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Category Archives: Transatlantic
In the forest or at the desk: the transatlantic pre-school divide
When Carrie Anderson decided to send her 4-year old son Pierce to a German Kindergarten after the family’s move to Stuttgart from Alexandria, VA, she knew that he would be in for a completely different experience than his older brother … Continue reading
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A lot has happened (just not on the Flying Carpet)
This break was much longer than planned. Last year, the Flying Carpet flew back to Germany. Unlike my move to the US eight years earlier, my grandmother’s carpet did not just carry me and my two suitcases across the Atlantic. However, I’d … Continue reading
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Egg Cells – Fresh or Frozen (Fertility, Part 2)
Sperm is a simple commodity compared to the much more delicate product that is traded on the second floor of the building that houses the Fairfax Cryobank. Oil paintings with flower motifs decorate the salmon colored walls of the Institute … Continue reading
A Sperm Donor Who Looks Like Matt Damon (Fertility, Part 1)
The basement of the Cryobank in Fairfax does not look all that different from a hobby brewery. Except that the stainless steel barrels don’t contain beer but nitrogen. They feed big white tanks to keep the temperature at below – … Continue reading
Am I the future or the past?
Not just the Washington Post is updating itself as I wrote in my previous post. As journalists, we all have to reinvent ourselves within a changing industry. In a fast-moving, connected world, we have to be able to use different channels … Continue reading
Big Stories on the Small Screen
If anyone has been wondering what I do for a living these days: A year ago, I took my first steps in television, working in the DC office of German TV station N24. Those first steps were tiresome – especially … Continue reading
The Transatlantic Journey of a Steak
When it is EU slaughter day in Omaha, Dan Morgan hits the road. He sets the cruise control to 65 miles an hour and follows the straight lines of Nebraska’s highways, two hours East and then two hours South. At 5.30 am … Continue reading
When It Comes to Trade, Transatlantic Values Have Their Limits
This commentary was first published on June 19 on the Atlantic Council’s New Atlanticist blog. Whenever American and European politicians and members of their business communities talk about the plans for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TTIP), they wax lyrical about … Continue reading
Death of a Newspaper
Tectonic shifts in my journalism career usually happen on the day before Thanksgiving. On November 21, German publisher Gruner + Jahr decided to shut down Financial Times Deutschland – making me the paper’s last Washington correspondent. Ten years ago on the day before … Continue reading
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