AUSGEZEICHNET!

A discussion with awardees of the Goethe Medal 2024 about engagement and international cultural exchange

This year’s winners of the Goethe Medal present their work at Kunstfest Weimar. They will speak about their activities in culture and civil society to support international cultural exchange, freedom in education and the arts, and the visibility of art and culture. The prize for 2024 has been awarded to three women whose activities in their home countries have created platforms and spaces for discussion of international and often German theatre and literature: the translator Claudia Cabrera from Mexico, the cultural manager Iskra Geshoska from North Macedonia and the theatre festival director Carmen Romero Quero from Chile. The awardees are founders and directors of festivals, associations, or media that break down language and thought barriers and inspire new directions in cultural politics. In doing so, they have reflected the social and political situation on the ground in Latin American and in the Balkans over many years in courageous and innovative ways. Since 1955, the Goethe-Institut has awarded the Goethe Medal once a year as an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the most important award of Germany’s foreign cultural policy to public figures who have rendered outstanding services to international cultural exchange and the teaching of the German language. The discussion will be hosted by Marie-Christine Knop, conducted in German, English and Spanish and translated into German and English by interpreters.