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Age of CannibalsA Grotesque of Capitalism

In razor-sharp dialogs, three German business consultants dissect capitalism’s “human resources” in a piece of global intimate theater – and deconstruct themselves in an absurdly comical way in the process.

© Rhoda Metcalfe

THE BIG POND #08GERMAN-STYLE APPRENTICESHIPS IN THE US

Driven by a critical lack of skilled technicians, a group of largely German-owned manufacturers in Chicago have launched a new apprenticeship program based on the German education model. This idea is now spreading to a number of American companies.

© Goethe-Institut, Illustration: Julia Hell

Advent Calendar 2018

Our Advent Calendar offers new cultural titbits every day. It's worth checking out: great prizes will be raffled off. The main prize is a German course.

Photo (detail): © bpk/ S. Fischer Stiftung/ Leonore Mau

ExhibitionHubert Fichte: the poet in the ethnographer

German author and ethnographer Hubert Fichte is known for how deeply he immersed himself literarily in the worlds he wrote about. An interview with Diedrich Diederichsen about an exhibition series that has been created in the author’s honour.