Germany @ Canada

Award-winning author Norbert Gstrein was our featured author during Germany @ Canada's 2017's Borderless Mountains program during IFOA 2017 and at the Banff Centre's Literary Arts and Banff Mountain Festival. Read more about him and his work.

Holger Böckner is the founder of The Poutine Kitchen, a German start-up with a mission to bring the iconic Canadian food to Berlin. As part of Germany @ Canada 2017, we are interested in exploring the German-Canadian friendship and the ways the countries influence each other – even food-wise.

Inspired by the Montreal landmark Mont Royal, Mont Réel, a collaboratively-built hill was erected in the summer of 2017 and is already serving as a creative meeting place for residents and artists. 

In this exclusive Interview, Stéphane Dion shares his first impressions as the Canadian ambassador to Germany and special envoy to the European Union and Europe.

On the occasion of his artist talk in the Montreal gallery Never Apart we spoke to the Berlin photographer Sven Marquardt.

Doug Saunders is The Globe & Mail's international affairs writer and former European bureau chief. He recently lectured in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Dresden and has done research for the World Bank on questions of immigration and integration.

The Goethe-Institut and the German Embassy in Canada, along with many Canadian and German partners, are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the confederation of the country with a series of cultural events underscoring German-Canadian friendship. The exhibition Canada and Germany: Partners from Immigration to Innovation / Le Canada et l’Allemagne: Partenaires de l’immigration à l’innovation shows the history of the close ties between the two countries.

The German National Tourist Office has partnered with Canadian blogger Oneika the Traveller to explore Canadian links with Germany. Oneika is the perfect fit for the project: she’s married to a German, and has been curious about the ties between their home countries for quite some time.

This year’s Peace Prize of the German Book Trade will be awarded to Margaret Atwood at the Frankfurt Book Fair. But the major German book prize for international authors is not the only thing that connects Canada’s most famous author to Germany.

Udo Schliemann is the competition-winning designer of the “Germany @ Canada 2017” logo. In this interview, Udo speaks about his creative process when designing logos, his sources of inspiration, and the differences between German and Canadian design sensibilities.

The members of the directing collective Rimini Protokoll got to know each other in the 1990s while studying at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of the University of Gießen, something of an elite school for the German theatrical avant garde.

While searching for traces of German emigrants in Western Canada, a group of researchers from the University of British Columbia started the project Arriving Eyes. 

​The German artist Cornelia Sollfrank landed on Canadian soil for the first time this spring. In April 2017, the art centre Studio XX showed commons lab, an exhibit.

Canadian and German (-speaking) culture have been tightly interwoven for a long time. Canada, with its geographical vastness and its liberal, open-minded position towards immigration, has long been a desired destination for Germans and not just in recent years.

“Who’s Exploiting Who in the Deep Sea?” – the title of her latest exhibition is already formulated as a question and leads us directly into the idiosyncratically hermetic universe of the Cologne conceptual artist.