Funnel 40/2, Inhalt - Fulbright-Kommission

NEWSMAGAZINE OF THE
GERMAN-AMERICAN
FULBRIGHT COMMISSION
SUMMER 2004
NUMBER 2 • VOLUME
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Berlin
Where Continents Meet

Dear Partners, Supporters, Grantees,
and Alumni of the Fulbright Program,
FROM THE DIRECTOR 3
FOR THE GERMAN-AMERICAN Fulbright Commission and its secretariat the year 2004 started with a
rather special event—in March we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Seminar. For our American
grantees, the Berlin Seminar has always had a very special meaning: on the one hand, it is a true family
event (and reunion for the Fulbright alumni), offering multiple opportunities to meet other Fulbrighters
from Germany and neighboring countries, often resulting in life-long
friendships. On the other hand, it provides the chance to experience a city
first hand, that for over 50 years has been the very geographical and political
focus of East-West-relations, a melting pot of different cultures and
beliefs, and a symbol of freedom. Berlin is a city, “where continents meet,”
hence our motto for the fiftieth Berlin Seminar, which—for the first time—
was organized in close cooperation with the German Fulbright Alumni
Association. They did a tremendous job in putting together an intensive
two-day program of high-profile seminars and workshops on the topic of
European enlargement with a group of outstanding speakers—a heartfelt
“thank you” again from the secretariat for this fruitful collaboration! Their
program was complemented by Fulbright roundtables on current issues
such as “Elite Universities” or the “bachelor-master” transformation and its implications for transatlantic
exchange. Over 450 participants enjoyed the intellectual discourse and the multitude of social and cultural
events by and for Fulbright grantees, alumni, and guests from other European countries. The Berlin
Seminar closed with a one-day workshop on “The University and Islam,” an exchange of views between
Germans, Americans, and participants from the Muslim world. New topics such as these add to the traditional
tasks of the Fulbright program.
Contrary to the general trend as reported in the media, the Fulbright Commission in Berlin again saw
an increase in applications from German citizens for Fulbright programs in 2003. During the academic
year 2002/2003 we have supported more than 600 individuals—approximately 300 from each country.
I hope that the year 2004 will be just as successful from our program’s point of view—in spite of a momentarily
difficult global political situation.
Dialogue between countries is impossible without the exchange of ideas and the physical exchange of
the most promising young students and scholars. In times like these the Fulbright Program remains an
excellent investment into both our countries’ futures. As the new Executive Director of the German-American
Fulbright Commission I am delighted to be able to contribute towards this goal.
All the best,
Rolf Hoffmann
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
On Our Website, Corrections, Editor’s Picks, Commission
News, Publications, Prizes & Awards . . . . . . . . 4–13
TITLE TOPIC
Where Continents Meet
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Seminar,
Fulbrighters and guests explore Berlin’s expanding
role as a city where people and cultures meet
by Claire Adamsick, Charles Hawley, Otto Pohl,
Tania Ralli, Chadwin Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Beyond the Transatlantic
The Berlin Seminar wraps up its theme “Where
Contintents Meet” with a discussion amongst the U.S.,
Germany, and the Islamic World
by David Beffert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
NEWS & EVENTS
Wiedersehen nach fünfzig Jahren
Treffen der Ehemaligen von ‘53 in Berlin
von Dr. Werner Landschütz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
“Hauptstadt Berlin” Seminar
A crash course in German politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Health as Foreign Policy
130 experts from Germany, the United States
and other European countries meet in Berlin. . . . . 24
FEATURES
Alumni Profiles
Klaus Liepelt
Vom Osten zum Mittleren Westen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Lucian Kim
The Fulbright Program, springboard
to a dream career . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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CityScapes
A Pickle in Paradise
Unterwegs durch den Spreewald
von Sarah E. Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
FROM OUR FULBRIGHTERS
“Si, se puede – Yes, we can!”
Non-documented immigrants in the U.S.
by Johannes Kloha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sorting Trash to Save the World
A look at the effect of personal responsibility
and government legislation on environmentalism
in Germany
by Nicole Harkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
A Gravestone for My Great-Grandfather
One family’s struggle for reconciliation
by Devora Rogers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Life on the Mississippi
Teaching German in Missouri
by Anette Riess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The German-American Fulbright Program . . . . . . . . 39
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Funnel Reply Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Imprint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Corrections
In the Winter 2003 edition of the Funnel, the photo,
on page 11 was incorrectly attributed to Andreas Fahr.
His fellow participant Ingrid Gessner was the actual
photographer. We apologize for the mistake.
[www.fulbright.de]

ON OUR WEBSITE Editor’s Picks
The Funnel Online
There are some features you will only
find on our website, so check out www.fulbright.de/funnel/index.shtml.
Did You Hear That?
The Funnel is expanding its online
offering this issue with new audio material:
“Devora’s Headstone,” a radio report
produced by Fulbright alumna Devora
Rogers for Deutsche Welle’s program, Living
in Germany. On page 35, Devora writes
about her quest to place a headstone for her
great-grandfather in Berlin’s Weissensee
cemetery.
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
In New Roots in Old Mühlhausen alumnus
Peter Hertz-Ohmes describes how he
and his wife Andrea braved city bureaucracy
and centuries of dust to restore a 1769
half-timbered house in Thuringia.
Elsewhere on the Website
Fifty years after they accepted the challenge
of a Fulbright scholarship, German
and American grantees from our first class
(1953-54) reminisce about the luxuries
and hardships of a year abroad in our recent
publication, The First Class of Fulbrighters.
More recent alumni will recognize their
own experiences in those of this first class.
The pamphlet was printed to coincide with
the reunion held over Thanksgiving for
German members of the class reported on
page 21. An electronic version is on our
website:www.fulbright.de/commission/
program/downloads/index.shtml.
The German-American Fulbright Commission’s
Annual Report 2002-2003 is now on
our website under: www.fulbright.de/commission/program/downloads/index.shtml.
by Erica Young
Focus on Research
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Although the opportunity to spend a year in the U.S. or
in Germany means learning to cope in a new language and culture,
for most Fulbrighters this is a means rather than an
end. They are in their host countries to teach or to research
and I am happy that in this issue we have two articles illustrating the results of
that work. Nicole Harkin’s look at environmental responsibility in Germany and
Johannes Kloha’s report on undocumented immigrants in the U.S. not only deal
with the authors’ chosen research topics, but both also look at issues of current
importance. We hope to have many more articles like these from you all in the
future.
Cityscape
A Pickle In Paradise. The title might be English but this issue’s Cityscape
feature by American Sarah Allen is written in German. Taking up the challenge
issued by the editor in the last issue, Sarah writes about the simple pleasures of
a trip to the Spreewald. You may notice that in this issue we are missing a
Cityscape feature from America. Not to worry, we will be back next issue with
the German perspective on life and travel in the U.S.
Keep in Touch
Soon, those of you who are current grantees will be finishing up
your research and teaching and heading home. We hope that
you will stay in touch. Whether you are staying on in your host
country for a while or heading home, send us your new address.
Not only will you continue to receive the Funnel, but if you join
our alumni directory, you will be able to keep in contact with
your fellow Fulbrighters for years to come. To update your
address either send us the form at the back of the Funnel or visit
our website: www.fulbright.de/alumni/directory/index.shtml.
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DEPARTMENTS
Commission News
DR. ROLF HOFFMANN
IS NEW EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
Just in time to help prepare for the
annual Fulbright Berlin Seminar, Dr.
Rolf Hoffmann joined the Fulbright
Secretariat in Berlin as the new Executive
Director on February 1, 2004.
Hoffmann, previously Director of the
new International Marketing Initiative
at the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD), was chosen
from a pool of more than 200 candidates
in an international search.
Born in 1953 in Cologne, Germany,
Hoffmann studied biological
sciences, with special emphasis on
behavioral ecology and zoology in his
doctoral studies at Duke University in
Durham, North Carolina, and the University
of Tübingen in Germany where
he was awarded his degree in 1983.
After two years as an assistant professor
in zoology at the University of
Karlsruhe he joined the policy division
of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
in Bonn and later became
Deputy Director of their selection
division and the Feodor-Lynen Program.
In 1990 he joined the newly created
German Space Agency (DARA)
as head of the international science
and business relations policy office.
Since 1991 he has worked mainly for
the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) in Bonn, first as Program
Director (for North American
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and European programs), then as
Director of the DAAD North America
office in New York, with an interim
(1999-2000) as Director of the German-American
Academic Council in
Bonn and Washington, D.C.
Hoffmann replaces Dr. Georg
Schütte, who left the Commission in
December 2003 to take the position
of Secretary General at the Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation.
25 YEARS MAKING
AMERICANS WELCOME
IN GERMANY
In 2004, Reiner Rohr, Chief of the
American Program Unit, celebrates 25
years with the Fulbright Commission.
A 1976 Fulbright student grantee to
California State University in Sacramento,
Rohr joined the Commission
in 1979. Since then he has welcomed
thousands of American grantees to
Germany and provided the expertise
and personal touch to help them make
Germany their home, if only for a short
while. His hard work and dedication
are appreciated by the Secretariat, as
well as by countless Fulbrighters.
ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS
AND SPONSORS THANKS
ALUMNI FOR DONATIONS
In addition to its business partners,
mentioned on page 12, the Association
of Friends and Sponsors of the
German-American Fulbright Pro-
gram wishes to thank alumni Hans
Karl Kandlbinder and Helmut Sauer
for their donations. Their and other
contributions help fund the Fulbright
Enterprise Scholarships given to
selected Fulbright student grantees
each year.
For information on how you can
become involved in supporting the
Association of Friends and Sponsors,
please contact Birte Blut (verein@fulbright.de).
REAC POSITION MOVES
TO BERLIN
The position of Regional Education
Advising Coordinator for Europe
(REAC), formerly held by Jody Griffin
at the Netherlands Fulbright Commission,
has moved to the German
Fulbright Secretariat in Berlin. Sherri
Spillman became the new Coordinator
and, in cooperation with the U.S.
Embassy, will be in charge of coordinating
and promoting educational
advising centers throughout Europe—
fostering the growth of a network to
help European scholars research and
study in the U.S.
Spillman comes to this position
from Davidson, North Carolina,
where she worked with international
programs at Davidson College.

Publications
GERMAN-AMERICAN
CULTURAL EXCHANGE
IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Dr. phil. habil. Karl-Heinz Füssl of the
Technical University Berlin has recently
published a book that might interest readers
who want to know more about the give
and take of cultural influence across the
Atlantic in the last century. The book,
Deutsch-amerikanischer Kulturaustausch im
20. Jahrhundert, looks at the alternating
cultural influence Germany had on the
U.S. and the U.S. on Germany in areas
such as education, science, and cultural
politics. He discusses, among other themes,
the influence the post-1933 immigration
of intellectuals from Germany to the United
States had on both countries. Füssl’s book
is published by the Campus-Verlag (Frankfurt/Main
and New York) and will appear
in German.
MAKING THE MEDIEVALIST
CIRCUIT
Two abstracts resulting from Fulbright
grantee Steven Rozenski’s research at the
University of Cologne have been accepted
to conferences. “The Uses of the Vernacular
in the Works of Meister Eckhart and
Henry Suso” will be presented at the International
Medieval Congress 2004 at the
University of Leeds, UK, and “Von Aller
Bilden Bildlosekeit: The Trouble with Images
of Heaven in the Works of Henry Suso”
was accepted to the University of Bristol
(UK) conference, “Envisaging Heaven in
the Middle Ages,” to be held in July.
Rozenski studied English and Religion
at Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois, before receiving a Master of Theology
from the University of Glasgow in
Scotland. He is currently studying under
Ursula Peters at the University of Cologne
Institute for German Language and Literature
on a 2003 Fulbright scholarship.
SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS
PUBLISH WORKING PAPERS
The 2003 German Studies Seminar,
“Challenges of Demographics,” sparked
lively discussion amongst its participants
and now it has spawned its first publica-
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tion. Edited by grantee Dr. Richard R. Verdugo,
the publication, “The Challenges of
Demographics in Germany: Selected Policy
Discussions,” is a collection of working
papers written by Seminar participants and
focusing on aspects of demographics that
were raised during the three-week study
tour. Following publication of the working
papers, a special issue of Population Research
and Policy Review, a demography journal,
will take them up. Verdugo and fellow participant
Richard Young will serve as guest
editors.
The collection of working papers is
available on the Fulbright Website at
www.fulbright.de/togermany/information/2003-04/gss/index.shtml.
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DEPARTMENTS
Prizes & Awards
Professors Fox and King to Share 2004
Distinguished Chair in American Studies
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Dr. William F. Fox
Dr. William F. (Bill) Fox of the University of Tennessee
and Dr. John King of the University of Michigan
will share this year’s Distinguished Chair at the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am
Main.
Fox, who will hold the chair during the winter semester,
is currently the William B. Stokely Distinguished
Professor of Business and the Director of the Center for
Business and Economic Research at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville. He is past President of the
National Tax Association and recipient of its Steven D.
Gold Award as well as former Chairman of the Economics
Department at the University of Tennessee. He has held visiting
appointments as a professor at the University of Hawaii and as a
scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Fox has served as a consultant in approximately 25 countries
and more than ten U.S. states on a wide range of public policy
issues. He has published extensively in academic and nonacademic
journals and is a frequent speaker to business, government,
and academic audiences around the world. His current research
focuses on improving tax structures and tax policies and enhancing
regional economic development. He will spend the semester
in Frankfurt teaching seminars on fiscal federalism.
Dr. John King is the Dean of and a professor at the School of
Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. King,
who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine, was
the Canon Visiting Professor at Nanyang Business School in Singapore
before taking up his current position in 2000.
King has taught a variety of classes dealing with information
technology and the impact it has on economics, management,
and social interaction as well as research and development.
In Frankfurt, King will research and lecture on the long-term
transformation of the American automobile industry through
information technology.

Stefan Mittnik, Professor of Financial
Econometrics at the University of Munich
since April 2003, has been named 2004 Distinguished
Chair in German Studies. When
he arrives at Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri, to begin his year of research
and teaching, it will be a homecoming of sorts,
Mittnik received his Ph.D. in economics there
in 1987.
In addition to teaching, Mittnik is also
Research Director at the Ifo Institute of Eco-
nomic Research in Munich and heads the
financial management research program at the
Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt. Prior
to that, from 1987 to 1994, he was first
Assistant and later Associate Professor of Economics
at the State University of New York in
Stony Brook. From 1994 to 2003 he held the
Chair of Statistics and Empirical Economics
and was Director of the Institute of Statistics
and Econometrics at the University of Kiel in
Germany. He held visiting positions at the
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Stefan Mittnik Named 2004 Distinguished Chair in German Studies
Fulbright Alumnus Lützeler Wins Prestigious Goethe
Medal For His Promotion of the German Language
On March 22, 2004, the Goethe Institute
honored Fulbright Alumnus Paul Michael
Lützeler with its prestigious Goethe Medal
for his encouragement of the study of the
German language in the United States.
The Goethe Medal, awarded in Leipzig
every year on the anniversary of the death of
the German writer Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, was first presented in 1954. It goes
to men and women who have shown extraordinary
service in the promotion of the German
language and international cultural
exchange abroad.
Lützeler, a 1968 student grantee from the
Free University Berlin to Indiana University,
is now Director of the Max Kade Center for
Contemporary German Literature at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri. He
founded the Center in 1984 to provide a
forum for visiting authors, critics, and scholars
as well as to grant stipends and organize
symposia. According to the Goethe Institute,
“As Director of the Max Kade Center [Lützeler]
has succeeded in building up a center for
contemporary German literature in the USA
unparalleled in vitality and radiating power.”
Besides teaching German and European
studies, and comparative literature, Lützeler
has established student and faculty exchange
programs with several German universities.
He was the Director of the European Studies
Program at Washington University for 20
University of Lancaster in England, the Technical
University Vienna and the Free University
of Amsterdam.
Mittnik obtained an engineering degree
from the Technical University Berlin in 1981
and in 1982 a master’s degree in development
economics from the University of Sussex in
England.
His research focuses on empirical economics
and finance and covers both applied
and methodological issues.
years and is the author of
ten books on German
and European literature
and cultural history. Dr. Lützeler during the
award ceremony in Leipzig
He has received
many awards including the Alexander von
Humboldt Prize, the Austrian Cross of Honor
in Arts and Science First Class, and the
German Cross of Merit First Class.
Lützeler was introduced at the ceremony
by Franziska Augstein a Hamburg journalist
currently with the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Five
others were honored as well: Mohan Agashe,
Anatoli A. Michailow, Sergio Paulo Rouanet,
and Imre Kertész, 2002 Nobel Prize winner
in literature.
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DEPARTMENTS
Catching Up With Our Enterprise Scholars
The Enterprise Scholarship Program
is supported by the Association
of Friends and Sponsors of the
German-American Fulbright Program.
Accenture GmbH
Baker & McKenzie / Döser Amereller Noack
BASF AG
DaimlerChrysler AG
DaimlerChrysler Services AG
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deutsche Bank AG
Deutsche Telekom AG
Dow Deutschland GmbH & Co. OHG
Ernst & Young AG Wirtschaftsprüfer
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Fulbright Alumni e.V.
Hengeler Mueller
Jenoptik AG
kontext. Gesellschaft zur Förderung junger Journalisten
KPMG Prüfungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft
für d. Öffentlichen Sektor AG
Lehman Brothers Bankhaus AG
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
McKinsey&Company
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Oechsner Architekten & Ingenieure
Siemens AG
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To find out just exactly what our Enterprise Scholars
have been up to since they arrived at their host universities,
the Funnel caught up with two of them,
Cem Yuecetas in San Francisco, and Kareem Abu-Zaid
in Mannheim. Here they give us a short glimpse into
their research projects.
Kareem Abu-Zaid
I began translating the Syrian-born
poet Adonis in a creative writing workshop
conducted by the American poet C.K.
Williams at Princeton University in the
spring of 2003. Although I worked primarily
on French poetry, Williams had asked
me to find some Arabic texts to give a new
dimension to his course. I turned to the
poetry of Adonis (born Ali Ahmad Said in
1930). His book Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
was nothing short of a revolution
when it first appeared in 1961—a revolution
in the language and forms of Arabic
poetry, which is meant to bring about a revolution
in Arab thought. It has inspired
numerous translations and garnered Adonis
worldwide attention, and yet no one
has translated the book in its entirety into
English. Not yet, at least.
Since June of 2003, I have been working
with Ivan Eubanks, a friend and doctoral
student specializing in translation at
Princeton. For many months now, we have
been translating and re-translating all of

Excerpt from the poem
the 200-plus poems of Mihyar, working
always under the mentorship of C.K.
Williams. A final manuscript should be
ready by the end of the summer (2004),
and then begins the process of finding a
publisher for our book.
The project, more difficult and timeconsuming
than I could have ever imagined
at its outset last June, has been an
immensely rewarding one. I was fortunate
enough to be offered a Fulbright Enterprise
Scholarship to do research under Professor
Dr. Jochen Hörisch at the University of
Mannheim. Not only has the Enterprise
Scholarship provided me with the time and
resources needed for my project, it has also
given me the opportunity to study under
Professor Hörisch, one of Germany’s leading
scholars. I have been in Mannheim
since September of 2003, and have been
centering my research here on the German
thinkers that have had the greatest influence
on Adonis: Nietzsche, Heidegger,
Rilke and Hölderlin, among others. It has
been an incredible year thus far and is getting
better all the time.
“The New Noah”
from Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
If time could start anew,
And water flood the face of life,
And the earth tremble and god hasten
To tell me “Noah, save all living creatures
For us,” I would not heed the words of god,
I’d depart in my ark, I’d banish the pebbles
And the clay from the sockets of the dead,
I’d expose their depths to the flood,
I’d whisper in their veins, tell them
That we have returned from the desert,
Emerged from the cave
And transformed the sky of years, tell them
That we embark without bowing to dismay,
Without heeding the words of god,
Our appointment is death, and our shores
Are despair, death’s intimate,
And we accept it
Like a sea, icy with the irons of the waters
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We are crossing, striving toward its outer limit,
We depart without heeding that god,
We long for a different lord, a new lord.
Copyright © Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks, 2004.
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DEPARTMENTS
“Now,” a photograph by Cem Yuecetas
in collaboration with Adolfo Ignacio Alcala
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Cem Yuecetas
“Why am I here?” This is the first question
I asked myself when the cab driver
dropped me off. To learn. To learn something
new. I want to absorb as much new information
as possible, and one way to do that
is ask, ask, and ask again. This questioning
results in an overwhelming abundance of
information.
The concept behind my visuals is
twofold. The images illustrate this idea of
information culture and the speed at which
technology changes the way we do things, as
well as the way we express ourselves.
To live between the ideal and rhetoric challenges
one’s personal paradigms. On the one
hand, we are so involved with what exists within
our physical environment. On the other
hand, we alienate ourselves, seeking refuge in
another kind of truth: the search for the perfect
knowledge of what exists behind all this
chaos. The human organism is struggling to
meet and affirm a more suitable version of itself.
Limitless usage of communication prevents
individual discovery between ‘you’ and ‘me’
and the space in which we are living. Is this a
new dilemma, or has it always been this way?
I created a series of images to describe this
kind of dysfunctional over-communication,
which leads to people’s individual loneliness.
Cem Yuecetas is working towards a Master
of Fine Arts degree at the Academy of Art
College in San Francisco, California.

The Council for International Exchange
of Scholars has accepted Dr. rer. pol. Hella
Hoppe, MA, as one of this year’s New
Century Scholars. Nominated by the German-American
Commission, Hoppe will
join a group of approximately 30 international
scholars in the United States where
they will engage in collaborative research on
this year’s topic: “Toward Equality: The
Global Empowerment of Women.”
Hoppe is a political economist and currently
a visiting researcher at the German
Friedrich Ebert Foundation in New York.
Prior to her current position, she was Assistant
Professor (C1) at the Institute of Political
Science for Comparative/International
Political Economy, Multimedia and
Gender Studies at the University of Mün-
ster, where she taught courses in International
Political Economy, Human Security,
Globalization of the World Economy,
and Feminist Economics.
In 2001 and 2002 Hoppe served as a
research associate in the secretariat of the
Enquete-Commission “Globalization of
the World Economy: Challenges and
Responses” of the German Parliament,
where she contributed to the final report
especially in the areas of labor markets,
social standards, and gender justice. From
1996 to 2001, she worked as a research
assistant at the Institute of Macroeconomics
at the University of Aachen. For her dissertation
on feminist economics she
received the Friedrich-Wilhelm Award given
to the best dissertations at the Univer-
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Current Grantee Justin Chen Wins Miller Award for Student Journalists
Justin Chen, a 2003 graduate of Yale
University and current Fulbright Enterprise
Scholar at the Friedrich Alexander
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, was the
first recipient of the David W. Miller
Award for Student Journalists. The award,
granted by the Chronicle of Higher Education,
is intended to “identify and recognize
future generations of reporters who show
the same journalistic promise as Mr.
Miller,” a senior writer at The Chronicle
who was killed by a drunk driver in 2002.
Chen received the award for two arti-
cles he wrote for the Yale Herald. “Under
scrutiny: privacy on campus” explores the
ways in which federal legislation passed
after the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks has affected the privacy of both
international and domestic students in the
United States. “Gilmore controversy reaches
new heights” describes the issues of
hate speech versus free speech that arose
after one Yale professor published an article
criticizing American foreign policy.
Both articles are available on the Herald
website: www.yaleherald.com.
Dr. Hella Hoppe Named New Century Scholar 2004-2005
Chen, who has been accepted to Yale
Medical School for Autumn 2004, is currently
researching the autoimmune disease
lupus at the University of Erlangen’s
Department of Rheumatology. He hopes
ultimately to pursue a career in public or
international health policy.
Over 300 undergraduate students
applied for the award that Chen eventually
won. For more information on applying
for the 2004 award, see The Chronicle
website: chronicle.com.
sity of Aachen. Her
main research areas
are globalization of
the world economy,
labor markets, and
feminist economics.
The Fulbright New
Century Scholars Program
was founded in
2001 to “extend the
mission and outreach” of the Fulbright
Program, according to the Council for
International Exchange of Scholars, which
administers the program. It brings together
25-30 international scholars and professionals,
“who will work together to seek
solutions to issues and concerns that affect
all humankind.”
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Where Continents Meet
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Seminar,
Fulbrighters and guests explore Berlin’s expanding
role as a city where people and cultures meet
by Fulbright Young Journalists Claire Adamsick, Charles Hawley, Otto
Pohl, Tania Ralli, and Chadwin Thomas contributed to this article.
Keynote Speaker Klaus Riesenhuber: The Fulbright Program
“is not only a chance for friendship, but an extremely powerful network.”
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To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the Fulbright Berlin Seminar over 450
Fulbright grantees and alumni gathered
at the end of March for six days of panel
discussions, lectures, and cultural events.
The program, jointly organized by the
German-American Fulbright Commission
and the Fulbright Alumni e.V.,
brought together scholars from 16 countries
throughout Europe.
This year’s seminar attracted the second
largest group since its inception, just
behind the year the Berlin Wall fell. Dr.
Rolf Hoffmann, the new Executive Director
of the German-American Fulbright
Commission, welcomed participants during
the opening ceremony held at the
Berliner Ensemble on Monday, March
22nd. Delivering his remarks in German
and English, Dr. Hoffmann said the German-American
Fulbright Commission has
supported more than 42,000 scholars in
the past 50 years.
In praise of the Berlin Seminar, he said
that year after year, it “turned out to be one
of the most important things people
remembered when they looked back at
their Fulbright year in Germany.”
The keynote speaker for the event, Prof.
Dr. Heinz Riesenhuber, praised the mission
of the Fulbright Program. “As a member
of German Parliament I am fully aware
of what Fulbright means for us,” he said.
“It is not only a chance for friendship, but
an extremely powerful network.” Riesenhuber
emphasized the need to learn from
different cultures and the crucial developments
and improvements such exchange
enables.

From left to right: Karsten Voigt, Coordinator
for German-American Cooperation in the
German Federal Foreign Office,
Prof. Riesenhuber, and John Cloud,
Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S.
Embassy Berlin, in conversation following
the opening ceremony
In this year of European Union expansion,
it is fitting that Berlin again acted as
host to the event, a point hinted at by the
title of the program, “Berlin Seminar 2004:
Where Continents Meet.” In May, Berlin
shifted from the European Union’s eastern
border to its geographical heart. Indeed,
nearly 15 years after the Wall came crashing
down, the city has become a living laboratory
to observe in a microcosm efforts
at merging many different societies.
This theme, in fact, was addressed in a
number of the program’s events, including
a talk given by Governing Mayor of Berlin
Klaus Wowereit. On Wednesday, March
24th, Wowereit addressed Fulbright conference
attendees in the Rotes Rathaus,
Berlin’s city hall. Speaking in fluent English,
Wowereit highlighted Berlin’s experience
in overcoming division, and pointed
out its geographically central position in
Europe, both of which he believes will be
of crucial advantage as the EU expands eastward.
“There is no better city for a discussion
of a Europe growing bigger,” he said.
Following his brief remarks, the Mayor
took about an hour of audience questions,
which spanned topics from the recent cutbacks
in education spending to the problem
of dog droppings on the city streets. The poor
state of the city’s finances was a recurring
theme throughout the questions. “It’s difficult
to have a vision for a city with large financial
problems,” he responded to a question
about how he would like Berlin to develop.
But Berlin’s fiscal difficulties didn’t deter him
from burnishing his role as the capital’s
cheerleader-in-chief. “Berlin is poor, but
sexy,” he said, to laughter and applause.
Prof. Dr. Julius Schoeps, Director of the Moses
Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies,
discusses the past 10 years of German-Jewish
history in Berlin at the Rotes Rathaus.
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Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit answers
questions after an address at the Rotes Rathaus.
From left to right: Panelists Prof. Dr. Dietmar Herz of the University of Erfurt, Charlotte Securius-
Carr, Chief of the German Program Unit of the Fulbright Commission, Fulbright Distinguished Chair
Dr. Debra Minkoff currently at Humboldt University Berlin, and Fulbright Leipzig Chair Dr. Crister
Garrett continue the discussion of elite universities in Germany after Monday’s panel.
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Fulbrighters Daniella Strasfogel, Joshua Palay (center), and John Waytena perform Palay’s piece,
“Showdown,” during the Music Gala.
Other speakers likewise addressed the
challenges posed by an expanding Europe.
On the first day of the conference—organized
at Berlin’s Technical University by the
Fulbright Alumni Association in Germany—speakers
focused on the challenges
and promise of an expanded European
Union. Among the assembled experts for
discussions on Europe’s future were American
Embassy representatives, prominent
Eastern and Central Europeans and a German
journalist.
“This round of enlargement is the most
important event in what I like to call, ‘Project
Europe,’” said Hungarian Sebestyen
Gorka, the Executive Director of the Institute
for Transitional Democracy and International
Security.
“This is an expansion that will potentially
put the EU on the level of the U.S.
economically,” Gorka added during an
afternoon lecture.
Against the backdrop of the Madrid
bombings, which had occurred just days
before, European security was naturally a
key issue in the discussions as well. Gorka
argued that, when it comes to acting as a
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counterweight to the U.S. on security and
foreign policy, the EU has a long way to go.
German journalist Christoph von Marshall,
the moderator of an afternoon panel
discussion called “Visions for Europe,”
countered this viewpoint by ticking off a
list of what he saw as European Union foreign
policy achievements. The very nature
of the expanded EU in terms of its attitude
toward the United States will likely change
significantly, argued another member of
the afternoon panel.
“There is a lot of talk that the new EU
will be more pro-American,” said Riina
Ruth Kionka, the Estonian Ambassador to
Germany. “That’s especially true in the
Baltics.”
The attitude in many of the new member
states towards Brussels, Gorka said, will
also be much different thanks to their communist
past.
“The people of these countries have a
very healthy skepticism with any form of
centralization,” Gorka explained. “We
tried it, didn’t like it.”
Further expanding on the theme
“Where Continents Meet” a one-day ses-
sion on Thursday entitled “University and
Islam” ended the Seminar with a “trialogue”
between Germany, the U.S., and the
Islamic World (see coverage on page 19).
Acting as a pleasant complement to the
academic discussion during the day, evening
events showcased the talents of artistically
ambitious grantees and offered a sample of
Berlin’s cultural forums, from classical to
cutting-edge.
The Amerika Haus, the cultural division
of the U.S. Embassy, served as the first
venue for Sunday evening’s performances
and exhibitions. Organized by former
grantee Dan Brunet, on-stage selections
ranged from traditional Finnish lute
(Juniper Hill) and Bohemian bagpipe
(Michael Cwach) to spoken word (Ronamber
Deloney, a.k.a. Flow) and a multimedia
commentary on religious fundamentalism
by Richard Posner. “Life is
sometimes stranger than fiction,” Posner
said in describing his politically-charged
documentary work.
There were a number of visual arts
installations showcased as well. While
artist Anna MacDonald was pleased to be

able to exhibit her installation and drawings,
she said that the process of producing
them had helped her in some unexpected
ways.
“If you want to practice your German,
grab a sketchbook and hit the street,” she
encouraged. “People will inevitably approach
you and will sometimes offer feedback.”
While many conference participants
enjoyed Tuesday evening’s organ concert by
Daniel Sañez and David McKinney at St.
Hedwig’s Cathedral, others attended a production
of the rock musical Linie 1 at the
GRIPS Theater. GRIPS founder Volker
Ludwig wrote this signature production
from the political-satirical company in 1986.
The sold-out house was dominated by young
people—not the typical Berlin theater-going
audience—as Ludwig pointed out to Fulbrighters
in a pre-performance discussion.
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“We want people from all different age
groups and social classes to feel drawn to
our theater,” he said. “Our audiences come
because they see themselves and their concerns
reflected in each piece.”
Linie 1, a three-hour journey in the U-
Bahn 1 Line, is nearly two decades in the
running. Yet the production is still contemporary,
and public transportation, where
so many lives intersect each day, provides
the perfect vehicle in which to address current
concerns of regular people.
“The times have changed, but the
issues—unemployment, equal rights, and
homelessness—are still the same,” Ludwig
added.
At the revered Fulbright Music Gala on
Wednesday evening, host and coordinator
Joseph Nykiel provided historical notes on
dazzling classical voice compositions by
Arnold Schönberg (Jennifer Borghi) and
Richard Strauss (Joe Dan and Anne Kissel
A Fulbright family: Margaret Zelljadt (left),
currently a Fulbrighter in Belgium with daughter
Elizabeth (center) currently a Fulbrighter in
Germany and Margaret’s German host mother
from her 1963 Fulbright to Germany
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Alumni Oliver and Petra Steinmetz (left)
with Dr. Hoffmann (center) and Reiner Rohr
Harper), and complex instrumental selections
on violin (Daniella Strasfogel), trumpet
and trombone (Amy and Todd Schendel),
and piano (Yan Kvitko).
Rome grantee Joshua Palay diverted from
traditional repertoire with his riveting
“Showdown” between violin, clarinet, and
live electronics. Audience members at the
Maxim Gorki Theater were visibly awestruck
by the composition, described by the artist as
“techno meets spaghetti western.”
A final category of events on the week’s
schedule was a list of exciting tours through
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Berlin. Ranging from Turkish communities
to the architecture on Unter den Linden,
the tours were led by Fulbrighters who
were experts in their subjects.
One particular tour, on Monday,
March 22nd, seemed designed especially to
conform to the theme of the meeting as a
whole. Fulbright grantee John Holmes led
a group of about twenty
conference participants on
a tour of Marzahn, which
is, he says, Europe’s largest
social housing complex.
The tour through the
massive tangle of uniform
rectangular concrete Plattenbau
buildings underscored
the challenge still
facing Germany’s capital
nearly fifteen years after
the fall of the Wall. What
was once prestige housing
for East Germany’s elite
has become a magnet for
the poor, the old, the
unemployed, the recently
Singing Czech folk songs and
accompanying on the Bohemian
bagpipe, Michael Cwach,
Fulbrighter in the Czech
Republic performs Sunday
night at the Amerika Haus.
immigrated, or, as is increasingly the case,
abandoned by all social groups and left
empty.
Holmes, who graduated from the University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill in
2003 with a master’s degree in regional
planning and is now living in Berlin on a
Fulbright fellowship studying urban development
at Humboldt University, described
how the Berlin city government is
attempting to solve the problems. By tearing
down some of the empty buildings and
renovating others, he said, the city hopes
to attract a healthier mix of socio-economic
backgrounds.
While the week proved a huge success
both culturally and academically, Fulbrighters
attending did not, of course,
neglect the social aspects of the meeting.
The Commission itself contributed by providing
a seemingly constant flow of food
and drink, supplemented by house parties,
pub crawls, and late-night debating sessions
across the city. The social highlight,
however, was the Saturday-night dance
hosted by the German Fulbright Alumni
Association, that featured music by a range
of throwback pop stars such as Blondie,
Counting Crows, and Abba—a hit list that
got all present out onto the floor.
It was, in fact, an event leading to perhaps
the only critique of the entire week:
dance lessons might not be a bad addition
to next year’s program.

Beyond the Transatlantic
The word “trialogue” may be a bit odd,
but on the fiftieth anniversary of the
Berlin Seminar the Fulbright Commission
decided to have exactly that by addressing
a controversial topic that would
include views from Germany, the U.S.,
and the Islamic World. The topic for this
three-way discourse was “The University
and Islam: International Exchange and
the Dialogue of Cultures.” This discussion,
which was generously supported by
a U.S. State Department grant, included
a diverse group of participants representing
American and German students, universities,
media, and governments.
After Dr. Rolf Hoffmann welcomed
everybody and stressed the need for the
integration of Europe’s Muslims and the
need for dialogue amongst all three regions,
Dr. Richard Schmierer, Minister Counselor
for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy
Berlin, discussed education and its growing
importance as a tool of reform.
Ambassador Edward Djerejian, Director
of the James Baker III Institute for Public
Policy at Rice University, discussed the
2003 State Department report, “Changing
Minds, Winning Peace,” written by the
United States Advisory Group on Public
Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim
World.
The report contained recommendations
for addressing problems in the perception
of the U.S. in the Islamic World
such as creating a new White House director
of public diplomacy, building libraries
and information centers in the Muslim
world, translating more Western books
into Arabic, increasing scholarships and
The Berlin Seminar wraps up its theme “Where Contintents Meet”
with a discussion amongst the U.S., Germany, and the Islamic World
by David Beffert
visiting fellowships, upgrading the American
Internet presence, and training more
Arabists, Arab speakers, and public relations
specialists to work for the State
Department.
One of the highlights of the day-long
seminar was a group of exchange students
talking about their experiences. This section
featured two German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) grantees to
Germany from the Arab world and a German
Fulbright alumna of Turkish heritage
to the United States. They discussed reactions
in their host countries to their being
Muslim. They often ran into stereotypes
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Current and former Fulbright grantees, guests from embassies in Berlin, as well as representatives from
higher education join the discussion.
but, surprisingly, little harassment. Both of
the women, however, do not wear headscarves,
which they both felt made people
less antagonistic.
Maha El Nady, a DAAD grantee from
Egypt, and Ganime Ösme, a German Fulbright
grantee to the U.S., also defended
women’s role in Islam and Islamic countries,
saying that media coverage did not
present a differentiated enough picture. It
was pointed out for example, that in Egypt
there are many women professors at the universities.
Abdelmalik Hibaoui, a Moroccan
DAAD grantee currently at the Oriental
Institute at the University of Tübingen, also
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Dr. Heidi Wedel of the German Academic
Exchange Service
Volkmar Wenzel of the German Federal Foreign
Office
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Left: Panels during the morning session (from left
to right): Volkmar Wenzel, Head of Division,
Working Group for the Dialogue with the
Islamic World at the German Federal Foreign
Office, Ambassador Edward Djerejian, Richard
Schmierer, Dr. Rolf Hoffmann, and Dr. Ersin
Onulduran, Executive Director, Turkish
Fulbright Commission
Dr. Richard Schmierer
discussed his experiences in Germany. Dr.
Hoffmann asked him if he could imagine a
counterpart institution in Morocco focusing
on the Occident. Hibaoui thought that
financial difficulties would make that
unlikely in the near future.
Although a dialogue, and especially a
“trialogue,” entails a lot of talk, some excellent
recommendations did appear from the
exercise:
The American government needs to do
a better job presenting its policy in the Arab
World. It needs more Arabic speakers back
home, and it needs to engage in the debate
that is taking place in the Arab world about
U.S. policy in order to keep open dialogue
with the Arab world just as it did with
Europe after World War II.
The U.S. needs to keep opportunities
for all students from around the world to
study in the United States open. Stricter
visa regulations for foreign students are
Ambassador Edward Djerejian
understandable, but they should not keep
students from choosing the U.S. as a potential
host country in which to pursue their
study abroad programs.
Reform in democracy, human rights,
and education in the Arab world can only
come from within. Reformers can be supported
in their efforts and they ought to
be, through financial as well as other
resources such as the offering of education
exchanges. Those efforts should be coordinated
between the U.S. and Europe to be
more effective.
The media need to look at what and
how they report on the Arab world: not
only long documentaries about Islam or
life in particular cities in Muslim countries
are needed, but also quality non-stereotyped
reporting in regular newscasts that
people actually watch. Imagery is powerful
and often more so than the accompanying
texts. That needs to be considered when
broadcasting headline news from abroad.
The power of change that can be effected
by individuals through exchange programs
was made clear by the three exchange
students who spoke. Their lives were
changed through the process, and they
changed others’ lives: breaking down cultural
barriers one person at a time.

Wiedersehen nach fünfzig Jahren
Treffen der Ehemaligen von ‘53 in Berlin
von Dr. Werner Landschütz
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Kurz vor dem Abschied: Die Erste Klasse der Fulbrighter 1953-54 im November 2003. Von links: Hans-Georg Blobel, Dr. Gerhardt Wellenreuther und
seine Frau R. Käfer, Marie-Luise Hartung, geb. Müller, Friedrich Fürstenberg, Bettina Ross (Fulbright-Kommission), Helmut Sauer, Edit Johnson (Ehefrau
von Koch), Ursula Kruse (Ehefrau), Horst Kruse, Ulrich Creutzburg, Dieta Ruland, Volkert Koch, Hans Karl Kandlbinder, Werner Landschütz, Martin
Quilisch, Ursel Maye-Gritt, Ulrich Diesing
Die Deutsch-Amerikanische Fulbright-Kommission
hatte die
deutschen Fulbright-Stipendiaten
des Jahrgangs 1953 im November 2003
zu sich nach Berlin eingeladen, um gemeinsam
mit jungen amerikanischen Stipendiaten
des laufenden Jahrgangs das traditionelle
amerikanische Erntedankfest zu
begehen. Es war ein großartiges Erlebnis
und wir danken unseren Gastgebern für die
freundliche Einladung.
Ein halbes Jahrhundert ist eine lange
Zeit im Leben eines Menschen, angefüllt
mit Hoffnungen und Enttäuschungen, Erfolgen
und Rückschlägen.
Im Jahre 1953 machen sich 446 Stipendiaten
frohgemut auf die Reise, Studenten,
Professoren und Lehrer, die eine Hälfte gen
Westen, die andere gen Osten, die einen
ins Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten,
die anderen in ein vom Krieg gezeichnetes
Land. „Nix wie weg“ steht unter einem Bild
der eindrucksvollen Festschrift „The First
Class of Fulbrighters“, als deutsche Teilnehmer
1953 ins Flugzeug nach Amerika
stürmen. „A year spent listening“ steht
über dem Bericht von Delbert Barley, den
die Not von Ostflüchtlingen im Hochschwarzwald
zur Wahl seiner Untersuchung
bewegt. „Nix wie hin“ möchte man
ergänzen, denn Delbert weiß, wo die Not
am größten ist, war er doch schon 1946-
48 für die Quäkerhilfe in Danzig, Paris und
Freiburg unterwegs.
Fünfzig Jahre danach kann man noch
111 Ehemalige ausfindig machen, 83 Amerikaner
und 28 Deutsche; von letzteren
geben sich 16 in Berlin ein Stelldichein.
So werden die Zahlen immer kleiner,
doch steht hinter jeder Zahl ein Name, eine
„persona“, durchdrungen von Leben. Man
kann’s nur vermuten, wie’s um den einzelnen
steht. Der eine forscht noch, veröffentlicht,
hält Vorträge, gibt seine Erfahrung
als Berater weiter; den anderen erfreut
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„Das Berliner Treffen war überaus anregend und im Grunde viel zu kurz. Wer hätte sich beim
Aufbruch im Juli 1953 gedacht, daß wir uns ganze fünfzig Jahre später in Berlin als deutscher
Hauptstadt wiedersehen würden – immer noch ganz erfüllt vom Abenteuer Amerika.“
das Leben, er gibt sich seiner Bildung hin,
ihn ergötzt die muntere Schar der zahlreichen
Enkel, oder er bringt sich helfend
in seinem Umfeld ein. Andere wiederum,
gebeugt von der Bürde das Alters, sind
siech an Leib und Seele, hilflos, vereinsamt,
verzweifelt, fern der heimatlichen Wurzeln,
verstorben.
Schnell ist der Ablauf der Wiedersehensfeier
geschildert. In kleinem Kreis
heißt Geschäftsführer Dr. Schütte die eingetroffenen
Ehemaligen willkommen und
stellt die Festschrift mit dem verheißungsvollen
Titel „The First Class of Fulbrighters“
vor, eine wahre Fundgrube. Schmunzelnd
weist er darauf hin, wie schnell sich
die Ehemaligen durch einfaches Weglassen
des kleinen Wörtchens „of“ aufwerten
lassen.
Danach wandert man in einen großen
Saal, die bevorzugten vorderen Plätze für
die Alten, die gemütlichen hinten für die
Jungen. Auf dem Podium thronen vier
Redner: die Alumni Stefan Elfenbein,
Hans Karl Kandlbinder und Carmen Müller
sowie die Stipendiatin Amy Wlodarski,
bereit zum Sprung ins Thema „Rückblick
und Rückbesinnung auf den Austausch“.
Dr. Schütte bittet die Ehemaligen, sich
schon einmal kurz vorzustellen. Dies ge-
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lingt nur unvollständig, die Kürze leidet,
die Würze nimmt zu, das Eis schmilzt, der
Funke springt über, die Begeisterung
schaukelt sich auf. Faszinierend, wie jeder
sein Schiffchen durch’s Leben ziehen sieht,
mal treibend, mal getrieben, selbst ganz
erstaunt, wie sich alles so fügte: Der Physiker,
den die damals aufblühende Kernenergie
in den Bann schlägt, der Förster,
dem es die dicken Bäume weit drüben im
Westen angetan haben, oder die Frau, bei
der sich Erfolg erst nach einem Jahrzehnt
einstellt. Mucksmäuschenstill ist es im
Saal. Das Impromptu wird zum Selbstläufer.
So geraten unsere vier Podianten immer
mehr ins Schwitzen, läuft doch ihre Zeit
ab, bevor sie zu Wort kommen. Elfenbein,
der gewiefte Moderator, zieht dann alle
Register, läßt die Uhr rückwärts laufen,
wirft den gewaltigen Eisbrecher an, der
rasch Fahrt aufnimmt in der – o Schreck
– schon geräumten Fahrrinne, Kandlbinder
und Müller stürzen sich in die
Fluten, und alle bedauern die zierliche
Amy ob ihrer Aufgabe, selbst am Schluss
noch das erschlaffende Publikum zu
fesseln. Und wie ihr dies gelingt! Alle
spitzen die Ohren ob ihres furiosen Vortrags
– Ende gut, alles gut.
Horst Kruse, Dezember 2003
Jetzt ist es Zeit, draußen in der Lobby
das versprochene Glas Wein zu schlürfen,
natürlich bei einem kleinen Plausch, bevor
man sich zu einer schier endlos langen
Schlange formiert in Richtung Truthahnbüffet.
Dort angelangt werden Truthahn
und allerlei Zutaten in steilen Pyramiden
aufgeschichtet und zu einem der entfernt
wartenden Tische jongliert. In bewährter
Weise gesellt sich wieder meist Alt zu Alt
und Jung zu Jung. Munter plätschern die
Gespräche. Erstaunlich gut beherrschen
die jungen Amerikaner ihr Deutsch. In
einer derart gelösten Stimmung kommen
sich ehemalige und jetzige Fullies, Stipendiaten
der Robert Bosch Stiftung sowie
Beirat und Verwaltung der Fulbright-
Kommission näher.
Zum Abschluss des Treffens findet am
nächsten Tag noch eine Rundfahrt durch’s
neue Berlin statt, bei der Dr. Martin Quilisch
das beigefügte Gruppenbild aufnimmt,
bevor man sich artig verabschiedet.
Nochmals Dank an alle, die dies ermöglicht
haben. Berlin war eine Reise wert.
Sie finden die Festschrift „The First
Class of Fulbrighters“ im Internet unter:
www.fulbright.de/commission/program/
downloads/index.shtml.

“ Hauptstadt Berlin” Seminar
Berlin is a big city to cover in four
days, even if you plan on concentrating
on just one aspect of it. Still,
this was the goal of the “Hauptstadt Berlin”
Seminar 2004: to introduce a group of Fulbright
American grantees, primarily from
the Young Journalists Program, to the
political scene in Germany’s capital city.
The seminar, which ran January 11-14,
2004, gave eleven grantees the opportunity
to learn about the people, institutions,
and issues important to politics in Berlin.
Over the four-day seminar, participants
became better acquainted with different
aspects of the German government.
On Monday, they visited the Federal
Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt) and discussed
German-American relations with
Dirk Brengelmann, Head of the Division
on North America at the Federal Chancellery.
This topic was continued during a
discussion with Member of Parliament
Hans-Ulrich Klose. Mr. Klose “articulated
well the German reasons for their stance
against the Iraq war and gave candid
responses to our questions,” summarized
participant Nicole Harkin. Beyond German-American
relations, German-German
relations were also examined during a visit
to the Federal Commissioner for the
Records of the State Security Service of the
former German Democratic Republic,
where Commissioner Marianne Birthler
explained the role the archives continue to
play in the reconciliation process following
the collapse of East Germany and the subsequent
reunification.
To gain a better understanding of how
interest groups interact with the govern-
A crash course in German politics
ment in Germany, the group visited a collection
of organizations where they not only
learned more about current issues, but also
heard how each of the groups interacts with
the German government. On each of their
agendas was the need for reform of the social
security system. Participants met with representatives
from labor unions, employers,
insurers, and other organizations with a
stake in the ongoing debate. Margret
Moenig-Raane, Vice-Chairperson of the
United Services Union (ver.di), discussed
how labor unions, which traditionally have
had significant influence in German politics,
are having to adapt to meet the changing
social and economic conditions. The
group also met with representatives from
the Confederation of German Employers’
Associations (BDA) and the BfA (federal
insurance provider for employees) to get
their views on the debate. Peter Clever, a
representative of the BDA, perhaps summarized
the problem best when he said,
“everyone talks about how to distribute the
money, but what we need to talk about is
where the money will come from.”
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Fulbrighters, however, didn’t just observe
the political process from the inside.
The group visited the ARD television studios
and held discussions with journalists
such as Alumnus Stefan Elfenbein and with
Rainer Hastergs, Administrative Director
of the RIAS (Radio in the American Sector)
Commission. Talk focused on the
media and the role they play in explaining
and sometimes influencing the political
process. On Monday, participants attended
a federal press conference, which Harkin
described as turning “the standard American
press conference model on its head.”
In Germany, the Bundespressekonferenz,
an association of journalists, invites the
speakers to its press conferences instead of
the other way around.
The whirlwind seminar ended on
Wednesday with a farewell dinner at the
Ossena restaurant. There was a lot to digest,
not just great Italian food, but also the heavy
German political fare that had been dished
up over the last four days. The conversation
and discussion of what had been heard and
experienced carried on well into the evening.
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NEWS & EVENTS
Health as Foreign Policy
Seth Berkley describes the International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative, a model for cross-border cooperation
in health issues.
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130 experts from Germany, the United States,
and other European Countries meet in Berlin.
Infectious diseases such as AIDS, malaria,
or tuberculosis pose a new threat not only
to individual well-being and national health
systems but also to broader structures of
international cooperation and international
security. Health has become an issue with
significant economic, trade, and security
implications in today’s globalized world.
For these reasons, the German-American
Fulbright Commission initiated a conference
on “Health as Foreign Policy - a US-
German Dialogue on Governance and
Global Health.” More than 130 experts
from Europe and the United States met in
the German Foreign Office in Berlin on
November 20 and 21, 2003, to discuss conceptual
frameworks for these global threats
and appropriate policy responses.
Promoting health and fighting disease
not just at home, but also abroad, are increasingly
on national agendas. They have become
part of the deliberations on foreign policy
and of the development of civil society and
democracy. Health is at the center of the
poverty agenda, the debate on human rights
and social justice, and is a centerpiece of the
United Nations Millennium Development
Goals. Various state actors, as well as international
and non-governmental organizations
have tried to find answers to these challenges.
Whereas in the United States, health
is already seen as a major factor in the definition
of a foreign and security policy agenda,
this discussion is fairly new in the German
and, to some extent, the European context.
Government representatives such as
Alex Azar, General Counsel of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services,
and Dr. Michael Hofmann, Director Gen-
eral of the German Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development, therefore,
engaged in a very fruitful dialogue on domestic
and international policy responses.
The conference brought together foreign
policy experts, microbiologists, medical doctors,
and representatives from the pharmaceutical
industry, the World Health Organization
and NGOs such as the International
AIDS Vaccine Initiative, whose president
and co-founder Seth Berkley described, during
one panel discussion, the worldwide
quest for an AIDS vaccine.
While differences will remain as to how
various national states respond to the challenges
posed by the idea of global health, conference
participants agreed that state actors,
non-governmental organizations, and private
corporations have to cooperate in order
to find appropriate solutions in the near
future.
The Berlin conference grew out of the
Fulbright New Century Scholar Program,
which in 2002 brought together an international
group of researchers that focused on
“Health in a Borderless World.” Professor
Ilona Kickbusch, the 2002 Fulbright New
Century Scholars’ leader served as an academic
advisor to the meeting in Germany.
The high caliber of speakers she attracted to
the conference was instrumental in securing
private financial support for the conference
as well. The American Council on Germany
also co-hosted the event and sponsored additional
speakers. This collaboration was important
to the success of the conference and
the introduction of new and innovative ideas
to the German and European academic and
political dialogue.

Klaus Liepelt
Vom Osten zum Mittleren Westen
Aus meiner Bitterfelder Abiturientenperspektive
von 1949 war die Freie Universität
in West-Berlin erstrebenswerter Ankerplatz
für jemanden, der dem Osten den
Rücken kehren wollte, um von Denkgeboten
unbeschwert studieren zu können.
Dort lernte ich bei den Historikern, im
professionellem Umgang mit Texten, Fakten
und Archiven die Dinge so zu sehen, wie
sie wirklich waren.
Ein Fulbright-Stipendium vermittelte mir
eine Kunst, die man damals in Deutschland
noch nicht erlernen konnte: den systematischen
Umgang mit der Gegenwart. Wie man
Sachverhalte formuliert, damit sie überprüfbar
werden, wie man dazu Daten erhebt, wie man
aus Daten Informationen macht, und wie man
Informationen Bedeutung abgewinnt. Als Studienort
hatte man für mich Ann Arbor, das
Mekka der empirischen Sozialforschung ausgesucht.
Damals wusste ich noch nicht, dass
ausgerechnet im Mittleren Westen Amerikas
eine das ganze weitere Leben bestimmende
Erfahrung auf mich wartete. Ich konnte das
Studienjahr mit dem MA abschließen – und mit
der Einladung, in Ann Arbor zu bleiben oder
jederzeit dorthin zurückzukehren. Letzteres war
dann häufig der Fall.
Die Analyse von Wahlen, politischen
Parteien und Demokratie waren in den Mittelpunkt
meiner wissenschaftlichen Aktivität
gerückt. Meine wichtigsten Lehrer – Samuel
Eldersveld, Morris Janowitz, Dwaine Marvick
– waren Freunde und Arbeitspartner auf
Lebenszeit geworden.
Nach der Rückkehr aus Amerika fand ich
mich mit Wolfgang Hartenstein und Günter
Schubert, Studienkollegen aus der Berliner
Zeit, zusammen, die ähnliche Studienerfah-
rungen in Amerika gemacht hatten. Wir
organisierten eine empirische Studie der
bevorstehenden Bundestagswahl 1957, um
die Wählerstrukturen kennenzulernen und
die Bedingungen des demokratischen Wettbewerbs
zu überprüfen. Es war die erste Untersuchung
dieser Art in Deutschland. Aus
diesem Projekt ist dann 1959 das Bad Godesberger
Institut für angewandte Sozialwissenschaft
entstanden, das unter der Kurzbezeichnung
„infas“ bekannt wurde.
Mit diesem Institut haben wir das öffentliche
Leben in Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden
über Jahrzehnte fachlich begleitet. Wir
haben Sozialforschung betrieben, Wahlanalysen
vorgenommen, TV-Einschaltquoten gemessen,
Bevölkerungsbewegungen, Verkehrsströme,
Energienutzung verfolgt, kleinräumige
Märkte beobachtet und in Bereichen
gearbeitet, die man heute e-Government
nennt. Dabei haben wir mit vielen Kollegen
aus unserer amerikanischen Zeit Kontakt
gehalten, und neue sind hinzugekommen,
auch feste Mitarbeiter für lange Jahre.
Seit 1965 hat infas Fernsehen und Hörfunk
der ARD mit Hochrechnungen und
Analysen der Wahlergebnisse versorgt, die es
den Redaktionen ermöglichten, ihr Publikum
bald nach Schließung der Wahllokale präzise
zu informieren. Im Laufe der Zeit haben wir
über 130 Wahlen in Bund, Ländern und
Gemeinden berichtet. Mehr als 30 Jahre lang.
Und das in einem Prozess kontinuierlicher
Innovation, um mit der rasanten Entwicklung
der Informationstechnologie Schritt zu halten.
Nach dem Fall der Mauer wurden Wahlen
auch für meine alte Heimat im Osten berechenbar.
Mit einer Punktlandung bei den
ersten freien Volkskammerwahlen von 1990
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konnten wir zeigen, dass die Gesetze der
Statistik, wenn man sie befolgt, auch jenseits
des Eisernen Vorhangs gelten.
Ob Wahlen oder andere Großprojekte,
die infas im Laufe der Jahre durchgeführt hat,
immer wieder haben wir gern Kooperation
und Hilfe von draußen in Anspruch genommen.
Die Zahl der Besucher war groß,
und amerikanische Freunde nutzten gern die
Gelegenheit ihrer akademischen Sommerpause,
um bei infas Infrastruktur und Daten
für eigene Forschungsarbeiten in Anspruch
zu nehmen. Aber auch in die Gegenrichtung
gab es regen Reiseverkehr.
Noch eines verdanken wir Fulbright: Den
Mut, unseren eigenen Weg zu gehen, die
Auseinandersetzung mit den Ergebnissen
unserer Wissenschaft selbst in die Hand zu
nehmen, anderen zu helfen, ihre Ziele zu
realisieren, und dabei stets innovativ zu
bleiben, hätten wir ohne die Erfahrungen aus
der neuen Welt wohl nicht aufgebracht.
Das gilt auch fürs Rentenalter. Derzeit
entwickele ich für den neuen Medien-Fachbereich
der Hochschule Mittweida einen MA-
Studiengang „Information and Communication
Science“, in den ein halbes Jahrhundert
praktischer Erfahrung mit dem Fachgebiet
einfließen sollen, das mich seit Ann
Arbor nicht mehr losgelassen hat. Ich denke,
es war gut, den Bitterfelder Weg nach Midwest
zu gehen. Meine Kulturrevolution jedenfalls
hat nicht auf einer Hängematte geendet.
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ALUMNI PROFILES
Lucian Kim
The Fulbright Program,
springboard to a dream career
When I first heard about it, I thought
the Fulbright grant for young journalists
had been designed just for me. Although
I was only halfway into my second semester
of a two-year master’s program in journalism,
I was itching to return to the
world beyond the arcane province of
Berkeley, California. I had already squandered
several years after college on
bohemian pursuits in east central Europe.
Now I was ready to turn my wanderlust
into a profession.
It was spring 1996—the Bosnian war
had just ended but Slobodan Milosevic was
still firmly in power. The eastward expansion
of NATO and the EU was not yet a
foregone conclusion. The project of German
reunification was sputtering along.
And then a classmate told me that the
Fulbright Commission was seeking applicants
for a brand new scholarship that
would take five young American journalists
to Germany for a year. Fulfilling the
basic qualifications—but not yet feeling
like a bona fide journalist—I sent in my
application and crossed my fingers.
Half a year later I was attending the Fulbright
orientation at the Atlantic Hotel in
Bremen. It happened to be my birthday,
and I was sure that I had not received this
kind of present before: a monthly allowance
I could only have dreamed of as a student;
complete license to travel where I wanted;
and no pressure whatsoever to publish.
A couple of days later I took the train
to Berlin and soon was ensconced in a oneroom
apartment overlooking a dim courtyard
in the heart of Kreuzberg. The shower
was in the kitchen, the toilet was in a
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Kim interviewing Ahmed Shah Massoud, the late leader of the Northern Alliance, in northern
Afghanistan in summer 2000. Massoud was assassinated 2 days before September 11, 2001, in what
many people say was a connected hit.
closet, and the heating came from a huge
tiled oven fired by coal briquettes I kept
stacked in one corner. With my first
stipend I bought a fax machine and subscribed
to an internet service provider.
What more did an aspiring reporter need?
A bar and someone to drink with. By
another stroke of luck, a fellow young journalist,
Melissa Eddy, lived just down the
street above an all-night watering hole
called the Haifischbar. Melissa would
become one of several dear friends I made
during my Fulbright year.
Getting started in the rough-and-tumble
world of freelance journalism is a risky
undertaking. But thanks to my grant I had
the freedom to fail. During the boisterous
student demonstrations against Milosevic
that winter, I flew down to Belgrade. I
reported, I wrote, I filed—but I didn’t get
a single story published. It didn’t matter. I
learned a great deal and made several
friends among Belgrade’s student activists.
The experience would serve me well in later
reporting trips to the Balkans.
The only requirement of my Fulbright
grant was to complete an internship at a
German media outlet. So during the second
half of the year I moved to Hamburg
for a couple of months to intern at Die Zeit.
The paper was my choice, but it was the
Fulbright Commission that had landed me
a spot on the business desk. Surprisingly I
managed to get a couple of articles into the
paper—one story was on how the German
vending machine industry was dreading
the switch from deutsche marks to euros.
I found Hamburg’s legendary coolness
too chilly, however, and was happy to
return to the relative chaos of Berlin. The
city was beginning to feel like home. The
Fulbright Commission extended my grant
by several months, just as my stories were
starting to get into print with increasing
regularity.
By the time my grant expired, I was supporting
myself in my dream job of foreign
correspondent. I would end up keeping
Berlin as my base for the following five
years, covering events in Germany and
Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics,
Central Asia, Afghanistan, and North
Korea. I contributed to a number of papers,
including US News & World Report, the
Boston Globe and the Christian Science
Monitor.
Today I work as an editor at the Moscow
Times, Russia’s English-language daily.
There has been nothing logical or predictable
about my career path so far. But I
am convinced that my Fulbright grant was
the starting point that made it possible.

A Pickle in Paradise
Unterwegs durch den Spreewald
von Sarah E. Allen
Zur Zeit ist es Winter in Lübben/ Spreewald, oder Lubin
(Błota), wie es auf Sorbisch, der lokalen slawischen Sprache,
heißt. Die einzigen Dinge, die auf den Spreearmen gleiten, sind
die üblichen Enten, gelegentlich ein Schwan, und wenn es lang
genug gefroren hat, abenteuerliche Schlittschuhläufer. Als ich
im September hierher kam, war diese Gegend noch voller Spätsommertouristen.
Sie waren gespannt auf eine Fahrt mit einem
Kahn. Diese Boote bedecken bei wärmerem Wetter die Spree
und ihre Zuflüsse.
Seit 1904 werden Kahnfahrten für Touristen angeboten, um
den Besuchern die Schönheit dieser einzigartigen Region, die nur
eine Stunde südöstlich von Berlin liegt, zu zeigen. Außer Spreekahnfahrten
sind auch Radfahren und Wandern beliebte Aktivitäten der
Touristen. Der „Gurken-Radweg“ ist einer der meistgefahrenen
Wege, die sich durch die Städte und Dörfer des Spreewaldes schlängeln.
Diese Gegend ist und bleibt ein sehr beliebtes Urlaubsziel
für viele Deutsche, aber für viele außerhalb Deutschlands ist dieses
Gebiet ein eher streng gehütetes Geheimnis.
Entsprechend der Worte des Sängers Arlo Guthrie, könnte man
sich über „the significance of the pickle“ (die Bedeutung der
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Am Ufer warten Kähne auf die Sommertouristen.
Gurke) wundern. Wie Mount Olive in US-Bundesstaat North
Carolina, ist der Spreewald für die Herstellung von Gurken sehr
bekannt. Spreewälder Gurken werden als Köstlichkeiten geschätzt,
von denen es viele Arten gibt, unter anderem: Gewürzgurken,
Senfgurken, und Dillgurken. Aber es gibt mehr als
nur Gurken! Andere Spreewälder Spezialitäten umfassen unter
anderem: Leinöl—traditionell gepresst in den alten Windmühlen,
die in der Region zu sehen sind, Heidelbeeren, verschiedene
Schnapssorten, und Sauerkraut, dessen traditionelle Herstellung
auf Stadtfesten aufgeführt wird, wobei es in einem Fass barfuß
gestampft wird—könnte das der eigentliche Grund sein, warum
es sauer ist?
Für Naturliebhaber bietet der Spreewald eine Vielfalt der
Pflanzen- und Tierwelt an. Im Frühling kommen die Störche in
Scharen nach Lübben und in andere Orte im Spreewald, um hier
zu nisten. Eine Tatsache, die bei der Gründung eines Naturreservats
berücksichtigt wurde, um die gefährdete Weißstorchpopulation
zu schützen. In günstigen Monaten (bes. Frühling und Herbst),
nach einem Regenschauer, werden die Wälder außerhalb der Stadt
zu einem Paradies für Pilzsucher, mit vielen essbaren Sorten, ver-
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steckt unter dem feuchten Gestrüpp. Von Frühling bis Herbst
bedecken Blumen die Landschaft, auf unzähligen Feldern mit
meiner Lieblingsblume, der Sonnenblume.
Obwohl die Stadt Lübben während des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu
über 80% zerstört wurde, ist die Stadt sehr sorgfältig rekonstruiert
worden und hat immer noch einige historisch wichtige
Sehenswürdigkeiten. Erstmals in einem Dokument um 1150 als
„urbs Lubin“ (Burg Lübben) erwähnt, wird die Gründung von
Lübben innerhalb der Burg um etwa 1200 vermutet. Die Stadt ist
also mindestens 800 Jahre alt. Wenn man die Brücke über der
Spree überquert, sieht man erhalten gebliebene Teile der alten
Stadtmauer. Am westlichen Rand der Stadt, in der Nähe des Dorfes
Steinkirchen, sind Reste einer slawischen Burgfestung zu sehen,
auch genannt Burglehn, deren Geschichte bis in die altslawische
Zeit zwischen dem 7. und dem 9. Jahrhundert zurückgeht. Als
Beweis für die Anwesenheit slawischer Völker in dieser Gegend,
wie zum Beispiel der Sorben, ist dieser Ort seit 1897 die Heimat
einer Gaststätte, in dem lokale Feste, wie die Fastnachtsfeier im
Februar, gefeiert werden. Obwohl die Sorben jetzt eine Minderheit
in dieser Region sind und hauptsächlich in den Dörfern außerhalb
von Lübben wohnen, werden sorbische Traditionen im Spreewald
immer noch praktiziert, wie zum Beispiel das Tragen der sorbischen
Tracht und sorbisches Ostereiermalen. Viele Straßennamen
und Orte haben sorbische Namen, wie das Lübbener Restaurant
„Bubak“, was ‚fürchterlicher Mann‘ bedeutet, eine Figur in
einem slawischen Märchen.
Gegenüber vom „Bubak“ befindet sich das Stadtschloss, ein
schönes, goldenes Gebäude, das schon mehrere Funktionen
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Die Autorin (rechts) und die
Kunsthandwerkerin Gisela Christl
bemalen Ostereier mit traditionellen
sorbischen Mustern.
während seiner Geschichte erfüllt hat. Jetzt
beherbergt das Schloss das Stadtmuseum,
die Stadtbibliothek und das „Schlossrestaurant“,
das schon in der Zeitschrift Weinkenner
gelobt wurde.
Wenn man zum Zentrum der Stadt
zurückgeht, durch einen anderen Teil der
alten Stadtmauer und die kleinen Hintergassen,
kommt die Paul Gerhardt-Kirche
am Marktplatz bald in Sicht. Als eines der
wenigen Gebäude, das den Zweiten Weltkrieg
überlebt hat, wurde die Kirche zu einem Zeichen der Hoffnung.
Zurückdatierend bis ans Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts, mehrmals
zerstört und wiederaufgebaut während ihrer Geschichte,
steht diese Kirche heute als ein Denkmal für Lübbens Paul Gerhardt,
der neben Martin Luther als wichtigster deutscher evangelischer
Kirchenliedschreiber gilt.
Lübben wurde zum „staatlich anerkannten Erholungsort“
ernannt, und in der Tat wird diese Stadt durch das gemäßigte Tempo
des Lebens, die friedlichen Wasserstraßen und die wunderschönen
Rad- und Wanderwege zu einem versteckten Schatz im
Herzen Brandenburgs. Einer der besten Möglichkeiten, zu jeder
Jahreszeit, die Wunderlichkeit dieses Orts zu genießen, ist es, in
einem Café zu sitzen, und es gibt genügend davon. Also muss man
sich nur eins aussuchen! Das „Stadtcafé“ im Zentrum der Stadt
hat jeden Tag verschiedene Angebote, unter anderem hausgemachten
Kuchen, und eine fantastische Eiskarte. „Café Ambiente“,
nur ein paar Straßen weiter, ist schön für eine Tasse Tee am
Nachmittag und hat wunderbare Waffeln, ist aber nur bis 18 Uhr
geöffnet. „Café Bistro For you“, auf der anderen Seite der Stadt,
in der Breiten Straße hat bis spät am Abend offen und eine komplette
Speisekarte, einen ganz tollen, großen
Milchkaffee, und dämmeriges Licht für eine
gemütliche Atmosphäre.
Auf der anderen Seite
der Straße ist noch
ein lauschiges Café,
„An der Postsäule“.
Es ist gegenüber der

ADRESSEN & INFORMATIONEN
Länderwahl für Deutschland ist: 49
Vorwahl für Lübben ist: (0) 3546
* Stadt Lübben
www.luebben.de
* GEMÜTLICHE CAFÉS UND RESTAURANTS
Café Ambiente
Reutergasse 10 (am Gericht)
Tel.: 183307
Café Bistro „For you“
Breite Str. 2
Tel.: 3383
An der Postsäule
Breite Str. 25
Tel.: 226445
BUBAK
Ernst-von-Houwald-Damm 9
Tel.: 186143
Stadtcafé
Schloß-Restaurant
Judengasse 17
Ernst-von-Houwald-Damm 14
Tel.: 187316
Tel.: 4078
* TOURISTISCHE ANBIETER
Camping
Spreewald Camping Lübben
www.spreewald-camping-luebben.de
Kahnfahrten
Fährmannsverein Lustige Gurken
www.lustige-gurke.de
Fährmannsverein „Flottes Rudel“
www.flottes-rudel.com
* Info zur Herstellung von sorbischen Ostereiern
www.sorbische-ostereier.de
Tanzende Frauen in traditioneller
sorbischer Tracht
Spreewald-Gurken:
Ein beliebtes Ostprodukt
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alten Postsäule, die an die Tage erinnert, als die Postkutsche viele
Stunden und Tage für die Reise von einer Stadt zur nächsten
benötigt hat.
Im Winter sind die Cafés voll und belebt mit Leuten, die an
einem heißen Getränk nippen und nett plaudern. Sobald es das
Wetter erlaubt, werden die Cafés sich auf die Straßen und Bürgersteige
ausdehnen, Biergärten werden aufgemacht und die Stadt
wird wieder blühen wie die goldenen Sonnenblumenfelder. Bis
dahin werde ich die Beschaulichkeit genießen, meinen Tee oder
Milchkaffee nippen, hoffen, dass die Kanäle noch mal zufrieren,
damit ich wieder Schlittschuhlaufen kann, und mich still auf die
wärmeren Tage freuen, wenn die Enten nicht mehr allein auf der
Spree gleiten müssen.
Obwohl die alte Postsäule behauptet, dass die Fahrt nach Berlin
18 Stunden dauert, kann Lübben ganz einfach von der Hauptstadt
aus innerhalb einer Stunde mit dem Auto oder der Bahn erreicht
werden, von Cottbus in 30-45 Minuten.
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FROM OUR FULBRIGHTERS
“Si, se puede – Yes, we can!”
The message is simple for this protester on the
immigrant workers’ freedom ride.
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Non-documented immigrants in the U.S.
F
by Johannes Kloha
The large lobby of the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield is filled
with a crowd of perhaps 1000 people: men, women, and children. They
move from one room to another and finally gather in front of the
entrance to one of the chambers, where the legislature just came together
to vote on a number of proposals. The architecture of the building is
impressive. As with many other state capitols it seems at the same time
to copy and compete with the Capitol in Washington D.C.
But the large group of people is not here to admire the beauty of
the construction, neither are they listening to the sophisticated explanations
of some tourist guide. Their guide, a young woman, leads
them with a loud and clear voice into a swelling chant of a few simple
Spanish words: “Si, se puede, si, se puede…! ” – Yes, we can! And
soon the noise shows results. A group of parliamentarians steps out
of the room and after politely asking the crowd to lower their voices
they get involved in a brief discussion with the group.
I am with a large delegation of immigrants during the lobby day
of the Illinois General Assembly where they are advocating for a legislative
proposal they consider an important step ahead in their struggle
for equal rights. Today, the legislature is voting on a bill that would
give immigrants without legal documentation the possibility to
acquire a driver’s license—a crucial document of identification in the
U.S. And indeed, many of the participants are in the U.S. without
legal residency and hope to directly benefit from their engagement.
I ask Manuel, a young man, why he is joining this group. He answers,
“Because I want a driver’s license!”
I joined this group as part of my internship at Erie Neighborhood
House, one of the oldest community organizations in Chicago. Since
its founding in 1870 its main purpose has been to assist the residents
of the neighborhood, West Town, through a variety of social services.
West Town is one of Chicago’s neighborhoods with a very high percentage
of immigrants from South, Middle, and Central America,
predominantly from Mexico.
Right now Erie House offers childcare for low-income parents, a
youth program with various options for teenage kids ranging from
recreational facilities to computer classes, field trips, and a tutoring
system that prepares high school seniors for college. In adult education
classes immigrants can learn English or prepare themselves for
the citizenship exam, which requires basic knowledge of the history
and political system of the United States. Additionally, immigrants

can get individual advice and support by a specialized immigration
counselor.
Due to my personal interest in immigration I focused my internship
on these activities. Very soon I experienced the enormous importance
the situation of non-documented immigrants had on the general
discourse on immigration.
HERE TO STAY
For the purpose of this short glimpse into the issue I regard as nondocumented
persons those people who came to the U.S. from a different
country and have their primary place of residence in the U.S., but
do not possess a legal residence permit of any kind. I omit the broadly
used term “illegal immigrants” because of its negative connotation.
Determining the number of non-documented immigrants in
the U.S. is a complex undertaking. There is no federal or state census
data available that calculates U.S. residents without legal residency
status. Therefore, estimates often have to replace distinct
data.
A broadly applied method to estimate the total number of nondocumented
persons is to subtract the estimate of legal foreign-born
persons living in the U.S. from the estimate of the total foreign-born
population (Fix & Passel, 2001). By applying this process to data
received from the March 2000 Current Population Survey (CPS) and
the U.S. Census 2000, different studies have proposed numbers ranging
from 7 to 9 million non-documented immigrants. This number
represents roughly 28% of the total amount of the foreign-born population
or around 2% of the overall population of the U.S. (Fix &
Passel, 2001).
The primary country of origin of this population is by far Mexico
(~5 million) followed by El Salvador (~190,000) and Guatemala
(~150,000), according to findings of the former Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS—now called the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Service - USCIS). The states with the highest numbers
of non-documented immigrants are, according to USCIS, California
(2.2 million), Texas (1.04 million), New York (489,000), Illinois
(432,000), and Florida (337,000) (USCIS, 2003).
Research findings indicate that the majority of the non-documented
population do not come to the U.S. on a temporary basis but intend
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to stay permanently (Mehta & Ali, 2003, 17). Therefore it becomes
clear that non-documented persons in the U.S. represent a significant
social group and there are no indicators that suggest the numbers of
non-documented persons in the country or new arrivals will decrease
or that non-documented persons might leave the country after a short
time. The majority of this population will stay here. In fact, I often
meet people who live in Chicago, have a job, and are raising their children
but do not have legal documentation of their residency.
WITHOUT A SAFETY NET
The legal status of non-documented persons keeps them from
accessing support systems such as adequate health care, education, or
childcare and makes it almost impossible to go beyond the very low
levels of professional activity, highly impacting their socioeconomic
situation. While a Chicago-based study, whose results are suported
by an array of other research, found that 91% of the male non-documented
population joined the workforce, the average wage level
(around $7/hour) earned by these workers in predominantly restaurant-related
jobs, hand-picking, and assembly was consistently under
the average wage level earned by the general workforce. Additionally,
only 25% of these employees were covered by any form of health
insurance (Mehta et al., 2002).
These legal barriers towards an improvement of the socioeconomic
situation of non-documented persons are exacerbated by the
comparably low general educational level of immigrants from Mexico.
In the 1990s only 4% of the Mexican-born adult population in
the United States posessed a college degree, one of the main prerequesits
for professional advancement (Szelenyi & Chang, 2002).
And while there is hope for the children of immigrants with legal
documentation to integrate into the U.S. education system, the access
barriers towards these options are much higher for non-documented
immigrants and their families.
From this background arises the argument that private companies
often have an interest in maintaining the status quo, that is, keeping
non-documented workers in the country, but keeping them from
accessing higher-wage jobs in order to be able to draw from a broad
pool of workers, who are ready to work under sub-standard conditions,
enabling the companies to significantly reduce labor costs.
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On strike, immigrant workers wave the stars and
stripes as if to say, we too are part of America.
ACTION AT ALL LEVELS
A broad variety of federal, state, and local initiatives has emerged
to advocate for an improvement of the legal and social situation of
non-documented immigrants and has gained significant momentum.
The situation of that part of American society is clearly on the agenda
of top policymakers. The most recent indicator for this development
is President George W. Bush’s proposal to grant non-documented
immigrants a limited legal residency.
The most discussed proposal on the federal level is the Development,
Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. This
legal initiative, introduced both in the Senate and in the House, and
supported by Democratic as well as Republican members of Congress,
would give children of illegal immigrants the possibility to gain legal
residency by obtaining a college education. The proposal is currently
pending, but overcame, with restricting amendments, important
obstacles like the Senate Judiciary committee. A similar bill passed last
year in Illinois, which allows non-documented Illinois residents to pay
significantly lower “in-state” tuition for state colleges and universities.
Additionally, as I detailed above, Illinois legislators are discussing
an initiative that would provide non-documented residents with the
possibility to obtain a driver’s license. In the U.S., drivers’ licenses are
issued at the state level. Each state has different rules. Proponents of
this initiative frame the proposal as a measure to increase road safety,
since a driver’s license is a prerequisite for car insurance. Undoubtedly,
this bill would also provide de facto legal documentation for this
population, since driver’s licenses are central identification devices in
the U.S. As I was writing these lines, I received an email informing me
that yesterday this proposal passed the Executive Committee of the
Illinois General Assembly, again in this case with bipartisan support.
One might argue about the legal consistency and efficiency of
these proposals. And indeed, I fear that these legal policies do not give
this disadvantaged population the options to exit their current place
at the lowest levels of society.
The Dream Act might be an important political issue to win, however,
it remains unclear how many children of non-documented
immigrants really will be able to benefit from the current version of
this proposal since it bans these students from applying for federal
education grants. It also seems inconsistent to concede on the state
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level a quasi-documentation (driver’s license) to a population whose
members are at the same time threatened to be deported by a federal
agency (the USCIS).
Bush’s proposal—interestingly commented on positively by the
Chairwoman of the German Green Party—has been rejected by most
immigrant rights groups as an insufficient measure that only meets
the interests of parts of the economy (e.g. large agro-corporations in
the South) in cheap labor. Many critics of the above mentioned policies
interpret them in exactly this sense: Give the non-documented
immigrants enough to be quiet but keep them from gaining significant
power by keeping their legal situation unstable!
CENTRALIZED VERSUS AD HOC
One could argue that the German idea of having consistent legal
regulation over all the federal administrative structures is preferable
to this more ad-hoc style of immigration policy. However, as Jörg Alt,
immigration expert with the German immigration organization
Jesuiten-Flüchtlingsdienst, remarks, overall the United States are
more experienced in dealing in a pragmatic way with the situation of
non-documented immigrants (Schmitt in taz, 1/9/2004). Especially
what appears to be the fragmented and inconsistent responsibilities
of many different public and private entities (immigration authorities,
police, public schools, universities, employers, hospitals, etc.)
reduces the risk of an individual non-documented immigrant being
“detected” and might weaken his or her fear of being trapped in an
inescapable system of public authorities. As a senior administrator of
a large public U.S. university told me in an interview: “We just don’t
care if our students are legally documented or not. We don’t keep lists
of that. We are not the INS!”
As long as German policymakers refuse to acknowledge that,
according to the Catholic Church, around one million people (around
1.2% of the population) live in Germany without proper documentation
(Kuepper in FAZ, 12/24/2003) (the situation of non-documented
immigrants is not mentioned in the pending proposal for a
new German immigration law) and contribute to the economy
through their low-wage labor, I am inclined to see advantages in the
pragmatic and more realistic approach U.S. policymakers and interest
groups are taking towards this situation.

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Sorting Trash to Save the World
A look at the effect of personal responsibility and government
legislation on environmentalism in Germany
by Nicole Harkin
Though many Americans, when polled, express concern
with preserving the environment, the average American
complicitly promotes the environment’s further degradation.
I consider myself an average American. I once drove a
Chevrolet Suburban daily, and to be perfectly honest, I would
enjoy another one even though I know that SUVs guzzle gas and
pollute the air with hydrocarbons.
The inner struggle between the desire to save the environment
and the appeal of over consumption brought me to Germany,
because even though I study environmental law, I still lack an
understanding of how to behave in a way that is more conscious
of my environmental impact. Germans, on the other hand, separate
their trash into five different categories and one out of every
eight belongs to an environmental organization or nature group.
I hoped Germany would be a type of environmental haven after
having been disillusioned while studying environmental law.
I attend arguably the best environmental law school in the
United States, Pace University School of Law in New York. One
would expect that a school committed to churning out environmental
lawyers charged with saving the world would set an example
of environmental friendliness for its students. This is not the
case. For example, when I first visited Pace the number of recycling
bins on campus greatly impressed me. After starting school
we learned that the school recycles nothing. The bins are there
merely for show. However, I can hardly find fault with the Pace
administration for their lack of environmental friendliness because
our culture and economy are not conducive to making environmentally
responsible choices.
In Germany I research how Germany as a nation actively
improves the environment. I look at recycling and urban sprawl
control techniques, two areas in which Germany has played a pioneering
role. In 1991 Germany passed the Packaging Ordnance
(Verpackungsverordnung) requiring manufacturers to dispose of
containers, bottles, and similar products at the end of the useful
life of the packaging. Rather than stipulating how the law would
be implemented, the German government allowed the packaging
industry to regulate itself, leading to a system in which producers
purchase a percentage of the recycled waste from the recycling
companies. This percentage should theoretically correspond to the
amount of packaging
waste produced thus
encouraging manufacturers
to generate
less waste. Not only
has the amount of
waste packaging produced
been reduced by
18% but Germany also
goes a step further and recycles
70% of all paper, 75% of
all glass, and 60% of all aluminum.
In existence for a much longer time
than the recycling laws, Germany’s land use system hails from the
turn of the 20th century. In fact, Germany founded modern urban
planning and continues as a vanguard through the federally organized
land use law (Bundesraumordnungsgesetz). The German Constitution
stipulates that each state or Bundesland formulates a
state-wide land use plan. Within each state different land areas are
designated for growth or preservation.
Each municipality must then formulate a growth plan with
these designations in mind. The preservation of undeveloped land
on the edge of cities (Außenbereich) is of the utmost importance
and explicitly supports the public policy of preserving as much
undeveloped land in Germany as possible. Germany’s dense population
(82 million people in a country slightly smaller than the
state of Montana) may partially explain the strong public policy
position in favor of non-development even at the expense of the
economy.
Empirical studies in the U.S. show convenience and cost as the
main indicators as to whether a person will participate in environmentally
aware activities. I would argue that these factors provide
the key to German environmental friendliness. Germans may
or may not be more disposed to protecting the environment than
Americans, but being environmentally friendly is easier and substantially
more cost-effective in Germany.
For example, in Germany owning a car creates many more
inconveniences than in the U.S. The smaller German cities contain
comparably fewer parking spaces. The cost of gasoline is high-
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er: 0.89 € per liter or $4.15 per gallon
as compared to 0.29 € per liter or
$1.35 per gallon in the U.S. Additionally
the German federal land use
law (Bundesbaugesetz) mandates
each town have a bank, school,
supermarket, and public
transportation making a
car unnecessary. As a result,
a third of all trips taken in
Germany are by foot or
bicycle, compared to less
than a tenth of all trips in
the U.S.
Other factors also
encourage Germans to
behave environmentally.
Electricity in Germany is
substantially more expensive
than in the U.S.; the
average kilowatt-per-hour
cost in U.S. dollars (2002
data) was seven cents in
the U.S. whereas in
Germany the average kilowatt-per-hour
cost is almost
three times that. Furthermore,
if improperly separated, household
trash will simply not be removed in
some areas of Germany.
Unfortunately younger Germans’
environmental consciousness is waning
despite growing up in an
atmosphere of environmental
awareness. From 1998 to
2003 the number
of 14- to 29-
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“Your garbage belongs to me, not the environment.” But separate it!
year-olds willing to pay more to purchase environmentallyfriendly
products decreased 30%. Many of my German
friends state great skepticism for the whole system
after having seen the recycling collectors recommingle
the separated trash and wonder why
they should sort their garbage only to have it
reconsolidated. This is exactly my sentiment
when separating trash at law school.
I am still unclear as to whether the Germans
take personal responsibility for their actions and
the effect of these actions on the environment.
Even so, Germany serves as a model country
demonstrating environmental awareness and
conscience decision making; the system is so convenient
and cost-effective that most Germans
participate. The challenge remains to transfer
these qualities to the U.S. As one American politician
reportedly said, “the American lifestyle is not
up for negotiation.” Germany is a place where
the people have elected to negotiate with respect
to their lifestyles in order that they may enjoy a
cleaner environment.

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A Gravestone
for My Great Grandfather
My great-grandfather was buried in 1941
at the Jewish Weissensee cemetery in Berlin.
For 62 years he lay there below a few overgrown
weeds in an unmarked grave at the edge
of the cemetery.
The story that has been passed down goes
like this: The Nazis came for my great-grandfather,
Selmar Mansbacher, on October 16,
1941, at the beginning of the first round up of
Berlin Jews. My great-grandfather, who was a
doctor, gave himself a lethal dose of poison to
save himself from a more gruesome death in a
concentration camp. A few years later my
grandfather (who had been sent by Selmar to
safety in Israel during the war), received word
from the Red Cross about the circumstances
of his father’s death. Despite his tragic end,
remarkably, Selmar’s body was taken and
buried in a Jewish cemetery. He received no
funeral, nor any gravestone, but he was buried
and there was a record of it.
In 2002 I returned to my great grandfather’s
and grandparents’ country of origin on a Fulbright
Teaching Assistantship and later to
intern at German radio broadcaster, Deutsche
Welle. While at the Fulbright Berlin Seminar
in March 2003, I had the chance to visit the
cemetery where my great-grandfather is buried.
I walked the length of the city and found myself
at the gates of Weissensee. In the main office,
I gave my great-grandfather’s name and after
some searching, was given a photocopy of his
certificate of burial as well as a map, with his
grave number highlighted in green marker to
help me find ungefähr the site where his body
lay. When I found it, with my head bent in the
Selmar with wife Ellen and granddaughter Lianna
in a happier, pre-war moment.
One family’s struggle for reconciliation
by Devora Rogers
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Devora (center) with mother Deena Stein and
uncle Amir Mansbacher at the Weissensee cemetery.
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direction of what I assumed was his grave, I said, wir haben dich
nicht vergessen, wie schön so nah zu dir zu sein nach so viel Zeit. In
Hebrew, I said both a prayer of mourning and of renewal. And
then I knew, we had to get a gravestone for Selmar—that is, to
honor his life and dignify his death.
This spring, over a half century later, a life that once breathed
and loved was dignified with a small stone and a few words to say
that we have not forgotten him. In March my family traveled to
Berlin and we paid our respects to a man whose life enabled ours.
It is my hope that while my family was here in Germany, they saw
what I have seen here: a country that is far from what it was when
Selmar last saw it. I hope they will see the land that Selmar loved,
and that I, over half a century later, have also come to love.
A report by Boyes Fellow Karen Radziner and Devora Rogers
chronicling Devora’s experience getting a gravestone set for her
great-grandfather, Selmar, aired in March on the English Program’s
Living in Germany and Inside Europe. To listen to the
report visit the Fulbright Website: www.fulbright.de/funnel/index.
shtml.
Selmar’s gravestone, written in three languages, reflects the complexity of
the life and story of his family.

Life on the Mississippi
Teaching German in Missouri
by Anette Riess
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Anette Riess is a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in German at Webster University in St.
Louis, Missouri, for the 2003-2004 academic year. She sent the Funnel this snapshot of
her life and work in St. Louis.
Last fall, we went on a German retreat with our students.
A group of students from St. Louis University joined us, so we
were a funny group of people. At the entrance of the retreat
every student had to “swear” on our German textbook, Kontakte,
that he or she would only speak German for the next
couple of days. And it worked! The students were just great.
Here we are standing in front of some of the statues in the
park of the retreat area.
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The Multicultural Center organized a Mercato: an international market place in the University Center. Each country could have a stand, so of course we set
up a German stand. We baked Apfelküchle, the students brought cakes, we put up posters, and showed a video. Here Zach Schmidt, a German major,
explains to interested students the procedure for making Apfelküchle.
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Words for food. Julie Fischer, another German
major, and Zach gave out short German lessons.
Those who wanted to try the Blaubeerkuchen or
Apfelküchle had to learn a German word first.
Teaching is a lot of fun here!
Both the students and the other
teachers are extemely cooperative,
friendly, and helpful.
This semester I am teaching
second semester German and
an intermediate conversation
class. Besides my regular classes,
I meet my students every
Friday for the German Table at
Starbucks, for a movie, or for
cooking and dinner in the language
house. I am very happy
to be here.

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CONTRIBUTORS
CLAIRE ADAMSICK, who contributed to the report on
this year’s Berlin Seminar, is a 2003 Fulbright Young Journalist. In
the U.S. she is affiliated with Public Radio International. Adamsick
is currently in Bonn, where she is an intern at Deutsche Welle.
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SARAH ALLEN, author of “Pickle in Paradise,” just finished
her year as a Teaching Assistant an the Paul-Gerhardt Gymnasium
in Lübben.
*
Alumnus DAVID BEFFERT, author of “Beyond the Transatlantic,”
lives in Berlin and is currently an intern at Global Public Policy
Institute.
*
Currently conducting a comparison of German and American
environmental laws in Bonn, Germany, NICOLE HARKIN,
author of “Sorting Trash to Save the World,” will return to law school
at Pace University in the fall.
*
CHARLES HAWLEY, a 2003 Fulbright Young Journalist in
Berlin, contributed to the article on this year’s Berlin Seminar.
*
JOHANNES KLOHA, author of “Si, se puede! – Yes we can!”
graduated from the school of social work at the University of Bamberg
in Germany. He is currently attending the Jane Addams College
of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is in
the master’s program of community administration practice, a course
of study that has led him to his work at Erie Neighborhood House.
CONTRIBUTORS
DR. WERNER LANDSCHÜTZ is an alumnus of the
Class of 1953-54 and contributor to our publication, The First Class
of Fulbrighters. He reports on their class reunion in the News & Events
department.
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OTTO POHL, 2003 Fulbright Young Journalist, contributed
to the article on this year’s Berlin Seminar. Pohl, who was previously
a free-lance reporter in New York, is currently stationed in Berlin.
He recently published an article on German cinema in the International
Herald Tribune.
*
Fulbright Young Journalist TANIA RALLI, contributor to the
article on this year’s Berlin Seminar, is stationed in Berlin. In the
United States she works for the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
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ANETTE RIESS is a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in German
at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. In Germany she
studies English at Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen.
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DEVORA ROGERS, author of “A Gravestone for My Great-
Grandfather,” is a Fulbright intern in the English Features Department
at Deutsche Welle until the end of December.
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CHADWIN THOMAS, contributor to the article on this
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U.S. he is affiliated with KSTP television in St. Paul, Minnesota. He
is currently in Berlin.

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