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Interested in learning more about our collection? We've put together lists on a variety of subjects.

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With our open access search, you have access to about 3 million freely accessible scientific online publications in various languages (mainly German and English, but also in other languages).

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Translation

Translator’s Prize New York
Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

The annual Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize is awarded each summer to honor an outstanding literary translation from German into English published in the USA the previous year. The translator of the winning translation receives $10,000.

Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Young Translator’s Prize New York
 Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York

In 2010, the Goethe-Institut New York received a generous donation in memory of Frederick and Grace Gutekunst. A prize was created to identify outstanding young translators of German literature into English and assist them in establishing contact with the translation and publishing communities.

Gutekunst FoG

Translation Grant Program

The Goethe-Institut’s translation grant program supports non-German publishers in publishing German-language literature, with the aim of making works accessible to non-German speaking readers.

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Recently funded translations

This selection of English-language titles received support from our grant program and were recently published in the US.

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Goethe on Demand
 New Directions – 20 Years of Young Cinema from Germany

New Directions is an online film series featuring 20 films as a retrospective of 20 years of exciting and innovative cinema by a new generation of filmmakers who are not afraid to experiment and challenge the film world with ever new perspectives. 

GoD New Directions

A Transatlantic Podcast
 The Big Ponder

This transatlantic podcast explores abstract concepts and phenomena through personal radio essays. Every other week, one of our producers transforms a broad topic into a captivating story told from a U.S.-German perspective.

The Big Ponder Visual Illustration: © Nicole Hamam

Current Music from Germany
 Popcast

Rock, pop, hiphop, electro: at the beginning of every month we shine our search beacon into the nation’s studios and clubs from Kiel up north to Weilheim way down south. Together with Zündfunk, Bavarian Radio’s scene magazine, we showcase the latest music by riveting off-the-charts bands.

 

Popcast © Goethe-Institut | Illustration: DOON 東

Podcast Series
 Hannah Arendt: Between Worlds

In recent years many people have turned to the work of Hannah Arendt to try to understand what is happening in our world today. But who was Hannah Arendt? And why is she so relevant now? Over the course of 7 podcast episodes, Samantha Rose Hill talks with artists, poets, writers, scholars, musicians, and activists who think with Hannah Arendt as they explore questions of solitude, peace, privacy, freedom, love, and politics.
 

Hannah Arendt: Between Worlds

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