© Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi

German Love Poems and SongsHerz über Kopf

Butterflies in your stomach? Up in the pink clouds? Love doesn’t only make our heart rates go up. Poets, authors, songwriters and composer have also always felt inspired by heavenly power. We sought out the most beautiful German love poems and love songs.

Iranian Parliament nationalizes Oil Industry © Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, 2011

Kolkata: February 5th – 28thGames and Politics

The interactive exhibition with and on Video Games, on display at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, encourages the visitor to try out sixteen significant politically-ambitious video games and examine how they each unfold their unique political potential.

Feminism and languageTo gender or not to gender? That is the question!

The German language, like the French, is considered male-dominated. In recent years, there have therefore been numerous attempts to get to the root of the problem in the language on both sides of the Rhine and fix it. And so here too the battle of the sexes has been raging.
 

© Goethe-Institut | Illustration: DOON 東

PopcastPopcast - Current Music from Germany

Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, Electro: at the beginning of every month we shine our search beacon into the nation’s studios and clubs from Kiel up north to Weilheim way down south. Together with Zündfunk, Bavarian Radio’s scene magazine, we showcase the latest music by riveting off-the-charts bands. Quality pop made in Germany can also be downloaded here by subscription.

Foto: Liv Hunzinger © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

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