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Thomas Müller, Andre Schürrle and Mario Götze: goal celebration after the winning goal in the final of the 2014 World Cup.Photo (detail): © picture alliance / Rolf Kosecki

World Cup 2018
 Football in Germany

Cheer with us! Facts, fans and stars – we show some aspects of German football culture for the 2018 World Cup. And in our quiz, football philosophers and part-time fans can test their knowledge.

Videos: Architecture in the 21st Century

Laudris Ortner & Manfred Ortner: MuMok and Leopold Museum © ARCHlab

Vienna, Austria
 “The Energy Form of Architecture per se”

Laudris Ortner and Manfred Ortner have designed two museum buildings for Vienna – the Leopold Museum and the MuMok. They talk about the power and the mass that these museums are supposed to embody.

Meinhard von Gerkan: Lingang New City © ARCHlab

Lingang New Citiy, China
 “Restricting that which creates Density to the Periphery”

Lingang New Cit is a megacity built in a previously empty area. How do you plan such a project? Meinhard von Gerkan from the architectural practice gmp talks about this.

Shigeru Ban: Nomadic Museum© ARCHlab

New York, USA
 “My design is always the solution for a problem”

With his Nomadic Museum, architect Shigeru Ban has created a building that can be erected anywhere in the world. Not even a lot of material has to be transported for this.

Series: ARCHlab

Current music from Germany
 Popcast in June

Soul, hip hop, electropunk and more – in June showcase the latest music by riveting off-the-charts bands. Pop made in Germany. In the current issue,  Angie Portmann presents new songs by Jesper Munk, Lucrecia Dalt, Marsimoto, Les Trucs and Jan Jelinek. Listen now!

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Street battle in Frankfurt am Main in 1974Photo (detail): © picture-alliance/dpa/Joachim Litzenberger - PA: 29407300

Squatters
 Civil unrest in Germany

Affordable housing has become scarce in many German cities, where skyrocketing rents are displacing low-income residents to the outskirts. The problem is by no means new though: In the 1970s and 1980s, people in Germany waged fierce battles against investors, building by contested building. [more …]

Image from the campaign © Lola Vendetta

Catalysts for a Fourth Wave of Feminism
 Cyberactivism and Social Networks

If you're looking for information about feminist issues, there's plenty of guidance to be found online. Women's rights are a trending topic in social networks, and new narrative formats are being created. [more …]

Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars: Is the financial world of today stable?Photo (detail): © picture alliance / empics / Georgie Gillard

10 years after the financial crisis
 “The banks are acting like the crisis never happened”

Unlike some European countries, Germany emerged from the financial crisis largely unscathed. Now more than ten years after the worldwide recession began, experts are warning that serious risks still persist. [more …]

Living together in town and countryIllustration: Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

Worth Living
 Living between town and country

How do we want to live? In view of skyrocketing rents and property prices in cities worldwide, this is not so easy to answer. Ideas from the past, present and for the future help with solutions.

Goethe worldwide

Marx in the Humboldt-Magazine© Revista Comando

Marx in the Humboldt-Magazine
 Diversified reception and discussion

The Humboldt Magazine presents opposing views and positions on various topics from Germany and South America and promotes a rich discourse. In the current issue of the Humboldt Magazine, the Goethe-Institut Brazil focuses on the German philosopher and social theorist Karl Marx on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

Museum of the FutureGoethe-Institut | Aarushi Surana

Museum of the Future
 Redefining public spaces

What is the role of the museum in the society today? How can it be conceived as an institution to serve the citizenry? In its project “Museum of the Future” the Goethe-Institut India invites academics, museum professionals and other experts from Germany and India to discuss the new role of the museum.

Thematic Space - Public Space© Goethe-Institut/Julia Klement

Public Space
 Stages of Diversity and Ideas

What are the requirements for public spaces? What are the dangers and challenges facing public spaces in our cities? On the occasion of the founding anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, the Goethe-Institut Estonia pays special attention to these questions.

Dance and Theatre

„Caligula“ by Albert Camus, Berliner Ensemble© Julian Roeder

The Theater Season 2017/2018
 What comes after the flight?

The programmes of the 2017/2018 season are still defined by the theme complex “Migrant Life in Germany”. However, the theatres are also reacting strongly to the increasing number of autocrats who are transforming democratic state structures into presidential dictatorships. [more …]

Esther Slevogt and Christian Rakow© Thomas Aurin

Ten years of nachtkritik.de
 Critiques and debates

Read a review of a premiere performed the night before at your breakfast table – that has been possible for a whole decade now on nachtkritik.de. To mark this anniversary, we spoke to two critics who wrote for nachtkritik in its early days: founding member Esther Slevogt and new co-editor-in-chief Christian Rakow. [more …]

Paula Rosolen: “Aerobics”Paula Rosolen: “Aerobics”

Dance, Migration, Cultural Exchange
 Movement

Dance is movement – and movement over borders also shapes dance. For about 300 years now, travel and migration have had a strong influence on an increasingly globalised dance scene. Our portrait series shows: cultural exchange across and beyond all borders and limitations gives dancers impulses for creative work and enlivens their art.

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Film

On the set of “The Young Karl Marx” by Raoul PeckPhoto (detail): © picture alliance / Jens Trenkler / dpa

Marxism on Film
 Marxist ideas live on in film

Over the past 120 years, Marxist ideas have undergone frequent revivals on the silver screen. [more …]

Attractive: working with rope systems and firePhoto (detail): Melanie Benna

A Stunt Woman in Germany
 “Bruises are par for the course.”

Falling down, lowering yourself on a rope from a great height or staging a moped accident – for Melanie Benna, this is all part of her everyday working life. The native Berliner works as a stunt woman. How does she assert herself in this male domain? [more …]

Just as in a traditional “Western” plot: Construction worker Meinhard is riding a horse.© 2017 Komplizen Film, Chouchkov Brothers, coop99, KNM

“Western” Movie
 Encountering the Other

How do we interact with strangers and engage with foreign countries? The film “Western” tells the story of German construction workers sent to build a hydroelectric power station in Bulgaria, where their encounters with local villagers do not, to put it mildly, always go smoothly. [more …]

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Literature

Language and literaturePhoto (detail): © Adobe

Language and literature
 “The relationships are clearer in German”

Isabel Fargo Cole was nominated for the 2018 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her debut novel “Die grüne Grenze” (the Green Frontier). US-born Cole wrote her novel in German, and here she shares her thoughts about writing in a foreign language. [more …]

Q-R-T. Flummi allein zuhaus (i.e. Q-R-T. Super Ball alone at home)Photo (detail): © Ferdinand Lutz / Reprodukt

Comics for kids and teens
 Dog reporter meets dinosaurs

Whether it is passing on knowledge or encouraging creativity and imagination, comics for kids and teens have become truly high-quality children’s and young adult literature.  [more …]

Leo Lander, the protagonist from Matthias Gnehm’s comic “Die kopierte Stadt” (The Copied City).Photo (detail): © Matthias Gnehm / Edition Hochparterre

Matthias Gnehm
 The affinity between architecture and comics

German-speaking Swiss Matthias Gnehm is a rarity among comic authors: the artist and screenwriter works as a freelance architect and incorporates his professional experience into his comics. [more …]

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Music

The Frankfurt Musikmesse is an important meeting point for instrument makers worldwidePhoto: Petra Wenzel © Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH

Instrument Making
 Technology, art and species protection

Some bank on software, others on local woods. The current range of instrument making in Germany is great, but so too is the international competition. [more …]

Trikont boss Achim BergmannPhoto (detail): © Sebastian Weidenbach/Trikont/dpa

The Trikont label turns 50
 Bavarian for Rebellion

As news of Che Guevara’s death spread around the world in 1967, an independent label declared a cultural revolution in Bavaria. 2017 marks the 50th birthday of the Trikont record company, still a subversive thorn in the establishment’s side today. [more …]

A spontaneous choir directed by Oliver Gies during the choir meeting chor.com Photo © Reiner Engel / chor.com

Young Choirs
 Sing Along instead of Performing

Traditional German male choirs look pretty old in the twenty-first century. Sing-along formats, however, such as “pack singing” are booming. In any case, Germans’ desire to sing remains unbroken. [more …]

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