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with Elina Charvat

Arriving in Germany

In this episode, Rumbie meets up with her friend Elina, who she met at a German course when she came to Germany. Elina is from Kansas (USA) and visited Germany for the first time 10 years ago. Together with her husband she has started a small church in Leipzig. Elina and Rumbie talk about arriving in a new country, making friends, and cultural differences. What have they gained from living abroad and what do they sometimes miss about their home countries?

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Necati Öziri: GET DEUTSCH OR DIE TRYIN’

Are you interested in the topic of "arrival"? Then "GET DEUTSCH OR DIE TRYIN'" by Necati Öziri might be just the book for you. It’s summer - time for being young, wild and free. Arda and his buddies spend their days on their bench at the train station. They deal weed, whistle at girls and dance in the sun with semi-savage Nazis. What they don't know: It will be their last summer together. Necati Öziri created a colourful album of German identities. Something like a best-of record of integration that deals with the light-hearted, as well as the tragic sides of immigration and arriving in a foreign country.

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Joachim Meyerhoff: Alle Toten fliegen hoch

You can read about a German perspective of America in Joachim Meyerhoff's book "Alle Toten fliegen hoch". A story that deals with love, strangers, loss and self-assertion. Meyerhoff takes his first-person narrator from the North German provinces to the vastness of the American West - and into a rollercoaster of emotions.

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Sasa Stanisic: Herkunft (Book and audiobook available in Onleihe)

Beautiful novel about an immigration story to Germany, roots, finding a new home and the role language plays in all of this.

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Jayrome Robinet: Mein Weg von einer weißen Frau zu einem jungen Mann mit Migrationshintergrund (Book available in Onleihe)

"Jayrôme used to live as a white French woman. Then he moves to Berlin, starts taking testosterone and experiences a second puberty. He grows a dark beard - and suddenly he is being addressed in Arabic on the street. Whether in a café, in the changing room or at passport control, he notices that not only his identity, but above all, the behaviour of those around him has changed radically. He is able to compare: How am I treated as a man, how as a woman? And what does it mean when not only gender changes, but apparently also origin and age?"

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Deutsch perfekt Audio - Willkommen in Deutschland!

Sind Sie neu in Deutschland oder vor nicht allzu langer Zeit ins Land gekommen? Nicht ohne Grund sagt man im Deutschen manchmal "Aller Anfang ist schwer". Damit Ihr Start sprachlich gut gelingt, stellen wir Ihnen in unserem Spezial Redemittel und Dialoge vor, die Ihnen helfen, sich in Deutschland zu orientieren. In unserer Reportage fragt Lauri Zienc, warum die Kuckucksuhr aus dem Schwarzwald zu einem Kultobjekt geworden ist. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft. So können Sie mitlesen, wenn Sie möchten. Die Lösungen zu den Übungen finden Sie am Ende des Begleithefts. Deutsch lernen mit "Deutsch perfekt Audio"! Inhalt: mp3-Download inkl. 28-seitigem Booklet mit den gesprochenen Texten zum Nachlesen und Glossar (PDF-Format), Sprache: Deutsch, Erscheinungsweise: monatlich.

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