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   CONNECT theexpatcast.com Instagram @theexpatcast  Twitter @theexpatcast