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    Career Day at the Goethe-Institut

    This fall, the Goethe-Instituts throughout the USA are organizing a Career Day for American high school and college students. Find out when the Career Day takes place in your area!

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    Math To Touch

    The interactive exhibition Math to Touch is on a year-long tour across the US. Currently on view at our institute in Atlanta after stints in Boston, New York and Washington, it will then be exhibited at our locations in San Francisco and Chicago.

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    Satire and journalism can complement each other

    Satire shows on German television are increasingly addressing political issues. It is still, however, difficult to compare them with their American role models, says media scientist, Benedict Porzelt.

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The Bauhaus is dead – long live the Bauhaus!

Is the Bauhaus still relevant? The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein posed this question to sixty artists, designers and architects in advance of its Bauhaus exhibition. Their answers give some indication of the far-reaching importance of the Bauhaus to this day. [more …]

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An Open House – The German Contribution at the Architecture Biennale in Venice

The team of the German Museum of Architecture (Deutsches Architekturmuseum/DAM) in Frankfurt formulated a manifesto with eight theses on how the integration of highly diverse cultures into German society can succeed. [more …]

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A Superstar with a Dark Side

The anniversary of the Reformation is coming up in 2017 and Martin Luther is the subject of much debate. Many fear that his story is going to be overembelished, with hardly any mention of his dark sides. Can you celebrate Luther and at the same time maintain  a critical distance to him? [more …]

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