With its Culture and Development initiative, the Goethe Institute employs specific consulting and training programmes to promote institutions and stakeholders from culture, the media and society, in particular in countries involved in development cooperation. The programmes aim to provide professional qualifications, to advise and support the formation of regional networks and create cultural and social platforms. Under the heading of The Arts it offers different projects in the field of Culture Exchange and Culture Promotion.

 

In the subject Visual Arts there are the following choices for example:

The Art of Independence invites intellectuals and artists from Latin America and Germany to dialogue.

Turbulent World – Telling Time provides contemporary photography and video works from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Germany.

The photo workshop Urban Changes presents images of India through the lenses of young photographers from the South Asia region.

 

In the subject Film there are the following choices for example:

Pan-African short film competition.

The Film Project Afghanistan deals with everyday routines of young people in Afghanistan and Germany.

Tropica a dance about the perpetual circle of growth and decay from Sri Lanka.

 

In the subject Literature there are the following choices for example:

The Support Programme Translations of German Books into Foreign Language provides foreign publishers with the publication of German literature.

The Translators-in-Residence Programme awards grants to professional translators from abroad who wish to work on a translation of German-language literature in Germany.

The project Competence Centre Cultural Manager arranges a contact with the cultural scene in Germany for people from East Europe and Central Asia working in the cultural field. 

 Bee Maja in the Orient promotes the translation of German child books and youth books in Arabic.

The German-Lebanese Literature Workshop is addressed to children in Lebanon.

 German Books in Turkish Translation.

 

In the subject Music there are the following choices for example:

Ensemble Nuevo is a music project with young Latin-American musicians from Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

Li-lak presents artists from Germany and the Arabian world.

With Celebration of Burger Highlife Ghanaian musicians creating a crossover mixture of highlife, disco and funk music in Germany.

 

In the subject Theater there are the following choices for example:

The School Theatre Festival St. Petersburg is the only regional festival in Russia performed in German.