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The curtain rises for the Golden Lion

The red carpet is rolled out and ready for the film stars. At the Biennale di Venezia, the world’s oldest film...more

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Merkel to mark 20th anniversary of German reunification treaty

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will Tuesday 31 August mark the moment 20 years ago when the treaty was signed bringing...more

German unemployment continues downward path amid recovery

The number of people without work in Germany fell for the 14th straight month in August, as Europe's largest economy...more

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Hopes for progress as new round of Mideast peace talks gets underway  

Business

Deutsche Bahn on track to chug through Chunnel  

Culture & Lifestyle

Cairo residents are 'kings of adaptation,' says author Belal Fadl  

Events

“Longing” in the German pavilion

12th Venice Architecture Biennale more

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Portrait

One School, Two Qualification Options

The German International School in Cape Town (DSK) is one of four German overseas schools in South Africa. Around 730...more

Goethe-Institut News

Minigolf and Monks instead of Machines and Motors – On the Future of Tempelhof...  

The Future of the Newspaper, The Newspaper of the Future: An interview with...  

Last Post From Nazi Germany  

The Local

Germany faces big expectations in Euro 2012 qualifier  

Sarrazin sparks calls for new integration debate  

Germany drives EU growth past America  

Linktips

New website for international students

A new site has been launched by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). www.study-in.de is intended to help guide...more

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German Information Centre New Delhi

News, information and updates on Germany and its role and relations with South Asia, covering...more

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German Information Centre Pretoria

The German Information Centre Pretoria aims to be the first contact point for up-to-date...more

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German Information Center USA

The German Information Center USA (GIC) makes it easy for you to find information about...more

Ten Reasons for German

Too many cases, too many genders, too many rules? Is German really so difficult? No, says bestseller writer Bastian Sick: “It’s easy – after all, everyone manages with that.” And he gives ten more reasons for learning German –...more

Kenichi Mishima: German as a Dialect of Philosophy

The Japanese philosophy professor Kenichi Mishima has lived, taught and done research in Germany and Japan since the 1970s. We asked him: Is German the language of philosophy?more

“Greater Passion for German”

The President of the Goethe-Institut Professor Klaus-Dieter Lehmann talks about language and identity and why it is worth learning German as a foreign languagemore

What Role Does German Play Internationally?

What role does German play in today’s world? Prof. Ulrich Ammon, a distinguished sociolinguist, examines the position of the German language in business, science, politics – and on the Internetmore

Jonathan Franzen: Why Languages Must Change

American bestselling author Jonathan Franzen studied German – in Pennsylvania, Munich and Berlin. An interview about the German language and the “annoying question of gender”more

DeutschMobil Awakens Interest in German Language and Culture

DeutschMobil has been touring France for ten years. At the wheel are young language tutors who make the neigbouring country’s language more accessible to French school studentsmore

The Future of the City: The German contribution to the Expo 2010

“Better City, Better Life” is the theme of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The future belongs to cities – but they face great challenges. The German Pavilion “balancity” presents answers for urban life in the future and is based entirely...more

Witty, Lively, Useful: The multifaceted German language

The Federal Foreign Office and its partners want to inspire more young people abroad to learn German – with the “German – Language of Ideas” initiativemore

A Literary Game

With the support of several foundations and the Federal Foreign Office, Halma links literary Europe. Named after a game, the Network already includes 21 countriesmore

Ambassador of German Film

Keen commitment to German film: Goethe Institutes around the world compile a panorama from 900 current and classic German filmsmore

Hip Hopping in Rennes

There is music in this project: musicians from the Mannheim Pop Academy are teaching German to European school children in a project sponsored by the Federal Foreign Officemore

Welcome to Germany

50,000 international opinion leaders have travelled to Germany with the Federal Government’s Visitors Programme. It aims to show foreign guests what really concerns people in Germanymore

Kiran Nagarkar: Invited to Berlin for a Year

Kiran Nagarkar is an outstanding representative of contemporary Indian literature. This year the writer is a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme Berlinmore

Cultural Dialogue and Scientific Exchange

Whatever the vehicle – art exhibition, language course or research scholarship – culture, education and science can forge bonds between people more easily than wordsmore

“A Space for Experiment”

Farid C. Majari

Mr. Majari, how much interest in German is there in the Palestinian Territories? German is taught at seven church-run schools and as a pilot project at two public schools in Bethlehem. Altogether, around 2,000 students learn...more

A Really Warm Welcome

In September the Goethe Institute reopened in Tanzania after a break of ten years. The head of the institute, Ulrike Schwerdtfeger, talks about its return and the plans for the futuremore

The Bridge-Builders

Frank Baasner

The Franco-German Institute (dfi) is Germany’s top address for research on France. For 60 years its staff have focused on Germany’s neighbour and relations between the two countriesmore

Learning through Music

In an orchestra the players have to listen to each other: is there any better place for learning the art of dialogue? Conductor Daniel Barenboim has created one of the world’s most unusual musical ensembles in the shape of the...more

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