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American Spaces
Compelling programs and activities on a wide range of themes and topics

Overview

German-American cultural institutes bring people together to exchange ideas of interest and concern on both sides of the Atlantic.  The centers organize and co-sponsor conferences, lectures, panel discussions, readings by American authors, poetry slams, concerts, film showings, photography exhibits, and much, much more.

Each center is different.  Some centers offer English language courses.  Many centers have libraries that provide unique opportunities to learn about the United States. A visitor to a GAI library, for example, may find young people learning how to apply for an exchange program at an American high school or college or planning a group cultural, sports, or community project with American students here in Germany.  Story Hours and programs for children are also featured at some locations.

Most of the German-American institutes were established by the U.S. government in postwar West Germany as ‘Amerika Haus’ cultural centers. Today they are affiliated with the U.S. State Department’s American Spaces and EducationUSA network.  This new network includes the American Space Leipzig at Leipzig University.

The centers are largely financed through a combination of German federal local, state and government funds, as well as co-sponsorships, donations, and fee-based services and activities. The U.S. Embassy in Berlin and the U.S. Consulates provide grant support for selected American Spaces and EducationUSA programs.

American Spaces in Germany

Cologne

Freiburg

Hamburg

Heidelberg

Kaiserslautern

Kiel

Leipzig

Munich

Nuremberg

Saarbruecken

Stuttgart

Tuebingen

Address:

Amerika Haus e.V. NRW Apostelnstraße 14 50667 Köln

Phone:

+49 221 16926350

Website:

https://www.amerikahaus-nrw.de/en/

Address:

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut e.V. Carl-Schurz-Haus Eisenbahnstraße 62 79098 Freiburg

Phone:

+49 761 5565270

Website:

http://www.carl-schurz-haus.de/home.html

Address:

Amerikazentrum Hamburg e.V. Am Sandtorkai 48 20457 Hamburg

Phone:

+49 40 70383688

Website:

https://www.amerikazentrum.de

Address:

DAI Heidelberg. Haus der Kultur Sofienstraße 12 69115 Heidelberg

Phone:

+49 6221 60730

Website:

https://dai-heidelberg.de/en/

Address:

Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Lauterstraße 2 67657 Kaiserslautern

Phone:

+49 631 366100

Website:

https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/startseite

Address:

Amerika-Gesellschaft Schleswig-Holstein e. V. Olshausenstraße 10 24118 Kiel

Phone:

+49 431 5869993

Address:

American Space Leipzig Beethovenstraße 15 04107 Leipzig

Phone:

+49 341 9737310

Address:

Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus gGmbH – Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations Barer Str. 19a 80333 München

Phone:

+49 89 5525370

Website:

https://www.amerikahaus.de/

Address:

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Nürnberg e.V. Gleißbühlstraße 9 90402 Nürnberg

Phone:

+49 911 230690

Website:

https://www.dai-nuernberg.de/

Address:

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland e.V. Talstraße 14 66119 Saarbrücken

Phone:

+49 681 31160

Website:

https://www.dai-saarland.de/

Address:

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum Stuttgart James-F-Byrnes Institut e.V. Charlottenplatz 17 70173 Stuttgart

Phone:

+49 711 22818-0

Website:

https://daz.org/

Address:

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen Karlstraße 3 72072 Tübingen

Phone:

+49 7071 795260

Website:

https://www.dai-tuebingen.de/