Category CulturalBorderCrosser

CulturalBorderCrosser is Katharina’s space for reflection and truth-telling.

As someone born in Poland and raised in Germany, she knows what it means to cross borders – not just physically, but culturally, emotionally, and socially. In these posts, she shares personal insights, tough questions, and powerful stories from life at the intersection of cultures – as a woman, a mother, and a professional.

This is not about fitting in. It’s about making space.

Translating Conflict

Have you ever had a conflict with someone? I have more than once. And I bet the way I solved it is different from how many of you would approach it. Conflicts are part of…

The Price of Freedom

In collective cultures, you are born into a community.In Germany, you have to build one. A friend said this to me recently. For her, it was one of the hardest part of arriving here. The…

Globalization ≠ Same Culture

Are we all the same? We are all human, we eat, we sleep, we laugh, we study or work, we take care of the people we love.But how we do these things varies from culture…

Can You Hear Her?

Working differently. Leading differently. She’s not quiet.She’s just speaking German.While thinking in Hindi.And translating from English. All at the same time, in a room full of native speakers. Later, a German colleague might say: She…

Where is my Place?

I was never foreign enough – and never truly German. “You came to Germany as a child, so that shouldn’t be a problem for you.” I’ve heard this sentence countless times.From teachers. From colleagues. From…