The Advent Calendar of the Goethe-Institut is back!

The Goethe Advent Calendar is back! This year we accompany the Goethe family in 24 stories to a colourful Christmas. Everyone has their own little issues to address, and in addition to the smell of mulled wine and cookies, there's also quite a bit of stress.Will Christmas be a success despite the ups and downs?

Find out for yourself and take part in the competition! With a little luck, you could win great surprise packages and discount codes for our language courses.

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The Goethe-Institut brings the German language to the world. We offer German courses and German exams in over 90 countries.

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Subjects and Projects

Hannah Arendt
Thinking is Dangerous

The dossier about Hannah Arendt’s conception of thinking explores this aspect of her work and life through art, dialogue, performance, play, music, and silence.

Hannah Arendt - Thinking is Dangerous

Streaming
Goethe on Demand

On Goethe on Demand, the streaming platform of the Goethe-Institut, we present a variety of online film programs, film festivals and film series that can be streamed from home.

Goethe on demand © Eichholz Film

documenta15
Community(ies)

From June 18 - September 25, 2022, the fifteenth edition of documenta took place in Kassel. The Goethe-Institut Canada has taken this as an opportunity to invite a group of curators from Canada to Kassel to enable them to exchange ideas with international and local curators.

Documenta 15 © Nils Klinger

The German Language Column
Word!

How does one find one's way around the rules of the German language, where do new words come from, and what are the most important changes in the use of the language - for example, due to digitalisation and a higher sensitivity due to the gender issue? These and other exciting topics are the focus of our column about the German language.

Word! The language column © Goethe-Institut e. V./Illustration: Tobias Schrank

Onleihe

Digital library

The Onleihe is Goethe-Institut’s digital library (eLibrary). More than 23,000 German language eBooks, audio books, movies, materials for German language learners, magazines and newspapers are available for downloading from the Onleihe.

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