Image: Goethe-Institut e. V.

Kultursymposium Weimar 2019Recalculating the Route

(06. June 2019) From 19 to 21 June 2019, the world will meet in Weimar. More than 300 international guests from culture, industry, science, journalism, media and politics will shed light on the great upheavals of our era.

Photo: Sarah Blesener

Exhibition Opening at the Goethe-Institut New York Queer as German Folk

(18. June 2019) The fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising is a reason to celebrate, but also to continue fighting for queer rights. The exhibition Queer as German Folk will be on view at the Goethe-Institut New York until 3 August. It’s a space to experience the past and present of the queer movement.

adapted image: Ludwig Nachtmann

das goethe: Issue 1/2019 Blind Spots and Double Standards

(13. June 2019) On 13 June, the new issue of "das goethe" will be published with the theme “Cultures of Equality.” Read here in advance how the Egyptian anthropologist Dina Makram-Ebeid describes the feminism debates north and south of the Mediterranean.

Photo: Adil Yusifov

Exhibition opening "The Theft of Fire – From Prometheus to Petroleum"The Price of the Black Gold

(3. June 2019) In Baku, ten international artists are probing the curses and blessings of oil. For millennia, natural gas and oil have been part of the national culture in Azerbaijan. An exhibition by the Goethe Center Baku is now devoted to this history.