Photo: Thorkild Jensen

German-Danish Year of Cultural Friendship 2020To good neighbours

(12 November 2019) On Friday in Copenhagen, Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his Danish counterpart Jeppe Kofod opened the German-Danish Cultural Year of Friendship 2020, which the Goethe-Institut is co-organising. To mark the start of the Year of Friendship, the “Tyskland” exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark tells the history of Germany through significant objects from past centuries.

Photo: Ignacio Maria Coccia

“Born after ‘89”In the footsteps of a young generation

We are now marking the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. How did young people in Italy and Germany experience the time after this event? The exhibition “Born after ‘89”, which opens on 8 November at the Goethe-Institut in Rome, answers this question with photojournalistic works.

Photo: Mark Römisch

The end of the Year of Germany in Boston“For the West to remain more than a direction on the compass”

(4 November 2019) At a joint concert by the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier heralded the end of the Year of Germany in the USA.

Photo: Loredana La Rocca

“Worlds of Homelessness“The right to housing is a human right

(4 November 2019) The Goethe Institute in Los Angeles organized a four-day conference last week, called “Worlds of Homelessness”, bringing local and international scholars, advocates, artists, architects and current or formerly unhoused people together for conversations held in downtown Los Angeles.