Culture

Goethe on Demand

On Goethe on Demand, the streaming platform of the Goethe-Institut, we present a variety of online film programs, film festivals and film series that can be streamed from home. They are accessible online and free of charge after registration.

News from culture and society

Restitution – The wooden handle of a whip by Nama leader Hendrik Witbooi

The German Lost Art Foundation
Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts

The German Lost Art Foundation helps to determine the origin and whereabouts of illegally taken artworks. The focus lies on objects stolen during National Socialism from Jewish property, but increasingly collections from the colonial era gain attention, explains the head of the new department, Dr Larissa Förster.

The transparent citizen has long been a reality. The most popular apps may be practical, but they are absolutely not secure when it comes to users’ personal data.

Data protection
Digital self-defence

Popular apps often use data in ways their users would not appreciate, but there are alternatives. Digital expert Markus Beckedahl has some tips.

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.

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In Focus

Artist portraits
Art Upside Down

The Goethe-Institut New Zealand and Contemporary HUM present a series of portraits about New Zealand artists who have found a new physical - and artistic - home in Germany. Kunst Kopfüber / Art Upside Down invites writers and curators to look at the practice of six contemporary artists from Aotearoa.

Drawn picture; 2 people sit next to each other, inbetween them plays a radio

Time to listen

The current situation has forced many people around the world to stay at home and follow the news. In this isolation they hear the news of a global crisis and threat. As in Boccaccio's “Il Decamerone” and many other myths and books of other cultures, the description of the disaster is followed by stories. The project “Time to listen” presents a collection of stories - told by storytellers from all genres of art, from all over the world.

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