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Contemporary witness platformsPreserving living memories

A woman in the Red Army directs traffic in Berlin 1945. Photo (detail): picture-alliance / RIA Nowosti Contemporary witness platforms play a key role in the German culture of remembrance by making the personal accounts of those who were displaced, oppressed or deprived of their freedom freely accessible to the public, ensuring that future generations keep learning from the past.

The holidays in GermanyThe gift of giving

The holidays in Germany: Passing on the Christmas Spirit Photo (detail): © Jana Judisch Spreading the enchantment of Christmas: Without the efforts of Julia and her fellow angels, Christmas wouldn’t take place for many people in and around Berlin. For many years now, Julia has pursued her heavenly mission– this year for the first time as Mother Christmas.

Ecological and social start-upsOn a mission to save the world

Soulbottles Berlin Photo (detail): © Soulbottles More and more start-up founders are creating companies that combine earning money with working towards social and ecological goals. Social start-ups are also gaining ground in Germany.

The holidays in GermanyPassing on the Christmas Spirit

Spreading the enchantment of Christmas: Visitors to Uhlandhof farm in Schwabenländle can chop down their own tree while enjoying the festive atmosphere lovingly created by the Gallus family. 

Artificial IntelligenceCoding Art

A world of codes: In the “Open Codes. Living in digital worlds” exhibition at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe visitors undergo a digital transformation. © ZKM | Karlsruhe, Foto: Felix Grünschloß If you think art and robotics have nothing in common, think again. Artificial intelligence is a tool for creative minds, and increasingly their competition. The digital revolution also provides art with plenty of fodder for critical reflection.

Virtual Reality JournalismLiving the news

Empathetic Media: VR screen cast demo in FARC guerilla camp Photo: Youtube We may experience journalism in an entirely new way in future. 360-degree videos and virtual reality reports allow the audience to dive right into a news story and experience events up close. These new formats are also making inroads in Germany.

Riformare. Il presenteIntervista a Peter Weibel

Peter Weibel: teorico dei media, curatore e direttore dello ZKM di Karlsruhe © Goethe-Institut Peter Weibel, teorico dei media, curatore e direttore dello ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien di Karlsruhe ci parla di fede nelle immagini, di ordinario e sublime, e del sogno dell'universalismo.

FreepostCourage and commitment – what we can do

Portofrei Graphic: Bernd Struckmeyer Unless we actively commit to an open and tolerant society, it will be virtually impossible to contain populist and nationalist tendencies. What each of us can do in everyday life was debated by the journalist Kübra Gümüşay and the political scientist Luis Felipe Miguel.

FreepostWhat we can do

Portofrei Graphic: Bernd Struckmeyer Unless we actively commit to an open and tolerant society, it will be virtually impossible to contain populist and nationalist tendencies. What each of us can do in everyday life will be debated by the journalist Kübra Gümüşay and the political scientist Luis Felipe Miguel.

Durs GrünbeinThe Unpoet

Durs Grünbein numbers among the most important German-language lyric poets and essayists, but he refers to himself as an “unpoet”. Foto: © picture-alliance / Erwin Elsner Durs Grünbein numbers among the most important German-language lyric poets and essayists. The Georg-Bücher prize winning author’s body of work refuses to submit to simple categorisation.

News from the classical music sceneKlassikcast in March

Headphones on a piano Antonio Gravante / Colourbox.de Once a month, we are presenting news from the German classical music scene. In the new issue, we celebrate three high birthdays: composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann was born 100 years ago, singer Christa Ludwig 90 years ago, and the maverick composer Hans-Joachim Hespos is celebrating his 80th birthday mid-March.

News from the classical music sceneKlassikcast

Headphones on a piano Antonio Gravante / Colourbox.de News from the German-speaking classical music scene with reports and music: classical and contemporary CD releases, exciting musicians, trends and themes of the classical music world. In the December issue, Sylvia Schreiber presents singers with her latest CD releases.

“Western” MovieEncountering the Other

Construction worker Meinhard in the film "Western" Photo (detail) © 2017 Komplizen Film, Chouchkov Brothers, coop99, KNM How do we interact with strangers and engage with foreign countries? The film “Western” tells the story of German construction workers sent to build a hydroelectric power station in Bulgaria, where their encounters with local villagers do not, to put it mildly, always go smoothly.

BlockchainA chain without a weak link

Blockchain Photo (detail): © Colourbox Blockchain is not just the technology behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency; it also has the potential to revolutionize many areas of our everyday lives. But there is still a long way to go.

ExhibitionHubert Fichte: the poet in the ethnographer

Hubert Fichte in St. Pauli, Hamburg 1963. Photo (detail): © bpk/ S. Fischer Stiftung/ Leonore Mau German author and ethnographer Hubert Fichte is known for how deeply he immersed himself literarily in the worlds he wrote about. An interview with Diedrich Diederichsen about an exhibition series that has been created in the author’s honour.

New MusicOn the Rise – New Music at the Universities

The Ensemble Musikfabrik has a strong connection to the conservatory of Cologne. A usefull collaboration. Photo © Jonas Werner-Hohensee New Music has had a hard time in the daily cultural life, even if scholars and critics have long canonized it. Universities in Germany are therefore very active in providing students and public with an understanding of this music.

Theatre and Immersion“You enter Yourself into this Space”

„Hausbesuch Europa“ (Home Call Europe) by Rimini Protokoll © Pigi Psimenou Immersion means experiencing. What does this mean for the theatre? Thomas Oberender, Artistic Director of the Berliner Festspiele, talks about his programme focus “Immersion”.

Opinion piecePhilipp Ruch on revolution

Ein Junge vor einer Wandzeichnung von Che bei Venilale im Zentrum von Ost Timor bei Tutuala, Ost Timor. Foto (Ausschnitt): Flüeler © picture alliance / Bildagentur-online Authors and representatives of public life write personal opinion pieces for goethe.de/kultur about a particular concept that influences their life. Philipp Ruch founded the Center for Political Beauty, an initiative that organizes high-profile and often controversial protest actions.
 

Ten years of nachtkritik.deCritiques and debates

Esther Slevogt and Christian Rakow © Thomas Aurin Read a review of a premiere performed the night before at your breakfast table – that has been possible for a whole decade now on nachtkritik.de. To mark this anniversary, we spoke to two critics who wrote for nachtkritik in its early days: founding member Esther Slevogt and new co-editor-in-chief Christian Rakow.

#reform!Marion Ackermann

Foto: Oliver Killig © SKD Marion Ackermann, General Director of the Dresden State Art Collections, defines museums as places of common reflection and mutual enlightment.

#reform!Fernando Vallespín

Fernando Vallespín Picture: Goethe-Institut Spanish political scientist Fernando Vallespín on the necessity of change in his field.

#reform!Bina Shah

Bina Shah © Wahaj Alley Bina Shah, author and journalist advocating a re-understanding of the feminist movement.

The Reformation celebrates its 500th anniversaryNo spark of enthusiasm for the present

The Wittenberg Panorama was amongst the most successful events to mark the anniversary of the Reformation Photo: © asisi “Successful experiment” or “grandiose self-deception”? Opinions on the success of the events to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation vary tremendously.

The “Generation What?” Study“Loss of trust does not mean resignation”

Comparatively high scepticism among young people, but also political commitment. Photo (detail): © Creativemarc - Fotolia A new study points out, that among young Europeans there is a lack of trust in institutions such as politics and the media. But this does not lead to less commitment, says the project’s coordinator, Maximilian von Schwartz, from the Sinus opinion research institute.

The German Animated Film SceneRare Birds, Big Dreams

The revolutionist Wladimir Majakowski in “1917 – Der wahre Oktober” by Katrin Rothe Photo (detail): © Katrin Rothe Filmproduktion The animated film has a hard time of it in Germany – despite all the outstanding training programs that are available. For a long time the genre was regarded as a playground for the more exotically inclined. Now there are encouraging signs that that may be changing.

Digital Fundamental Rights “In political terms the discussion is necessary”

Society has been changing. Photo (detail): © bluraz - Fotolia.com Do our fundamental rights protect people in the digital age? Digital experts from Germany have tried to find an answer – with the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union. An interview with co-initiator Wolfgang Kleinwächter.

Literature and digitalization“Printed matter is taken more seriously.”

Digitalization changes our reading habits Photo: © alphaspirit - stock.adobe.com Worldwide, more is being read today than ever before, and increasingly on screens. An international research network is studying how media change effects reading. An interview with the book scholar Adriaan van der Weel.

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