Due to the high percentage of Americans of German origin, a widespread belief has emerged claiming that the US Congress, at ...

Butchered words and incorrect grammar on WhatsApp and Twitter, and Anglicisms everywhere: For years, critics have been complaining that the German language is deteriorating. But are they right?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince has recently been published in Prussian under the name Likuts Princis. The new translation of this masterpiece of world literature is the result of the ...

On 8 October in Berlin, the president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann opened a conference series of the Goethe-Institut’s Europanetzwerk Deutsch on the topic of multilingualism. By ...

German texts are increasingly using symbols like asterisks and colons for more inclusive language. However, Bavaria's conservative government in southern Germany ...

Neil MacGregor focuses on the things that bind Germans together, beginning with the story of how Luther created the modern German language by translating the Bible. Show more Neil MacGregor continues ...