Harlem Meets Oranienburg on Student Exchange

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, painting by Brunolf Metzler; 2001

Since May 29, a group of high schoolers from Harlem, New York City’s Frederick Douglass Academy have been staying with students from Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Gymnasium and their families in Oranienburg, near Berlin.

Accompanied by their teacher, Ms. Alyssa Rosenbaum, the Americans are not only attending school with their German counterparts but will be participating in a wide range of activities. According to Jochen Wolter, Consul, Press and Public Information at the Consulate General of Germany in New York, visits to the Bundestag, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a chocolate factory, along with canoeing, a bike trip and an excursion to the Baltic Sea are designed “ to give the American students a broad spectrum of impressions of German life and culture.”

Lufthansa airlines sponsored the tickets for the Harlem students and their chaperone. Also noteworthy is the fact that Runge Gymnasium has been exchanging students with a middle and high school in Alexandria, Indiana since 2003.

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