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Stories – A Selection

Your portal to discover the diverse partnership between Canada and Germany.

Study abroad in … Mannheim – Part 1

Oct 11, 2017 | Amen Ben Ahmouda for SoGerman
Amen Ben Ahmouda is a student at the University of Ottawa and left Canada for four months to study in Mannheim, Germany, thanks to the Ontario-Baden-Württemberg student exchange. She shares her exper […]

Sticky Frames in Montreal

Oct 4, 2017 | Gabriel Desbiens for SoGerman
Gabriel Desbiens from the Consulate General in Montréal caught up with German artist Theresa Grysczok who presented a special screening at the Festival Stop Motion Montréal earlier this September. […]

Berlin meets Toronto

Oct 2, 2017 | Claire Busse for SoGerman
When Katharina and Henryk’s work-life-balance was not satisfying anymore they decided to reevaluate what was important for them in life. Both shared a passion for travelling and so they started thei […]

SoGerman Summer Photo Contest 2017

Sep 27, 2017 | SoGerman Team
Thanks to everyone who participated in our “So German! Si Allemand !” photo contest. We received wonderful entries from students all across Canada and are pleased to announce the winners. […]
Leutnant zur See Jonas Nawrath in front of Vancouver's skyline

Thrown into the Pacific

Sep 20, 2017 | Leutnant zur See Jonas Nawrath
This summer, I had the unique opportunity of completing a short, but intense internship with the Royal Canadian Navy at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt on Vancouver Island prior to my semester abroad. […]

Reflecting voters voices back to government

Sep 13, 2017 | Consulate General Toronto
Toronto-based social enterprise Vox Pop Labs has developed a civic engagement application called Vote Compass in order to help German voters evaluate their options before making an important decisio […]

International Parliamentary Scholarship

Aug 25, 2017 | Kerstin Kormendy for SoGerman
“This program challenges all its participants to examine their preconceived notions about other parts of the world,” says Joseph Hawker, who spent five months working in Berlin at the Germ […]

Comedy that makes people laugh, stop and think

Aug 23, 2017 | Kerstin Kormendy for SoGerman
“Half my life, I ran away from being German. Then I realized that’s the most German thing you could possibly do,” says comedian Paco Erhard. He moved back to Germany in 2016, after h […]
Comic about the arrival of Allie and her boyfriend in Berlin. Where is the Hauptbahnhof. They look at the U-Bahn schedule and find a lot of funky German names.

German Ampelmann inspires Canadian comic travelogue

Aug 2, 2017 | Kerstin Kormendy for SoGerman
Allie MacAlister was waiting at a cross walk light in former East Berlin. The young Canadian illustrator was on a trip through Germany together with her boyfriend. It was the first time she travelled […]
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