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False MemoryThe 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.

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What constitutes reality?
Realer than real

How can and should reality be defined in these days of virtual and alternative realities, of VR goggles and fake news?

French horn player Felix Klieser was born with no arms and works the valve on his instrument with his left foot.

Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa

Inclusion in the arts
Promoting cultural diversity through inclusion

An exceptional French horn player born with no arms: this unusual sounding, real-life example demonstrates just how powerful inclusion in the arts can be. Accessible arts centres and inclusive art classes also have important roles to play.

Mario Pfeiffer’s video installation “again” focuses on an incident in Saxony, where villagers presumably tied a refugee to a tree.

Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Carsten Koall/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa

Berlin Biennale 2018
We Don’t Need Another Hero

The art world expected great things from the tenth edition of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art – the first to be curated by an African woman. But the show refused to produce a simplified and linear narrative of colonialism.

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Dansi Tena

Contemporary dance! What is that? Strange movements? Abstract? Unconventional? Weird? You don’t get it? Don’t worry, you will.

Tunasikika

A new platform created for emerging artists to explore on-line live streaming music presentation.

Latitude

The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.

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Tunasikika

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False MemoryThe Mandela Effect

German LanguageOpportunities for students and teachers of German

German courses

German exams

Teaching German

Practise German free of charge

CultureNews from culture and society in Germany and Tanzania

What constitutes reality?
Realer than real

Inclusion in the arts
Promoting cultural diversity through inclusion

Berlin Biennale 2018
We Don’t Need Another Hero

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Tanzania

Dansi Tena

Tunasikika

Latitude

Learn German Online

Tunasikika

Dansi Tena

False MemoryThe Mandela Effect

What constitutes reality? Realer than real

Inclusion in the arts Promoting cultural diversity through inclusion

Berlin Biennale 2018 We Don’t Need Another Hero

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Tanzania

Dansi Tena

Tunasikika

Latitude

What constitutes reality?
Realer than real

Inclusion in the arts
Promoting cultural diversity through inclusion

Berlin Biennale 2018
We Don’t Need Another Hero