Mario Dunkel Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg doi: 10.18278/aia.3.2.2   In 1967, the then West German foreign minister Willy Brandt called cultural diplomacy the third pillar of West Germany’s foreign policy (Markovits and Höfig 1997). This embrace of cultural diplomacy, which for a long time had been treated as marginal and comparatively insignificant to…