# Why Germany Still Feels Like Home After Growing Up in America

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2103522651901710790
- Source account: [@AFpost](https://x.com/AFpost)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 2026-09-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america) You said something very remarkable. Uh, y-you said, uh, "Thank you.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=8) I always tried over the last decades to get Germany out of my mind.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=14) Intellectually, I did quite well, but I didn't get it out of my heart."

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=19) Hmm.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=21) Why not? What's still so German about you being born in Frankfurt am Main in 1967, living now for almost all your life in America?

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=33) Why is there still this emotional affiliation to Germany?

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=39) Man, I, I, it would be strange if there weren't.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=42) I think that would be much more strange if there weren't.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=44) But you left Germany when you were one year old- Yeah, but my, my- ... so you don't have any memories.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=48) You don't have any cultural- My, my grand- my grandparents were here.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=50) You know, I was, uh, there was sort of, uh, in some ways I grew up ...

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=56) I went to, yeah, I went to English-speaking schools in America, but, uh, spoke German at home. So I really, I grew up between And, uh, and so yes, there's, there's, there's a, there's, there's a, um, yeah, there's a, there's a part where it's sort of understandable. So all these reasons things have, have

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=81) gone, gone somewhat wrong, but it's, it's also very important for us to find a way to turn Germany around. It's, it's at the heart of Europe.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=88) In some ways, Europe is still, you know, at the core of, of, of Western civilization. So if there's a crisis of- So sorry about that. It's an inter- There's a crisis of the West. There's a crisis in Europe and, and Germany.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=98) Yeah, but you're shifting back to intellectual analysis.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=100) I know. I know. I always do that. We were talking about feelings, about your heart.

[1:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=102) I, I, and, and I- So what do you love about Germany? What, what is it?

[1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=105) I mean, the past of Germany is difficult.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=106) We spoke about- Yeah, but y- ... the present and the future, that's also quite difficult.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=109) So what do you love about Germany? It's just, it's just part-- I, I'm al- I'm always bad at answering this question.

[1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=115) This is, it's just part, part of my, part of who I am.

[1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4HiOOkQZfVRB/en/why-germany-still-feels-like-home-after-growing-up-in-america?t=118) Okay.