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Goethe Medal 2015 – Announcing the Winners

(2 June 2015) This year, the Goethe Medals go to the Syrian philosopher Sadik Al-Azm, the director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor and the German-Brazilian cultural manager Eva Sopher.

Theatre for Children and Young People – Goethe-Institut Receives Award

(25 April 2015) The Goethe-Institut is one of this year’s winners of the ASSITEJ Award. The award honours persons for their many years of dedication and their innovative force in theatre for young audiences.

Conference in Berlin – Let’s Talk about Dialogue

(18 February 2015) Intercultural dialogue often proves challenging in particular when we grapple with differing values. How can it be successful in spite of this? This question is the focus of the conference Dialogue and the Experience of the Other.

Skilled Workers for Germany – A Conference on New Labour Migration

(5 November 2014) More and more young, well-educated people from southern Europe are seeking greener pastures in Germany. What does it mean for their home countries? What are the consequences for Germany? A conference in Berlin is exploring these questions.

Documentary Film Prize for Portrait of an Architect

(3 November 2014) The film that received this year’s Goethe Documentary Film Prize is named Concrete Love.

Get Lucky – Off to Germany!

(24 September 2014) In a co-production with the Goethe-Institut, Deutsche Welle shows how young academics and skilled professionals from Southern and Eastern Europe are putting all their hopes in a future in Germany.

Goethe-Institut Mourns Filmmaker Harun Farocki

(31 July 2014) The sudden passing of the filmmaker caused great distress among the staff of the Goethe-Institut.

Award – The 2014 Goethe Medal goes to...

(25 June 2014) The 2014 Goethe Medals go to the Polish theatre manager Krystyna Meissner, the late Belgian opera director Gerard Mortier and the American artist Robert Wilson. They will be conferred in Weimar on 28 August 2014.

The Goethe-Institut Mourns Frank Schirrmacher – “A Skilful Master of Words”

(13 June 2014) The unexpected death of Frank Schirrmacher, co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has caused dismay among many. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, the president of the Goethe-Institut, recognizes Schirrmacher as “a leading intellectual, unconditionally”.

„Purgatory in Ingolstadt“ – Kammerspiele Production Travels to Buenos Aires

(24 May 2014) Premiere for Be my Guest, the name of a programme with which the Goethe-Institut allowed one international guest at the Berlin Theatertreffen to invite one of the productions presented there to their own country for the first time.

“Ticket nach Berlin” Nominated for Grimme Online Award

(22 May 2014) More than 130,000 people watched the videos and now Ticket nach Berlin was also a hit with the jury of the Grimme Online Award, which nominated the project for this year’s coveted prize.

Monika Staab and André Schürrle are Football Ambassadors

(6 May 2014) Qatar women’s national team coach, Monika Staab, and André Schürrle from the FC Chelsea received special honours. On Monday evening, they were named Football Ambassadors of 2014 at the Foreign Office in Berlin.

Jutta Limbach zum Achtzigsten – Wider die Verzagtheit

(27. März 2014) Jutta Limbach, die ehemalige Präsidentin des Goethe-Instituts, wird heute 80 Jahre alt. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, ihr Nachfolger in diesem Amt, übermittelte ihr seine herzlichsten Glückwünsche zum Geburtstag.

Freely Adapted from Schiller – Robbers from Cameroon in the Ruhr Valley

(21 March 2014) The Robbers ended up in Cameroon’s forest savannah. Together with the OTHNI Theatre laboratory in Yaoundé, directors Martin Ambara and Arne Pohlmeier adapted Friedrich Schiller’s play as a musical.

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