Department of German

INTERNET RESOURCES--GERMAN

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Europe Online -- General information source

• Europe Online-General (in English) http://www.europeonline.com
• Europe Online-Deutschland http://www.europeonline.com/deu/index.htm
• Europe Online-Österreich http://www.europeonline.com/aus/index.htm
• Europe Online-Schweiz http://www.europeonline.com/che/index.htm
• Europe Online-Luxemburg http://www.europeonline.com/lux/index.htm (in Luxemburgian!)

WEB-Germany http://www.web.de

Yahoo-Germany http://www.yahoo.de

Lycos-Germany http://www.lycos.de

Altavista-Germany (Bildsuche gives hundreds of pictures) http://www.altavista.de

For Teaching

• American Association of Teachers of German http://www.aatg.org/
• Inter Nationes-Bonn http://www.inter-nationes.org
• Goethe Institut: home page http://www.goethe.de
• Goethe Institut Jetzt Online: language+links http://www.goethe.de/z/jetzt/deindex.htm
• Deutschstunde (video series for teachers) http://www.goethe.de/uk/was/ds/deutsch/deleits.htm
• Forum DAF (Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) http://www.deutsch-als-fremdsprache.de/
• Österreich Institut für DaF http://www.oesterreichinstitut.at
• US Dept of Education-teaching resources http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/
• Iowa state Board of Education http://www.state.ia.us/educate/
• Andreas Lixl-Purcell http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/GIP/
• Netzspiegel (Lixl-Purcell/Sutherland) http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/Netzspiegel.html
• Stefan Schwan http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/3643/daf.html
• Peter Gölz-German for Beginners http://castle.uvic.ca/german/149
• Folksongs (some have melody or notes) http://ingeb.org

For Students, Miscellaneous

• Transatlantic Classroom-chat room http://home.inreach.com/pfeiffer/index.htm
  To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@tak.schule.de
• Lernforum Deutsch (Bonner Universität) http://www.uni-bonn.de/lernforum/
• German Corner (USA site for students learning German) http://www.german-usa.com
• Deutsch im Netz (German language, U of South Florida) http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/german
• German dictionary, etc. (TU München) http://dict.leo.org
• German dictionary (TU Dresden) http://iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh
• German grammar (simple review, no exercises) http://www.wm.edu/CAS/modlang/gasmit/grammar/
• German beer http://www.bier.de
• Oktoberfest http://www.munich-tourist.de
• German wine http://www.wein.de
• Current weather in Europe http://traxxx.de/wetter/welcome.html
• Another weather source http://www.dkrz.de/wetter/prognosen
• Maps - and many other links (compiled in the Free University, Berlin) http://www.entry.de
• Oskar Jugendmagazin (bi-lingual) http://www.oskars.de
• Internet Cafe (a student restaurant in Munich & chat room) http://www.icafe.spacenet.de

German history

• Information for historians http://www.historiker.de (includes references to current newspaper & magazine articles on historical topics)
• Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin (links to hundreds of other museums) http://www.dhm.de
• DHM -- virtual museum of 20^th century with film & sound http://www.dhm.de/lemo
• German history 1900-2000 http://www.inter-nationes.de/d/gaz/zeitgeschehen.html
• Biographies, Kulturkalendar (St. Thomas Coll.) http://www.stthomas.edu/www/language_http/German
• German-Americana http://www.germanheritage.com

German literature

• Collection of classic texts (German Corner)
  http://www.german-usa.com/gedichte/
• Literary criticsm of contemporary literature http://www.literaturkritik.de
• Deutsche Bibliothek (Leipzig & Frankfurt) http://www.ddb.de
• See also WEB-Literatur http://www.web.de

Information from government sources

• German Information Center-New York http://www.germany_info.org
  (includes Facts About Germany, This Week in Germany, Deutschland Nachrichten)
• German Information Center-Weekly Periodicals http://www._info.org/nf_gic/index_news_publications.html
  (to go directly to This Week in Germany or Deutschland Nachrichten)
• Federal government news & govt. reports http://www.bundesregierung.de
• German News Archives http://www.mathematik.um-ulm.de.germnews
• Austrian Press & Information Center, Washington, D.C. http://www.austria.org
• Austrian Cultural Institute-New York http://www.austriaculture.net
• Liechtenstein News http://www.news.li

Embassies

• U.S. Embassy-Bonn http://www.usembassy.de/do.htm
• German Foreign Office http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/
• Swiss Embassy-Washington http://www.swissemb.org

Information from individual states and provinces (These include information for tourism)

German Länder The suffix is always .de

• Baden-Wuerttemberg http://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/
• Bavaria http://www.bayern.de/
• Berlin http://www.berlin.de/
• Brandenburg http://www.brandenburg.de/
• Bremen http://www.bremen.de/
• Hamburg http://www.hamburg.de/
• Hesse http://www.hessen.de/
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern http://www.mecklenburg.de
• Lower Saxony http://www.niedersachsen.de (has links to all other German state parliaments and also to parliaments of federal government, Austria, Switzerland, Italy)
• North Rhein/Westphalia http://www.nrw.de
• Rheinland/Pfalz http://www.rheinland-pfalz.de/index2.htm
• Saarland http://www.saarland.de
• Saxony http://www.sachsen.de
• Saxony-Anhalt http://www.sachsen-anhalt.de/index2.htm
• Schleswig-Holstein (has a link to German cartoons) http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/
• Thuringia http://www.thueringen.de/ (has links to European Union, federal government, several Länder)

• Vorarlberg http://www.vorarlberg.at/
• Tirol http://www.tirol.at/
• Salzburg http://www.salzburg.at
• Carinthia http://www.kaernten.at
• Upper Austria http://www.oberoesterreich.at
• For tourism in Upper Austria - http://www.upperaustria.at
• Vienna http://wien.at
• Lower Austria and Burgenland do not seem to have web sites
• Also try names of cities, as Graz http://www.grazforyou.at

Switzerland

Many, but no all of the Swiss cantons have web sites. Just keep trying. The suffix is always .ch

Use French for the French cantons, German for the German ones, as

Geneva (not Genf) http://www.geneva.ch

Basel (not Bale) http://www.basel.ch

Sankt Gallen (has a link to Swiss jokes (Witze) http://www.stgallen.ch

Travel

There are many travel sites. For information, see the local government list above or Europe Online, a commercial vendor. The national tourist offices are:

• Germany http://www.germany-tourism.de/home_d.html
• Austria http://www.austria-tourism.at/index.html.de
• Switzerland http://www.schweizferien.ch
• National travel systems are:
• German Railways http://www.bahn.de
• Swiss Railways http://www.sbb.ch
• Austrian Railways http://www.oebb.at
• Lufthansa http://www.lufthansa.de
• Swissair http://www.swissair.ch
• Austrian Air Lines http://www.aua.com

Shopping

• Quelle(mail order house) http://www.quelle.de
• Kaufhof (department store chain) http://www.kaufhof.de
• Hertie/Karstadt (another chain) http://www.hertie.de
• KaDeWe (famous Berlin department store) http://www.KaDeWe.de
• Amazon Books -Germany http://www.amazon.de
• Für Weihnachten (Käthe Wohlfahrt) http://wohlfahrt.com

Radio and Television

• Germany-ARD TV News http://www.tagesschau.de
• Germany-ZDF TV network http://www.zdf.de
• Germany-Deutsche Welle (German world-wide news service) http://www.dwelle.de
• Swiss Radio-many links http://www.swissinfo.org/deu/
• Austrian Radio/TV - many links http://www.orf.at

Newspapers and Periodicals

For Germany

• Focus-weekly cyber information survey (many links) http://www.focus.de
• Pipeline (cyberpaper) http://pipeline.de
• Der Spiegel (weekly newsmagazine) http://www.spiegel.de
• Stern (weekly magazine) http://www.stern.de/
• Die Zeit (liberal weekly newspaper) http://www.zeit.de
• Frankfurter Allgemeine (conservative national newspaper) http://www.faz.de
• Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich daily)
  http://www.sueddeutschezeitung.de
• Die Tageszeitung (national paper) http://www.taz.de
• Der Tagesspiegel (liberal Berlin newpaper)
  http://www.tagesspiegel-berlin.de/
• Die Welt (conservative national paper) http://www.welt.de
• Handelsblatt (daily economic and business news) http://www.handelsblatt.de
• Die Bild-Zeitung (most popular paper) http://www.bild.de
• GEO magazine (geography etc.) http://www.geo.de
• Deutsche Entertainment Magazine: the latest news on pop culture & celebrities & the Jet Set http://www.dem.de

For Austria

• Der Standard (Vienna daily) http://www.DerStandard.at/
• Die Presse (Vienna Daily) http://www.DiePresse.at
• Kurier (popular Vienna daily) http://www.kurier.at
• Kleine Zeitung (popular Graz daily) http://www.kleine.co.at

For Switzerland

• Neue Zürcher Zeitung (daily) http://www.nzz.ch
• Tages-Anzeiger (Zürich daily) http://www.tages-anzeiger.ch/portal/tagi/portal.htm

For Liechtenstein

• Vaterland (daily) http://www.vaterland.li