“For us it was a palace.”
— Laura K. Krause, intern and resident at 1014 Fifth Avenue in 2008
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“Hundreds of people would come”
“Our job titles really changed throughout the years, because of the way that the dynamics at the Institute were changing.”
For us it was a palace.
Laura K. Krause looks back at her time as an intern at 1014 Fifth Avenue - and at being one of the last residents in the building before the Goethe-Institut moved out.
Phoenixes in Fine Feather
Journalist Claudia Steinberg reflects on one lively morning among German and Austrian Émigrés at Goethe House New York