October 08, 2022, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, a culture-oriented national public German radio station in Berlin, broadcasted again our very first radio feature story about our US research adventure as college students, in 1979. Dr. Stoltenberg, historian & former Gov. of our home state of Schleswig-Holstein, had supported Dieter (Dee) Eicke, funeral speaker, Bad Oldesloe, and me […]
Retired German Ambassador Stefan Schlüter led a discussion titled “Germany’s Dramatic Zeitenwende: Setting new priorities in foreign, security, and energy policy” at the Germanic-American Institute (gaimn.org) in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 28. In the Q & A session, the idea of a dramatic change of personnel in the running of Germany was raised. It […]
As a German historian who lives half the year in the United States and the other half in Germany, I was impressed by Norman Watt’s recently published novel Fanatic, both for its evocative setting on an idyllic American college campus and for the variety of German and German/American topics it presents. These range from the […]
“Art and Food” is an enchanting new cookbook by Marliese Heimann-Ammon (the spouse of the German Ambassador to the United States). She was recently profiled by the monthly newspaper The Washington Diplomatin an article titled LIFE of ADVENTURE – From Fashion to Art, Wife Spotlights ‘New Germany’: Since coming to Washington in 2011, Heimann-Ammon has […]
Berlin-LondonContemporary Art by WomenGerman Embassy, London34 Belgrave Square5 February – 5 April 2015 Some say the battle for gender equality is over, at least in principle. Women won. So why does this exhibition set its sights solely on female artists? Is the artist’s gender still relevant in the 21st century?Up to the early 20th century, […]
from the February/March 2014 issue of the German Life magazine. Photo courtesy of Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Mr. German-Americana, is the editor of book reviews at the German Life magazine.
Barbara (Basia) Neil öffnete Türen und Herzen – Gerhard Stoltenbergs Zigarrenkiste und Fonds (Rede - Verabschiedung von Frau Neil, Staatskanzlei, Kiel) Damals, im Januar 1978 trafen sich der Lübecker Dietrich „Didi“ Eicke und der Flensburger Joachim „Yogi“ Reppmann in ihrer Kieler Studentenbude am Sophienblatt, um systematisch eine erste gemeinsame Forschungsreise in die USA vorzubereiten. Unser […]