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Karl Marx
Re-reading „Das Kapital“

Karl Marx would have celebrated his 200th birthday in 2018. His criticism of capitalism appears even more pertinent today amidst climate crisis, chronic unemployment and global inequality. A reason to look back and re-read.

The author composing in the SeaM (Studio for electroacoustic Music), Weimar.

Amy Jean Barnett
From Poneke to Bauhaus

For a creatively minded New Zealander, what is it like to live and study in Germany? Composer and media artist Amy Jean Barnett reflects on her experiences in Weimar, following study in Wellington (Poneke), New Zealand.

Artist Residency 2019
Milan Gessner

The Berlin-based illustrator, filmmaker and street artist Milan Gessner is the Goethe-Institut Artist in Residence in Wellington this year.

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in New Zealand

New Zealand as seen from the International Space Station in 2014

New Music, New Zealand

Aotearoa-New Zealand. Kiwis making music in and beyond this island nation in the 21st century. This thematic dossier explores the newest electronic and experimental music of Aotearoa-New Zealand, and the history and traditions that underpin it.

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Features, interviews, podcasts and a monthly blog exploring how learning a new language opens up worlds of possibilities, changes your outlook - and boosts your brain! Life is more interesting in more than one language. Find out more here...

Lifeswap

Lifeswap is a series of animated Skype chats between Jörg from Germany and Duncan from New Zealand. Facing their respective quarter life crises, they decided it was time for a change.

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Karl Marx
Re-reading „Das Kapital“

Amy Jean Barnett
From Poneke to Bauhaus

Artist Residency 2019
Milan Gessner

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in New Zealand

New Music, New Zealand

Living language

Lifeswap

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Living language

Radio Show'Goethe on Air': our cultural radio show

Film SeriesLifeswap

Karl Marx Re-reading „Das Kapital“

Amy Jean Barnett ​From Poneke to Bauhaus

Artist Residency 2019 Milan Gessner

New Music, New Zealand

Living language

Lifeswap

Karl Marx
Re-reading „Das Kapital“

Amy Jean Barnett
From Poneke to Bauhaus

Artist Residency 2019
Milan Gessner