Culture and Development

Since 2009 the Goethe-Institut has been conducting an advanced training programme for cultural managers from African countries. In 2011 the programme is now moving into its second round. This time the focus is on French-speaking Africa.More ...

Drama for Life is Africa’s premier drama, theatre and performance programme, encompassing groundbreaking postgraduate studies, festivals, conferences, original productions and collaborative work.More ...

The FILM + SCHOOL project, a film education initiative run by The Bioscope Independent Cinema and the Goethe-Institut, has been successfully running for well over a year. During this time, several programmes of features, documentaries and short films have been presented to young learners attending inner city schools.More ...

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WIDE ANGLE was designed as a multi-platform project that took place in March 2011. Wide Angle was an initiative of the Goethe-Institut South Africa in cooperation with the Wits School of Arts, the Market Photo Workshop and Hotel Yeoville.More ...

The Johannesburg Art Gallery has created an educational supplement which features selected artworks of different epochs from its permanent collection.More ...

Over the past few years, the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg has firmly established itself as a major partner in the landscape of cultural institutions in our City and in the Continent. It now aspires to become a mobilizing network, a creative mediator and facilitator for intra-African and Germano-African cultural, intellectual and artistic dialogue. At a time when globalization seems to go hand and in hand with the reinvention of difference and the closing of borders, this is precisely the kind of project many of us, intellectuals and scholars from this Continent, are willing to support as long as it does not favor the uncritical transmission of standardized models and meanings, but a genuine circulation of cultural forms. Achille MbembeMore ...

(13 November 2010) The work of many cultural institutions in Africa is plagued by an extreme lack of funding and unstable political circumstances. Cultural management is practically nonexistent or unknown. The Goethe-Institut has now begun an advanced training programme to step into the breach – although many of the participants are afterward considered exotic. By Claudia BröllMore ...

For the second time, the Goethe-Institut is offering an advanced training programme for cultural management in sub-Saharan Africa.More ...