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Radio personality Rik de Lisle on being the “last man standing” and how he got into radio

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Two more RIAS zoom talks are on the schedule in the next two weeks with Isabelle Körner, a reporter and anchor at Germany's all-news channel N-TV and Rick De Lisle, a legendary RIAS anchor. We hope you can take part in these Zoom talks. Please write to rias@berlin.org for log-in details:

Wednesday, July 15, 11.00am EST, 17.00h Berlin time – Isabelle Körner will be talking about how the coronavirus has changed her work at N-TV in Cologne and how Germany has come through crisis in relatively good shape so far. She has been a correspondent and anchor for Germany’s all-news network N-TV since 2004 and has also worked as an anchor at RTL. She took part in the RIAS exchange program in 2019 and spent her station week in San Antonio, Texas.

Wednesday, July 22, 11.00am EST, 17.00h Berlin time – Rik De Lisle will be talking about working as an anchor and DJ for RIAS 2 in West Berlin in the 1980s and life in Germany as an American expat. He was born in Milwaukee and became an DJ for AFN, or American Forces Network. He was transferred to AFN in West Berlin in 1978 and moved to RIAS in 1985, where his career in German radio speaking skyrocketed thanks in part to his imperfect German.

Further ahead in August, we hope to have RIAS Zoom talks with Jeff Mason, who has been covering the White House for Reuters since 2008 and is a regular guest speaker for RIAS groups to Washington DC, and with Andrej Hermlin, who has been keeping alive the spirit of 1930s American-style swing dance music with his concerts every evening at 7 pm (Berlin time) on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. ... Read MoreRead Less

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'Make The Climate A Priority Again,' Says Germany's Student Activist Neubauer

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Interesting story from RIAS alumni Simon Schütz.
www.npr.org/2020/07/03/885644410/make-the-climate-a-priority-again-says-germany-s-student-activis... ... Read MoreRead Less

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NPR sits down with Germany's prominent youth climate activist to discuss lessons from the coronavirus and next steps for the movement.

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RIAS Zoom Talk with Lt General Ben Hodges who speaks candidly and authoritatively about German-American relations and NATO after the Trump Administration announced plans to take 9,500 of the 34,000 U.S. troops stationed in Germany out of the country. ... Read MoreRead Less

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RIAS Zoom Talk coming up today at 6 pm Berlin time (noon EST) with Lt General Ben Hodges, who will be talking about German-American relations and NATO after the Trump Administration announced plans to take 9,500 of the 34,000 U.S. troops stationed in Germany out of the country. Also, coming up in the next few weeks will be guest speakers such as Isabelle Koerner of NTV and Jeff Mason, a White House correspondent for Reuters, and former RIAS legend Rik De Lisle. Hope you can join us. Write to info@riasberlin.org for log-on details: Time: Jul 8, 2020 06:00 PM Berlin, 12 noon EST

Wednesday, July 8 – Lieutenant General (Retired) Ben Hodges will be talking about U.S.-German relations, NATO and offering insights and backgrounds on the Trump Administration's proposals to move more than one-quarter of the 34,500 U.S. forces stationed in Germany. Hodges, who is a regular guest in the German media and has talked to RIAS groups in Germany before, holds the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He joined CEPA in February 2018. A native of Quincy, Florida, General Hodges graduated from the United States Military Academy in May 1980 and was commissioned in the Infantry. General Hodges has also served in a variety of Joint and Army Staff positions to include Tactics Instructor; Chief of Plans, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea; Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps; Director of the Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell on the Joint Staff; Chief of Legislative Liaison for the United States Army; and Commander, NATO Allied Land Command (İzmir, Turkey). His last military assignment was as Commanding General, United States Army Europe (Wiesbaden, Germany) from 2014 to 2017. He retired from the U.S. Army in January 2018. Here is more information on Ben: www.cepa.org/ben-hodges ... Read MoreRead Less

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2 weeks ago

Why are Covid-19 infections rising so sharply in Florida, Texas and Arizona? RIAS alumni Kenya Woodard (Tampa), David Wagner (San Angelo, Texas) and Buzz Conover (Tuscson, Arizona) talk about the pandemic in their states to a group of about 20 RIAS alumni and friends of RIAS in a RIAS Zoom talk on July 2, 2020. They also talked about the bleak moments in their states and an ominous dearth of public confidence in many of the elected leaders in their states. Asked by a German RIAS alumni in Cologne if there is any leader in their states or in the US whom the public in their states trust, the surprising answer was: No, not really. Not even Dr. Anthony Fauci, directior of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, garners widespread public trust, they observed. ... Read MoreRead Less

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2 weeks ago

Members of the #RIASBerlin alumni chapter in Berlin meets — cautiously and with social distancing — for the first in many months. It was generally agreed that it was great to see colleagues in the RIAS community in person again after so many months in isolation. Trying to work and juggle family responsibilities during the coronavirus, coping with rabid skeptics of journalism, the US election, the situation in Hong Kong, rising rent prices in Berlin and the RIAS Zoom talks were among the topics discussed. A great time was had by all. ... Read MoreRead Less

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3 weeks ago

Mario Voigt, the CDU parliamentary floor leader in the eastern state of Thuringia, talked to a group of #RIASBerlin Commission alumni on Thursday about the state's astonishing success rate during the coronavirus crisis, its recent reopening, the difficult political situation in Thuringia with three parties (CDU, Left and far-right AfD) getting almost the same number of votes and seats -- making it difficult to form a new state government. Voigt also talked about German-US relations, the US election and the 2021 German election ... Read MoreRead Less

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