{"id":414755,"date":"2026-04-24T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:42:11","slug":"an-irish-goodbye-from-berlin-my-irish-humour-gets-me-into-a-lot-of-trouble-the-germans-can-be-quite-literal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/414755\/","title":{"rendered":"An Irish Goodbye\u2026 from Berlin: \u2018My Irish humour gets me into a lot of trouble. The Germans can be quite literal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dubliner Caroline Staunton moved to Germany 15 years ago and now works for the Berlin State Opera\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caroline Staunton. Photo: Frances Marshall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3c97228c-9a68-42e7-8136-f340010dc737.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caroline Staunton. Photo: Frances Marshall<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI\u2019ve been in Germany now for a total of 15 years, which is bonkers. I couldn\u2019t even speak German when I came over. I studied English and philosophy in college, but I was massively interested in theatre. I did a master\u2019s in modern theatre studies because I wanted to work in theatre, but that\u2019s really hard to break into in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So I became a teacher, and I was good at it, and I loved it. But then, before I knew it, about eight years had gone by, and I suddenly had this panic in my stomach, because I realised one day I\u2019d wake up, I\u2019d be 50, and still teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubliner Caroline Staunton moved to Germany 15 years ago and now works for the Berlin State Opera Caroline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898,128197,132860],"class_list":{"0":"post-414755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-shp","13":"tag-signature-human-interest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}