
Too intellectual, too complex, too introspective: often German-language literature was not rated very highly by domestic readers. But the times are changing. Felicitas von Lovenberg, literary critic with the daily Frankfurter...more
Eleven curious items from the world of the German language which even Germany’s most famous poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, would not have known.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
Without freedom of the press, no democracy - without democracy, no freedom of the press: the freedom to inform and to be informed acts as a gauge for the respect of human rights - and it is also a learning process in every...more
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

Two German co-productions caused excitement at this year’s Oscar presentation: Inglourious Basterds and The White Ribbon. But how are German films perceived in the United States apart from such events?more
How attractive is German studies outside Germany? An interview with Professor Dr. Franciszek Grusza, President of the International Association for Germanic Studiesmore
The Federal Foreign Office and its partners want to inspire more young people abroad to learn German – with the “German – Language of Ideas” initiativemore
Web 2.0 is growing increasingly popular among German online users. Bloggers are redefining journalism, millions are into digital networkingmore
More and more Germans are online. The Internet is now a medium the majority of the population use on a daily basismore
“The birthday cake of nearly 400 films has been baked,” announces festival director Dieter Kosslick. The 60th Berlin International Film Festival begins on 11 February. The flurry of flashbulbs, the red carpet, the film stars: the...more
German TV viewers have a choice of 145 channels. The main feature of the TV landscape is its dual system of public and private broadcastersmore
Germany is a country of newspaper-readers: over 350 papers with a total daily circulation of 25 million copies inform people in even the smallest villages about what is going on in the worldmore
Readers can choose between thousands of titles on the German magazine market. And publishers are occupying more and more new nichesmore
Deutsche Welle’s new Master’s programme in international media studies offers up-and-coming journalists from developing and emerging countries a unique course of study in Germanymore

The Federal Foreign Office’s international media dialogues bring journalists from different cultural backgrounds to the table and broaden perspectivesmore
Germany is considered to be a country of books, of deep thought, and of highbrow media. However, Germany has also become a country of DJs and daily soaps. In popular German culture music and TV series, blockbusters in the cinema...more
Hundreds of international journalists report from Germany, helping to shape the picture that people have of Germany abroad. A story about three Asian foreign correspondents, their work and their livesmore