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 2015_DC_EWaste_150325 | 23 | DC Env Film Festival (2015) -- Film: "E-Waste Tragedy" (w/Cosima Dannoritzer) @ Goethe-Institut
E-Waste Tragedy
Presented with the Embassy of Spain and the Goethe Institute
Every year millions of tons of discarded electronic waste – computers, television sets, mobile phones, household appliances – are shipped illegally to India, China or Africa. This film spans the world to reveal how greed and... |
| 2019_DC_Goethe | 3 | Goethe-Institut |
| 2022_DC_Goethe | 6 | Goethe-Institut |
| 2016_DC_Goethe | 19 | Goethe-Institut -- Closing the old, opening the new |
| 2018_DC_Hechelhammer_180410 | 46 | Goethe-Institut -- Event: Bodo Hechelhammer ("Double Agent Heinz Felfe Discovers America")
Presentation “Double Agent Heinz Felfe Discovers America”
Dr. Bodo Hechelhammer, the Chief Historian of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), will give a presentation at the Goethe-Institut on his new book about the double agent, Heinz Felfe. In addition to his talk, he will show photos and... |
| 2007_DC_BEMB_070906 | 36 | Goethe-Institut -- Event: Bringing Eastern Market Back panel discussion
Bringing Eastern Market Back: Sounds, Pictures, and Historic Preservation
We can’t bring back 135 years of wonderful smells that had collected in pre-fire Eastern Market, but we can bring back some of the sounds—and with them, some of the life of Eastern Market. Perhaps we can use the sounds of the... |
| 2023_DC_Mon_Future_231102 | 87 | Goethe-Institut -- Event: Monuments of the Future - Thursday
Monuments of the Future - Thursday
A series of discussions, installations, and workshops about monuments and their statements of power and presence in public.
Collaborative ideation and discussion
Artist and community facilitator, Jessica Valoris, and Associate Professor of African American and US... |
| 2012_DC_Tannenbaum_121208 | 33 | Goethe-Institut -- Event: Oh Tannenbaum! Christmas at the Goethe-Institut
Oh Tannenbaum! Christmas at the Goethe-Institut
With the support of Friends of the Goethe-Institut
In conjunction with Downtown’s Holiday Market, the Goethe-Institut will open its doors to the public on this weekend, and offer up a variety of German holiday activities for all ages. Music, food,... |
| 2016_DC_Goethe_Sommerfest_160826 | 74 | Goethe-Institut -- Event: Open House Sommerfest
Open House Sommerfest
Discover your German island in DC! Join us for a summer party at our new building in our new neighborhood. Check out our digs while learning about the work of the Goethe-Institut, chatting with staff and others interested in German culture and language, enjoying German beer, and... |
| 2023_DC_Husbands_230308 | 125 | Goethe-Institut -- Event: “Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance in Nazi-Era Berlin -- Opening and Panel Discussion
“Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance in Nazi-Era Berlin Exhibit Opening Reception and Panel Discussion
By Goethe-Institut Washington
The German Embassy, the Rosenstrasse Foundation, and the Goethe-Institut have dedicated an exhibit to the Rosenstrasse Protest, the largest public... |
| 2016_DC_Goethe_Berlin_Back | 19 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Berlin and Back Again |
| 2019_DC_Goethe_Mythen | 23 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Berliner Mythen
Berliner Mythen
Explore the fascinating stories shared in the graphic novel series “Berliner Mythen” (Berlin Myths) in our brand new poster exhibit featuring the work of award-winning cartoonist Reinhard Kleist! |
| 2019_DC_Goethe_Bauhaus | 63 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Designing and Redesigning the MLK Library
Exhibit: Designing and Redesigning the MLK Library
This new public program series celebrates the 100th anniversary of the German Bauhaus School (1919-1933) and the modernization of D.C.'s own landmark, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, designed by the last director of the Bauhaus, Mies van... |
| 2018_DC_Goethe_Projecting | 18 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Early UFA Film Posters: Projecting Women
Early UFA Film Posters: Projecting Women
03/01/2018 - 04/30/2018
Posters from famous as well as rarely seen or lost Berlin UFA films from the 1920s and 30s portray women as heroines or seductresses, debutantes or harlots. From Sumurun to Metropolis, women are vying for power in male-dominated... |
| 2016_DC_Goethe_Escape_Routes | 14 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Escape Routes
EXHIBITION: ESCAPE ROUTES
Thu, 06/16/2016 - Wed, 08/31/2016
A cooperation between Martin and Rotraut Keil
In Escape Routes, a project by the group REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT, digital drawings and pictures made from lace depict migration movements and their causes. The stylized narratives focus on the... |
| 2019_DC_Goethe_Homestory | 6 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Homestory Deutchland |
| 2012_DC_Goethe_Parks_Passages | 30 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Parks & Passages
Parks & Passages: Inspirations from Berlin for Washington’s Dupont Underground
Rediscovering Berlin
Thursday, 13 September 2012 - Friday, 2 November 2012
Parks & Passages is an investigation of relics, ruins and reconstruction in the capital cities of Berlin and Washington, DC.
This summer,... |
| 2022_DC_Goethe_Arendt | 45 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Picturing A Life – The Three Escapes Of Hannah Arendt
Picturing A Life – The Three Escapes Of Hannah Arendt
Ken Krimstein © Goethe-Institut Washington
Thu, 04/07/2022 - Sat, 04/30/2022
Goethe-Institut Washington @ The Liz
This exhibition features original drawings from Ken Krimstein’s acclaimed graphic novel The Three Escapes of Hannah... |
| 2017_DC_Goethe_Privacy | 15 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: Privacy on Display
Privacy on Display
Wed, 01/25/2017 - Tue, 03/07/2017
Privacy today is not what it used to be. Digitalization is rapidly transforming our world – ranging from individual to governmental relationships - and this provides fertile ground for artists to probe questions such as “What does privacy mean in... |
| 2023_DC_Goethe_Bauhaus | 37 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: The bauhaus.photo Traveling Exhibition
The bauhaus.photo Traveling Exhibition
Learning New Ways of Seeing
To celebrate the Bauhaus centenary year, 100 photographs from Berlin’s Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung were shown across the USA during 2019 in a traveling exhibition. It offered a sensory introduction to life at the Bauhaus, as... |
| 2023_DC_Goethe_Husbands | 39 | Goethe-Institut -- Exhibit: “Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance in Nazi-Germany
“Give us our husbands back” - Civil Resistance in Nazi-Germany
By Goethe-Institut Washington
The German Embassy, the Rosenstrasse Foundation, and the Goethe-Institut have dedicated an exhibit to the Rosenstrasse Protest, the largest public demonstration against the deportation of Jews in the Third... |
| 2016_DC_Kaminski_161103 | 35 | Goethe-Institut -- Film|Neu: "Me and Kaminski" w/Thomas Wendrich and reception @ E Street Cinema
OPENING NIGHT
Thursday, 11/3, 7 pm
Me and Kaminski (Ich und Kaminski)
Ger., 2015, 124 min., D: Wolfgang Becker
In this tragicomic road movie, unsuccessful young journalist Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl) is writing an article on the legendary but almost forgotten painter Manuel Kaminski. Based on... |
| 2023_DC_Goethe | 10 | Goethe-Institut -- Miscellaneous |
| 2019_DC_Goethe_Opening_191106 | 74 | Goethe-Institut -- Opening Celebration @ 1377 R St. NW
GOETHE MOVES TO THE LIZ - GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION!
Join us on November 6th for an all-day celebration of our new home in Washington, DC. Starting at 3 pm, we will open our doors at 1377 R St NW with a party and open house featuring educational and cultural programming available to everyone in the... |
| 2015_DC_Otto_150820 | 31 | Goethe-Institut -- Opening Reception: hyder flares w/Justine Otto
Opening of hyder flares with artist Justine Otto and Vesela Sretenovic, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Phillips Collection
Leading German contemporary figurative painter Justine Otto (b. Poland 1974) won The Phillips Collection’s second annual Emerging Artist Prize following... |
| 2015_DC_Klemm_150114 | 69 | Goethe-Institut -- Opening Reception: Photographer Barbara Klemm
Invitation: Opening Reception with Photographer Barbara Klemm:
This solo exhibition presents photographs by one of Germany’s most distinguished women photographers. Spanning forty years, Barbara Klemm’s works bear witness to Germany’s recent history, and to a country that was divided for decades. Many... |
| 2010_DC_Revenants_100916 | 53 | Goethe-Institut -- Opening Reception: Reveants w/Oskar Schmidt
Exhibition opening with photographer Oskar Schmidt and Sarah Kennel, National Gallery of Art.
Bare, sparsely furnished rooms and introverted women and girls, barely present to their surroundings: the starkly reduced photographs of Oskar Schmidt are both portraits and interiors.
Like paper... |
| 2008_DC_Playroom_081119 | 44 | Goethe-Institut & FotoWeek DC -- Opening Reception: "A Disenchanted Playroom" w/Wolfram Hahn
Opening: “A Disenchanted Playroom”. Photographs by Wolfram Hahn.
Capturing children’s facial expressions as they watch television, photographer Wolfram Hahn’s images portray how children react to this mass medium, losing the subtle charm of real life as they fall under its influence. Their regards... |
| 2013_DC_Goethe_Film_Night_130627 | 71 | Goethe-Institut & German-American Heritage Museum -- Event: Film Night “Ich bin ein Berliner”
Film Night “Ich bin ein Berliner”:
On June 26, 1963, those four words made history. With his commitment to West Berlin, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was honoring the steadfastness of the West Berliners during the Cold War.
The German-American Heritage Museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of... |
| 2011_DC_ATT_111203 | 14 | Goethe-Institut & Natl Gallery -- Event: "African Twin Towers" screening (w/Alex Jovanovic)
Homage to Christoph Schlingensief: The African Twin Towers
Germany, 2006, 71 min, HD, Cast: Irm Hermann, Klaus Beyer, Stefan Kolosko, Robert Stadlober, Dirk Rohde, Christoph Schlingensief, Patti Smith
Introduction by Alex Jovanovic, personal assistant to Christoph Schlingensief, 2009-2010
Originally... |
| 2016_DC_NYU_Cartoons_160211 | 237 | NYU & Goethe-Institut -- Cartoons and Taboos: Dancing in a Visual Minefield (w/Lectrr, KAL, Ann Telnaes and Matt Wuerker)
New York University: Cartoons and Taboos: Dancing in a Visual Minefield
Satire Between the Freedom of Expression and the Freedom of Religion - When Art Challenges What Fundamentalists Insist On...
Some people have demanded that lines should be drawn with respect to “acceptable” and “unacceptable”... |
| 2016_DC_Kehlmann_161012 | 49 | NYU & Goethe-Institut -- Salon Series: A Conversation with Daniel Kehlmann
Salon Series: A Conversation with Daniel Kehlmann
NYU Washington, DC and the Goethe-Institut Washington present Daniel Kehlmann, renowned German-language author and Eberhard Berent Goethe Chair at New York University.
The NYU Washington, DC Salon Series: Conversations with Writers & Artists offers an... |
| 2016_DC_Rushdie_160330 | 97 | NYU, Goethe-Institut & British Council -- Can / Must Good Art be Politically Correct? (w/Salman Rushdie)
Can / Must Good Art be Politically Correct? with Salman Rushdie:
Join NYU Washington, DC and the European Union National Institutes of Culture in welcoming acclaimed writer, and Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, Salman Rushdie for a reading of an except of his... |