The Two German Academy Award Winners for Best Actor

by | May 30, 2022 | History and culture

The Very First Academy Awards Ceremony Only two Germans have ever won an Academy Award for Best Actor or Actress in a Leading Role. One of them did so at the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. Since then many other German-speakers have also won or been...

Black Americans in German-Speaking Europe

by | Feb 28, 2022

Black History: More African Americans in German-Speaking Europe Below you’ll learn more about three African Americans who were influenced by living and studying in German-speaking Europe. None of the three are very well known or famous, but each made a unique...

Marian Anderson in Salzburg

by | Feb 28, 2022

Marian Anderson in Europe • With Timeline Marian Anderson was a noted African American operatic singer who broke various racial barriers during her four-decades-long international career. Anderson, by her own account, did not like personal confrontation. When faced...

Notable German-Americans: M-N-O

by | Oct 10, 2021

Famous and Not-So-Famous Americans of German, Austrian, or German-Swiss Ancestry M-N-O North Americans of German, Austrian, or German-Swiss heritage have made significant contributions to many fields of American culture, from the arts to science and engineering. Below...