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Brass Pop
Brass is beautiful

Looking at the figures, eighteen per cent of music listeners in Germany feel comfortable with brass music, while about twice the number can’t do anything with it. Nevertheless, brass bands performing pop pieces have long been filling big halls. Because it doesn’t always have be traditional. [more …]

Photo: © AbdukadirSavas/iStockphoto

Women Writers and War
Close to the horror

War is no longer the exclusive domain of male authors – three books by German-speaking women writers about guilt, repression and omnipresent fear. [more …]

Photo (detail): © Evelyn Kutschera

Top Ten German Film Festivals
Beyond the mainstream

Germany prides itself in having film festivals dedicated to almost every genre and region in the world. The scene is unique worldwide – and so diverse that one tends to almost lose track of them all. Film critic, Michael Kohler, presents his ten favorite festivals. [more …]

© Fergal McCarthy

Picture Politics

Comic artists and illustrators confront prejudices, fears and fake news about the refugee crisis.
 

© Joseph Carr Photography

Fading Memories

Fading memories is devoting a year of international events to the themes of privacy and data ownership in the digital age against the backdrop of developments in the countries of north-western Europe.

Photo: Goethe-Institut/Eugene Langan

Voices of Memory

Voices of Memory. A Riverside Sound Art Installation at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens by Christina Kubisch is a contemporary remembrance of the more than 49,000 Irish people who died in the First World War.