Germany’s New Consul General in Atlanta Favors ‘People-to-People’ Diplomacy

To say that Dr. Heike Fuller, Germany‘s consul general to the Southeast, has faced a whirlwind of demands since arriving in Atlanta may be somewhat of an understatement. [...] Starting with the Atlanta opening of the Deutschlandjahr USA — the “Year of German-American Friendship” under the motto “Wunderbar Together,” — she did a head first plunge into a German-American cultural project and street festival at the Atlanta Fulton Library, a building designed by German Bauhaus-movement architect Marcel Breuer.
She told Global Atlanta during an interview at the German Consulate General downtown that the Deutschlandjahr USA initiative underscores Germany as a modern, open and multicultural country that reaches out not only to civic and business leaders, but also to young people through direct exchanges in a multitude of projects and events. Before October was gone, she also was part of the 40th anniversary of the German American Chamber of Commerce South and hosted a group of German investors from Nürnberg in the south of Germany that is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a Sister City of Atlanta this year. During the interview, Dr. Fuller recalled her first days in Atlanta as warmly hospitable and had special words of appreciation for the efforts on her behalf of Abby Turano, Georgia‘s deputy commissioner for international relations and chief of protocol and Vanessa Ibarra, director, international affairs and trade at the Atlanta mayor’s office.

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