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Judith Geare – when a job becomes a vocation

It’s only when I look up from my desk that I realise with a shock how many years I have been doing this. It seems like just the day before yesterday that I started work here …” For almost 40 years Judith Geare has been the face of the Goethe-Institut in New Zealand, but this year she is saying “goodbye”.

A few of the islands of the island country Tuvalu in the turquoise-coloured sea

Photo (detail): © Saving Tuvalu

Rising Sea Level
A Future in Tuvalu

Rising sea levels pose a severe threat to islands such as Tuvalu. Already the island faces heavy floods, which could one day erase the island state from the map completely.

Sustainable Communities
2n40: from cooperative apartment building to solidarity-based cohousing project

As far as the residents of 2n40 are concerned, living in a large community is really nothing new, but rather a way of meeting a perfectly normal human need. Multigenerational living was once the norm, but since industrialisation, has increasingly become the exception.

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in New Zealand

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Podcasts Around the World

The Goethe-Institut gets stuck in your ears and opens your eyes. Goethe-Instituts across the globe produce podcasts on different topics and in different languages. Choose from a range of diverse podcasts from around the world. Dive in and have fun listening.

Zeitgeister

Which topics and discourses are we dealing with worldwide? The online magazine Zeitgeister invites experts, artists and authors to a joint exchange. It offers local and global perspectives – on postcolonialism, sustainability, post-digital cultures, feminism and current affairs.

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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Goethe on Demand

The Goethe-Institut New Zealand turns 40!

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