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05 October 2007
GPPi remembers Susan J. Stern
GPPi remembers the life and work of Susan J. Stern, a long-time friend and supporter who died on October 4 after a courageous battle with cancer.
Born in Britain and educated in the U. S., Sue Stern was a long-time resident of Frankfurt. She was a tenured lecturer at the University of Frankfurt as well as a journalist and writer focusing on cross-cultural communication, the effects of globalization on German business culture, Jewish life in Germany, among other topics. Her books include These Strange German Ways and the Whys of the Ways as well as Desperately Seeking Europe and The End of Tolerance?. Sue was also a frequent presence at U. S. universities teaching at the University of Massachusetts Boston and lecturing at Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, Brandeis, Wellesley, Tufts, among others. She was a bridge-builder, explaining Germany and Germans to the world and the world to Germans.
Sue was active in the American Council on Germany, the Atlantik-Brücke e. V. and the Goethe-Institut. She was also a senior advisor to the Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue and helped shape its profile in the fields of European integration, globalization and inter-cultural dialogue. In this capacity, she entrusted GPPi with what became one of the first projects after the launch of the institute in 2003 – helping to conceptualize a book and a major conference on The Partnership Principle. New Forms of Governance in the 21st Century. Over the years, Sue continued to support GPPi. Her courage, enthusiasm, sense of reflection and can-do-spirit will continue to inspire our work.