Designer: Jannis Pätzold

“Still young at 250!”: Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum“We didn’t aim to make it a laudatory homage.”

(10 September 2019) To celebrate the 250th birthday of Alexander von Humboldt, the Stiftung Humboldt Forum is organising a two-day festival together with the Goethe-Institut. On 13 September, the exhibition "The Nature of Things: Humboldt, Comings and Goings" will open in Berlin as part of these festivities.

Photo: Yael Ilan

German-Israeli Literature Festival 2019 Get rid of the sourpusses!

(04 September 2019) Rhetoric can exclude, hurt and define others, writes the Israeli author Maayan Ben Hagai. She is a guest at the German-Israeli Literature Festival organised by the Goethe-Institut together with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.

Photo: Maik Schuck

Goethe Medal 2019Truth and Fiction

(30 August 2019) The German-Turkish writer Doğan Akhanlı, the Iranian artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat and the Mongolian publisher and political journalist Enkhbat Roozon were awarded the Goethe Medal on 28 August.