Film Series | September 2019

"Serious Games": Documentary Art Between Fact and Fiction

Serious Games: Documentary Art between Fact and Fiction explores a cross section of documentary practice by German filmmakers and artists focusing on the subject of war and conflict. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, these works also demonstrate the fluidity of exhibition practice between the black box of the cinema and the white cube of the gallery. Presented in association with the National Gallery of Art.

Goethe Book Club | Tuesday, September 24, 6:30 pm

Goethe Book Club: Takis Würger's The Club (2017/2019)

As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable. A visit from Hans’s ailing English aunt Alex has a profound effect on the young Hans - all the more so when she invites him to come to university at Cambridge. There, he is accepted into an elite club that has existed at Cambridge for centuries, its long legacy of tradition and privilege largely unquestioned. But there are secrets in the club’s history, as well as in its present - and Hans soon finds himself in the inner sanctum of what proves to be an increasingly dangerous institution, forced to grapple with the notion that sometimes one must do wrong to do right.

Regional Project | Summer 2019

Queer as German Folk: Celebrating 50 Years of Transatlantic Rainbow Friendship

The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots gives occasion to celebrate, but also to continue the fight for queer rights. This past summer, the Goethe-Institut Washington - along with the Goethe-Instituts in Toronto, Montreal, New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Mexico City, and Guadalajara - collaborated with the Schwules Museum in Berlin, the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, and dozens of local partners in each city, to examine both the history and current state of queer rights activism in Germany and North America. On August 27, we closed our exhibition, presented in partnership with the DC Center for the LGBT Community, the Rainbow History Project, and Whitman-Walker Health, with a screening of Rosa von Praunheim's AIDS Trilogy documentary The Fire Under Your Ass (Feuer unterm Arsch). To have a look at what we have been working on across the region, have a look at our Queer as German Folk project website.

Five-Week Intensive Courses, 10-Week Standard Courses and More

Registration is now in progress for fall courses at all levels for adults and teenagers! Enter promo-code September2019 at checkout and save 10% on all courses beginning in September only (case-sensitive; code valid thru 9/6/2019 for courses for adults only; offers may not be combined).
 

German for Teens

Online registration is currently ongoing for Blended Learning (75%/25%) German courses for teens at the A1, A2 and B1 level. Classes meet Saturday mornings from 9:30-am-12:00pm with 45-minutes of online work per week. All books included in course fee. Ask us about scholarship opportunities.

Ready, Set, Deutsch!

Would you like to get elementary school students in your community excited about German? Use our Ready, Set, Deutsch! toolbox. It’s a 45-minute lesson plan with games that will have students saying, "Deutsch macht Spaß!“

Teacher Service Facebook Group

Are you a German teacher? Stay up to date with us in our Teacher Service Facebook Group! This group is a platform to share information & resources, to discuss ideas and trends in teaching, to voice concerns & offer suggestions, to strengthen our network and facilitate personal connections for German teachers. We love seeing and hearing about what you are doing in your classroom, school and community and most of all - how we can best support you!

The Year of German-American Friendship

Road Trip for Friendship

Unfamiliar views of the land of opportunity: “Typical America” is far from the coastal cities. Detroit even has a special connection to Berlin. The Year of Germany in the USA presents the longstanding friendship from forgotten perspectives.