Blended Learning Special Courses June 2020

A writing course for learners at the B1, B2 and C1 levels, as well as a conversation course about BAUHAUS, offer learners from across the USA a variety of opportunities to imrpve their German and learn something new. These Blended Learning courses include one online live group session per week together with learners from across the country. Enter promo-code summer2020 at checkout and save 20% on all Blended Learning courses beginning in June (case-sensitive; offers may not be combined).

Green Kinderacademy on Summer Break

It's time for summer vacation…The lecture series of the Grüne Kinderakademie has come to an end for the spring semester. We want to thank all our participants and professors for their wonderful contributions! The Grüne Kinderakademie will be back in for fall semester 2020 with a new program, interesting lecturers and professors, as well as exciting topics all about sustainability. In the meantime, take a look at our past lectures from this semester on our website!

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​Join the SPARK Community

Interested in offering an after-school German program in your district? Connect with a university SPARK Lab in your area, or start a K-12 SPARK Lab of your own. Our application deadline has been extened to the end of May! Learn more about SPARK on our website.

Watch-Klatsch | June-July 2020

Watch-Klatsch: Babylon Berlin, Season Two

Don't put away your 1920s hats just yet – our Watch-Klatsch: Babylon Berlin discussion series will continue in June for Season Two. Join our online conversations on the hit German neo-noir show, led by Dr. Hester Baer, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Film Studies at University of Maryland, College Park. No worries if you're just tuning in now, as our discussions from Season One are all recorded and available for viewing on our YouTube channel!

Goethe Book Club | June-July 2020

Goethe Book Club Goes Digital!

The Goethe Book Club will remain digital throughout the summer, with discussions being held through Zoom. Join us in June for a throwback discussion of Thomas Mann's classic novella Death in Venice, and in July for Sasha Marianna Salzmann's groundbreaking newly-translated novel, Beside Myself.

Digital Festival | Thursday, June 4 - Saturday, June 6

Digital Festival: "Latitude"

​The global Goethe-Institut invites you to the digital festival “Latitude,” a three-day program comprised of artistic contributions and debates. The focus is on the effect of existing colonial structures today and how they can be overcome. Join us via livestream and chat.

The festival is organized into five broad thematic areas, each addressing the continuities of colonial structures: financial inequality, racism, identity and memory, dealing with material culture, and finally, digital equality on a global level. 

Digital Film Series | May-June 2020

Ludwig Van: A Cinematic Celebration of Beethoven's 250th Birthday

The Goethe-Institut Pop-Up in Kansas City's Digital Film Haus is celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a series featuring various documentaries and discussions about LUDWIG VAN. Each film focuses on a different aspect of the composer’s work and life to explore influences and interpretations of his unforgettable music.

German Series in the USA

​“Das Boot”: Plumbing the depths of wartime romanticism

Not really the thing for landlubbers: the series “Das Boot” is a brutally honest portrayal of the unrelenting horrors of the Second World War. In this series, it is not only hostile Navy personnel but also the Gestapo and the French resistance who are fighting a war within the war.