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7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration: Dennhäuser Strasse, a social sculpture by Joseph Beuys, presented in 1982 at the documenta 7 in Kassel

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Joseph Beuys and the Will to Act
What if chopping down a tree were tantamount to murder?

Joseph Beuys was a multi-faceted artist whose ideas still have an impact today. We talked to a Beuys expert, Eugen Blume, about the artist’s interventions to promote the environmental movement and show us humans that every one of us can take action.

“Glitter” magazine publishes poems and selections from novels and plays by queer authors in particular.

Photo (detail): © Glitter, Illustration: Jasmina El Bouamraoui, Design: Huy Do

Literature magazines in Germany
The new diversity

Like research laboratories for the literary world, magazines present new voices, provide space for experimentation, and test formats. And right now diversity is higher than ever before.

Joseph Beuys (left, with felt hat) at the 1980 Green Party convention in Dortmund.

Photo (detail): © picture-alliance / Sven Simon

Joseph Beuys
“Beuys wanted democracy to be effective”

Joseph Beuys’ art was often political, as was the artist himself. What exactly was his stance though? Beuys co-founded the Green Party, but also met up with former Nazi comrades. Above all, he was a pragmatist, according to Bettina Paust, head of the city of Wuppertal’s cultural office and author of a new handbook on Beuys’ work.

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Podcast Hiberno Goethe

This Podcast dives into the many colours of arts, language and life across cultures. St. Pauli fan and former Düsseldorfer Ciarán Murray and his guests explore the connecting moments of German and Irish life.

Robots in Residence

The Dublin residency of the Goethe-Institut's NAO robot has now concluded, where Irish artist David Beattie and coder Niamh Donnelly explored the robot's potential to learn how to touch and how to move its hands. See more about their project and about the robot's tour through Europe at the link below.

#FUTURENOW – SCHOOLS FOR SUSTAINIBILITY

How do people in different regions of Northwest Europe deal with the issue of "sustainability"? What are the similarities and differences? And, what can we learn from the example of others and adopt for our everyday lives? These are precisely the questions addressed by the project #FutureNow - Schools for Sustainability.

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Joseph Beuys and the Will to Act
What if chopping down a tree were tantamount to murder?

Literature magazines in Germany
The new diversity

Joseph Beuys
“Beuys wanted democracy to be effective”

ProjectsTopics of Goethe-Institut in Ireland

Podcast Hiberno Goethe

Robots in Residence

#FUTURENOW – SCHOOLS FOR SUSTAINIBILITY

Summer Closure of Goethe-Institut Irland

Exhibition: RE/MAINS OF THE DAZE: AN EXHIBITION IN THREE COURSES

Episode 10 Hiberno Goethe: Mia Gallagher

Onleihe

Joseph Beuys and the Will to Act What if chopping down a tree were tantamount to murder?

Literature magazines in Germany The new diversity

Joseph Beuys “Beuys wanted democracy to be effective”

Podcast Hiberno Goethe

Robots in Residence

#FUTURENOW – SCHOOLS FOR SUSTAINIBILITY

Joseph Beuys and the Will to Act
What if chopping down a tree were tantamount to murder?

Literature magazines in Germany
The new diversity

Joseph Beuys
“Beuys wanted democracy to be effective”