Graduiertenkolleg
February 28, 2023 | Podcast "Quo Vadis USA?"
Episode 74: Worst Case Scenario: The Politics of Prepping in America
Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University
April 20, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"How the Priesthood of All Believers Became American: The Curious Career of a Reformation Slogan"
Emory University
HCA Atrium
April 25, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Reading and the Realisation of Sacred Goods"
The University of Edinburgh
HCA Atrium
April 27, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Rolf Kentner Dissertation Price
"Joyriding Otherwise: William Pickens' Automotivity as Spiritual Practice"
University of Erfurt
HCA Atrium
May 9, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Book Launch
"American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation"
University of Minnesota
HCA Atrium
May 16, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"American Engineers and Global Networks, ca. 1870-1930"
University of Notre Dame
HCA Atrium
May 23, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar / GKAT Lecture
"American Self-Narrative and Religious Authority in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Princeton University
HCA Atrium
May 25, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"'Many Shall Come in My Name': The Dangers of False Scriptures in America’s Era of Divine Utterance"
Washington University
HCA Atrium
Keynote der Konferenz "By the Mouth of His Holy Prophets": Sacred Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
May 25 - 27, 2023 | Conference
"By the Mouth of His Holy Prophets”: Sacred Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America"
Conveners: Jan Stievermann (HCA) & Everett Messamore
Please pre-register with Everett Messamore: emessamore@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
May 31, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Domain Specificity and Cultural Diffusion: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism in Europe’s Long 19th Century"
Columbia University
HCA Atrium
June 13, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Pennington Award
"Republicanism in Black: Nineteenth-Century African American Contributions to Our Idea of Freedom"
University of California-Los Angeles
HCA Atrium
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg
June 29, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Most Famous Woman in the World: Frances Willard, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and Social Reform in 19th-Century America"
Boston University
In cooperation with GKAT
July 4, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Advising Three Presidents – Gender and Class in U.S. Policymaking"
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. & Bosch Academy, Berlin
HCA Atrium
July 6, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Populism: Confusing Authority with Authoritarianism and the Erosion of Social Trust"
New York University & Humboldt Universität Berlin
HCA Atrium
July 13, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
July 20, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Reforming Church History: A History of Reformed Communities in the United States"
Western Theological Seminary und Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Heidelberg
HCA Atrium
October 18, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
February 16, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Reimagining, Repurposing, Reckoning: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and the Aesthetics of Infrastructure"
Ruhr Universität Bochum
HCA Atrium
February 14, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. | Encounters
"China and the U.S. – Ambition and Frustration in Fragile Societies"
MPI for Social Anthropology / HCA
CATS Auditorium
February 9, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | MAS Colloquium
"Bunkerization in America: Preparing for the Worst Case Scenario"
CAPAS, Universität Heidelberg
HCA Atrium
February 2, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion
"Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia"
Natalie Koch, Geographisches Institut Heidelberg
Veronika Cummings, Catrin Gersdorf, Christian Henderson, Robert Lee, Brittany Meché, Ingrid Nelson, Francisco Robles & Michele Sollai
HCA Atrium
January 26, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Hammer and Sickle, Stars and Stripes: Earl Browder’s American Dream"
University of Richmond
HCA Atrium
December 15, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Surfing Through the American Century: How Surfing Helps Us Understand the Modern United States"
University of Minnesota
HCA Atrium
December 8, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | GKAT Lecture
"Imagining Trustworthy Authority in a Society of Equals"
Western Illinois University
HCA Atrium
December 6, 2022 | 7:30 p.m. | Lecture
"Die USA – Ein gespaltenes Land? Ein Blick auf die USA nach den Midterms"
Frauke Kühnl
Claus Gramckow & Stefanie Wallbraun
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung / GKAT
HCA Atrium
In Kooperation mit der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, der Reinhold-Maier-Stiftung und der Liberalen Hochschulgruppe Heidelberg
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November 22, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Red Wave or Blue Wall? The Dynamics of the 2022 U.S. Midterms"
Sonoma State University
HCA Atrium
November 21, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"From Eppelsheim to Chicago: 19th Century Jewish Migration from Southwest Germany to the United States"
Pennsylvania State University
HCA Atrium
November 15, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Migrations
"American-European Migration and the Unbearable Multi-sitedness of Home: Lessons Learnt from Fieldwork with Ecuadorian Women in Italy"
University of Trento
HCA Atrium
November 10, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"High-Fidelty Religious Transmission: Orthodox Buddhism in the Religious 'Supermarket' of Secular America"
Simon Fraser University
The event will take place online.
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
November 9, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Panel discussion
"Zwischenwahlen in den USA – Eine erste Bilanz"
Nicole Colaianni & Martin Thunert & Welf Werner
Moderated by Wilfried Mausbach
History Department / HCA / HCA
HCA Atrium
November 3, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Understanding Transatlantic Puritanism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
Harvard Divinity School
HCA Atrium
October 18, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Encounters
"Rivals or Enemies? The United States, Russia, and China"
Brookings Institution / HCA
The event will take place online.
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
In Cooperation with CATS
October 14, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Commencement, Baden-Württemb...
"Navigating Disruption and Uncertainty: Transatlantic Relations in a Fractured World"
President of the American Council on Germany
Aula der Neuen Universität
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
October 5, 2022 | 5:30 p.m. | Lecture
July 28, 2022 | 18:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The Case of the Camden 28: How Radical Defendants of the 1960s Put their Federal Prosecutors on Trial"
Loyola University Chicago
HCA Atrium
July 26, 2022 | 8:30 p.m. | Encounters - New Perspectives...
"Peaceful World, Where Are You? Activism and Art in a Global Context."
Author-in-Residence, Nationaltheater Mannheim / CATS, Heidelberg University
CATS Auditorium, Voßstraße 2, Heidelberg
July 26, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Reconsidering 1776: A Nation Approaches Its Semiquincentennial"
University of Notre Dame
HCA Atrium
July 21, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"Migration and Infrastructures of Care"
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for Ibero American Studies and the Institute for Geography
July 14 - July 16, 2022 | Conference
"Natural Catastrophes in the United States – Making Sense of Risks and Vulnerability"
Conveners: Natalie Rauscher (HCA) & Welf Werner (HCA)
July 14, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Conference Keynote
"Risk Reduction or Rejection: Louisiana’s Chronic Coastal Crisis"
University of Louisiana
HCA Atrium
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
July 12, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Rethinking U.S. Feminisms through Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress"
University of California, Irvine
HCA Atrium
July 5, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
June 30, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Jews, Germans, Allies – Changing Perspectives on Postwar Encounters"
Atina Grossmann & Frank Mecklenburg
Cooper Union, New York City/ Leo Baeck Archive, New York City
HCA Atrium
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
In cooperation with "Kurt Klein Tage", Walldorf
June 23, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Migration and the Americas
"The Common Roots of Central American Migration, Inequalities and Violence in the Region"
University of California, Los Angeles
HCA Atrium
In Cooperation with the Heidelberg Center for Ibero American Studies and the Institute for Geography
June 21, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City"
The Pennsylvania State University
HCA Atrium
June 9, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
June 1, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Pennington Award
"The Unfinished Work of Reconstruction: The Long and Ongoing Civil Rights Struggle in the United States"
Carol Anderson & Manisha Sinha
Emory University / University of Connecticut
HCA Atrium
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
In Cooperation with the Faculty of Theology, Heidelberg University
May 31, 2022 | 12:30 - 2 p.m. | Encounters - New Perspectives...
"Enfant Terrible, Minister of Culture, Silent Loner?"
Lung Ying-tai & Barbara Mittler
This event will take place online.
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
May 24, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
"Trust and Language: Linguistics Meets Communication Studies - Some Thoughts and Insights"
University of Greifswald
HCA Atrium
May 12, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
May 5, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Rolf-Kentner Dissertationspreis
"The Future of Work in the United States – Examining Crucial Narratives and Discourses"
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Old Lecture Hall of the Univerisity
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
May 3, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"The African American Experience in WWII, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle for Equality"
Charles Postel
San Francisco State University
HCA Atrium
April 29, 2022 | 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Workshop
"Säkularisierung und der Wille zum Glauben"
Lecture: "Losing (one's) Religion. Pragmatist Considerations."
University of Helsinki
Book Presentation: William James: "The Will to Believe"
University of Koblenz
HCA Atrium
In cooperation with "Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e.V. (FEST)".
April 7, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Encounters - New Perspectives...
"Die liberale Weltordnung in der Krise? Die EU zwischen den USA, Russland und China"
Reinhard Bütikofer & Dr. Florian Böller
Europäisches Parlament / TU Kaiserslautern
Aula der Alten Universität, Grabengasse 1, Heidelberg
Please register with: ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
March 25, 2022 | 5:00 p.m.
"Berufsbrücke: HCA Absolvent*innen berichten über ihre Berufswege"
This event will take place online.
Please register with: fachschaft@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
March 21-25, 2022 | Conference
HCA Spring Academy
This event will take place online.
February 10, 2022 | 6:15 p.m. | Lecture
“How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance”
Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
February 4, 2022 | 5:00 p.m.
"Berufsbrücke: HCA Absolvent*innen berichten über ihre Berufswege"
This event will take place online.
January 25, 2022 | 12:30 p.m. | Encounters – New Perspectives…
January 21, 2022 | 5:00 p.m.
"Berufsbrücke: HCA Absolvent*innen berichten über ihre Berufswege"
This event will take place online.
December 15, 2021 | Fireside Chat
"Bröckelnde Brücken: Die Zukunft der transatlantischen Allianz"
Wilfried Mausbach & Sigmar Gabriel
HCA Executive Director / Chairman of Atlantik-Brücke
Click here for the video.
CANCELED! December 14, 2021 | Lecture
6:15 p.m., HCA
"The Diffusion of Romantic Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth-Century"
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
In cooperation with GKATCANCELED! December 9, 2021 | Lecture
6:15 p.m.r, HCA
"The Invective in American (Popular) Culture"
UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG
In cooperation with GKATCANCELED! December 2, 2021 | Awarding of the Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize
6:15 p.m., Old Lecture Hall
"Narratives on Technological Changes: The Future of Work in the U.S."
Natalie Rauscher, HCA
November 30, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. | Encounters: New Perspectives on Asia, America and Europe
October 29, 2021 | Lecture
6:15 p.m.
"Pox, Populism, and Politics: Three Centuries of American Vaccination Controversies"
University of Illinois Chicago
October 19, 2021 | HCA Book Launch
7:00 p.m., HCA
October 15, 2021 | HCA Commencement
6:15 p.m., Neue Aula
Keynote Address: DANIEL BENJAMIN, President, The American Academy in Berlin
October 12, 2021 | 1. Christian Broecking Lecture
7:00 p.m., HCA
"Music with Other Means: The Interviews of Christian Broecking"
GEORGE E. LEWIS, Columbia University
In cooperation with ENJOY JAZZ
August 20-21, 2021 | Conference
"James W.C. Pennington and the World of Transatlantic Reform"
Conveners: Jan Stievermann (HCA) & Eddie Glaude Jr. (Princeton University)
Supported by the Manfred-Lautenschläger-Foundation
June 17-19, 2021 | Conference (online)
"Participation in American Culture and Society" International Conference (online)
67 Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies Conveners: Manfred Berg, Ulrike Gerhard, Günter Leypoldt, Margit Peterfy, Jan Stievermann, Martin Thunert, Welf Werner Heidelberg University
January 25, 2021 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Nach der Amtseinführung: Quo Vadis USA?"
Universität Heidelberg | ZDF "Heute Journal"
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January 18, 2021 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
January 14, 2021 | 6:15 P.M.
"James Baldwin and the Illusion of American Democracy"
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University
January 11, 2021 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Religion and Politics after Trump"
Jan Stievermann & Daniel Silliman
Universität Heidelberg | Christianity Today
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December 14, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Renaissance oder Krise? Überlegungen zur aktuellen Situation und Zukunft der US-amerikanischen Stadt"
Universität Heidelberg
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December 7, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
November 30, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Die US-Wirtschaft nach der Krise"
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Universität Heidelberg
Click here for the video.
November 26, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
Vertrauen: Die unsichtbare Macht (2020)
Professor für Philosophie, Universität Luzern
In cooperation with the Graduiertenkolleg "Authority and Trust" | online discussion of his new book via Zoom; please register with hnagl@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
November 23, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Columbus, Jefferson, Bismarck & Co vom Sockel holen? Aktuelle Konflikte um Erinnerungskulturen und Geschichtspolitik"
Universität Bonn
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November 16, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Forschungserfolg versus Privatsphäre: Humangenetik in den USA und Deutschland"
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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November 9, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Die USA nach den Wahlen: Steht die Außenpolitik vor einer Kurskorrektur?"
Florian Böller & Sebastian Harnisch
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern / Universität Heidelberg
Click here for the video.
November 2, 2020 | 7:30 P.M. | Ringvorlesung "Quo Vadis USA?"
"Four More Years? Die USA vor den Wahlen"
Nana Brink (Deutschlandradio Kultur), Horst Kläuser (ehemaliger USA-Korrespondent der ARD), Rachel Tausendfreund (German Marshall Fund), Martin Thunert (HCA); Moderation: Wilfried Mausbach (HCA)
Click here for the video.
October 16-17, 2020
"Authority and Trust: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
Conveners: Graduiertenkolleg "Authority & Trust" (GKAT)
Online Conference
Canceled! July 14, 2020
"Bare Handed"
Holly Lynton
Artist, Massachusetts
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! July 9, 2020
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Thomas Andrews
Professor of U.S. History, University of Colorado, Boulder
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! July 7, 2020
"The Performitivity of Objects"
Jeffrey Alexander
Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
July 2, 2020 | 7:30 P.M.
Zum 100. Geburtstag von Kurt Klein
In Kooperation mit Forum 84 und der Vereinigung Walldorfer Heimatfreunde
Aufgrund der Covid-19 Pandemie ist die Zahl der Plätze sehr begrenzt. Die Veranstaltung ist bereits ausgebucht.
Astoria-Halle, Schwetzinger Str. 91, Walldorf
Canceled! June 30, 2020
"Assaulting Democracy: The Religion of the Gun in America"
Dominic Erdozain
Research Fellow, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! June 23, 2020
"City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism"
Abraham VanEngen
Professor of English, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! June 16, 2020
"The Politics of Memory in American Culture: 1620 and Beyond"
David Hall
Bartlett Research Professor, Harvard Divinity School
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! May 14, 2020
"A History of Fake News"
Michelle Nickerson
Loyola University
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! April 30, 2020
HCA Commencement
David Thomas
President, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia
Alte Aula, Universität Heidelberg
Canceled! April 23, 2020
"The Big Chill: German-American Relations in Reset Mode"
Jackson Janes
President Emeritus of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Conference canceled! March 23-27, 2020
HCA Spring Academy 2020
Interdisciplinary Conference for Ph.D. Candidates
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
Canceled! March 19 - April 29, 2020 | Mon-Fri, 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.
"Suffrage: Bilder einer Bewegung"
Kurator: Reinhard Schultz
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
March 4-6, 2020
Jahrestagung des Wirtschaftshistorischen Ausschusses des Vereins für Socialpolitik
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
March 4, 2020 | 2:00 P.M
"'It's the Economy, Stupid!' Or Is It? Zum Verhältnis von sozialer Ungleichheit und Populismus in den USA"
Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftungsprofessor für Amerikanische Geschichte, Universität Heidelberg
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
March 4, 2020 | 4:00 P.M.
"Autorität und Vertrauen in der US-Wirtschaft: Trends und Brüche"
Panel Discussion
With Hartmut Berghoff, Alexander Engel, Korinna Schönhärl and Welf Werner. Moderation: Jan-Otmar Hesse
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 28, 2020 | 6:15 P.M. | HCA Book Launch
Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs
Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Services, University of Illinois
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 23, 2020 | 6:15 P.M. | Baden-Württemberg Seminar
"American States of Nature: Rights, Race, and the Environment in the U.S. Constitution"
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 21, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Das schwierige Ganze: Goethe, Emerson und die Literatur der offenen Gesellschaft"
Universität Göttingen
HCA, Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 16, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Transatlantic Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures"
Chair of North American Cultural Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen
In cooperation with GKAT
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 14, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Reinsuring Natural Catastrophes in the U.S.: State, Private Markets, and International Organizations"
Niels-Viggo Haueter
Head Corporate History, Swiss Re, Zürich
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
January 9, 2020 | 6:15 P.M.
"Hurricanes in New Orleans"
Professor for Entangled History of the Americas, University of Bielefeld
HCA, Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais, Hauptstr. 120, Heidelberg
