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Story Archives of 'Germany'
Honoring the Sacrifice: One Soldier Recounts His War
By Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.This week, Roger Aldrich received medals for his service in World War II.
It’s taken the Army six decades to get the veteran his decorations because a fire wiped out his records years ago.
But New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports the 86 year old knows those decorations won’t prove his sacrifice.
That proof lies elsewhere.
Berlin Walls of the 21st Century
By Jen Nathan on Monday, November 9, 2009.
The Berlin wall crumbled twenty years ago today, but that doesn’t mean that physical barriers between opposing regions and countries have gone the way of the dodo. Foreign Policy magazine released its list of the Berlin walls of the 21st century.
East-West Couples
By Hardy Graupner on Monday, November 9, 2009.
German newspapers and magazines are teeming with articles charging that the political and cultural divides between East and West Germany still exist two decades after reunification. Many people still don’t perceive themselves as being part of a single society. For others, these psychological barriers no longer exist.
Artists Take Refuge in Berlin
By Virginia Prescott on Monday, November 9, 2009.
Later today, the festival of freedom kicks off at the Brandenberg gate. U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton joins French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mikhail Gorbachev and throngs of revelers celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. Daniel Barenboim will conduct the Staatskapelle Berlin and Bon Jovi will perform.
The evening culminates when thousands of giant, colored dominos fall along the path where the wall once stood. It symbolizes the chain reaction on that started twenty years ago, the night that East German guards stood stunned as the once mighty border crumbled.
It was an event that triggered an influx of artists, collectors and gallerists into Berlin’s Soviet apartments, industrial buildings, even a Nazi bunker. Artists helped turn cheap real estate into places to create and show art and transformed Berlin into a world art capitol. Catherine Hickley is arts correspondent for Bloomberg News in Berlin. She joins us now from Berlin with an update on the city’s art scene.
The Bloomberg News: Dark Cold-War Art Marks 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall
The CBC: The Berlin Wall - Twenty Years After the Fall
'Festival of Freedom' to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
(Photo by siyu via Flickr/Creative Commons)
The Berlin Wall Comes to L.A.
By Jen Nathan on Thursday, November 5, 2009.
The Berlin Wall is making its Los Angeles debut this month. The Wende Museum installed several segments of the original Berlin Wall on Wilshire Boulevard in L.A. They asked artists to paint over a few of the panels with American icons who helped tear down the wall that divided Germany. Artist Kent Twitchell planned to paint two portraits, one of JFK and the other of Ronald Reagan.
The City As Playing Field
By Martha Poole on Thursday, October 1, 2009.
Maybe you’ve heard of parkour, in which practitioners climb, jump and flip over walls, fences and stairs, turning the city into an obstacle course. Such unconventional sports are taking off in Germany, according to Der Spiegel.
Garbage Bin Rap
By RadiJoJo on Friday, September 4, 2009.RadiJoJo from Berlin, Germany and their unusual contribution to the canon of cause songs.
Building the Berlin Wall: 45 Years Later
By Laura Knoy on Monday, August 14, 2006.Forty five years ago this week, a one hundred and three mile long wall was built in Germany, splitting the capitol city of Berlin into East and West and creating an impassable no man's land. Topped with barbwire, surrounded by boobytraps, mines and armed guards, the wall was meant to stop the steady flow of skilled workers leaving East Berlin for West Germany and prevent an economic collapse in not only post World War II Germany, but also the occupying Soviet Union, who was subsidizing their economy. We'll look at what led up to the creation of the wall, the impact it had not only on Germany, but Europe and the United States and how people feel about it today, long after it was torn down. Laura's guest is Dr. Jackson Janes, Executive Director of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Janes previously taught in Germany and has been engaged in German-American affairs for three decades, including serving as the Director of the German-American Institute in Tübingen, Germany. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
A Father and Son Bonded by Science
By John Walters on Thursday, March 21, 2002.Jochen Heisenberg is a theoretical physicist at the University of New Hampshire. His father, Werner, is famous for winning the Nobel Prize and creating the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but to some, he's famous infamous for staying in Nazi Germany and doing atomic research during the war. Part of this period in Werner's life is explored in the play "Copenhagen" which will be in Boston next month. Jochen talks about his father's and his own work and the difficult decisions his father was faced with.
A Wartime Detention
By John Walters on Thursday, November 29, 2001.When he was a teenager, Max Ebel fled Nazi Germany to come to America. But after World War II broke out, he became a statistic. He was among the thousands of German-Americans arrested and detained for little or no reason. He ended up living in harsh conditions in rural North Dakota. Max talks about his experiences and his daughter Karen talks about her campaign to get government recognition for the treatment of German-Americans and to prevent similar ethnic targeting today. Find out more at www.foitimes.com/internment
