Podcast
Germany, What Goes?

Here we go with the first episode of the second season of the Alumniportal podcast "Germany, what goes?". Dana Newman is in Cologne and more specifically at the Brauhaus Früh am Dom. There she learns more about the Cologne language, the Cologne culture and also how not to make some faux pas in Cologne. To be perfectly prepared for your next visit to Cologne, listen in now.

In our second episode it gets Christmassy and delicious! We visit Nuremberg and learn more about the popular Christmas pastry "Lebkuchen". Special spices, nuts and honey - can you bake the famous "Elisenlebkuchen" yourself after the episode?

Christmas is just around the corner and we're talking to the Nuremberg "Christkind". Who is the Christikind? How does one become the Nuremberg Christkind? And what are the duties related to this role? This year, many Christmas markets were cancelled, but in this episode you can experience a little bit of "Christkindlesmarkt" atmosphere.

Today we continue our audio journey and arrive in Augsburg. Here we are guests at the "Kasperle" and the other puppets of the "Augsburger Puppenkiste", which is very popular with children and adults throughout Germany. A visit to the place where "a lot is made out of nothing".

The Fuggerei in Augsburg has been around for 500 years and is therefore the oldest social housing in the world. Find out more about the Fuggerei, the foundation behind it and the people who live here in the fifth episode of the podcast "Germany, what goes?"

Around 12 million tons of food are thrown away in Germany every year - including many bananas. In this episode of "Germany, what goes?", Dana Newman talks to Be Bananas, a small start-up from Düsseldorf that saves bananas from disposal. To find out what happens with the rescued bananas, listen now!

Our audio journey takes us to northern Germany, where the Baltic Sea reaches the train station and the wind blows strongly - welcome to Kiel. Every summer, the Kieler Woche takes place here. In the seventh episode of "Germany, what goes?" two Kieler Woche fans tell us what makes this international sailing event so special.

Hey! - in the eighth episode of our audio trip "Germany, what goes?" we are going to Flensburg in the far north. Here we learn more about life at the German-Danish border, the history of the region and the Danish minority that lives here - listen now!

We are again in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea. In Rostock we meet Johanna Sonnenberg, who is privately and professionally committed to environmental protection. She tells us about a project of the Fraunhofer Institute: A self-propelled underwater vehicle that measures microplastics in the sea. More about this in the ninth episode of "Germany, what goes?" - listen in!

Leipzig is the next stop of our audio journey - the city is famous in the music world. We learn more about Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and founder of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. Megumu Nishimura, violinist and student at the Musikhochschule, tells us why she came to Leipzig to study music. Listen to this musical podcast now!

In the eleventh episode of "Germany, what goes?" we visit the feminist library "MONAliesA" in Leipzig. Since 1990, feminist literature has been collected here, the library has been used as a venue and important work for gender equality has been done - listen in!

Surprise! With our audio trip we visit another city, one of the oldest cities in Germany! Here, history not only shapes the face of the city, but also its language. Listen now to learn more about Trier and Trierisch - sauwa!

Out of the city, in the middle of the forest - today we visit the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld. What can you study here? And why is this the greenest campus in Germany? Learn more about it in this episode, which is all about sustainability!