What we’re about
This group is operated by the Dallas Goethe Center (1/1/20) and offers programs and activities for those who are interested in promoting German language and culture. We hope to bring “ein bißchen Heimatgefühl” to North Texas, and provide you with the opportunity to share your love for the German culture and language “bei deutscher Gemütlichkeit”.
If you would like to brush up your German or learn it for the first time, we offer classes throughout the Metroplex, in Arlington/Fort Worth, Dallas and Denton. We recognize the close relationship between culture and language learning. We therefore give our students the opportunity to meet native speakers and other people who share an interest in fostering an appreciation for German language, culture, and traditions. Studying German with us offers students much more than an ordinary language program. They will become members of a community.
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Upcoming events (3)
See all- Film Discussion Transit (2018)Link visible for attendees
Transit is a 2018 German drama film written and directed by Christian Petzold. The film follows a refugee (Franz Rogowski) who impersonates a dead writer in an attempt to flee a fascist state.
In 1942, Georg attempts to flee France, after its invasion by the Nazis. He assumes the identity of a dead author, but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
Transit is a free adaptation of Anna Seghers' novel of the same name (1944) about the fate of refugees from the Nazi regime who hope for passage overseas by ship in Marseille before the Germans invade the city. Director Christian Petzold plays with the time periods in a subtle way by setting the adaptation in the 1940s in terms of dialogue and plot but using contemporary costumes and locations.
Watch the movie before Thursday, September 25, then join the Zoom meeting at 7:00 PM and come prepared with your comments and questions. DGC Board Member Marsha McCoy will once again be our moderator, and other Board Members will participate in the discussion as well.
Just dial in here to join the Zoom meeting:
Meeting ID: 879 2011 8680
Passcode: 143421For further questions please email us: info@dallasgoethecenter.org
- Speaker Series - The Multicultural & Multilingual Immigrant Heritage of the U.S.Link visible for attendees
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 2026, the multicultural and multilingual immigrant heritage of the U.S. will be the theme of the German Texan Heritage Society/Dallas Goethe Center speaker series for 25/26 and 26/27.
Dr. David Huenlich of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Bavaria will lead off the series presenting 10/21/25 at 7:00 p.m. CST over “Matt Gaines and Afro-German Relations in the 19th Century through the Lens of a Black Republican’s Life.” Dr. Huenlich received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Germanic Studies and Linguistics at UT-Austin and received support from the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language and a DAAD scholarship to document the lives of Black German speakers in Texas. He conducted his research through the History Department at Texas A&M University with Walter Kamphoefner and has posted his research at https://www.afrogermantexas.info/about
As a slave at Fredericksburg Matt Gaines not only learned German but following the Civil War was elected to the Texas Senate during Reconstruction. A staunch proponent of education and Black Civil Rights he was influential in the founding of TAMU through the Morrill Land-Grant Act.
The zoom link will also be posted at the German Texan Heritage Society website.
