily accessible. The proximity between lakes, cities and mountains – and that everywhere is well connected as a matter of course. Has your attitude to (Swiss) traditions changed since you emigrated? Yes, I have become more aware of them. Distance makes traditions less self-evident but more important at the same time. More: www.revue.link/puzzle3 SwissCommunity Swiss Review / July 2026 / No. 3 34
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