Holiday Closure 2019

Our offices, the language school, our gallery, and our event space will be closed from Monday, December 23, 2019 through Sunday, January 5, 2020. Wishing you all a Happy Holiday and and a joyful New Year!

Worldwide Screening & Post-Film Discussion | Monday, January 27, & Tuesday, January 28

Worldwide Screening & Post-Film Discussion: Shoah (1985), dir. Claude Lanzmann

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day – January 27, also the 75-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – the Goethe-Institut Washington and the Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC present a screening of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985, documentary film). This is a rare opportunity to see the 9.5-hour film in its entirety on a big screen. On January 28, at 6:30pm, the Goethe-Institut Washington will host a post-film discussion. Discussants will be announced shortly.

The Goethe-Instituts of North America in turn call friends and partners to participate in this worldwide screening event. These screenings can be in small private circles or in large venues, through television channels, or anywhere else possible. Shoah is subtitled in English, Spanish, French, and German, and can be purchased in many places where DVDs and Blu-Rays are sold. Please visit the event page linked below for more information.

Film | Thursday, January 20, 6:30 pm

The Murderers Are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns) (1946), dir. Wolfgang Staudte

1945: Berlin - a city in ruins. Susanne Wallner returns home after surviving imprisonment in a concentration camp. She walks back into her old apartment, only to find that it's now occupied by Dr. Mertens, a military surgeon. Susanne and Dr. Mertens must share the apartment. Meanwhile, Mertens encounters Brückner, his former captain, whom he believed to be dead. Brückner, who had ordered the shooting of more than 100 civilians during the war, is now a successful businessman. Mertens is determined to take justice into his own hands - Susanne, however, believes a war criminal of such great magnitude must be brought to justice in a court of law, not as a private matter of vigilantism.

Internship Opening: Cultural Programming Department, Winter/Spring 2020

The Goethe-Institut Washington seeks a full-time or part-time intern to assist the Cultural Programs Department in the organization of accessible and engaging cultural events to the public, which present contemporary German culture abroad and advance transatlantic discourse regarding today’s challenging questions on a regional and local level.

The internship is traditionally 40 hours per week, but interested applicants available for a part-time internship (no less than 20 hours per week) will be equally considered and are encouraged to apply. All applications are due on January 8, 2020. Please read all information linked below before applying.

January 2020 German Courses

Registration is now in progress for 5-week intensive courses, 10-week standard courses, as well as 8 and 16-week online courses starting in January 2020. Enter promo-code Januar2020 at checkout to save 10% on all face-to-face courses beginning in January (case-sensitive; code valid through 01/03/2020; offers may not be combined). All face-to-face courses take place at our new location at 1377 R Street NW, Suite 300!

New: Cultural Bulletin

What drives the German art and culture scene: what is in demand and what is worth thinking about? Andreas Platthaus, editor of the feuilleton section in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, offers insights and personal analyses of current events in German art and culture.