In cooperation with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, our community garden located at the Goethe-Institut in Sydney, has been designed to promote gardening, sustainability and positive food habits.
German playwright, essayist, theatre curator and novelist Sasha Marianna Salzmann will come to Australia for events at Melbourne & Canberra Writers’ Festivals, Sydney University and the Goethe-Institut in Sydney.
The digital Kinder University is an innovative educational project for children aged 8-12. A key aspect of the Kinder University is its online platform which is accessible to everyone free of charge.
Berlin-based Mohammad Reza Mortazavi will perform at the Sydney Opera House, Darwin Festival and Supersense Festival in Melbourne. The musician is often described as “the world’s fastest hand-drummer”. His visit is supported by the Goethe-Institut.
To commemorate the global influence of the Bauhaus school of design, architecture, and applied arts, we collaborate with our Australian partners to present a string of exciting projects.
As brought to the screen in the biopic that shares his name, there’s perhaps no greater embodiment of internalised German conflict than Gerhard Gundermann.
Once a year I’m invited to attend a meeting of all the flat owners in my building. Many of the attendees are owner-occupiers like me. Unlike me, a large number of them are (former) East Germans over the age of 60. This annual ritual provides an interesting snapshot of the people living behind the concrete facades of our Plattenbau and a chance to witness micro-scale German bureaucracy in action.
For Sydney cinephiles eager for a huge helping of German cinema, June promises a plethora of riches on the city’s big screens. The German Film Festival (GFF) will still be in full swing for the first third of the month, while the year’s biggest German-language film hits theatres as July draws near. And, of course, Sydney Film Festival (SFF) arrives right in the middle.
What’ll I cook when the fridge is empty at the end of the month? How will I save the world in the process? And how will I survive University? At goethe.de/nofilter you can find tips, curiosities and funny stories about living in Germany.
In cooperation with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation, our community garden located at the Goethe-Institut in Sydney, has been designed to promote gardening, sustainability and positive food habits.
How can we ensure we don’t lose perspective in an increasingly complex world? The Goethe-Institut is organizing an International Cultural Symposium in Weimar from 19th to 21st June 2019 under the title "Recalculating the Route".
