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Arts and Architecture

Current information and background on art and architecture – painting, film, music, literature, theater, museums, Goethe Institute and World Heritage Sites.

Behaim-Globus im Germanischen Nationalmuseum
UNESCO world documentary heritage
Four new cultural assets from Germany
The oldest surviving globe and centuries-old documents and manuscripts are now listed as UNESCO world documentary heritage.
Museum und internationale Plattform: das Humboldt Forum in Berlin Colonial context
Art and provenance
Humboldt Forum – a centre of enlightenment
Opened in 2021, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin aims to deepen cultural cooperation among countries and develop a new relationship with the global South.
Dr. Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa ist Kolonialhistoriker und Germanist. Colonial context
Colonial contexts
“We must face up to the past”
Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa wants to discover where artefacts in German museums come from and how they ended up in Germany.
Annalena Baerbock und Claudia Roth übergeben in Abuja die ersten Benin-Bronzen an Minister Lai Mohammed. Colonial context
Germany’s duty to examine its colonial history
An unknown past: Germany is working together with Tanzania to explore the latter’s occupation by the German Empire.
Kunsthistorikerin Bénédicte Savoy Colonial context
Returning cultural assets
Tirelessly searching for clues
Bénédicte Savoy, an art historian who teaches in Berlin, has long been studying colonial art looting and campaigning for cultural assets to be returned.
Das Weltkulturerbe Bhaktapur in Nepal. Asia
Cultural Preservation Programme
Preserving cultural treasures in Asia
Manuscripts, apsaras and a colourful gateway in Hué – how Germany is working to preserve unique cultural treasures in Asia.
Carolin Karnuth als Claire Waldoff in der Instagram-Serie des @goetheinstitut Strong women
International Women’s Day
Berlin icon of the queer scene
By refusing to conform, she really shook up the Berlin of the 1920s: Meet the singer Claire Waldoff on the Goethe-Institut’s Instagram channel.
„Sissi“, ganz cool: Devrim Lingnau als „Die Kaiserin“
Series well worth watching
Historical, scandalous, serious – and David Hasselhoff: Five series from Germany that you should watch.
Maria Schrader: in den USA erfolgreich
With a keen eye
Emmy winner, Oscar nominee, Golden Globe winner: three German directing stars you have to know.
Kulturstaatsministerin Roth in der Oper von Odessa
“Also a war against culture”
Established in Germany, the Network for the Protection of Cultural Property in Ukraine is engaged in efforts to preserve the country’s cultural heritage, which is threatened by the war.
Sammy Amara von den Broilers vor 90.000 Fans am Nürburgring
Cinema, music and high culture
A review of 2022: these cultural events made an impact on audiences in Germany.
Die Tempelanlage Angkor in Kambodscha.
Fragile beauty
How a German-Cambodian team is preserving the Angkor World Heritage site with the support of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office.

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