Category: Hiberno Goethe

​In this episode Ciarán chats to his former lecturer and Professor of Modern Languages Dr. Arnd Witte.  We first hear about Arnd’s origins in Hiddigwardermoor where the one-teacher school had no running water.   The conversation turns to the origin of Arnd’s love of…

This episode features Dublin writer and performer Mia Gallagher. Graduating at the time of recession in the late 1980s Mia is of a generation that was still emigrating and Dublin city a much more mono cultural place to live than we know…

This episode features Jan Wagner, a north German literary critic, poet and translator who returned to Ireland at different times of his life- for travelling, studying at Trinity College, working as an artist in residence at the Boell Cottage on Achill island,…

This episode features Emily Kraft, 19 years old Irish international football player who is at home in Sutton, Dublin North as well as in Gernsheim, close to Frankfurt am Main. Emily is a successful and ambitious footballer with Eintracht Frankfurt, who is…

This episode features Siobhán Armstrong, one of Europe’s foremost historical harpists. In the late 1980’s after finishing college Siobhán moved to Sindelfingen, a little town close to Stuttgart, to start a harp department in the newly built Music School.  Without a word…

In this episode Ciarán meets visual artist Gerard Byrne who teaches at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and the conversation rambles from Brecht to Beckett and Kasper König. Gerard and Ciarán talk about the Städelschule and its place as one of the most…

This episode features Donnachadh Morgan, barrister at law, son of the late Dermot Morgan and German mother Susanne Morgan (nee Garmaltz). Donnchadh tells us of his experience of his German Irish cultural world, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant from his grandparents’ stories of…

This month Ciarán is joined by Ulrike Gasser, the newly appointed director of the Goethe Institut Irland and now proud Dublin Northsider. Originally from Munich Ulrike identifies with and appreciates many other cultures, especially the Middle East.  Having worked with artists in…

This episode features John Scott, choreographer and artistic director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre.  As a son of artistic parents and being exposed to the Abbey theatre from a young age, John’s love for dance started after being introduced to Kurt Jooss’s masterpiece The…

This month Ciarán is talking with the German ambassador to Ireland, Deike Potzel, who, ever since her inter-railing in Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, had an interest in Irish people, history and even its language.   They…