Culture

World Cup 2018
Football total

Cheer with us! Facts, fans and stars – we show some aspects of German and Indian football culture for the 2018 World Cup. And in our quiz, football philosophers and part-time fans can test their knowledge.

Football facts
Six things you should know about German Football

About a scene
Football and India – do they go together?

Test
How well do you know German football?

New in the magazine

Species extinction in India
If the vultures don’t get it

Each Indian vulture that eats the carcasses of India’s holy cows generates about 9,200 euros per year for its services. Animal rights activists have calculated it. But now the birds are threatened with extinction and the cows who have perished have to be burned, which is costly. Wouldn’t protection of the species be cheaper? [more …]

Catalysts for a Fourth Wave of Feminism
Cyberactivism and Social Networks

If you're looking for information about feminist issues, there's plenty of guidance to be found online. Women's rights are a trending topic in social networks, and new narrative formats are being created. [more …]

Acrobatic skills are sometimes required to avoid moving traffic.

Cycling in Berlin
Between lifestyle and life-threatening

Cycling – for many Berliners, that means a lifestyle choice, the ideal form of transport and a steadfast belief that even 200 years after its invention, the future belongs to the bicycle. [more …]

further articles

News from the classical music scene
Klassikcast

In our current Klassikcast Sylvia Schreiber presents music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Alexander von Zemlinksy and Peter IljitschTschaikowsky. The composition Der Erlkönig by Franz Schubert is based on a short poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the most famous ballads in German literature.

Priorities

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? How can it be conceived as an institution to serve the citizenry? 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.

Karl Marx would have celebrated his 200th birthday in 2018.

Anniversary
200 years Karl Marx

Karl Marx celebrates his 200th birthday in 2018. To celebrate this anniversary, we have put together a topic dossier with playlist, photo essay, video art and a self-test: Find out how much Marx is in you.