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This month's Popcast takes you through the current German music scene, from Munich rapper Fatoni's sharp-witted hip-hop to DJ Plead's genre-blurring productions, which weave contemporary electronic textures together with Arab musical traditions. Discover the full lineup of featured artists in the August Popcast edition.

In a world increasingly marked by divisive and offensive language amplified by public figures and social media, an important question is how targeted communities respond. This selection of works encourages thoughtful reflection on such hostility.

Our translation funding programme supports the publication of books by German authors in another language.

This summer is going to be hot on Goethe on Demand, the Goethe-Institut’s free streaming platform!

Eight films, eight perspectives, unforgettable summer moments: from Sun and Concrete to Cleo. Which film will be your summer highlight? Discover them now at gegenuber.goethe-on-demand.de—no subscription required.

Signing up is easy—just go to MeinGoethe.de! To watch our free movies, simply log in with your existing MeinGoethe.de account or sign up for free—in the top right corner of the movie portal page. And then? Snuggle up on the couch, press play, and... let the movie begin!

Watch Marie-Pierre's take on the novel Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck in the newest episode of our Booktube series, Achtung Buch!

Eine Auswahl von Werken der österreichischen Schriftstellerin Ingeborg Bachmann, die Sie in unserer digitale Bibliothek entdecken können.

Many of Genre Cinema’s darkest shadows, boldest visions, and deepest anxieties were born in Germany. The new issue in Gegenüber, the online magazine of the Goethe-Institut in North America, traces the strange career of German Genre Film — from its foundational influence on Horror, Noir, and Sci-Fi to its uneasy status within a cinema that favors art over formula. Read now in four languages! 

Fifty years after her death, the work of German-American philosopher and author Hannah Arendt remains strikingly relevant. In the face of today’s complex challenges, her work compels to revisit fundamental questions of freedom, responsibility, and judgment. In this dossier we approach Arendt’s life and work in a nuanced and insightful way and invite you to reflect on them in a contemporary context: What does it mean today to think and act in the spirit of Hannah Arendt?

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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. 

The rules of the language, the origin of new vocabulary and the latest, most important changes in the use of the language - these and other exciting topics are the focus of our column about the German language.