Cultural Diversity

Bas Böttcher is a provocative, intriguing language artist whose art stubbornly resists being assigned to any one category. Interview: Martin ZähringerMore ...

Is there a future for German as an academic language? What position does the german language hold in the EU? Questions like these were answered by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ammon (University of Duisburg) in the second Live-Chat on February 7, 2007.More ...

Words are the archives of life. To rely on words, to rely on the word, is always a posture towards the world, a becoming of the world, a creation. In words, even in the semi-colon that brings sentences into the flow of breathing, bounds them up with the living breathe, live memories. An essay by Marica BodrožićMore ...

In Canada, women meet for a ”Kaffeklatsch”, Australians dance to “oom pah pah” music, and the Japanese go to “arbeito”. The project Ausgewanderte Wörter (i.e. Emigrant Words) presents German words that have made their way around the world.More ...

On June 16th, the winners of the short film competition of the Goethe-Institut Chennai were shown at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. "Understanding India - understanding Indians" could be the subtitle of this programme of ten short films which give a colourful picture of the diverse languages of India and, at the same time, of the dviversity of language itself.More ...

An interview with Professor Dr. Gerhard Stickel, President of the European Federation of National Institutions for LanguageMore ...