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The guest: Canada’s culture
In 2020 and 2021, Canada is guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Five questions and answers on an unusual presentation.
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Interviews, coverage and background stories on Germany and its relations to the USA and Canada.
Click on the image to find more articles from the Year of German-American Friendship 2019.
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Smart downtown
Park automatically, use digital data, manage traffic: three German-US joint ventures for the future of cities.
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“Lack of a Culture of Remembrance”
Philosopher Susan Neiman on her life as an American in Berlin and an incomplete reunification.
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“New German identity”
Lorraine Daston, Director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, talks about a country in a process of change.
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“A Success Story”
Sudha David-Wilp of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) on modern Germany and its path to reunification.
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“Investment in Alliances”
Ambassador Daniel Benjamin on the trust in the transatlantic partnership in times of crisis.
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“We are role models”
Satou Sabally has caused a stir – as a German player in the US basketball league WNBA and as an athlete with political awareness.
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Clean drive, quick transport
Whiz from city to city with the Hyperloop: Elon Musk had the idea, visionaries from Germany are developing it.
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Putting a partnership to the test
US President Trump plans to withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany. We present the key facts about the plans, the reasons for them, and the criticism they have sparked.
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“Getting Beethoven off his pedestal”
Art during the corona crisis: Steven Walter, the Bonn Beethovenfest’s new German-American director, talks about creative approaches to classical music.
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How climate policy works
What can politics do to combat climate change? The political scientist Jale Tosun from Heidelberg on climate policy in the United States and Europe.
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New perspectives on climate change
Data and climate are her topic: Kelsey Barton-Henry from the USA explains why she is doing her doctorate at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).