Call for applications

Cultural exchange thrives through personal encounters. The Goethe-Institut and its partners offer varied opportunities in residencies, trainings and workshops in Germany, in India or online. Recent opportunities are listed on this page.

Travel grant Dresden-Bangalore

In collaboration with our bangaloREsidency partners C. Rockefeller Center and Zentralwerk, the City of Dresden has announced a travel grant as part of the bangaloREsidency 2021. The selected candidate from Dresden will join about 10 other artists from Germany who will be in residence simultaneously in the fall of 2021, working with one or other of our 30 partner organisations in Karnataka/Kerala.

This grant is available to artists living in Dresden, Germany.

Deadline: 21st of January 2021.

Translating Theatre – 22nd International WorkshopMülheim

The International Theatre Institute (ITI Germany),in cooperation with the Mülheimer Theatertage“Stücke 2021” and supported by the Goethe-Institut, invites translators of German-language drama to a workshop from 21st – 30thMay,2021. The aim of this workshop is the further trainingof translators in the area of drama translation. Furthermore, the workshop seeks to support new German drama and to help it to gain access to foreign-language theatres through translation.

Call for application Werkstatt Mülheim (PDF, 123 kB)

Deadline: 31st of January, 2021

„Mannheim – Hauptstadt der deutschen Sprache“:

Mannheim ist die Hauptstadt der deutschen Sprache, Mannheim ist UNESCO City of Music, Mannheim hat eine lebendige Startup-Szene und ist daher bekannt als Gründungs- und Innovationsstadt. Jetzt startet der Wettbewerb 2021, der internationale Preis der Stadt Mannheim für Deutschlerner und -lernerinnen, die im Ausland leben.
Mit den Wettbewerbsbeiträgen – einem Text, einem Song oder einer Innovationsidee – können sich junge Talente für einen zweiwöchigen Aufenthalt in Mannheim im Sommer oder Herbst 2021 bewerben.

Einsendeschluss ist der 31. Januar 2021.

Radio Art Residency

The Radio Art Residency is an international fellowship programme for artistic practice on the radio. The programme offers a three-month residency twice a year in Weimar for artists from non-German speaking countries. The aim of the fellowship is to promote independent and open-ended artistic work and to support the realisation of new artworks. The programme encourages artists from various disciplines to deal with the narrative, technical and artistic potentials of the radio medium, and specifically promotes exploration of radio as an instrument of communication and possibly even the questioning of what can be constituted as language by the radio.

The first Radio Art Residency Weimar will take place from 1 April to 30 June 2021.

Application deadline: 31 January 2021, 11:59 pm CET.

PROGRAMME DIRECTORSHIP for the 2023 edition Theater der Welt (Theatre of the World)

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main and Schauspiel Frankfurt (Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt am Main), in association with the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), collectively search for a PROGRAMME DIRECTORSHIP for the 2023 edition of the international theatre festival Theater der Welt (Theatre of the World)to be held in the cities of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main in Germany from 29th June to 16th July 2023. Theater der Welt is one of the most important festivals for contemporary theatre and performance in the world.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2021

Call for application (PDF, 81 kB)

Guidelines (PDF, 261 kB)