ZEITGEISTER ON AIR is the Goethe-Institut’s cultural podcast that accompanies the quarterly thematic editions of ZEITGEISTER, the cultural magazine published by the Goethe-Institut. It is aimed at people with an interest in art, international perspectives, original (and even nerdy) subjects, zines and Germany. For the podcast, we invite international artists and authors to tell us about themselves. Visit goethe.de/onair for more!
ZEITGEISTER ON AIR is the Goethe-Institut’s cultural podcast that accompanies the quarterly thematic editions of ZEITGEISTER, the cultural magazine published by the Goethe-Institut. It is aimed at people with an interest in art, international perspectives, original (and even nerdy) subjects, zines and Germany. For the podcast, we invite international artists and authors to tell us about themselves. Visit goethe.de/onair for more!

Why is there so much love for Franz Kafka in Latin America? Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson interviews Hernán D. Caro to find out. Hernán is a Colombian author and editor. He lives in Berlin. One reason for Kafka’s popularity in Latin America, in his view, is that Kafka’s clear language can be translated into other languages like Spanish without much detriment. Furthermore, Hernán believes that Kafka has given other authors an incredibly great gift: by showing them how to write about the weirdest things as if they were more normal than anything else in the world.