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Spotlight on Germany

Take a closer look at different aspects of life in Germany.

A stroke of luck for German cinema: Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” received a standing ovation at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa/Cannes Film Festival

Changing Germany's image

A young generation of directors is taking German cinema in a new direction with intercultural perspectives, unusual narratives, and novel aesthetic approaches. 

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Home is where your WiFi is

You read and hear in the media at regular intervals that people are either moving to the country or moving away from it. What is really going on? Is it an urban or a rural exodus? Where are Germans going?

Protesters at a demonstration against Coronavirus policies in Berlin Photo (detail): picture alliance/Marc Vorwerk/SULUPRESS.DE

“Conflict can build bridges”

Thousands have taken to the streets in Germany to protest the government’s Coronavirus policies. They are a disparate group of people who would otherwise have little or no contact: concerned citizens, conspiracy theorists, new agers and far-right radicals.

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Digital Library

Our digital library Onleihe offers about 20,000 German-language eBooks, audio books, movies, materials for language students, magazines and newspapers – free of charge.

Drawn picture; 2 people sit next to each other, inbetween them plays a radio Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

Time to listen

The project “Time to listen” presents a collection of stories - told by storytellers from all areas of art, from all over the world.

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Perspectives on post-digital Cultures
One Zero Society

Digitisation is a transformation pocess and a creative task for civil society. The magazine “One Zero Society” invites to a global exchange about our future. 

Stream Movies

Our streaming platform presents a hand-picked selection of films, festival highlights and curated series in their original language with subtitles – free of charge.
 

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