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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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World

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

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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 drives EU growth past America  

'Generation porno' more chaste than debased  

Court rules sacking man for charging e-scooter unlawful  

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

The New Lightness and Freedom of German Literature

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

What Goethe Didn’t Know

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

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

The Fourth Estate: Watchdog of democracy and freedom

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 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

Great Respect for German Films

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

“German is a global subject par excellence”

How attractive is German studies outside Germany? An interview with Professor Dr. Franciszek Grusza, President of the International Association for Germanic Studiesmore

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

Social Networks in Germany

Web 2.0 is growing increasingly popular among German online users. Bloggers are redefining journalism, millions are into digital networkingmore

Internet Use in Germany

More and more Germans are online. The Internet is now a medium the majority of the population use on a daily basismore

Berlinale Celebrates with 400 Films

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“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

Television Stations in Germany

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

Newspapers in Germany

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

Magazines in Germany

Readers can choose between thousands of titles on the German magazine market. And publishers are occupying more and more new nichesmore

Dream Job

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

Transcending Borders

The Federal Foreign Office’s international media dialogues bring journalists from different cultural backgrounds to the table and broaden perspectivesmore

Media

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

Sound Bites from the Capital

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

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