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A mural about James Joyce with a quote from his novel “Ulysses”, a prime example of a literary text that is difficult to translate.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/NurPhoto/Artur Widak Literature

Literary Translations
Did a murder take place here or was only a corpse photographed?

Translating literature is an art, as it is about much more than literally transferring a text into another language. Find out what makes literary translations so complex and why artificial intelligence cannot do the job.

In “5x Germany”, Jörg Müller depicts places like Litkovka in Russia Photo (detail): © Jörg Müller

“5× Germany Around the World”
German Lives on Five Continents

(09 April 2021)
“5× Germany Around the World”. In an interview with “The Latest at Goethe”, the photographer Jörg Müller tells us how his photography project – in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut – traced the footsteps of German emigrants.

Australian Aboriginal artist Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula at work.Photo (detail): © picture alliance / Mint Images

Non-European Art
“We don't want to be like you”

Western art museums rarely exhibit contemporary, indigenous art. Ethnologist Mona Suhrbier believes that the art world has to rethink how it approaches the unfamiliar.

Mum has to work and should work, but the children also have to be looked after. It is far too often the case that the division of labour in families falls back into traditional patterns and the bulk of the work is left to the woman.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Jochen Eckel

Women in the pandemic
Working from Home – a New Opportunity or a Dead-End Street for Women?

The Corona crisis represents a turning point in our work culture – most of the work that used to be done at an office desk is now carried out from home. Does this mean more independence and freedom of action for everyone? Find out more in this interview with the social scientist Lena Hipp.

“Forced Absence” Illustration (Excerpt from video): © Tarik Barri and Ata Ebtekar alias Sote

Virtual Partner Residencies
Striking the Keys Virtually

(19 March 2021)
The virtual partner residencies of the Goethe-Institut enable artistic collaboration in the digital space. They are aimed at professional solo artists and small ensembles in the field of music in Germany and abroad who are currently unable to physically work together due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Meru bride_Mbulu-Ngulu© Library of Congress / Unsplash

Culture
What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

The symbolic shedding of culture was commonplace. When Pope Pius XI organized his exposition, boxes upon boxes were shipped to Rome. The content of these boxes were objects, together with comprehensive notes on their attendant histories and how they had been acquired.

When demonstrations become impossible, the climate protest finds another way: whether online, from an open window – or both at the same time. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Keystone/Alexandra Wey

Environmental activism
Climate strike online

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, climate protests have mostly moved to the internet. We take a look at the environmental movements online world. 

The long-time chief designer at Braun, Dieter Rams, designed a number of timeless classics – from record players to pocket calculators.Photo (detail): © picture-alliance/Uwe Anspach/dpa

Dieter Rams
“Design has to make things understandable”

The long-time chief designer at the German consumer products company, Braun, Dieter Rams, knew how to design industrial products unobtrusively and clearly. His creations became timeless classics and an inspiration for other technology manufacturers – for example, for Apple.

Dinosaurs - Berlin’s Museum of Natural HistoryDinosaurs at Berlin’s Museum of Natural History © Meliha Mujanic / Unsplash

Share or return of objects
How Africa can own what is hers

Cultural heritage was taken to Europe for the purpose of exhibiting African ‘backwardness’ and ‘barbarism’ in the eyes of the colonizer and the conqueror, thus affirming the colonizers ‘superiority’.

PASCH 2020 Concordia bus©Willem Vrey

Corona challenges motivate
DaF cooperation remains committed

The Goethe-Institut Namibia Education Cooperation department was last year presented with various challenges in meeting its mandate to supporting the deliverance of German as a Foreign Language (DaF – Deutsch als Fremdsprache) at the over 53 Namibian schools. Despite the challenges brought by the Corona Pandemic, numerous projects were reconceptualised and delivered to meet the growing demand for DaF to over 8,000 learners.

Sometimes you can’t please anyone: Agricultural reforms not only draw ire from climate and environmental activists; they also regularly provoke farmers to engage in protest, such as the bonfires seen here at the beginning of 2020Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild/Jens Büttner

EU agricultural reform
Systemic change or business as usual?

The European Union is negotiating its Common Agricultural Policy for the coming years and a lot of money is at stake – as is the climate. So far, it does not look as if environmental protection and small farms have been significantly strengthened in the drafts to date.

Take Me to the River Illustration (detail): © Goethe-Institut e.V. 2021

Take Me to the River
A Living Archive

(11 February 2021)
In the online exhibition Take Me to the River by the Goethe-Institut and Prince Claus Fund, artists explore the consequences of climate change for indigenous peoples. The curator Maya El Khalil and her assistant Danielle Makhoul spoke about the interface of art and sustainability and the importance of indigenous perspectives in art.

María Prieto García working at the Schwäbisch Hall Kinderhaus Badtorweg. Photo (detail): © Tanja Kurz

Skilled Workers’ Training in Schwäbisch Hall
Day Care in the Morning, Language Class in the Afternoon – A Recipe for Success

(21 January 2021)
Faced with the current economic situation in Spain, 13 educators from Spain were drawn to Schwäbisch Hall where they are working in the city’s day-care centres while learning German at the Goethe-Institut.

Sculpture in the memorial at Salaspils, the Latvian concentration camp southeast of RigaPhoto (detail): © picture alliance / akg-images / Sammlung Foedrowitz

Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
Each victim had a name

(27 January 2021)
The extermination camp at Auschwitz was liberated 76 years ago today. Secretary-general of the Goethe-Institut Johannes Ebert writes about the personal and social responsibility that arises from commemorating the victims of National Socialism.

If we take the mission to achieve solidarity seriously, this time of crisis could become Europe’s finest hour.Photo (detail): © Adobe

The Corona Pandemic
A Globalisation of Solidarity

Dealing with the pandemic demands quite a lot from us. Two questions are crucial right now: How ready are we to learn from it? And what lessons will we learn? Which is why EU countries in particular should now move closer together to become a Europe of solidarity.

Berlin has a reputation for being loud, non-conformist and just a bit rude. Take a look into what the German capital is really like. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Sabine Lubenow/DUMONT Bildarchiv

City contours
“Dit is Berlin”

Berlin has a reputation for being loud, non-conformist and just a bit rude. Our author Nele Jensch looks into what the German capital is really like as she takes readers on a tour of the city where you can see more in one go around the block than elsewhere over the course of year. 

National Museum of African American History and Culture 2019© National Museum of African American History and Culture/Creative Commons

Architecture
Black Study: Of Absence, return and renewal

Throughout modern history, Africans have struggled to claim ownership over the use and circulation of their own cultural objects. Bluntly put, Africans don’t profit from black cultural production within the current economic system. 

“We’ll soon be voting you professionals out”: a secondary school student carries a sign at a "Fridays for Future" demonstration. Photo (detail): © Oliver Auster/ picture alliance/dpa

Voting at 16
“It would rejuvenate our political culture”

The image of the moody teenager who thinks politics is just boring is outdated. The Fridays for Future movement has shown how enthusiastic young people can be about democratic processes and political issues. It would seem then, that an overhaul of the voting laws is long overdue. 

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba Photo (detail): © Benjamin Renter

European Cultural Managers of the Year 2020
A Thirst for Critical Content

(27 November 2020)
The Contemporary And (C&) platform, founded by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, has been offering insights into contemporary art and cultural scenes from Africa and the global diaspora for seven years. “The Latest at Goethe” spoke with them.

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and Carola Lentz in conversation with "The Latest at Goethe". Photo (detail): © Goethe-Institut e.V./Marcus Sporkmann

Interview with Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and Carola Lentz
“We have to face our responsibility to society”

(13 November 2020)
On the occasion of the official handover, The Latest at Goethe spoke with the outgoing president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and his successor Carola Lentz.

Collage - Show Me Your Collection |Njoki Ngumi, Cristiana Serejo, Medhavi Gandhi, Lisistrata Lusandiana Photos (details): © private, N. Ngumi, C. Serejo, M. Gandhi, L. Lusandiana

“Hack Your Culture”
Show Me Your Collection

(17 November 2020)
For “Hack Your Culture” by the Goethe-Institut, three representatives of cultural institutions in Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya met to discuss digital challenges.

Three children sitting on a staircase looking at books. Photo (detail): picture alliance/ZB/ddrbildarchiv

Children’s and young adult literature
Are you what you read?

Ideally books for children and young adults open up a world of possibilities and convey ideals, norms and values in the spirit of the times. When, though, do they go too far? 

“African art music describes a modernity that entails constant redefinition.” Kofi Agawu Photo (detail): © Andrew Wilkinson

“Decolonising classical musics?”
Classical Music and Colonialism

At the Goethe-Institut symposium “Decolonising Classical Musics?” participants discussed colonial aspects of classical music.

Booth for Netflix’s “Dark” series at the 2019 Gamescom computer game exhibition in Cologne. Photo detail: © picture alliance/Christoph Hardt/Geisler-Fotopress

Streaming services
On demand

From Netflix and Apple TV to RTL Now, Germans are streaming more and more series and films. Public broadcasters are jumping on the bandwagon and making their own series looking to conquer the international market.

Klaus-Dieter Lehman gives the keynote to launch the conference. Photo (detail): © Goethe-Institut, Bernhard Ludewig

„Europa. Deine Sprachen“
The German Language in Europe

On 8 October in Berlin, the president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann opened a conference series of the Goethe-Institut’s Europanetzwerk Deutsch on the topic of multilingualism. 

A growing number of study programmes focus on environmental protection and sustainability. Photo (detail): © Adobe

Sustainability Studies in Germany
From Toxicology to Tourism Development

Would it not be great if we could study how to make the world a better place? Sadly, it is not quite as easy as that. But there are now a number of study programmes in Germany covering sustainability subjects that come fairly close. Here is a selection.
 

At the end of 1989, hundreds of thousands of East and West Germans celebrated New Year’s Eve on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate.Photo (detail): © picture-alliance/dpa/Wolfgang Kumm

30 years of a united Germany
“There simply was no alternative”

Thirty years after German reunification, are there still differences between East and West? In an interview, former GDR civil-rights activist Freya Klier talks about the time just after the Berlin Wall fell, the new freedoms it brought and about whether Germans are now “one people”. 

The recipients: Zukiswa Wanner, Elvira Espejo Ayca and Ian McEwan Photos: f.l.t.r.: © Brian Otieno, © Michael Dunn, © Annalena McAfee

Goethe Medal ceremony
“Accepting contradiction – the fruits of contradiction”

On August 28, the Goethe-Institut will hold a digital ceremony to present the Goethe Medal to Zukiswa Wanner, Elvira Espejo Ayca and Ian McEwan. Watch the stream of the event with film portraits, talks and musical performances at 11 a.m. (CET).

Online learning during CoronavirusPhoto: Guido Hofmann, © unsplash

Online Language Teaching
Language learning goes digital: Online learning before, during and after the coronavirus

How do you teach a foreign language effectively online? What are the challenges involved in “all-digital” learning? Here are the latest research findings on the subject of e-learning.

“The world is temporarily closed”: The coronavirus pandemic has temporarily brought large parts of social and economic life to a screeching halt. Photo (detail): Edwin Hopper/Unsplash.com

COVID-19 pandemic
How the coronavirus is changing our lives

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has held the world in thrall since spring 2020. Drastic changes to our everyday lives are supposed to slow its spread, and the coronavirus could have a lasting impact on some areas of our society. We look at developments so far.

Everyday life in Zimbabwe: Crowds in one of the few public places with free WLAN. People in Mutare, about 270 kilometers east of the capital Harare, 23 November 2019. According to a recent independent report, Zimbabwe has one of the most expensive mobile data sources in the world. The high data costs are mainly attributed to the fact that the country has relatively few mobile internet providers and that it is a landlocked country.Photo (detail): Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi © picture alliance / AP Photo

Digital Divide
Decolonise the Internet

The internet is characterised by power structures. Digital colonialism shows how established hierarchies can also become entrenched on the World Wide Web. But activists and artists are growing increasingly resistant, says Ina Holev.

Ilanah Cami-Goursolas, Esther Gohourou, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Fathia Youssouf in “Mignonnes” (“Cuties”) by Maïmouna DoucouréPhoto (detail): © Jean-Michel Papazian/Bien ou Bien Productions

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
Mobile phones and social media as a medium for film at the Berlinale 2020

Social media is the window into people’s lives that’s constantly left ajar. This modern type of closeness was captured not only in film scripts at the Berlinale, but artists used it as a medium to tell tales of today.

It is mostly senior citizens who form the group of the digitally marginalised.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Westend61/Uwe Umstätter

Digitalisation
Digitally Sidelined

Signing petitions, booking a visit to the local swimming pool, home schooling – all kinds of everyday things work digitally today. Those who have no access to the internet or who have only limited digital skills could be marginalized in our society.

Choy Ka Fai’s „Unbearable Darkness“ Photo (detail): © Katja Illner

Choy Ka Fai
Dr Dance trips the light fantastic

Media artist Choy Ka Fai experimentally explores movement, art and technology with some science added to the mix. His pieces delve into and document traditional and contemporary Asian dance culture.

“Global GROOVE” is a workshop programme for music journalists around the worldIllustration: groove.de

“Global GROOVE” Workshop Programme
“Different voices working with and against each other”

GROOVE music magazine and the Goethe-Institut are holding a programme of workshops for journalists around the world. The organisers Laura Aha and Kristoffer Cornils spoke with “The Latest” at Goethe about “Global GROOVE” and their dream for international music journalism.

There was life in the old dog yet! At the time this picture was taken in 1990, Nelson Mandela should have been dead a long time before, if we rely on the memories of many of his contemporaries. His supposed passing away is the inspiration for the phenomenon of collective false memories - the Mandela effect.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa/empics

False Memory
The Mandela Effect

Whether it is a case of believing someone has long since died, although he or she is still in fact enjoying the best of health, or singing song lyrics with the wrong words – when many people collectively remember things falsely, we speak of the Mandela effect. It could never happen to you, right? A look at our examples might prove you wrong.

Jackie KarutiPhoto: Tõnis Saadoja

Henrike Grohs Art Award 2020 for Jackie Karuti
Radical Imagination

Jackie Karuti from Kenya is the recipient of the second Henrike Grohs Art Award, an award for African artists in the visual arts founded by the Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family. Akwasi Bediako Afrane (Ghana) and Sabelo Mlangeni (South Africa) were selected as runners-up.

Detail of the logo of the Asinakuthula CollectiveIllustration (detail): Asinakuthula Collective

Interview with the activist Athambile Masola
“Fallen out of history”

Together with the Asinakuthula Collective, Athambile Masola tells the stories of black African women that have not been in history books or Wikipedia so far. After an edit-a-thon as part of the project “Decolonise The Internet”, she spoke with “The latest” at Goethe about her work.

Johannes Ebert, Secretary-General of the Goethe-InstitutPhoto (detail): Martin Ebert

Annual Report 2019/2020: Europe
Litmus Test for Europe

The Annual Report 2019/2020 of the Goethe-Institut is dedicated to Europe. In his editorial, Johannes Ebert, Secretary-General of the Goethe-Institut, speaks out in favour of solidarity and cultural and social networking – especially in times of the Corona pandemic.

CEP Call 2©Goethe-Institut Namibia

Corona challenges motivate
Creative Entrepreneurship Programme

A group of creative entrepreneurs in various disciplines have since May 2020 engaged with each other and advisors on how to make the best of their business ideas, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Namibian national hero Hendrik Witbooi probably never dreamed that his whip and bible would one day be the stuff of international controversy.Photo (detail): akg-images © picture alliance

Repatriation Debate
The Restitution of Colonial Artefacts Is Going Slowly

Where do they belong? Ownership claims to cultural assets from the colonial period are often controversial and negotiating possible restitution is frequently a fraught and drawn-out process. Germany is taking some initial steps towards a resolution.

Building bridges for young people: The online conference “Preventing a Lost Generation 2.0”Photo (Detail): European Youth Forum

Online Conference “Preventing a Lost Generation 2.0”
A Jump Start for Youth

Will youth unemployment rise sharply in Europe due to the coronavirus health crisis? How can the European Union prevent this? These questions were posed during the online conference "Preventing a Lost Generation 2.0."

Defying the crisis together: Online conference “United for a New Future”Illustration: Goethe-Institut

Online Conference “United for a New Future”
Out of the Crisis into the Future

The Goethe-Institut is strengthening its European commitment for Germany’s EU Council Presidency. A few days before the start of the council presidency, at the “United for a New Future” conference, cultural and creative professionals sought ways out of the crisis together with the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the EU Council.

Over three days, “Latitude” presented artistic contributions and debates.Illustration: © EL BOUM

“Latitude” Festival Media Library
Messy, Painful, and Long Overdue

What role does the colonial era play in the cultures of remembrance in Namibia, Germany, or India and how does that era influence the present? Urvashi Butalia, Nelago Shilongoh, Mark Terkessidis, and René Aguigah discussed this at the “Latitude” festival. 

Interview with Jean-Claude CarrièreCollage (detail): © private/TEMPUS CORPORATE

Jean-Claude Carrière
“For me, Europe isn’t a peaceful and unified place”

France meant something to him during his childhood, but Europe didn’t, recounts French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. In conversation with opera director Jeanne Pansard-Besson he talks about how he regarded his work in Germany shortly after the war and why he still feels ambivalent about European unity to this day.

Renovated historical building in a good neighbourhood: this dream flat is out of reach of many these days. Photo (detail): Adobe

Protecting tenants
Ideas from Berlin to rein in skyrocketing rents

It is almost impossible to find an affordable flat in many parts of Germany’s capital today. This may soon change though, now that the rent cap law went into force in Berlin in March 2020. It freezes existing rents for a period of five years. But it is not the only means of protecting Berlin’s tenants.

A conference with a festival feel: An outdoor space at re:publica on the Station Berlin grounds.Photo (detail): ©re:publica/Gregor Fischer (CC BY-SA 2.0)

re:publica
Europe’s digital festival

The entire net community looks forward to re:publica Berlin every year – and not just in Germany.  The conference’s curator, Geraldine de Bastion, talks about re:publica’s history, its importance abroad, and how Germans are talking about digital issues.

Arts of the Working Class Special Edition LA: Worlds of Homelessness Titelseite© Arts of the Working Class

“Arts of the Working Class”
“Inviting everyone to join the discussion”

The homeless newspaper “Arts of the Working Class” and the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles present the special edition “Worlds Of Homelessness”. In an interview with “The Latest” at Goethe, editors María Inés Plaza Lazo and Alina Ana Kolar talk about their idea of an art magazine for everyone, how a distribution network of homeless people helps with its realization, and how Covid-19 affects the magazine and its sellers.

DJ GigolaPhoto (detail): © Nikki Powell

Electronic Music 2019
Global Issues Enter Local Scenes

In 2019, global problems found their way into the German scene: Climate crisis, displacement from inner cities, Israeli-Palestinian conflict – it seemed as if the club culture was no longer the hedonistic playground it was meant to be. However, the year’s musical trends put a stop to that.

It’s nice that the world is getting warmer, right? A sandstorm in Australia. Photo (detail): © Adobe

Climate Change Deniers
“Climate Is Really Just Weather”

Promoting alternative facts and conspiracy theories: a look into the world of climate change deniers.

Concepts of masculinity and role models: What does it mean today to be a man?Photo (detail): © János Erkens / Felix Schmitt

Masculinity
When is a man a man?

What does being a man mean these days? We have asked a few people in Germany what masculinity means to them.

A woman cups hands in front of her facePhoto (edited): McPHOTO; © picture alliance / blickwinkel

Violence ageains Women
What women need to know about domestic violence

Domestic violence is still a huge taboo in Germany – despite alarming statistics. What do women need to know about this subject? What can they do? Nine questions and answers.

Fruit and vegetables on a market stallPhoto (detail): © Adobe

Criticising the EU
Too expensive? Undemocratic?

The EU is frequently criticised for excessively bureaucratic, putting the needs of the private sector ahead of those of its citizens, and a lack of transparency. But are these accusations actually true, and, if so, what is Brussels doing to address them?

Globally, data centres are responsible for a third of the energy requirements of the Internet.Photo (detail): © Adobe

Energy Consumption
The Internet as an energy guzzler

A very small number of people question whether each individual online search query or the sending of every photo on the Internet is really necessary – this, too, can actually be environmentally harmful.

Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Goethe-Institut Continues Language Courses Online in Germany. Photo (detail): Colourbox

Goethe-Institut Continues Language Courses Online in Germany
Cohesion

As part of the nationwide closure of educational institutions, the Goethe-Institut is ending all classroom courses in Germany with immediate effect. All German courses now underway will be offered as online courses from 18 March to 19 April or later. Johannes Ebert, Secretary-General of the Goethe-Institut, has also spoken out in favour of securing the incomes of artists and freelancers in the field of education.

With “No Hard Feelings” /”Futur Drei”, Faraz Shariat presents a upbeat portrait of a new generationFoto (detail): © Edition Salzgeber, Jünglinge Film

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
Born in Hildesheim

Between racism and absurd expectations: Several films in the “Panorama” section explore post-migrant perspectives on Germany.

Red Carpet in front of the Berlinale PalacePhoto (detail): © dpa/Jens Kalaene

Berlinale 2020
Winds of change and fresh faces at Potsdamer Platz

Some big changes are coming to Germany's biggest and biggest-name film festival this year. Here’s the lowdown on what’s new at the Berlinale 2020.
 

US actor and comedian Shia LaBeouf comes to the Berlinale with a paper bag over his head.Photo (Detail): Jörg Carstensen

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
Looking back on 70 years of festivals

Post-war glamour and glory, scandalous films and a movie star on the red carpet wearing a paper bag over his head: some highlights from the tumultuous history of the world’s biggest film festiva

Photo (Detail) Welket Bungué in “Berlin Alexanderplatz“,director Burhan Qurbani © Frédéric Batier/2019 Sommerhaus/eOne Germany

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
Dark pictures, dark stories

Three films in this year’s competition, “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, “Undine” and “Schwesterlein”, are set in Berlin. They’re about crime, love and death.

Carlo ChatrianPhoto (Detail): Alexander Janetzko, Berlinale 2019

Video interview
Films about the world we live in

The Berlinale 2020 has undergone a reshuffling at the top: Carlo Chatrian is its new artistic director, working alongside the festival’s new executive director, Mariette Rissenbeek. In this interview, Chatrian talks about films as a mirror of troubled times and about the inestimable importance of the film-going public.

Yile Yara Vianello in “Semina il vento“ (Sow the Wind), director Danilo CaputoPhoto (detail): © JbaOkta

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
Save the trees

“Sow the Wind”, a film by Danilo Caputo set way down in southern Italy, portrays a young woman torn between family traditions and the exigencies of modern society.

Scene from the film “Time to Hunt". Director: Yoon Sung-hyunPhoto (Detail): © 2020 Union Investment Partners, Littlebig Pictures, Sidus. All Rights Reserved.

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
A lost future

World premiere for the movie “Time to Hunt” by Korean director Yoon Sung-hyun – and for the audience an exceptional cineastic experience.

A scene from the Australian film “High Ground”Photo (detail): © Sarah Enticknap/High Ground Picture

Berlinale Bloggers 2020
Colonial history in the outback

Like the acclaimed and applauded Sweet Country and The Nightingale, Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s potent outback western High Ground interrogates the country’s colonial history.

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Namibian nurses aim for Germany
Learn German at Goethe-Institut

Namibian nurses learn German to work in Germany.

During the keynote from Paul Gilroy at the conference “Echoes of the South Atlantic“Photo: Sebastian Bolesch

Conference „Echoes of the South Atlantic“
Lexicon for a common world

Until the 15th century, the Atlantic Ocean marked the perceptible border between Africa and Europe on the one hand and America on the other. Their overcoming set in motion a history of colonization, enslavement, exploitation and migration. The Goethe-Institut's conference "Echoes of the South Atlantic" puts this past in the center of an intercultural discourse.

The mega-game BusaraPhoto: Goethe-Institut e.V.

Cultural and Creative Industries in Africa
The will to face the future

The African continent is young and full of creativity. The Goethe-Institut supports cultural actors and networks them through projects and exchange platforms. Johannes Ebert, secretary-general of the Goethe-Institut, presents the work of the Goethe-Instituts in the cultural and creative industries in Africa in a special issue of the newspaper Politik und Kultur published together with the German Cultural Council.

Collective memory and national identity in the immigration country Germany
Alternatives to abstract "Leitkultur"

The formation of a collective identity scarcely seems possible unless boundaries are defined. The construction of a "we" entails an "other", most often set up as negative image of "our" communal values and their positive connotation.

Benefiting from diversityPhoto (detail): © Nejron Photo

Learning Cultures
Preparing for Study in Germany

Only six of ten foreign students leave Germany universities with a degree. For many, dealing with different learning cultures  is difficult. How can they prepare themselves for studying in Germany?

“Worlds of Homelessness”Photo: Loredana La Rocca

“Worlds of Homelessness“
The right to housing is a human right

The Goethe Institute in Los Angeles organized a four-day conference last week, called “Worlds of Homelessness”, bringing local and international scholars, advocates, artists, architects and current or formerly unhoused people together for conversations held in downtown Los Angeles.

OUT Film festival 2018 © Jackie Karuti

Out Film Festival
Shame Is a Dress I Wear Long to Hide My Truth

I’d never thought about shame as a luxury before. I’d never thought about shame much at all. Felt it, yes, but never tried to pin it down and ask it when, why, and how it became part of my life.
 

During the cultural week “The Burden of Memory” in YaoundéPhoto: Yvon Yamsi

“The Burden of Memory”
Finally starting the conversation

How African artists see German colonial history became clear during the cultural week “The Burden of Memory” organised by the Goethe-Instituts of the Sub-Saharan African region, held in the Cameroon capital city of Yaoundé.

“Invisible Inventories, Installation, 2018”Photo: Shift Collective

"Invisible Inventories"
The Return to Wakanda

At the end of November 2019, the launch of the exhibition project "Invisible Inventories", which is supported by the Goethe-Institut, took place in Kenya. At the "Object Movement Dialogue #4" in the Nairobi National Museum, the role of local communities within the restitution debate was discussed. The Kenyan journalist Abigail Arunga was on site for "Goethe aktuell".

Getting ready for Ramadan in Berlin Photo (detail): © Stefanie Loos

Muslims in Germany
Sugar Feast in the Occident

Is it possible to live in a Christian country like Germany and keep up Islamic traditions? And how do Muslims in Germany celebrate Ramadan?

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Film-maker, director and writer
Close-Up Schott

​“Sometimes you wake up with an idea, sometimes it comes from taking a walk or a drive.” Film-maker, director and writer Florian Schott's creativity is evoked by various instances in life – from conversations and films to music and books.

Jan Philipp Albrecht has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009. Photo (detail): © Fritz Schumann

Privacy and Digitalisation
“Facebook is not the same as your living room”

Social media, smartphones, the Internet of Things – whatever happened to privacy? Or has privacy become an outdated idea? This is a conversation with Jan Philipp Albrecht, a staunch advocate of data protection.

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International Inventories Programme
Kenya is taking stock of its missing cultural artefacts globally

Now more than ever, the discussion around the state of Kenyan cultural objects abroad and the gaps left by their absence has reached a tipping point. 

Surviving segments of the Wall vs. property development projects: a view of the banks of the Spree© Marine Leduc & Constance Bénard

Urban planning
After the Wall: Berlin’s Urban Planning Dilemma

Modern-day development projects vs. trailer parks and teepees: where the Wall once divided Berlin in half, the city's housing culture is now torn between memory and modernity, nostalgia and progress.

Smile to Vote: Screenshot of the fictitious company website Photo (detail): © Alexander Peterhaensel 2017

Smile to Vote
A smile please... you have voted!

The media art project “Smile to Vote” revolves around a voting booth that scans faces and automates the vote-casting process. Its originator, artist Alexander Peterhaensel, criticises the increasing encroachment of technology on privacy. 

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Theatre: Space of Knowledge
Rehearsing – Mwange|Becker

Two theatre practitioners from Namibia and Germany in 2019 engaged on a project through the Goethe-Institut International Co-production Fund to manifest a theatre production that investigates theatre as a space in which knowledge and reflection are explored and shared. 

One of the exciting venues of the festival: the symbolic Salaam CinemaPhoto: Adil Yusifov

2019 "DokuBaku" Documentary Film Festival
The Shimmer of Perception

"Truthfulness" was the motto of this year’s "DokuBaku" Documentary Film Festival in Azerbaijan. In close cooperation with the Goethe-Zentrum Baku, 38 films from around the world were shown at three venues. The independent film festival was launched in 2017 in Azerbaijan with the aim of supporting local filmmakers and non-fiction film genres.

In the free-access area there are mainly scientific books and journals from the past 30 years.Photo (detail): Dietmar Bleidick

The Library of the Ruhr in Bochum
“The region's very own memory bank”

The historian, Dietmar Bleidick, has been using the Library of the Ruhr for nearly twenty years. Its collection focusing on the past and present of the Ruhr area is unique in Europe. That, however, is not the only reason why it is so very special.
 

Jakarta | Indonesia | The Ciliwung River in the area of the district of Kampung Bukit Duri Photo: © Jörg Rekittke

Landscape Architecture
“Saving the world from total breakdown”

Landscape architect and urban planner Regine Keller seeks solutions that meet contemporary demands in both the city and rural space. Her focus is people’s quality of life.

Talking about the museum of tomorrow© CreativeLab for Goethe-Institut Namibia

"Museum Conversations" 2019 in Windhoek
It’s About the People

The African cultural infrastructure is presently at a turning point. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, president of the Goethe-Institut, highlights the positive and mutual interest in the urgent questions of postcolonial museum work in his keynote address at the opening of the final international Museum Conversations conference in Windhoek.

Reforestation for air travel: What do carbon offset projects achieve?Photo (detail): © Adobe

Climate Change
Carbon Compensation – a Feel-Good Solution?

Carbon offset schemes promise to compensate for the emissions caused by private individuals – as air travellers, for instance – with donations to climate projects. But are they not just a way of salving guilty consciences?  

Given the nature of current research topics, should university teaching be focused more on specialisation or universal learning?Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Waltraud Grubitzsch

Interdisciplinary education
The universal approach to research becomes more important

University teaching has become increasingly specialised over the centuries. But the topics addressed in research today increasingly require an interdisciplinary approach.  Leibniz Association president Matthias Kleiner sees a renaissance of universal research. 

Roland Schimmelpfennig not only writes for the stage, but since 2016, novels as well.Photo (detail): © dpa-Zentralbild / Jan Woitas

Roland Schimmelpfennig
A “Meister” of Collage

Roland Schimmelpfennig is considered to be one of the most prolific theatre writers in Germany. In 2019, not one, but two of his plays were performed at the Jaffa International Theatre Festival in Israel.

A former rebel speaks to The Congo Tribunal as an anonymous witness. Although it was an art project, the staging had a real impact.Photo (detail): © Vinca Film

Interview with Milo Rau
“This trial would never have been possible in The Hague”

One of the few court hearings to address the crimes committed in Eastern Congo was actually an art project: theatre and film director Milo Rau’s “The Congo Tribunal” has had a significant impact and cost three ministers their posts.

Graphics by Johanna Benz with voices and feedback on games by Enter AfricaPhoto: Nina Fink

Enter Africa at gamescom 2019
Games Have the Power

The continent of creativity: Enter Africa, a network project by the Goethe-Institut in 15 African countries, presented the mega-game Busara for the first time in the Indie Arena Booth at gamescom 2019.

Coding da Vinci participants roll out their ideas in the six-week project phase.  Photo (detail): © Coding da Vinci

Coding da Vinci
The digitalisation of culture

Visitors to museums and archives usually interact with exhibits locked in display cases in darkened rooms. Yet modern technology has given us ways to more directly experience art and cultural artefacts. Coding da Vinci is an open, cultural data hackathon that digitally brings museum pieces to life.  

Hamlet production at Berlin’s Schaubühne: long-time ensemble member Lars Eidinger has also made a name for himself as a film actor.Photo (detail): Arno Declair / Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz

Berlin’s Schaubühne
Staging the political

With its three transformable stages, the “Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz” is the largest theatre in West Berlin and features productions on political and socio-political issues by renowned directors.

Kaleck Panel slide© DefeatHate for Goethe Namibia

A need to converse
Colonial Repercussions

On 25-26 March 2019, the Goethe-Institut Namibia hosted a Symposium “Colonial Repercussions IV - Colonial Injustice – Addressing Past Wrongs”, in conjunction with the Academy of Arts/Akademie der Künste (AdK) and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).

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Technology advancements and making the future
Kultursymposium Weimar 2019

The Goethe-Institut Namibia recently sent an afro-futurist writer and photographer, Masiyaleti Mbewe, for participation in the Kultursymposium 2019 that was held from 19-21 June in Weimar and under the theme of ‘Recalculating the Route’.

The smartphone means politicians always have an effective public stage in their pockets.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/POP-EYE

Staging the self on social media
Politics as a stage

Politics has always played out on stages: from the popular assemblies of antiquity and to the live-feed public parliamentary debates of today, politicians have performed for their voters. Social media have both expanded and fundamentally changed this political stage.

In Europe, the simple quill pen developed into a sophisticated writing instrument: the fountain pen. Photo (detail): © Adobe

The fountain pen
A spotless record

Contracts, love letters, school essays – ink blots have ruined many a written document over the years. Happily though, in Europe the simple quill pen developed into a sophisticated writing instrument: the fountain pen.

The adventure of being young: “Es war einmal Indianerland” (Once upon a Time in Indian Country) is a portrait of youth, but not necessarily typical of Generation Z.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Camino-film/dpa

Generation Z on the silver screen
The universal magic of youth

Who are they and how do they live? The advertising and media world has discovered a new target group: Generation Z, fully digitalized since birth, is coming of age. But on screen they are (still) representing the lives of Millennials.

The film producer Artur BraunerFoto (detail): © Ulla Brunner

Artur Brauner
Films to Stop People Forgetting

Artur Brauner was a legendary German producer. Nobody else shaped German post-war cinema quite like he did, and he did it above all with light entertainment. However, since 1947 Brauner also delved into the Nazi era. Now he has died.

Since February 2016 the Ben Gibson has been director of the DFFB in Berlin.Photo (detail): © Nick Wall

DFFB director Ben Gibson
The courage to fail

In an interview with Goethe.de, Ben Gibson, director of the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, explained that cooperation was immensely important to him. In February 2017 he will have been in office for a year. Reason enough to look both back and forward.

Hans Weingartner’s feature film “The Edukators” has become a cult classic.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Everett Collection

Hans Weingartner
The utopian

Hans Weingartner’s films focus on young people determined to make a difference, talking about and trying out ideas for a better world. The director and producer has not only shaped German-language cinema; he has also conquered silver screens around the world. 

During the opening of the Tanzkongress in Hellerau near DresdenPhoto: Klaus Gigga

Tanzkongress 2019
What do we need to gather around?

Care, equity or empathy: What do we need to gather around? The Goethe-Institutes’ Tanzkongress in Dresden and the previous Tanz Salons connected dance with questions of encounter in new ways. Finnish choreographer Maija Hirvanen summarizes her personal impressions for "Goethe aktuell".

The Queer as German Folk exhibition can be seen at the Goethe-Institut New York until 3 AugustPhoto: Sarah Blesener

Exhibition Opening at the Goethe-Institut New York
Queer as German Folk

The fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising is a reason to celebrate, but also to continue fighting for queer rights. The exhibition Queer as German Folk will be on view at the Goethe-Institut New York until 3 August. It’s a space to experience the past and present of the queer movement.

The “Cinderella in a Box” project presented at the “Politik im Freien Theater” festival by middle school students from the Mittelschule am Winthirplatz in Munich.Photo (detail): ©Seitz/Bahro

Cultural education
“We do not dispense school knowledge”

“Politik im Freien Theater” is a free theatre festival where youngsters address political issues. What can theatre do that school cannot? “It prompts discussion and creates access,” says drama teacher Anne Paffenholz.

The value of diversityPhoto (detail): © konstacot/iStock

Feminism and LGBT
The right to be different

The women’s movement, homosexuals and people who do not wish to commit to a traditional gender order have often supported one another. In concrete politics, however, the alliance also raises problems. Historian Miriam Gebhardt’s assessment.

There is now a third gender category in Germany: ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’.Photo (detail): © Adobe / Stockwerk-Fotodesign

Intersex
Gender diversity

At the beginning of 2019, population registers in Germany were amended to include a third gender category. The option box is headed ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’, and it was introduced for a dual purpose: to remove the burden from parents faced with deciding an intersex child’s future and to show that being different can also be normal.

The global flash mob movement “One Billion Rising” protests violence against women, as here in February 2018 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.Photo (details): © Romy Arroyo Fernandez/picture alliance/NurPhoto/

Dance
Choreography as a form of protest

Politically motivated flash mobs and performances respond to current questions of society with popular and contemporary forms of dance. Can the body give answers to oppression and violence?

Dance performance “The Mourning Citizen” by Trixie Munyama in WindhoekPhoto: Themba Dredz Mbuli

Postcolonialism
Listening to One Another

There is a debate on post-colonialism being conducted in Germany more vigorously than ever before. The Goethe-Institut is tackling the topic in a series of projects, thus providing a platform for those voices from the countries of origin that are still not heard often enough.

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Understanding the profession
Curatorship Bootcamp 2019

“Namibian artists often do not have the luxury of focusing on their craft as a result of there not being enough curators available, who are qualified.” National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN) Curatorial Coordinator, Ndeenda Shivute.

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Digital technology meets books
Coding Week 2019 success

Six books from Macmillan Education Namibia Publishers, Kuiseb Publishing House, Yambeka Children Media and Wordweaver were made available for this project and three of the ICT students who produced the best apps will be sent to present their ideas at the Conference on Culture and Computer Sciences; Virtual History and Augmented Present in late May.

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Documenta 15
A new era of documenta with ruangrupa

An International Finding Committee announced on 22nd February 2019 in Kassel that the Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa will curate the documenta 15 in 2022.

One of Berlin’s best known open art spaces: the Kunsthaus Tacheles.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/imageBROKER

Open art spaces
Taking the money out of art

Berlin is filled with back-to-back museums, theatres, galleries, clubs and cinemas. Amid this cultural bounty, more and more ‘off-spaces’ are developing - open art spaces devoted to art free of commercial constraints.

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Kunstraum incontra... Göran Gnaudschun
Knowing What’s Really Important

On the tenth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Onna, the Goethe-Institut Rome asked the photographic artist Göran Gnaudschun to produce an exhibition on the past and present of Onna’s village community. Voci che si cercano (Voices Seeking One Another) will be on display from 6 April to 15 September 2019 at the Casa Onna Community Centre. In a conversation with The Latest at Goethe, Gnaudschun talks about his encounters with the people of Onna and how they deal with loss. 

Book cover: Am Anfang war die Information© Verbrecher Verlag

Robert Feustel
God is a Gigabyte

Are machines really learning to think? In his latest book, Robert Feustel demonstrates how we have elevated digitalisation to a religion.

Participants in the public debate "Recalculating the Route" had animated discussions about the Brexit and its effects Photo: Rupert Hitchcox

Recalculating the Route
Please turn around, if possible

Hardly any other topic is presently dividing political debates in Europe like the Brexit. While its outcome is still unclear, with its Europe Actually series of events the Goethe-Institut London emphasises the importance of the European sense of community. Brexit was illuminated from new angles in a public debate called Recalculating the Route. The chief results of the discussion will be presented in Weimar at the Goethe-Institut’s international Kultursymposium from 19 to 21 June. 

Participants in the cultural hackathon Coding da Vinci Süd (from left to right): Leno Veras, Molemo Moiloa, Kofi Sika Latzoo, Ignatia NiluPhoto: Annette Walter

Coding da Vinci Süd
Hack the Hackathon – Digitising Cultural Assets

For the cultural hackathon Coding da Vinci Süd, the Goethe-Institut invited 15 cultural professionals, coders and hackers from Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania to Munich to present ideas and innovative apps for the digitisation of cultural assets.  

How about physically interacting with a historical building? Could heritage parkour be a new form of cultural mediation?Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Radek Petrasek/CTK/dpa

Cultural heritage
Heritage Parkour

Imagine climbing to the top of the Acropolis, running along the flanks of the sphinx or balancing on the gable of Cologne Cathedral. Parkour as cultural mediation is the focus of a pilot project. 

Essen: European Green CapitalPhoto (detail): © picture alliance/dpa/Roland Weihrauch

Tourism
Undiscovered Germany

As a holiday destination, Germany attracts visitors from all over the world because of its rich cultural and natural heritage. But what does Germany have to offer besides Cologne Cathedral, the Semper Opera House and Schloss Neuschwanstein? Check here to discover sights that you may not have been aware of. 

Babylon Berlin: ambitious police typist Charlotte Ritter.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Everett Collection 102309761

TV Series
A fascination with the past

German television shows tend to have a bad reputation for poor writing and cheap productions not suited for an international market and audience. Now series like “Deutschland ‘83” and “Babylon Berlin” are putting a new shine on that tarnished image. 

“25 km/h” opens the 23rd Berlin & Beyond Film Festival in San FranciscoPhoto: Barak Shrama

Berlin & Beyond Film Festival
“You have to work dangerously”

At its opening, the 23rd Berlin & Beyond Film Festival is showing the film 25 km/h starring Bjarne Mädel and Lars Eidinger. Bjarne Mädel, this year’s recipient of the Spotlight Award in Acting, tells us what’s behind his acting career. 

Targeting violence and racismPhoto (detail): © Steve Seiffert (CBpx)

Football fan projects
Social work to combat extremist tendencies

While many Germans love football, radical fans repeatedly cause ugly scenes. To combat this, football associations and politicians across Germany are pinning their hopes on fan projects.

The ensemble of Dance On: Brit Rodemund, Ty Boomershine, Jone San Martin, Christopher Roman, Amancio Gonzalez, Ami Shulman (f.l.t.r.);Photo (detail): © Dorothea Tuch

Christopher Roman on Dance On
180 years of experience

This four year pilot project is the first official attempt in Germany to broaden the awareness for dance in an aging society. Artistic Director Christopher Roman in an interview.

The working conditions for artists in Berlin are often hard, and few can make a living off their art alone.Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Paul Zinken/dpa

Working conditions in the arts
Fair-trade music downloads

Many artists live in precarious conditions, and few can make a living off their art. Initiatives like fair music providers and fair-trade certificates for music labels show how a more equitable value chain could be created. 

The author tandem of Marc-Uwe Kling and Yu Li Lin at the Taiwan book fair Photo: Terry Lin

“German Stories” at the 2019 Taipei International Book Exhibition
“Data must be protected so that we can be free”

Germany is presenting itself at the 2019 Taipei International Book Exhibition under the motto “German Stories.” At the invitation of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Goethe-Institut Taipei and the German Institute Taipei, 13 German authors are presenting their works in tandem with Taiwanese authors. Bestselling author Marc-Uwe Kling spoke with journalist and author Yu Li Lin about his dystopian satire Qualityland.

At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding in LuandaPhoto: Goethe-Institut Angola

Museum Partnership Luanda – Berlin
The Ties that Bind

The Ethnologisches Museum Berlin houses one of the world’s oldest collections of Angolan art. It is closely linked to the collection of the Museu Nacional de Antropologia in Luanda. In December, the two museums will start a partnership with the Goethe-Institut with goals set by the partners at a workshop in Berlin. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding to signal their longer-term cooperation.

The musicians Kunle Ayo from Nigeria and Oliver Mtukudzi from Zimbabwe. Photo: Dave Durchbach

Music in Africa
Online platform for Africa’s music world

Fifty-four countries, ten thousand artists, one platform: The Music in Africa platform has been online since 2014 to offer in-depth information about the African musical landscape and facilitate collaboration.

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