Join the Goethe-Institut Chicago this fall for a monthly in-person reading group focused on contemporary German-language novels that are newly available in English translation! This reading group is free and open to all, and discussions […]
No more schnitzels, sauerkraut, bratwurst and spätzle. Instead: vegetables, fruits, wild herbs and edible foraged plants- your concept of German food will be transformed by Kit Schulte’s new cookbook Modern German food from a Berlin […]
Have you seen the new addresses for the 55 Voices video series yet? “Can we build a civilization based on news and hypes?” asks media scholar Bernhard Poerksen after a conversation with former California Governor Jerry […]
Read and discuss works by contemporary German authors in this series hosted by the Goethe-Institut. All books can be read in recent English translation or in the German original; our discussion will be in English. […]
Join the MAK Center for Art and Architecture for a panel discussion on 100years of Bauhaus and the legacy of the institution with Michael Boyd (Furniture and Landscape Designer), Mariestella Casciato (Curator of Architecture, GettyResearch […]
The European Book Club (organized by the Goethe-Institut Chicago and EUNIC Chicago) meets regularly for a book discussion of a bestselling novel in English translation. Guests who would like to attend, should read the book in […]
Book review by International Writers Inspiring Change It is difficult NOT to give Surviving the Fatherland by Annette Oppenlander a five-star rating. Surviving the Fatherland is an historical fiction novel based on true events. It […]
Read What Germany is Reading: “Tschick” By Julia Kupper Hyped as one of the best German books in the last ten years, Wolfgang Herrndorf’s “Tschick (Why We Took the Car)” is a young-adult novel about […]
What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in […]
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