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An Interview with Klaus-Dieter Lehmann“Creating formats that point to the future”

(6 July 2020)
In an interview with “The Latest” at Goethe, president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann explains how the coronavirus pandemic is changing international cultural work, how the Goethe-Institut enables encounters even in the digital space, and how it is supporting its worldwide partners.

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Europe on the Move

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On a Post-Corona-Time
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What does the pandemic mean to and for each of us and for society as a whole? Here are some responses from intellectuals and artists around the world with regard to our present predicament and what lies in store for us afterwards.

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