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!
Kamal Nasir Hamyar takes us through the turbulent history of radio in Afghanistan: during Kamal’s childhood in the 1980s there was only one radio station in the entire country. On reaching adulthood, Kamal made it his mission as a radio journalist to provide even the most remote provinces in the country with an up-to-date broadcast schedule, in which he consistently campaigned for education, cultural dialogue and civil society values. As a former employee of NATO and the Presidential Palace, Kamal had to flee from Kabul to Munich with his family after the Taliban seized power in 2021, and he is now in the process of creating a new life for himself there.