Campus and Local Resources

Welcome to the website of the German Consulate General in Los Angeles. Here you will find information on Germany, the consular services we provide in our Visa, Passport, Legal section and German-related news and events in our area.

6222 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500

Los Angeles, CA 90048-5193

Phone: (323) 930 2703    Fax:(323) 930 2805

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Welcome to the website of the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles!

Our website aims at providing you an overview of news from and about Austria, as well as comprehensive information on visas, passports, Austrian citizenship, travel to Austria and much more.

11859 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 501
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Fax: 310 477 9897

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The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts. Its Research Library with special collections of rare materials and digital resources serves an international community of scholars and the interested public.

The Getty Research Institute offers a special guide to Holocaust-Era research.

The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institution operational worldwide.
We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange. We also foster knowledge about Germany by providing information on its culture, society and politics.

On June 27, 1967, Berlin became Los Angeles` 6th sister city with the Committee`s mission to advance the relationship in every possible way between the two prominent cities: culturally, intellectually, commercially and socially. Among the primary activities are fundraisers that promote social and cultural exchanges between the two cities, as well as specific exchanges in the field of the arts, music, literature and science.

The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies is a research facility devoted to the study of the expressionist movement, which flourished in Germany during the early twentieth century.

The center houses a collection of approximately 5,000 prints and drawings and a catalogued library of more than 6,000 volumes. This collection is available by appointment only to art historians, scholars, and students.

The Pearl M. Mackey Apartments (1939) were secured by the Republic of Austria in 1995 and soon thereafter were established as the location of the first permanent arts residency scholarship program for Austrian artists and architecture students outside of the country. Since then, the Mackey Apartments have become the vibrant base of the MAK Center Artists and Architects in Residence Program, today one of the most sought-after international scholarships.

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The collections of the Wende Museum concentrate on preservation of cultural, political artifacts and documentary materials that are at-risk or are critical to scholarly investigation, and personal artifacts and histories that capture the lived experience beneath the ideological battles and geopolitical struggles of the Cold War.

GABA is a member-driven non-profit organization that fosters transatlantic knowledge-sharing and networking among German-American and Californian business and tech communities. GABA is dedicated to encouraging German-American business and trade. GABA members represent all facets of the international professional business community including high-tech and life science firms, trade specialists, bankers, venture capitalists, insurance, government officials, attorneys, translation firms, marketing firms, consultants, and entrepreneurs.

Villa Aurora maintains and cultivates the historic landmark home of exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta as a residence for an international body of artists. We are a transatlantic bridge-builder, promoting intercultural exchange and enabling dialogue between the arts community in Los Angeles and our resident artists. Villa Aurora celebrates the significant contribution German and European artists and intellectuals of the 1930s and 40s had on Southern California, and offer a variety of arts and cultural programs, including public lectures, concerts, screenings, and performance, carrying this contribution into the 21st century.

The Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles aims to create a vibrant transatlantic space for debate, where outstanding personalities, in dialogue with each other and the host country, address fundamental contemporary and future issues related to politics, society, and culture.

The Thomas Mann House is a residency center owned by the Federal Republic of Germany. The Thomas Mann Fellowships enable academics, pioneering thinkers, and intellectuals who live, or have lived, in Germany to tackle the pressing challenges of our time and to foster the intellectual and cultural exchange between Germany and the United States.