Heat: An Excerpt from OY PIONEER!: A NOVEL – Marleen S. Barr – Germany 1983, 1989, 2008
Heat: An Excerpt from Oy Pioneer!: A Novel by Marleen S. Barr (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) Although I knew that Germany has many elaborate pools replete with squirting fountains and bubbling hot and cold water, I was not prepared for the particular organic contraptions I would encounter at this pool. I could easily accept […]
International Bonds – Nancy Kuechelmann – Germany 1989
My husband and I enjoyed attending local festivals while we were in Germany (1988-89). Among our favorite events were axe throwing competitions and chain saw demonstrations. Of course, we enjoyed the food and local beer, too! As we were sitting across from a German couple at a long table, we started talking. Hearing that we […]
Bartok’s room – Istvan Peter B’RAcz – Hungary 1989
In 1989, I was studying piano at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary with Balázs Szokolay and Péter Nagy, and was preparing some auditions for Grad School. I was working on Bartok’s Piano Sonata (1926), and I was in the Bartokterem (Bartok’s room) which has a bust of Béla B staring right at […]
Being in the Middle of the Opening of the Berlin Wall – John Austin Murphy – Germany 1989
While on a Fulbright research assignment at the Free University of Berlin in 1989-90, I connected with East German demonstrators and officials as well as with researchers from both Germanies and Hungary. I learned to dance in East Berlin discos, as well as later on the streets of West Berlin when the Berlin Wall opened […]
My First Attempted Coup d’Etat – James Nolan – Spain 1979 & 1989
Photo Above: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and James Nolan in his Barrio Gotico apartment, Barcelona, 1991. This past January 6, I sat glued to the television watching as state representatives in the nation’s Capitol cowered on the floor while a mob of shouting louts invaded their congressional chamber, interrupting the Electoral College’s certification of the presidential […]
Opening Our eyes to a New Culture – Raymond Young – Greece 1989
I was thrilled to receive a Fulbright award to the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1989 and knew very little about the city, the people nor the culture. The Fulbright experience opened my eyes to, not only the native Greek culture and the dominate religion of Orthodoxy, but also that of Turkish Muslim and […]
How a Fulbright Influenced My Family: A Historic Year in West Germany – Joseph C. Makarewicz – Germany 1989
With two young daughters in their formative years and my wife, I left in September 1989 to Plőn, a small village located in the lakes district of northern West Germany. We did not know what to expect. Who knew 1989/90 would be a historic year in the then, divided Germany. As a Senior Fulbright Scholar […]
My Wonderful Memories at Texas A&M – Dr. Balagopalan Unni – Texas, USA 1988-1991
Dr. Balagopalan Unni – Fulbright to Texas, USA 1988-1991