Professor Lemke | Press

Interviews & Publicity

Jung & Naiv: Folge 665 on Youtube
October 11, 2023

• Amerikanistin Sieglinde Lemke über die US-Demokratie & ihre Geschichte.

Discussion with René Pfister
Changing Language and Thinking: About Collective (Self-)Censorship, Freedom of Speech and the Struggle for Justice
November 22, 2022

• Debate Culture at Risk? (in German)

as part of the topic week 'Inclusive Language and Cultures of Transformation'

Round Table Discussion
Eine Uni ein Buch
July 21, 2022

• Representations of hate, marginalization and discrimination in different cultural branches (in German)

The University of Freiburg's video podcast
July 20, 2022

• The role of the USA in the offensive war in Ukraine (in German)

uniCROSS Freiburg
April 21, 2022

• Colorism: The Dimensions of Racism (in German)

uni'hören – The University of Freiburg's research podcast
April 8, 2021

• Episode 5: The anger of those left behind (in German)

SWR2 am Morgen – Radio Interview
January 20, 2021

• "US-expert Lemke ahead of the presidential inauguration: Biden has to overcome 'four years of toxic polarization'" (in German)

Online Magazine, University of Freiburg
November 9, 2020

• "Every vote counts – The American Studies Professor Sieglinde Lemke on the outcome of the presidential election in the USA"

United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
February 4, 2014

• "Poverty and inequality in America – Interview with Sieglinde Lemke"
• "Sieglinde Lemke Teaser Interview – Overcoming Poverty in the United States"

ABC Radio National
February 1, 2014

• "Rising income inequality"
• Audio Stream

Conference
Arm, nicht sexy: Repräsentationen von Armut in der amerikanischen Gegenwartskultur
June 21 – 23, 2011

Poor, not sexy: Representations of poverty in contemporary American culture

• "Tom Stone: Artist Statement, University of Freiburg, 2011"
• "Tom Stone on Poverty in the U.S.: A lecture moderated by Professor Sieglinde Lemke"

Conference 
Too Big to Ignore: Narratives of Inequality
July 9, 2012

• Uniradio – interview covering the conference (audio clip – in German)

Schweizer Radio DRS

• "Armut in den USA" – Poverty in the USA (audio clip – in German)

Die Samstags-Uni – Mythos in Antike und Gegenwart (WS 2010/11)
November 27, 2010

Saturday University Lecture Series – Mythos in Antiquity and in the Present

• "Vom Mythos des 'American Dream' und der Lebensrealität der Amerikaner" – On the mythos of the "American Dream" and Americans' lived experience (in German)

uni'leben – the ALU Freiburg's university newspaper
02'2010

• "Auf dem Weg in die Unterwelt. Einblicke in eine von Obdachlosen bewohnte Zeltstadt bei Los Angeles" – Into the underworld. Life in a tent city for the unhoused outside Los Angeles (p. 9, in German)

Badische Zeitung
June 22, 2010

• "Geschlecht, Rasse und Klasse. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak bei der Frias-Tagung in Freiburg" – Gender, Race, and Class. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at the FRIAS conference in Freiburg (in German)