Goethe-Institut Australien

02/09/2026

Germans milk mice?! 🐭Well, not really. Here are 5 more weird animal expressions Germans use.

01/09/2026

kinda chic to read Goethe.
Last week, our namesake Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would have turned 277 🎊

27/08/2026

Looking for your next German read? 📖🇩🇪
These bestselling novels became international success stories and might just inspire your next addition to the reading list.

24/08/2026

A new home for culture — and a new work of art. ✨

As part of our move to Fitzroy, we’re proud to continue supporting contemporary artists and creative exchange in Australia. In this video, artist Nina Walton introduces the artwork she created especially for the Goethe-Institut Melbourne.

The piece pays tribute to Gunta Stölzl, the Bauhaus pioneer who became the movement’s first female master and helped redefine textile art. Inspired by Stölzl’s Wandbehang Nr. 247 (1926), the work also marks the 100th anniversary of the original textile design.

21/08/2026

Schwein gehabt! 🐖
Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of German animal idioms. In this post, you'll learn five expressions that make perfect sense to Germans… and almost none to English speakers at first glance.

Which one is your favourite?

20/08/2026

German philosopher Hanno Sauer is now in the country. Here's an excellent interview he did with David Marr at ABC Radio National this morning. Don't miss Hanno Sauer during his short stay in Australia:

20 August (tonight) in Melbourne at The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
22+23 August (this weekend) in Sydney at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas brought to you by The Ethics Centre with support from the Goethe-Institut.

Highly recommended!

Is true social equality an impossible dream? The German philosopher Dr Hanno Sauer argues that class hierarchy is a permanent feature of human societies. Old elites may fall, but new ones fill the void. Rank, hierarchy and privilege, stubbornly persists. Hanno Sauer appears at Melbourne's The Wheele...

14/08/2026

Meat Pie oder Mettbrötchen? Hard to decide, isn´t it?

13/08/2026

Some things weigh us down for years. A fear. A belief. A relationship. An expectation.

"The Letting Go" [2012–2026] asks a question that's as challenging as it is liberating: What would you like to let go of?

Step into an exhibition shaped by fourteen years of encounters, stories and acts of transformation.

📍 Linden New Art Gallery, Melbourne
🎟 Free

11/08/2026

✨ A career-defining opportunity for Australia's next generation of visual arts professionals.

Friends of Goethe Australia are seeking an emerging arts professional to join the documenta16 team in Kassel, Germany, one of the world's most significant contemporary art exhibitions, curated by Naomi Beckwith (Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York).

The scholarship includes:
- A 4–6 week placement in 2027
- A$10,000 stipend
- Direct experience supporting the Live Arts program
- Free German language course through Goethe-Institut Australia

➡️ Apply by 31 October 2026: https://lnkd.in/gdAUxQpr
Artspace Sydney German Embassy Australia German Consulate General Sydney

10/08/2026

From Australia to Austria—and back with a little more confidence. 💚

Through her Youth Camp scholarship, Abigail met students from around the world, learned about new cultures and discovered that the best experiences often begin when you stop worrying about what others might think.

Her favourite new German word? Genau.
Her favourite memory? The friends she made along the way. ✨