Our library is a place for encounters, inspiration and sharing, where you can read and learn the German language, discover German literature, films and music.
We have compiled a fantastic selection of German films and series for you to enjoy that are currently available in the media libraries of the public broadcasters and on various streaming services in Germany.
The Library of Things is an innovative and practical approach to thinking and living sustainably. We often need expensive devices and items only sporadically, most of the time they lie around unused. Our library offers a treasure trove of free-to-borrow items.
Whether virtual reality or on the games console, our gaming room invites you to become immersed in digital worlds. Video games and board games from Germany as well as our virtual reality glasses are waiting for you to try them out. New experiences and thrills guaranteed.
We offer an extensive collection of periodicals that will keep you up to date about current developments, trends and news from Germany. Have a say on issues that affect Germany.
The literature blog “Rosinenpicker” (meaning “cherry picker” in English) highlights selected fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels and stories, audio books, and literature for children and adolescents. Every week a new recommendation, every week the chance to discover outstanding texts, pictures and opinions.
Just as Kafka never sent off his expansive Letter to His Father, Öziri’s Vatermal is a “book to his father” that will presumably never be read by him either. In both instances, writing is an attempt to process father-son conflicts, to come closer to finding answers to questions from the past that it will never be possible to answer conclusively.
In Öziri’s Vatermal, the son Arda, who is in hospital and possibly dying, reproaches his father. Yet Arda’s father is a phantom; Arda never got to know him, as his father abandoned the family and started a new family in Turkey.
More board and card games are sold in Germany than in any other country. They guarantee fun, variety – and sometimes even divorce: an article about good moods and bad losers.
I really enjoy coming to the Goethe-Institut Jakarta library, particularly to study. It’s a quiet place with excellent facilities and a comfortable temperature. There are so many books to read—I mostly make use of the German as a Foreign Language (DaF) books. Aside from that, there are other awesome things on offer, like playing games and listening to music.
Dealfa Zealita - Member of Goethe-Institut Jakarta Library
BibToGo is the Goethe-Institut library app. It is also your personal library account. It gives you access to our media and services whenever you need them.
