Fascination Europe - Fascination America Essay Competition

Images of American and European Culture

What ideas do young people today have about culture on this side of the Atlantic and on the other? Does America still fascinate young Europeans? What do young Americans know about European culture? Does it interest them at all? 

We want your opinion!

Are you between 18 and 25 years of age and a German, French, Polish, Czech or American citizen? 

Then enter our Essay Competition and take this opportunity to talk about these and related issues with young people from the USA, France, Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany in Berlin! 

The project Fascinating America – Fascinating Europe? Images of American and European Culture is supported by the Goethe-Instituts in Poland, the Czech Republic, France and the USA. The Goethe-Institut seeks to contribute to mutual understanding among young people from both sides of the Atlantic.

Essay Competition

Your essay should answer the following three questions in your native language, with a summary in German or English:

Questions for the European participants:

• WHO personifies American culture to you, in connection with an important aspect of your life?
• WHAT is specifically American about this person?
• WHY is this so important to you?

Questions for the US participants:

• WHO personifies European culture to you, in connection with an important aspect of your life?
• WHAT is specifically European about this person?
• WHY is this so important to you?

Please send us your essay electronically. Please use this
Online Form.
Submission Deadline: December 10, 2010.