Cultural attaché
A cultural attaché (female form: cultural attachée ) is an attaché of a diplomatic mission who is responsible for cultural matters . In diplomacy, an attaché is the companion of an envoy . This companion is a member of an embassy and is responsible for z. B. exhibitions, promotion of his language abroad, supervision of schools and universities in the host country.
In the German foreign service , the person responsible for culture is not called a cultural attaché, but a cultural advisor. The term cultural attaché itself is a direct borrowing from English and French.
Diplomats and attachés are trained in Germany at the Foreign Service Academy. You will go through the attaché training as a mandatory preparatory service .
Trivia
There is a myth from the Cold War that the title of cultural attaché is often used as a cover for intelligence officials who are supposed to be given diplomatic immunity . As a result, “cultural attaché” is often used deliberately as a euphemism for a secret service employee. This idea was implemented in films such as Sneakers , Project: Peacemaker or Dame, König, As, Spion .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kulturattaché - definition in Duden
- ↑ Jan Friedmann: Attaché training: The diplomatic campus - article in Spiegel Online, May 22, 2006.
- ↑ Jochen Blind: Career abroad: Do you have what it takes to be an ambassador? - Article in Spiegel Online, May 7, 2008.