Rescheduled from May 17, 2022
The Goethe-Institut Washington regularly hosts book events featuring translated works originally published in German, as well as English-language books written by area professors of language, history, cultural studies, and more.
But the Washington, DC-Baltimore area is also home to outstanding local authors and book creators who work in historical nonfiction, young adult nonfiction, historical monograph, and more. On Tuesday, June 7, we invite you to meet three of these individuals, all of whom have recently published works that occupy a cultural and historical intersection of the United States and Germany.
Meet the Authors
K.R. Gaddy © Joanna Tillman
Kristina R. Gaddy is an award-winning writer who believes in the power of narrative nonfiction to bring stories from the past to life in order to inform the world we live in today. Her debut nonfiction book
Flowers in the Gutter (Dutton 2020), tells the true story of the teenage Edelweiss Pirates who fought the Nazis. Through narratives based on memoirs, oral history interviews, and Nazi documents, she immerses the reader in the world of these teenagers as they resist the Third Reich.
Ron Hoffer on Nile River
With his trusted 35 mm camera,
Ron Hoffer plunged into the turbulent post-Soviet world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a myriad of images, he captured the beauty as well as the daily challenges friends and strangers alike had to face in countries across Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, while trying to cope with the adventurously new economic and political realities. 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Hoffer’s
From the Bronx to Berlin and Beyond (Kerber 2020) features vignettes of women, the youth, everyday culture, and devastated landscapes, forming a very personal memento and photographic tribute to this astonishing time of global optimism.
Harvey Solomon Portrait + Cover
In the chaotic days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt administration made a dubious decision affecting hundreds of Axis diplomats remaining in the nation's capital. To encourage reciprocal treatment of U.S. diplomats trapped abroad, Roosevelt sent Axis diplomats to remote luxury hotels – a move that enraged Americans stunned by the attack. This cause célèbre drove a fascinating yet forgotten story: the roundup, detention, and eventual repatriation of more than a thousand German, Japanese, Italian, Bulgarian, and Hungarian diplomats, families, staff, servants, journalists, students, businessmen, and spies. In
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America During World War II (Potomac Books 2020),
Harvey Solomon recreates this wartime American period of deluxe detention, public outrage, hidden agendas, rancor and racism, and political machinations in a fascinating but forgotten story.
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