Cultural life in Germany
There are many sides to cultural life in Germany! From North to South there are around 300 theaters, 130 professional orchestras, and 80 publicly financed concert halls. The museum world is of quite unparalleled quality – featuring 500 art museums with diverse, internationally renowned collections, while works by contemporary German artists and designers are among the most celebrated. Germany is one of the major book nations, its architectural scene is thriving, and German films are once again a great success at home and abroad.
Film
Germany is a country of film legends. In the 1920s, Berlin's famed Babelsberg studios was one of Hollywood's top competitors. Today, a new generation of filmmakers is winning international acclaim with smart takes on tough topics.
Music and Performing Arts
Germany’s reputation as a musical nation is still based on names like Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, but artists from Stockhausen to Kraftwerk have helped define our modern musical language. Germany's experimental theatrical and dance productions also receive worldwide recognition.
Visual Arts & Design
From Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer and 19th-century romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich to the expressionists of the early 20th century and the multi-faceted approach to the arts initiated by the legendary Bauhaus, Germany has an extraordinarily rich artistic tradition. It doesn't, however, end there!
Architecture
Architecture in Germany is thriving, and Berlin showcases works by many of the biggest names on the international stage. Among the various trends, it is in green building and ecological improvements that Germany really leads the way.
Literature
Germany is a book country: With around 95,000 titles published or re-published annually, it is one of the world’s leading book nations. The licenses for almost 9,000 German books are sold to foreign companies annually.
Source of main intro:
Facts about Germany www.facts-about-germany.de
Show House – House Show: The VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron
On the architecture campus at Vitra in Weil am Rhein there’s some more avant-garde architecture to marvel at. The furniture manufacturers are showcasing their products in the new show home. People have never seen anything like it before.
VitraHouse
Young Germany Blog
Blogging from the Antarctica
Claudia is blogging for us from the Neumayer Station in the South Pole where she is working as a meteorologist. Find out what her life among the ice and penguins is like!
Jazz aus Deutschland
Artists and stages, labels and festivals, universities and competitions - background information and current trends
Jazz represents variety, freedom, openness. In Germany it is founded upon a wide spectrum of artists and stages, labels and festivals, universities, competitions.
Current trends, developments, links, selected Goethe-Institut activities.
Jazz from Germany
Art memory game
Have fun getting to know some of Germany’s most famous painters and their works. Our tour of Germany’s art history begins with Albrecht Dürer and the ten pictures bring us right up to the present day.
Memory game
