The Big Pond

The Big Pond #52: Puppeteering from Darmstadt to DC

Ingrid Crepeau is a successful US-American puppeteer, performer and puppet-designer based in the...

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The Big Pond #51: The Right to Housing

Berlin and Los Angeles may be separated by more than 9,000 miles, but these two metropolises...

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The Big Pond #50: Showing Our Colors

People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural...

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The Big Pond #49: US-American Soccer and the World

Since the US Men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, many American...

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The Big Pond #48: Legacies of the Berlin Wall

“It was chaos, it was total chaos.” When the Berlin Wall unexpectedly fell in 1989, it triggered...

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The Big Pond #47: How to Walk in the City

After moving from Cologne, Germany, to New York City, our producer Thomas Reintjes had trouble...

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The Big Pond #46: Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke

In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black...

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The Big Pond #45: The Passion of Chris Strachwitz

Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional,...

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The Big Pond #44: The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans

Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you...

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The Big Pond #43: Under the Skin – Tattoo Artists

It seems like there are more people nowadays with tattoos than there used to be – of the body art...

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The Big Pond #43: Under the Skin – Tattoo Artists

It seems like there are more people nowadays with tattoos than there used to be – of the body art...

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The Big Pond #42: Heart in Space – German Scientists and NASA

Since 2016, the German scientists Sonja Schrepfer and her husband Tobias Deuse have led the...

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The Big Pond #41: Enjoy the Ride – About Bicycling

In these times of increased awareness of environmental protection, the bicycle is on the rise...

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The Big Pond #40: Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles

During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in...

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The Big Pond #39: Quietude – In Search of Radio Silence

In this radio travelogue, culture writer and journalist Bilal Qureshi explores Germany’s capital...

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The Big Pond #38: Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography

In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who...

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The Big Pond #37: 100 Years of the Bauhaus

The Bauhaus school of art, architecture and design was founded in 1919 and lasted for only 14...

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The Big Pond #36: Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories

On June 24, 1948, the Soviet military administration officially cut off roads and rails into West...

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The Big Pond #35: The Library and the Book

German and American libraries have influenced each other’s development tremendously over the last...

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The Big Pond #34: Finding My Parents

Producer Jakob Lewis was born in a military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. His dad was stationed...

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