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From Potsdam to Honolulu The “father of Hawaiian Music” was a Prussian military bandleader – By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Divided by clichés A transatlantic tragedy: ignorance in an age of instant information - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
East Germany by the Pacific Twenty years after the Berlin Wall perished, a museum in California evokes the land that lay behind it - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Munich on the Monongahela There is a new Hofbräuhaus in Pittsburgh upholding traditional standards of German food and drink - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
The warmest sound in the City of Angels How Helga Kasimoff kept the Blüthner pianoforte legend alive in America through tumultuous times - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
New uniforms - and dignity How an East German conscript became an all-German major - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
California dreaming Why the Golden State sometimes resembles the former East Germany - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Homage to a very decent foe US sailor: "It's impossible for me to hate Germans ever since a U-boat captain saved my life." - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
In an age of louts, sparks of civility It takes manners to prevent modern technology from making life miserable - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
In Hermann, a tribute to Hermann Two millennia after a tribal chief defeated the Romans, an American town dedicates a memorial to "Germany's liberator" - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
No Kings, No Gentlemen, No Joy Where reality defies aphorisms, clichés about nations survive - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
What, a U-Boat on the Ohio River? The fate of German immigrants during WW II in the U.S. finally gets a hearing - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Bad German, Good German The experience of collective shame in an otherwise friendly land - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
A Beethoven First in Second City The rage for classical music in the capital of the blues is rewarded with an amazing world premiere - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Why They Tried To Kill Hitler What the Tom Cruise film does not explain - a footnote to 'Valkyrie' - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Bliss Before They Blitzed Us Kids An Anglo-German couple's childhood memories of the last balmy moments of peace - and of the war that followed - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Amish Ascendance In Advent Unfazed by recession, healthcare issues or pre-Christmas hullabaloo, a faithful German-speaking minority prospers and grows in the U.S. - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
After the Vote - A Theological Postscript Is America still Christian? Does it go Europe's way? Does it matter? - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Going Dutch with Bach Around the Globe From Holland to Japan, rural France to New York, Ton Koopman spurs passion for the great Baroque composer - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Painting for the World Through Cyberspace Real and surreal Internet creations by Germans in the Périgord, where mankind's first artists dwelled - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Coming Home to an Alien World "Geek-o-tels," Art Déco ferries and a German-to-German interpreter from Sri Lanka - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Leipzig Meets Leipzig in St. Louis Comparing notes with Max Beckmann in one of the world's most splendid art museums - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Rediscovering Pride In 1608, a physician in Jamestown was the first German to set foot in North America - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
In Praise of 'Two Buck Chuck' The curious link between Germany's richest man and California's cheapest (and best?) wine - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
The Persistence of Memory Four decades after covering the communist Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a veteran correspondent explores the new Saigon in California - and remembers - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Race, Roll, Ride or Glide An empirically imprecise essay about driving in Europe and America - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Marzipan Returns To 'Sauerkraut' Boulevard The Neue Galerie brings the best of modern Germany to 86th Street: spectacular art and great food - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Christmas Town In a Time Machine Our intrepid chronicler of German life in America visits Frankenmuth, Michigan - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Goodbye to Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse Once America's most German street, North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago has evolved into a multicultural boulevard. But the Brauhaus and the Apotheke endure - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Falling Through The Cracks of the Holocaust How a black German kid of royal lineage survived in Nazi Germany and became a successful American journalist - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Pink Lion in Paradise A transatlantic farce: How a Chicago artist wreaked havoc among the British in a French village, and made the natives chuckle - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Riding the Gentle Waves Of Globalization On a container ship across the Atlantic - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
The Legacy of a Philanthropist Since its foundation, the Robert Bosch Group has been much more than just a booming industrial empire - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Hecker's Legacy: A Tricolor Tale The American descendant of a celebrated German hero of the American Civil War is now a German consul in St. Louis - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
A Press Baron Named Baroni America was once a bastion of German-language journalism. It no longer is but Werner Baroni, one of its dinosaurs, is still around - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Clang, Clang, Clanging - Again The trolley is staging a comeback worldwide and is contributing to urban renewal - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
'Entrust Your Days and Burdens' Paul Gerhardt's 17th-century hymns still enthrall the world - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
In Missouri, A Phoenix Named Hermann Devastated by the Prohibition, a wine-growing German town in the Midwest is again thriving - By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Goodbye Utopia, Hello Luther! Half a millennium after the Protestant Reformation, American scholars seek advice from its leader. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Traveling From A to B via C and D. A trans-European odyssey on low-cost flights. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Of Pagans and Heretics. U.S. scholars take opposing views over the religion of the Nazis. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
May Those Safe And Stylish Ships Return. As oil becomes scarcer, hydrogen-powered ocean liners could replace kerosene-propelled jets on transatlantic routes. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Germany's Faith Is Not Yet Dead. Sunday services are still scantily attended, but religion is seeing a resurgence. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
From the Car, a Whiff of Fries. Diesel engine gains new popularity in America. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
No Bratwurst but Bach's Bible. German footprints in St. Louis: music, art and the zoo. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Once Teutonic, Now Slavic. The 'foreign sons' of La Grande Nation still sing old 'Wehrmacht' songs but speak East European tongues. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
A Christian Who Opposed Hitler. A century ago, German theologian Bonhoeffer was born. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Why Nippon Is Nuts About J.S. Bach. The Japanese yearn for hope. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Bolívar's Red Reincarnation? German sage not held responsible for disappearing Hugo Chávez busts. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
A War Wound Gloriously Healed. Bombed out in 1945, Dresden's Frauenkirche will be re-consecrated this month. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
An Airbase Comes Back to Life. Once home to 75 U.S. F-16s, Hahn Airport now serves as hub for low-cost flights. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
In War, Germs of Conciliation. How a German and a French officer saved La Rochelle. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
Europe's Faith Is Still Alive. Perhaps the Old World is not as Godless as is often thought. By Uwe Siemon-Netto
A Whoosh to End the Rattle. At 300 mph, the 'maglev' train could halt Amtrak's woes. By Uwe Siemon-Netto