
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
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

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 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

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 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

“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
The Federal Foreign Office and its partners want to inspire more young people abroad to learn German – with the “German – Language of Ideas” initiativemore
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
Keen commitment to German film: Goethe Institutes around the world compile a panorama from 900 current and classic German filmsmore
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
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 is an outstanding representative of contemporary Indian literature. This year the writer is a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme Berlinmore
Whatever the vehicle – art exhibition, language course or research scholarship – culture, education and science can forge bonds between people more easily than wordsmore
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
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 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
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