Culture © Abhishek Chaudhury M3: Man, Male, Masculine The project aims to discuss current visions of masculinity across the gender spectrum in India and Bangladesh through various cultural and educational activities. Videointerview Übernatural: Unlocked I Bengali and German Folk Tales Highlights of all projects Goethe Pop Up Arts Filmstill aus "Vagabunden Karawane" © Werner Penzel Filmproduktion itd. Cultural Encounters The Sound of Faraway Lands Commemorating the 100th anniversary of "Siddhartha", the Goethe-Instituts in South Asia are exploring the ways South Asia and Germany are received by one another – in literature, music, film and everyday culture. For the start we accompany the band Jisr on their tour. 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? 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. © 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. © Goethe-Institut Poets translating poets Poets tranlating 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. © 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. © Goethe-Institut Science Film Festival Goethe-Institut brings the 4th edition of Science Film Festival! The Festival in Bangladesh is hybrid and enables both offline attendance as well as presents a showcase of 24 films online. All science films are in English or with English subtitles; some content for young learners is dubbed into Bengali. Society Photo (Detail): Luis-Salazar © Unsplash Fehler Simply put, a “Fehler” is a mistake, but it’s also the response to one of life’s big questions: how do we innovate and make progress? Our answer: often by mistake. © Kitty Kahane Day-Afterthoughts A virus is showing us how globally networked and yet how fragile our public life is. What does the pandemic mean to and for each of us and for society as a whole? Photo (detail): Tom Weller © picture alliance/dpa Latitude Latitude promotes discourses on the effects of colonialism: looted art, provenance research, restitution and new approaches to museology. © Mahenaz Chowdhury Crafts Although eco-friendly, ethical, and sustainable fashion has only been a recent awakening for the global fashion industry, Bangladesh has been a quiet champion practicing it in silence for multiple generations. © Foto: Andrea Kueppers Migration und Integration In a culturally diverse society which is strongly influenced by migration, integration – defined as the social participation of all people living in Germany – plays an important role. © Goethe-Institut Inherited Memories 20 respondents from west Bengal in India and Bangladesh have narrated their memories they have inherited from their previous generations Technology © lalesh aldarwish Global Gaming Games are part of life and video games have long since become an asset that enables a globally networked industry to gain billions in profit. But video games have long since established themselves as their own art form too. Photo (detail): Engin Akyurt © Unsplash One Zero Society One Zero Society focuses worldwide on the relationship between digitization, post-digital culture, and civil society, supported by partners – in discourses, exhibitions, art, and culture. Photo (detail): © Nathan Ishar / courtesy PRISKA PASQUER Digitally Confident How do we assert ourselves in the digital society? Which tools do we have to master, which skills do we have to learn? Lifestyle Graphik: Dominik Wendland © Goethe-Institut New Delhi Modern Life Graphic Travelogues From minimalist sketches to detailed images, from autobiographical stories to historical narratives: Our comic-strip artists are divers. We introduce their graphic novels and the artists who create them. Photo (detail): @ privat Germany #NoFilter How do you live and study in Germany? On Deutschland #nofilter, you will find tips, curiosities and funny stories about everyday life, studies, work and society. Photo: © Ulrike Putz Delhi A culinary stroll A culinary stroll through Old Delhi with Anubhav Sapra is an adventure for your taste buds. It is early morning and the street food vendors are already getting down to their fiendishly fiery business. © San Jose, CC BY-SA 3.0 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. Library Photo: Goethe-Institut Bangladesh/Riaz Uddin Lending The library is open to the general public. Reference use of the library is free of charge. To borrow books and other materials, you need a valid library card. To obtain a valid reader's card please fill in an application card and present one proof of address (Passport- MRP, National identy card etc). Foto: Goethe-Institut/Loredana La Rocca eLibrary Onleihe The eLibrary is the virtual library of the Goethe-Institut Bangladesh. This service allows you to borrow digital media, such as ebooks, audio and video files, and electronic newspapers and magazines, for a predetermined period of time, by downloading them from our eLibrary. Foto: © Goethe-Institut For Librarians Our services for librarians include events, specialist information and networking opportunities for librarians. © Pxhere Translation Funding The Goethe-Institut’s grant programme “Translations of German Books into Other Languages” supports non-German publishers in publishing German-language literature, with the aim of making accessible to non-German speaking readers current works of contemporary literature, literature for children and young people, important academic titles and non-fiction works. © Pixabay Arts © Ashraf Siddiqui, CC BY-SA 2.0 Society © Waag via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Technology © Tauhid CSCM, CC BY-SA 4.0 Lifestyle Top