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September 2026 is Literaturmonat at the Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta, with online contents and events ahead.
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Despite Romansh being one of Switzerland’s four national languages, less than 0.5% percent of Swiss can answer that question – ‘Do you speak Romansh?’ – with a ‘yes’.
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Often looked down upon as "pidgin German," dialects are an important part of cultural memory and diversity. Researchers say the vibrant spectrum of regional variations of German is under threat.
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For centuries, stories have persisted about Congress almost approving German as our official language, except for one vote by its German-speaking leader. So how close is that story to the truth?
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From strange French borrowings to missing tenses and pronunciation oddities, we give you the lowdown on how Swiss German is different from the Standard German you learn in the classroom.
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Over 300 years ago, German immigrants crossed the Atlantic to reach, among other places, Pennsylvania. Their language and culture continues to influence their descendants, as DW correspondent Oliver Sallet discovered.
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With at least 488 German facilities operating in Georgia employing 22,500 Georgians, it’s not surprising that the German Cultural Center, also known as the Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta, is thriving in Midtown.
Atlanta now can boast having the headquarters of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche Cars North America as well as a host of German global brands; even the city’s new $1.5 billion football stadium slated to open next year will be named after Mercedes-Benz.
But it wasn’t always that way.
Goethe-Zentrum’s executive director, Miriam Bruns, told Global Atlanta that the momentum of German investment into the Southeast began to build in the mid-1970s and provided an opportunity for the Goethe Institut to be established in an Atlanta that was then merely an emerging regional center.
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Credit: Phil Bolton, Global Atlanta
