Podcast: 2013/14 Winter: German Culture III

Travel a few kilometres south of the snowy NRW Landtag, or state parliament, and you’ll find the campus of Heinrich Heine University. HHU’s English majors spent their chilly winter semester creating podcasts on German culture for the OralPod. Tune in as two classes discuss Germans in Hollywood (are they taking over or nearly invisible?), advise North Americans looking for romance in Germany (Flirting 101), and get down to the basics: what does it actually mean to be German nowadays, anyway?

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  • What is German?

    In this episode we are going to explore how Germans have developed throughout history – a process that makes it difficult to capture what being German is exactly.

  • Trivia Quiz

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  • Do’s and Don’ts in Germany – The How To Show

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  • German Actors in Hollywood

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  • Regional Differences within Germany

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  • The Vampire of Düsseldorf

    Do you adore Halloween? A real bloody, scary, horrific Halloween? A shame it’s only one time a year! One day is simply too little! Witches! Zombies! Vampires! Why can’t they […]

  • Studying Abroad

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  • Dating in Germany

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  • English to German Dubbing: Pleasing or Painful?

    What are the agonies and ecstasies of listening to English language films and TV shows dubbed into German? Find out here, as Sebastian and Fabian battle it out…