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    Goethe-Medal 2020

    The Goethe Medal is an official decoration for those who have performed outstanding service for international cultural relations.
    We are very happy that for the 2020 edition, South Africa's very own Zukiswa Wanner has been awarded the prestigious Goethe Medal!

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    Goethe Stories Ep. 2

    Sound of Xee is talking to Nizenande Machi, Kutlwano Makgalemele and Mohau Memeza about the Creative Industries, the path each of them took in that field, good advice and the current tribulations for the creative sector specifically.

     

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    Language Courses online

    We have revamped all our courses so that you can do them online as well, no matter if you are using a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Classes start on April 20th! For more information and to enroll, click here!

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    Reflexionen für eine Post-Corona-ZeitDanachgedanken

    Ein Virus führt uns vor Augen, wie global vernetzt und zugleich fragil unser öffentliches Leben ist. Was bedeutet die Pandemie für jede*n Einzelne*n von uns und was für die Gesellschaft? Intellektuelle und Künstler*innen weltweit antworten auf diese Frage.

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    Kulturama brings international culture into your living room. Organisers enter their events and open them to international audiences. Spectators can find dates and support artists with donations.

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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 Regional Project democraSEE brings three photography workshops to Abidjan, Dar-es-Salaam and Maputo.

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Both climate change and its resulting increase in extreme weather as well as the recurring danger of global financial crisis leads our society to investigate the possibilities and methods of ecological and economical sustainability much more than we used to.

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Henrike Grohs Prize for African Artists

The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family have announced a prize in memory of Henrike Grohs, who died on 13 March 2016 in a terrorist attack in the Ivory Coast.

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