Culture Online

Experience German culture online with our digital services. Discover exciting books and videos, entertaining podcasts or browse our online magazines for inspiration.

Books and Films

Onleihe

Digital Library

The 'Onleihe' is free of charge. Registered users can download e-books and digital media for a limited period of time.

A woman listens to digital media from the Onleihe service and runs past people waiting at the bus stop in the rain. Illustration: Maria Tran Larsen © Goethe-Institut Illustration: Maria Tran Larsen © Goethe-Institut

Goethe on Demand

Streaming

We present various online film programmes, film festivals and film series on our streaming platform. After registering, you can watch films from home free of charge.

Goethe on Demand (Key Visual): Scene from the film "The Ordinaries". © Bandenfilm © Bandenfilm

Podcasts

Tipp Talk

Poetry slam, humour training, sustainability or interactive radio plays - Rumbie's guests will show you their world.

Tipp Talk © Goethe-Institut © Goethe-Institut

Podcasts around the world

Goethe-Instituts around the world produce podcasts on various topics and in different languages. Have fun tuning in!

Podcast © Goethe-Institut / Shutterstock © Goethe-Institut / Shutterstock

Magazine

Social discourse

Zeitgeister

Which topics and discourses are we dealing with worldwide? The online magazine Zeitgeister invites experts, artists and authors to a joint exchange. It offers local and global perspectives - on postcolonialism, sustainability, post-digital cultures, feminism and current affairs.

Zeitgeister Keyvisual Illustration: © El Boum Illustration: © El Boum

Travelling around Germany

#DeutschlandNoFilter

The diversity of Germany in one magazine. #DeutschlandNoFilter presents dialects and book trends, series tips and insights into everyday working life, sports and music, sustainable ideas, and special places that you should get to know. A magazine for everyone who is interested in Germany and loves the German language.

Deutschland #nofilter © Goethe-Institut © Goethe-Institut

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