"Tanz in August"
Bollywood in a Township

“Tanz in August”: Constanza Macras triumphs with the multiethnic piece Chatsworth.

Future Perfect
Stories from Provincial India

With his online project, Rural Archive of India, journalist, Palagummi Sainath, is trying to give India’s rural inhabitants a face and a voice. The images and texts on his website speak to the cultural diversity and the vitality of provincial India, but also from poverty and instability.

New working cultures
The call of the city

To present themselves as an attractive place to live, Germany’s urban centres are embracing innovative concepts for the modern world of work. 

Cherrypicker
Read and Listen

Our "Cherrypicker" blog presents selected novels and non-fiction books, graphic novels and stories, audio books and music CDs from the wealth of new German-language publications. Every week an opportunity to discover outstanding texts, images and voices.

Sustainability
Stories of pioneers

The world is in need of ideas for a better, more sustainable future, but ideas are not enough. The Goethe-Institut and the foundation FUTURZWEI collect stories for tomorrow – lived today, everywhere.

Museum of the Future
Redefining public spaces

What is the role of the museum in the society today? In its project “Museum of the Future” the Goethe-Institut India invites academics, museum professionals and other experts from Germany and India to discuss the new role of the museum.

Literary Translation
The Social Translating Project

The Social Translating Project is testing a new social practice for literary translation. Ten translators from Asia are translating the German novel „Die Welt im Rücken“ by Thomas Melle into their respective native languages. During the process, they meet in a closed digital forum and work on their translations by interacting with one another and engaging in a close discourse with the author.

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