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German Studies

This Guide provides a starting point for materials on German Studies.

General

19th-Century German Stories Web editions for language learning & literary study
Cinema: German-language film production
an excerpt from 'the German Way' by Hyde Flippo with links to many other German cinema pages.
Das literatur-Café
This is an all-German site with some interesting links.
Deutsche Welle
One of the major international radio stations in Germany offers online German language teaching resources. Elsewhere on their site one finds links to hourly news broadcasts and to essays on current political, social, and cultural issues.
Eastern German Studies Association
a web page put together by an association of scholars interested in that part of Germany once known as the German Democratic Republic.
Frederick Engels. LUDWIG FEUERBACH AND THE END OF CLASSICAL GERMAN PHILOSOPHY
online version.
German and Culture Studies
-(Harvard University) - links to a wide variety of sites pertaining to German culture (including German language newspapers).
German Critical Philosophy: Easy SearchTool
Offers links to Herder, Kant, aesthetics, the Enlightenment and other topics in German philosophy.
German Culture
From about.com -with links to Schopenhauer, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche and Hesse.
German Film
With links to pages on Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fritz Lang, Klaus Kinski, Wim Wenders, Movie sites, magazines and much more.
German for Beginners
This offers exercises in Rreal Audio, samples of correct pronunciation and links to other useful sites with more exercises and detailed articles on issues of the German language.
German Internet Project
A page with links for students, teachers and anyone interest in German culture.
German Language
From about.com - promoting the german language on the net.
German Law Archive
Publishes cases, statutes, literature and bibliographies on German law in English language.
German links on the Internet
A concise list of sites that are useful for German studies.
German Resources
For Medicine, Philology and Cultural studies, Law, Economics, and Social & Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Agriculture, Forestry, Nutrition, Engineering, and still more.
German Studies Web
A comprehensive site with links to news, history, libraries and the arts.
German Theatre Almanacs and Yearbooks of the 19th Century as Sources for Documenting Theatrical Activities of Touring Performers
An online essay written by Paul S. Ulrich (Berlin).
German-Studies Discussion list
This list is a forum for discussing matters relating to research and teaching in any field of German studies.
Germanic Mythology
A small site with details on germanic myths and mythological characters.
Germany GenWeb Project
Tracing the genealogy of Germans.
Inter Nationes
A useful site that offers interesting resources for learning German and learning about German culture.
Internet Resources for Germanists
From germanistik.net. This site is mostly in German with links to a conference calendar, topics in German studies, online research, scholarly journals German departments around the world, Organizations and institutes and general interest to all Germanists.
Language Translation Search Engines
A program which can translate words, sentences and paragraphs into many foriegn languages in a manner of minutes.
Learning Foreign Languages Online - the German list
Medieval Germany
links to many resources for German historical research, language and culture.
My Petrich homepage
This is a genealogy of one German, but it is a good source for links to maps, translation guides, dictionaries and other sites needed
Thalia Germanica
An international society for research into the history of the German-language theatre abroad.
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
A center for nonpartisan, advanced research, study, and discussion of the Federal Republic of Germany - its politics, economy, culture and society.
The German International Theatre Institute
develops and supports international cultural co-operation by providing information services, by organising international encounters, specialists. conferences, theatre festivals (e.g. THEATER DER WELT in Germany), and workshops centred around various aspects of the performing arts.
The Goethe-Institut
A non-profit making organisation with 128 institutes in 76 countries. Its objective is to promote the German language and to foster international cultural cooperation and dialogue.
The Internet Source Book for Early German Film
links to all your favorite early German films (das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Metropolis, and Genuine).
Women in German Studies
Established in 1988 with the aim of bringing together female Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland and supporting them in all aspects of their professional life.