Germany, America, and German-American Centers with Friederike

Season 1, Episode 20. It should be no surprise that our conversation with Friederike Schulte, the director of a German-American cultural institution, had us ping-ponging across the Atlantic. Pennsylvania Quakers! Stuttgart! Silicon Valley! Berlin in the '40s! The Midwest Goodbye! The trans-Atlantic dialogue doesn't hold back on geography.

We chat over-assimilation, American heroism, and "that whole hanging out concept." (I'm still chuckling about that.) Plus, Friederike tells us what a German-American cultural center actually does, why these places exist, and where you can find them around Germany.

GERMAN-AMERICAN CENTERS 

• Carl-Schurz-Haus in Freiburg
• Amerika Zentrum in Hamburg
• American Space in Leipzig
• Amerika Haus Nordrhein-Westfalen in Köln
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland in Saarbrücken
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut in Nürnberg 
• Amerika Haus in München
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut in Heidelberg
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut in Tübingen
• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James-F.-Byrnes-Institut in Stuttgart
• Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz in Kaiserslautern  
• Kennedy Infozentrum/Amerika-Gesellschaft Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel

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