Thanksgiving Holiday 2019

Please note that our gallery space, the language school, and all offices will be closed from Thursday, November 28 until Sunday, December 1. Happy Holiday-Weekend!

Application Deadline: December 8

Application Deadline Dec. 8 - SHAPING THE PAST - Monument Lab Transnational Fellows

The Monument Lab in Philadelphia, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the Federal Agency for Civic Education, invites applications for a 2020 cohort of Monument Lab Transnational Fellows. This fellowship recognizes individuals and collectives whose ongoing projects address long-term inequities in monuments and memory culture, and engage new creative approaches to public art, history, and memory. The fellowship program is part of the joint regional project Shaping the Past.

Documentary Theater | Friday, November 22, 6:30 pm

Mediterranean Migration Monologues

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues (“Mittelmeer-Monologe”) tell the stories of Naomie from Cameroon and Yassin from Libya, who find themselves on a boat to Europe. It also tells of brutal coast guards, dubious sea rescue centers, and activists who fight against migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea.

The activists are part of the project AlarmPhone as well as the German non-governmental organization Seawatch. They convince coast guards to search after people in distress at sea and train volunteers to rescue people from drowning. In short, they do what can no longer be taken for granted in 2019: They save human lives.

The Mediterranean Migration Monologues are documentary, verbatim theater based on many hours of interviews, which reconstruct real cases of sea rescues in order to narrate from the perspective of those affected—both refugees and activists.

Exhibition Opening & Talk | Tuesday, December 3, 6:30 pm

Exhibition Opening: bauhaus.photo, Curated by Dr. Astrid Bähr

The bauhaus.photo exhibition opens on December 3, 2019, at 6:30 pm, at the Goethe-Institut Washington. It features a special selection of key works from the collection of more than 70,000 Bauhaus photos held by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin – the largest such collection in the world. The selection has been curated by Dr. Astrid Bähr, who will be present and speaking at the opening event. bauhaus.photo provides an impressive insight into the many facets of Bauhaus photography and life at the Bauhaus, and is part of the ongoing projects #Bauhaus100 and Finding the Bauhaus.

December Three-Week Superintensive Courses Starting Soon

Registration is now in progress for our December three-week superintensive courses! Enter promo-code Dezember2019 at checkout and save 10% on all courses beginning in December only (case-sensitive; code valid thru 11/30/2019; offers may not be combined). December courses take place at our new location at 1377 R Street NW!

(Re-)Opening of Goethe-Instituts in the United States

We've Come to Stay

At the end of the Year of Germany in the USA, the Goethe-Instituts in the United States have strengthened their network with three completely updated institutes in Boston, Washington, and Los Angeles. This is a signal of how important it is to continue the cultural and civil society dialogue between North America and Germany.