Air Is Not Nothing

Our last Green Academy lecture of the year is coming your way. Get a bucket of water and a glass! Now you’re ready to let German TV host Christoph Biemann show you that German and science go together. On December 10, 2020 at 12:30pm EST the Green Academy invites you to the live lecture “Air Is Not Nothing” in the Digital Wanderbus. Participation is free, but registration is required. 

SPECIAL HOLIDAY GIFT FOR YOUR STUDENTS

Do you want to surprise your students with a special holiday visit by a young German talking about holiday traditions in Germany or any other topic of your choice? Invite one of our German for Hire ambassadors for a virtual visit in your classroom! Available nationwide and completely free of charge.

Career Resources

Career Day Recordings and Resources

Thank you to all who tuned in live for our Virtual Career Days "Career Booster GermanY" and to our partners, who helped make this event a success! For those who missed out, recordings of presentations and additional resources provided by our speakers are now available on our website. We hope to see you at next year’s Career Booster GermanY events!

New materials: Grün, bunt, gesund

Maybe you have already worked with our student materials about chocolate and sustainability or participated with your students in our cooking contest? Now, you can find the next module online and we are getting healthy with lots of informative and fun tasks about fruit and vegetables: ''Grün, bunt, gesund!'' consists of free interactive worksheets designed for project-based learning in person or in online classes  for students in German 3 or higher.

SPARK FOR GERMAN

Are you interested in offering after-school programming for students to create interest in German? Join SPARK for German and submit your application via the website.   Deadline: January 15, 2021. Questions? Please contact us at [email protected].

Starting 7 December 2020

December Superintensive German Courses

For those of you looking for the most face-to-face time with other course participants and our instructors, Virtual Blended Learning is the best option for you: 50% live group sessions, 50% flexible online learning, closely supported by your instructors. With our virtual classroom platform, the online live sessions are just as interactive as meeting in person at the institute. The two-week superintensive courses in December meet Mo-Fr for 90 minutes each day, plus an additional 7-8 hours of independent work online per week. New: convenient morning classes!

Virtual Dialogue

Counter Memories: Glenn North & Staci Pratt

The conversation series Counter Memories will investigate a number of international monuments and places of remembrance whose symbolic significance often reveals a great deal about our relationship to history. The Goethe-Institutes in North America, the Goethe Pop Up Kansas City, the Thomas Mann House, and Onassis LA will convene artists, activists, and intellectuals for illustrated virtual conversations around historical memory.
 
The Kansas City episode is now online. This Counter-Memories episode centers around the story of the Levi Harrington Memorial Marker as an example of how a local initiative in Kansas City is attempting to remember the countless victims of lynchings and create historical memory. It's comprised of a conversation between Glenn North and Staci Pratt, the two founders of the Community Remembrance Project of Missouri, and journalist Amira El Ahl. Their conversation will be enriched through spoken word performances and illustrated with videos, images, and archival material. 

Virtual Film Festival

Film|Neu 2020: That's A Wrap!

That's a wrap on Film|Neu 2020!

In our 28th annual Film|Neu festival – and first entirely virtual edition of Film|Neu – we presented twelve films from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria: three German documentaries (Island of the Hungry Ghosts, Automotive, and Lovemobil), four German feature films (Fritzi – A Revolutionary Tale, Sealed Lips, Prélude, Narcissus and Goldmund, and Gipsy Queen), two Austrian feature films (Why Not You and Stroke of Luck), one Swiss feature film (Vagenda Stories), and one Swiss short film (Caught Out). 

We are so delighted that, in spite of the challenges this year has brought, we have been able to bring these excellent films cost-free to our community. Thank you to everybody who streamed our offerings and supported our programming. Not only has your support of our streaming festival fostered great success for Film|Neu 2020 – but for Film|Neu overall, with nearly 4,000 views across the DC/MD/VA region and beyond. 

The Goethe-Institut Washington is greatly thankful for its partners, the Austrian Cultural Forum Washington and the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States. Many thanks also to DC Shorts International Film Festival, German Films, German Documentaries, and the German Film Office in New York. 

We look forward to presenting a hybrid festival in 2021, with streaming and in-person options alike. 

Thank you all again for a wonderful Film|Neu, and we look forward to welcoming you to our 29th Film|Neu next year!

Radical Diversity | Wednesday, December 9, 12:00pm EST

Radical Diversity: Boston

Join us for the next edition of Radical Diversity, a discussion series presented by several Goethe-Institut locations in North America. In the Boston edition of Radical Diversity, Max Czollek and Mohamed Amjahid speak with an anthropologist and an award-winning podcaster about the role of Jewish and Muslim communities in contemporary society. Researcher Sultan Doughan and journalist/podcaster Rachael Cerrotti approach the subject from very different perspectives: one is scientific, one is personal.

Discovery of Penicillin

Seeking and Blundering

This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!