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Project Space Update

​The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles is proud to announce its new collaboration with Michael Maltzan Architecture (MMA). Together with our headquarters, we have selected MMA to lead the build-out of our future home, a new project space located in the diverse Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, close to MacArthur Park.

Learn, read, inform yourself online

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Online learning

With a Goethe-Institut distance learning course, you can decide for yourself when and where you would like to learn.

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 Deutsch für dich

In the “Deutsch für Dich” community you will find plenty of exercises to help you learn German free of charge, and you can share experiences with other members.
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Transatlantic Outreach Program

TOP provides social studies and STEM educators throughout North America with classroom resources, study tours, and up-to-date information about contemporary Germany.
Outline of a head. Inside the head many colourful segments with English writing in them like Togetherness, Solidarity, Social Distancing. © Kitty Kahane

Reflections on a post-corona-time
 Day-Afterthoughts

A virus is showing us how globally networked and yet how fragile our public life is. What does the pandemic mean to and for each of us and for society as a whole? Here are some responses from intellectuals and artists around the world.
Illustration of a man and a woman infront of a computer Illustration: Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

For German Language Learners
 Couchpotato – Learn German at home

Train your language skills on your own couch: Learn German at home with our various digital tips, interactive exercieses and games.

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Digital Kinderuniversity

The Digital Kinderuniversity is a brand new, completely free, and entirely online-based program. Students can learn German while watching fun videos about science experiments.

Illustration of a child and a young adult infront of a computer Illustration: Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

Digitals Offers for Teenagers and Kids
 #Ersatzprogramm

Bored at home? Check out our fun, interesting, and free online offers which you can easily discover from the comfort of your own couch. Play, listen, read, test your knowledge — happy exploring!

Onleihe

eLibrary

With our eLibrary, borrowing media is at your fingertips 24/7. This free service allows you to borrow digital media, such as ebooks, audio and video files, and electronic newspapers and magazines, for a predetermined period of time, by downloading them from our eLibrary.
 
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Watch over 100 German films online

Over 100 German films – classic movies as well as current productions – are available for free on our eMedia platform, the eLibrary.
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German Series in the USA
 Binge Fever!

Television “Made in Germany” is having a golden moment with the rise of international streaming services. In this dossier, we highlight binge-worthy German serials and fill you in on where to watch them in the USA.
The Big Pond – A US-German Listening Series .

The Big Pond

From pretzels and beer to the Berlin Wall, from motorcycles to recycling, these 50 radio features explore the relationship between Germany and the US on all levels.

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Posthumanism
 At the Threshold of a New Era

What ethical, social and political questions arise when automation and artificial intelligence revolutionize the world of work? In the dossier on Posthumanism the Goethe-Institut Canada takes a critical look at these issues.
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Global Discourse
 Timelapse – What will the future hold?

Artists, scientists and activists think about the big questions of our epoch. What do hyper-realistic robot copies and fake news reveal about the future?

Image: have you ever felt invisible © Goethe-Institut/Loredana La Rocca

Germany and Los Angeles
 Worlds of Homelessness

“Worlds of Homelessness” proposes an interdisciplinary and global engagement with homelessness and its connections to inequality, gentrification, racism and migration. Learn more about these issues.
The design of the exhibition "Queer as German Folk" developed by the Berlin based agency chezweitz graphic: chezweitz

50 years Stonewall Riots
 Queer as German Folk

The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots gives occasion to celebrate, but also to continue the struggle for queer rights. The Goethe-Institut supports debate and remembrance with an international program.
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Rethinking power relations
Postcolonialism

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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The German Culture Scene
 Cultural Bulletin

What drives the German art and culture scene: what is in demand and what is worth thinking about? Andreas Platthaus, editor of the feuilleton section in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, offers insights and personal analyses of current events in German art and culture.
"Love Forever" by D*Face © D*Face. Photo: Lord Jim

Street Art in Mexico, Canada, U.S.A.
 #artbits

Covering walls and surfaces in cities around the world, Street Art is appreciated by thousands every day as they go about their daily business. In this collection of photos we have captured art in Los Angeles, Mexico City, Montreal, New York City, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.
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The Elite in the Arts

What power drives art to change? What causes new forms of expression and new styles? How does the new come into the world? American and German theoreticians show how the arts continue to develop in sudden leaps and bounds from the tension between popular and elite tendencies.
Tour Total, Berlin Christine Müller, picture alliance/Westend61

Video Series
 ARCHlab – Architecture in the 21st Century

In short video portraits, international architects like Christoph Ingenhoven (Marina One) talk about a building designed and realised by them. They keep asking themselves the question: How do we live and work in the future? Our video series ARCHlab shows the answers architects have found to questions like these.

Bauhaus & The US

100 Years of Bauhaus

The Goethe-Institut is celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus. In this online collection, you’ll find a timeline of Bauhaus history in the US, articles on Bauhaus members who immigrated to North America, and more.
Zeitgeister

Zeitgeister
 THIS SIDE OF POPULISM

In this global conversation, we debate common narratives of populists in different countries: has the “elite” really lost contact with the “people”?  What does it really mean to take people’s fears seriously? Let’s discuss!
Axolotl liest © Olivia Vieweg

Comics from Germany

German-language comics have come a long way since their beginnings, from classics by Wilhelm Busch and Rolf Kauka and the avant-garde of the 90s to today's graphic novels. We take a look back at the last decades of German comic history and speak with some of the protagonists in the scene.
Popcast © Goethe-Institut | Illustration: DOON 東

Music from Germany
 Popcast

In our April Popcast, our music editors once again present new songs from the current German music scene outside of the pop mainstream. 

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Deutschland #nofilter

What do I cook when the fridge is empty by the end of the month? How do I save the world by the way? And how do I survive my studies? "Deutschland #nofilter" offers tips, curiosities and funny stories about life in Germany.
Shaping the Past / Gestaltung der Vergangenheit

Shaping the past

How does the past take shape? What happens in the process of coming to terms with the past? What social repercussions are associated with the rooting of history in monuments and memorials? These questions and many others are at the center of our project, Shaping the Past. 
Marius Gardeia (model) in Pullman City, flag by Melissa Treutlein (illustrator) Photo: Jonas Höschl

THE BIG PONDER: German Edition
 Listen to our episodes in German!

The Goethe-Institut and rbbKultur, a public radio broadcaster in Germany, are bringing you a new audio special straight from Berlin. In this artfully curated miniseries, the production team at rbbKultur recreates eight exemplary episodes of THE BIG PONDER — in German. Happy listening!
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