'Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi' from The New Yorker sheds light on the remarkable efforts of individuals like Consul General David Gill, who are dedicated to restoring Stasi files, preserving history, and uncovering the truth: newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Nine on trial in Frankfurt on charges of plotting to overthrow German state: theguardian.com/world/article/…

Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize nytimes.com/2024/05/21/boo…

Tomorrow: Claire Wardle & Cathleen Berger will join us to talk about foreign and home-grown information manipulation & elections. Together with American Council on Germany, we invite you to tune in to the next installment of our series 'Dealing with Disinformation'. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Hey NYC German learners, join me on a journey through 20th-century German short stories at Deutsches Haus this summer! The class is perfect for A2 grads ready to level up. From Kafka to Tawada, let's dive in! 📚✨ #LearnGerman #NYCLearners #GermanLiterature #Education

Please join us on 6/6 at 6 PM for the exhibition opening of Jörg Gläscher's 'Wood, Waves, and Energy' and a talk with the artist about his work. Details and RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Emcee Squared: Joel Grey and Eddie Redmayne on ‘Cabaret’ nytimes.com/2024/05/15/the…

Urgent appeal to all voters: in order to be able to exercise the right to vote in the European elections, the application for entry in the electoral register must be received by the responsible municipality in Germany by May 19, 2024. bundeswahlleiterin.de/europawahlen/2…

#Europawahl2024

Tonight. Please join us for our last event of the spring semester:

Europe Is About to Drown in the River of the Radical Right nytimes.com/2024/05/07/opi…

Big Germany, What Now? nybooks.com/articles/2024/… via The New York Review of Books

Please join us on 5/8 for a conversation between the photographer Marc Ohrem-Leclef and the curator Allen Frame about our ongoing exhibition 'Ulisse,' and the notions of belonging, migration, desire and memory that inform it. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

As the official English-language media partner for the German Non-fiction Prize 2023, we are delighted to provide an overview of all shortlisted books 🎉 buff.ly/3WjxpJJ

In this essay, the legendary writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez (tr. Anne McLean) discusses the paradoxes of translation, and the contradictions between invisibility and visibility demanded by the work of translation. buff.ly/3y0Jbys

I spent all of March in hospital, much of it in Kafka’s mysterious, troubled, frustrated and fascinating company. Here’s my review of his unexpurgated Diaries theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

AfD politician to run in European elections despite aide’s alleged spying for China theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Literary love affair. Why Germany fell for a windswept corner of Ireland: theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Please joins us on 5/1 at 6 PM for a literary salon and reading with fatmaaydemir Eileen Myles @habibitus.bsky.social and Uli Baer focusing on the new literary magazine 'Delfi' (with brand new translations by jon cho-polizzi➡️@jpolizei.bsky.social): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join us on 5/9 at 6 PM, for a conversation w/ German Consulate General NY's Consul General David Gill, the author Alexander Osang, the political scientist Joyce Mushaben, and Brandeis University's Sabine von Mering that will explore what it means to embody an East German identity today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/04/18/wor…