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Subject Guide: German

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Selected German Internet Collections
German Literature
Electronic Texts in German
Electronic Journals, Magazines, & News Sources in German
Dictionaries and Language Resources
Cultural Information
German-Language Libraries Online
German-Language Publishers, Video- & Booksellers
German Search Engines

Selected German Internet Collections

German Studies Web (Western European Specialists Section, Assn of College & Research Libraries)
Access to scholarly resources in German studies from all German speaking countries; includes news and reference sources, search engines, etc.

germanistik.net - Internet Resources for Germanists (German Dept., U. of Wisconsin)
Large collection of links to online sources for German studies; includes a good collection of links to information on specific authors.

intute: German Studies
Links to many carefully selected and annotated web sites covering dozens of topics such as: German language, linguistics, literature film, drama, cultural studies, etc.

Warwick German Studies Web, Subject Pages
An excellent guide to German sites on culture, literature, the former East Germany, language, news, film, and more.  

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German Literature

German Literature Resources (from German Studies Web)
Links to selected single author pages and many more general literature sites.

Germanistik im Internet (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Has information on German authors, their works, literary periods, etc. and links to other German literature sites.

Literaturportal: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
An excellent site for contemporary German literature. Has biographical information on authors, audio files of authors reading their work, information on literary prizes, readings and other literary events and links to other literary sites.

Podcasting Goethe
Recordings of Goethe's early poetry read by a German actor. From Warwick's German Studies Homepage.

About.com's German Literature Section
Links to many sites for poetry and prose by Austrian, German, and Swiss authors.

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Electronic Texts in German

19th-Century German Stories
Short narrative works, some with English translations, from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries.

e-Texte deutschsprachiger Literatur (Projekt Klassikerwortschatz, A.-L. Uni. Freiburg)
A well-organized and detailed listing of the major German literature collections online.

Major Digital Projects (German Studies Web)
Links to collections of online books, newspapers, dictionaries and other digitized German collections.

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Electronic Journals, Magazines, & News Sources in German

German-Language Newspapers and Other News Sources (German Studies Web)
Listing of radio, television, and daily news sources.

German Language Online Newspapers and Magazines (MIT Foreign Languages Lab)
Links to online news and magazines including university student publications.

LexisNexis Academic
German Language News sources (including die Allgemeine Zeiting, Berliner Morgenpost, der Spiegel, die Welt, Die Zeit, Stern, and many more) can be searched together. Select the NEWS tab, then change the SOURCE to "Deutsche Presse".

See also Indexes and Databases -- German.

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Dictionaries and Language Resources

About.com's German Language Learning Section
A large collection of links to German online courses, grammar, language exercises, tongue twisters, tests, and more.

German for Travellers -- Learn German Section
An excellent collection of online vocabulary lists, exercises, self-tests, puzzles, and information on learning German.

Internet Handbook of German Grammar
A brief guide based on Duden Grammatik.

LEO English/German Dictionary
Large online dictionary can be searched English-German and German-English.

Meyers Lexikon online
A general encyclopedia that can be searched by keyword or browsed by category.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO)
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online provides access to Oxford's bilingual German-English, English-German dictionary, among others, and additional study materials. (Off-campus)

YourDictionary.com
The largest collection of online dictionaries, includes many German dictionaries including general, specialized and dialect dictionaries.

YourDictionary.com Grammars
Select links to German grammars, guides and courses online.

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Cultural Information

Germany Info Home: Culture & Life (German Embassy, Washington DC)
Has brief information on German life, arts, history, news and more.

German for Travellers - Culture Section
Has very basic information on music, holidays, people, food & drink, etc. geared to the first-time traveller to Germany.

EuroDocs: History of Germany: Primary Documents
Links to many digital collections of historical documents, images, sound files, etc.

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German-Language Libraries Online

German Libraries (German Studies Web)
Collection of links to library catalogues in Germany and German-speaking countries.

Die Deutsche Bibliothek
Allows searching several German and other European library catalogues together.

BBB (Bibliotheken, Bücher & Berichte)
Links to university library catalogues by city, special libraries by subject, union catalogues and others.

LIBDEX: The Library Index
Allows you to find libraries by country, catalogue system and keyword search.

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German-Language Publishers, Video- & Booksellers

AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
Searchable by country, subject, or publisher name.

Buchhandel.de
German Books in Print (Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher) the most comprehensive database of German books available for sale.

Amazon.de
Over a million books, CD's, videos, etc. for sale by the German subsidiary of amazon.com.

German Language Video Center
Lists German videos for sale in the U.S.

WorldLanguage.com Online Store
Over 500 German-language movies and educational videos listed with brief descriptions. Language learning materials in all formats are also available.

German Studies Web: Book Trade, Publishers, etc.
Links to book sellers for German-language books, old and new, such as Amazon.de, German Books in Print, etc.

International Publishers List (from Auburn U.)
Choose from list of publishers by country.

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German Search Engines

Deutschsprachige Suchmaschinen (U. Konstanz)
A large collection of links to German search engines.

MetaGer2
German metasearch engine.

Google.de
Google Deutschland, can be limited to German language sites and sites from Germany.

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