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Young Choreographers' Platform’

Cultural Encounters between South Asia and Germany
Young Choreographers’ Platform

Since 2014 the Young Choreographers' Platform works with young dancers and choreographers to develop their own contemporary Bangladeshi dance language in bringing their own stories, themes, and dreams to the stage. Artistic director is Tom Bünger.

Berlinale Blogger*innen 2025 © Tobias Schrank

Berlinale Bloggers 2025

Already the 75th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival! A good reason to celebrate. The city is also delighted to welcome the new Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle. The festival presents films from all over the world in its usual variety, attracting countless film fans to the German capital. In the cinema audience: our Berlinale bloggers. Look forward to their texts!
 

Local International © Local International

​local international

local international is an international academic exchange project for fashion designers from Germany and Bangladesh focusing on sustainability and fair production methods within the fashion and textile industry.

Ulf Aminde © Ulf Aminde

Meet our guests

The Goethe-Institut in Dhaka is very keen on bringing people together. We like to invite artists and musicians, fotographers and academics, filmmakers and authors and so many more to Bangladesh where they come together with local colleagues.

Opening of the ‘Futures beyond the Self’ exhibition at Kala Kendra Art Gallery in Dhaka on March 9, 2021 © Goethe-Institut/ Ahadul Karim © Goethe-Institut/ Ahadul Karim

Arts
Futures Beyond the Self

Futures beyond the Self seeks to provide a space for new ideas to flourish and for continued societal and collective engagement. It seeks to support both individuals and collectives in their endeavour to reflect, critique, and suggest alternative futures and pathways of ‘being in the world’.

VRwandlung in Delhi Foto: Sanyam Bajaj © Goethe-Institut New Delhi

VRwandlung

Kafka’s story The Metamorphosis describes the feelings of a travelling salesman awakening one morning in the body of a beetle. “‘VRwandlung’ transfers Franz Kafka’s work from the pages of a book to virtual reality.

Neues Bauhaus in Dessau Photo (detail): Lelikron, Dessau Bauhaus neu, CC BY-SA 3.0

100 years Bauhaus

Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 – and in doing so revolutionised architecture, design and the way we think about it. What influence does this art school have today? And what should everyone know about the Bauhaus?

Poets translating Poets © Goethe-Institut

Poets translating poets

Poets translating Poets' vision was to transcend boundaries of language and culture, through the act of translation and poetry. The project was aimed at creating a platform for poets from South Asia and Germany to translate each other’s works.

Residenzprogramme Author: San Jose, 27 November 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1483026, Änderungen vorgenommen

Global Residence Programme

With its residence programs, the Goethe-Institut would like to offer a "space for new perspectives" and every year invites artists and creators of culture to live and work for a while in a different country and culture.

Magazine

Bullet holes on a building in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof cemetery in the foreground, a person and a blossoming tree in the background. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa | Jörg Carstensen

80 Years After: War Memories Fading?

What lessons can World War II still teach us today and how can a lively culture of remembrance help prevent future wars? Author Elisabeth Luft explores these questions in conversation with political scientist Herfried Münkler.

RambaZamba theatre group | Production “Zur schönen Aussicht” Photo (detail): © RambaZamba

Zeitgeister
A start, but much room for improvement

While the inclusion and visibility of people with disabilities in society is only progressing slowly, the theatre scene is already a big step ahead. Cultural journalist Georg Kasch presents current theatre productions.

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