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    Wolfgang Tillmans: Fragile

    Following on stops in Kinshasa and Nairobi, the touring exhibition Fragile is on show at the Johannesburg Art Gallery until 30 September 2018.

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    The new hubbers are here!

    We are always happy about new faces at the Goethe-Institut, so the month of September was particularly exciting for us: twelve Hub@Goethe participants have just moved into the Library-Gamebox-Hub, ready to work and fine-tune their business ideas under the mentorship programme that Hub@Goethe offers.
     

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    Job offerWanted: Teachers for German as a foreign language

    Goethe-Institut South Africa is looking for a teacher for German as a foreign language. Starting date: 1st November 2018.

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    CompetitionHands up, wake up, start up!

    START-UP! The final: The 30 winners of the regional project of the Goethe-Institutes in Subsahara-Africa as well as their chaperones and Ebenezer Kumi (SEED) meet up in Berlin for the final and third workshop!
     

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    Literature competitionAfroYoungAdult

    The Goethe-Institut invites aspiring African writers of all ages interested in writing for Young Adults (13-19 years) to submit short stories of 3000-5000 words in length in Kiswahili, English or French. 

  • I Am Not a Witch. Directed by Rungano Nyoni. Foto: Courtesy of Quiddity Films / Clandestine Films / Soda Pictures

    A close look at Africa's film industries

    The 2018 Framing the Shot: Key Trends In African Film report shows how possible annual box office revenues of $1.5 to $2 billion could be generated in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Wolfgang Tillmans at the exhibition opening on 12 January 2018 at the Musée d’Art Contemporain et Multimédias in Kinshasa. Photo: CatherineTrautes

Wolfgang Tillmans in Kinshasa
 A picture of the times

For the first time, a solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans can be seen on the African continent. Entitled Fragile, it opened in Kinshasa on 12 January 2018 in the presence of the artist. In an interview with Patrick Mudekereza, Tillmans talks about his impressions of the first station of the ifa touring exhibition, which is realised in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Kinshasa. 

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The library of the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg houses a "cultural entrepreneurship hub". Curator Nthato Malope speaks about the special place, the work he does with the different hubbers and his participation in the Munich Creative Business Week.

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 Fukushima, Mon Amour: Film focuses on life after the disaster

Peter Machen speaks to leading German filmmaker Doris Dörrie about her remarkable film Fukushima, Mon Amour which screened at the Durban International Film Festival as part of the German Focus.

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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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I am Science

The I Am Science or Digital Access to Knowledge project aims, in the short term, to increase interest in and meaningful understanding of basic scientific concepts among early high-school girls in disadvantaged, urban areas which will support them to continue studying science at school. 

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