Launching CultureChat: Unravelling Hidden Truths One Chat at a Time

In 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, and a year later, the UN General Assembly declared May 21 to be World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. The intent? To provide us with an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to advance the four goals of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions adopted on October 20th, 2005:

  • Support sustainable systems of governance for culture;

  • Achieve a balanced flow of cultural goods and services and increase mobility of artists and cultural professionals;

  • Integrate culture in sustainable development frameworks; and

  • Promote human rights and fundamental freedoms.

In honor of World Day of Cultural Diversity, CultureLynx is excited to anounce the launch of CultureChat, a new interview series dedicated to exploring any and all things culture, using the power of story telling to unravel hidden truths - one chat at a time. Since, this year, World Day of Cultural Diversity coincides with Father’s Day in Germany, we are kicking off the very first episode with a candid conversation about German identity post-WWII, featuring CultureLynx founder Gwendolyn Bluemich and her dad, Bernhard Bluemich.

Bernhard is a world-renown scientist in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of materials. Born in 1952 and raised in Berlin, he recounts his own experience as a post-WWII child and explores the vivid details of his mother's diary from 1945.

Seventy-five years after the end of WWII, what does it mean to be German? Why does soccer elicit such an adverse emotional response for those who remember Hitler's propaganda? How do the German people process the collective guilt and shame that has been passed along from generation to generation? Join us in this candid conversation to learn the answers to these questions, and more!

Gwendolyn SummersCultureLynx