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Photo: Goethe-Institut/Jörg Schumacher

Visitors Programme“I want to sit at the steering wheel of my own life”

(26 September 2016) An entrepreneur, lawyer and women’s rights activist, Sofana Dahlan is a prominent figure in Saudi Arabia and one of the country’s best-known women. She was invited by the Goethe-Institut to come to Germany and visit Frankfurt, Berlin and Leipzig. Christopher Resch met with her. [more …]

Photo: Bernhard Ludewig

The Business of TomorrowPITCH-PERFECT Future Young Entrepreneurs

(22 September 2016) An online platform for affordable tutoring, an app that finds cooks: the Goethe-Institut’s Future Young Entrepreneurs project encourages sustainable business ideas by young people. At the final event in Berlin’s Akademie der Künste, 14 teams competed for the prize for best project. [more …]

Photo: Lea Albring

LaboratoryBorderline Experiences

(20 September 2016) In Dortmund, artists from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Russia are preparing a travelling exhibition called “Die Grenze” (The Border). They were invited by the Goethe-Institut to explore the theme of borders; borders as territorial perimeters and exclusions, as cultural and social dividing lines, as instruments for differentiating “us” from “them.” [more …]