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On the border: Berlin, 10 November 1989, Brandenburg GatePhoto (detail): Jürgen Lottenburger © wir-waren-so-frei.de

30 year anniversary: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

On November 9th 1989, as a culmination of the peaceful revolution against the regime of the GDR, the Berlin Wall fell, starting the process of reunification.

From no man’s land to a new habitat: a 1,400 kilometre-long nature preserve was created on the former border between East and West Germany. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB/Peter Gercke/

The German-German border
 “A place of remembrance and hope”

Surviving segments of the Wall vs. property development projects: a view of the banks of the Spree © Marine Leduc & Constance Bénard

Urban planning
 After the Wall: Berlin’s Urban Planning Dilemma

Das Brandenburger Tor 1961/2015, montage Photo (detail): © pa-picture alliance | © A. Ehrlicher, B. Rehmann

30 Years Fall of the Wall
 Ghosts of the Past

30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Projects

Family Matters © Gift Habeshaw

Family Matters

Edition Covers of the upcoming anthology book Foto: © Ouida Books

Water Birds on the Lake Shore

Henrike Grohs Award © Art: Ferdinand Makouvia , Photo: Excerpt of a photo by Peter Houston

Henrike Grohs Art Award: Applications open!

Sustainability

Reforestation for air travel: What do carbon offset projects achieve? Photo (detail): © Adobe

Carbon compensation – a feel-good solution?

The working conditions for artists in Berlin are often hard, and few can make a living off their art alone. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Paul Zinken/dpa

Fair-trade music downloads

Plastic Pirates Photo (detail): © BMBF/Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17

Plastic Pirates Set their Sights on the Environment

Children's and Young Adult Literature in Africa and Europe

Edition Covers of the upcoming anthology book Foto: © Ouida Books

Water Birds on the Lake Shore

Not all that long ago, the line between ideals and ideologization was very fine in children’s and young adult literature. Photo (detail): picture alliance/ZB/ddrbildarchiv

Children’s and young adult literature
Are you what you read?

Q-R-T. Flummi allein zuhaus (i.e. Q-R-T. Super Ball alone at home) Photo (detail): © Ferdinand Lutz / Reprodukt

Comics for kids and teens
 Dog reporter meets dinosaurs

Participation

Terreno Occupado, Cuito Cuanavale, Angola © Jo Ractliffe

In whose place?

Wiki Loves Women © Wiki Loves Women

Wiki Loves Women

Rotimi Fani-Kayode Photo: Rotimi Fani-Kayode

Photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode
 It still needs saying: black men can desire each other

Media

Coding da Vinci participants roll out their ideas in the six-week project phase. Photo (detail): © Coding da Vinci

The digitalisation of culture

exhibition experiment „Open Codes“, 2017/ 2018 Photo: Anne-Sophie Stolz © ZKM Karlsruhe

Democracy needs thinking – how we learn to rethink in a digital world

Young voices in web politics came together at the Youth Internet Governance Forum. Photo: Paul Stender

Combatting Fake News with Education

Decolonisation

The District Six Museum in Cape Town, which documents the history of the District Six district. The museum is housed in a former Methodist church that was a meeting place for apartheid opponents in the 1980s. Photo (detail): Andreas Gebert © dpa-Report

The District Six Museum

“Invisible Inventories, Installation, 2018” Photo: Shift Collective

The Return to Wakanda

During the cultural week “The Burden of Memory” in Yaoundé Photo: Yvon Yamsi

Finally starting the conversation

Services

Goethe-Institut eLibrary Photo: Goethe-Institut/Loredana La Rocca

eLibrary

Library Header

Library - Gamebox - Hub

Camera, Foto: Goethe-Institut/Bernhard Ludewig Photo: Goethe-Institut/Bernhard Ludewig

Film archive

Publikationen Photo: Cordula Flegel

Publications

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