 On his return to Germany, Cotta, the liberal publisher of Goethe and Schiller, offered Heine a job co-editing a magazine, "Politische Annalen", in Munich.Heine did not find work on the newspaper congenial, and instead tried to obtain a professorship at Munich University, with no success.After a few months he took a trip to northern Italy, visiting Lucca, Florence and Venice, but was forced to return when he received news that his father had died.