The Big Ponder

By Goethe-Institut

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Episodes: 96

Description

This transatlantic podcast explores abstract concepts and phenomena through personal radio essays. Every other week, one of our producers transforms a broad topic into a captivating story told from a US-German perspective.


Episode Date
Ball Bearings
Sep 01, 2022
The Typewriter
Aug 18, 2022
Beer
Aug 04, 2022
Traffic
Jul 21, 2022
The Farm
Jul 06, 2022
Grief
Jun 22, 2022
Cartoons
Jun 08, 2022
Street Names
May 26, 2022
The Street
May 18, 2022
Hidden History
Apr 27, 2022
Sounds of Nature
Apr 14, 2022
Housing
Mar 31, 2022
Firsts
Mar 17, 2022
Winterreise
Mar 03, 2022
The Zoo
Feb 17, 2022
Humor
Feb 03, 2022
The Mom-and-Pop Store
Jan 20, 2022
Immersion
Jan 06, 2022
Krampus
Dec 23, 2021
The Night
Dec 09, 2021
Happiness
Nov 24, 2021
Airlines
Nov 11, 2021
Candy
Oct 28, 2021
Community
Oct 14, 2021
Adventure
Sep 30, 2021
Encounters
Sep 16, 2021
Road Trip
Sep 02, 2021
Listening
Aug 12, 2021
Wonder
Jul 29, 2021
Record Booth
Jul 15, 2021
Sacred Self
Jul 01, 2021
The Diary
Jun 03, 2021
Hunting
May 20, 2021
Home
May 06, 2021
The Diner
Apr 22, 2021
In Friendship
Apr 08, 2021
My Pen Pal
Mar 25, 2021
How Buildings Mean
Mar 11, 2021
The Flag
Feb 25, 2021
Little America Revisited
Feb 11, 2021
Anatomy of an Apology
Jan 28, 2021
Radio Wanderlust
Jan 14, 2021
The Garden
Dec 31, 2020
I Love You, I Hate You
Dec 17, 2020
Puppeteering from Darmstadt to DC
Oct 30, 2019
The Right to Housing
Oct 23, 2019
Showing Our Colors
Oct 16, 2019
US-American Soccer and the World
Oct 09, 2019
Legacies of the Berlin Wall
Oct 02, 2019
How to Walk in the City
Sep 25, 2019
Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
Sep 18, 2019
The Passion of Chris Strachwitz
Sep 11, 2019
Germans in New Orleans
Sep 04, 2019
Under the Skin – Tattoo Artists
Aug 28, 2019
Heart in Space – German Scientists and NASA
Aug 21, 2019
Enjoy the Ride – About Bicycling
Aug 14, 2019
Villa Aurora and Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles
Aug 07, 2019
Quietude – In Search of Radio Silence
Jul 31, 2019
Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography
Jul 24, 2019
100 Years of the Bauhaus
Jul 17, 2019
Luftbrücke – 70 Years of Memories
Jul 10, 2019
The Library and the Book
Jul 03, 2019
Finding My Parents
Jun 26, 2019
Texas German - Auf Wiedersehen to a Dialect
Jun 19, 2019
Getting to Know the Gateau
Jun 12, 2019
The Berlin Ringbahn
Jun 05, 2019
Milwaukee’s German Heritage
May 29, 2019
Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
May 22, 2019
Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
May 15, 2019
Welcome to Motherland
May 08, 2019
No Restraint - Berger Cookies and the City of Baltimore
May 01, 2019
US-American Students in German Universities
Apr 24, 2019
Being Muslim in the Midwest
Apr 17, 2019
Sorting Out Recycling
Apr 10, 2019
The Story of the Brezn
Apr 03, 2019
What’s a Sister City Really?
Mar 27, 2019
Hessian Barracks in Maryland
Mar 20, 2019
German Bread - A Nourishing Craft
Mar 13, 2019
German-Texan Heritage Societies
Mar 06, 2019
The Detroit-Berlin-Connection
Feb 27, 2019
Culture of Coffee
Feb 20, 2019
American Sports in Germany
Feb 13, 2019
St. Hildegard of Bingen
Feb 06, 2019
German-style Wines in the US
Jan 30, 2019
A House for Reconciliation
Jan 23, 2019
Germans on Harleys
Jan 16, 2019
Faith, and a Side of Sour Beef
Jan 09, 2019
A Singer’s Life
Dec 19, 2018
German-style Apprenticeships in the US
Dec 05, 2018
Klinsmann in California
Nov 28, 2018
Suds an Stories
Nov 21, 2018
Thomas Buergenthal - A Lucky Child
Nov 14, 2018
The Colossi of Buffalo
Nov 07, 2018
Revitalizing Downtown Atlanta with German Investors
Oct 31, 2018
A Day With John Lennon
Oct 17, 2018
The Things We Brought
Oct 03, 2018