There is an abundance of information on issues related to German Studies available to you on the Internet. We hope that this page will give you an initial overview of relevant websites.
Due to the constant development of new sites, this list is by no means complete. We hope to keep updating and improving the site. Your comments are therefore more than welcome.
Happy browsing / Viel Spaß beim "Surfen" !
DINO
Access to awide range of websites in German speaking countries (German)
www.dino-online.de
WWW-Server in Deutschland
Extensive, thematically ordered list to German websites (German/English)
www.entry.de/index.html
Fireball
Search engine for keywords in German websites (various languages)
www.fireball.de
Alta Vista (www.de.altavista.com)
Yahoo (www.de.yahoo.com)
(list to be updated)
German links
Links to German websites, compiled by German Department, University of Wales, Swansea (English)
www.swan.ac.uk/german/links.htm
Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher
German equivalent of “Books in Print” (German)
www.buchhandel.de
Verlage und Buchhandlungen
Links to websites of leading German publishers and booksellers, emphasis on scientific/academic publications (German)
www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/verlage.html
GEIST-HomePage
Publications in literary criticism (German)
www.geist.de
Langenscheidt English-German Dictionary
Online translation programme
www.gmsmuc.de/english/look.html
LEO German-English Dictionary
www.leo.org
TAD: The Alternative Dictionaries
150 German colloquialisms
www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/
Austria:
Map of Ausria
www.austrianmap.at
Austrian Web Servers
(various languages)
www.ifs.univie.ac.at/austria/non-graph.html
Austrian Cities
www.travelnotes.org/Europe/Austria/austrian_cities.htm
www.aboutaustria.org/capitals/capitals.htm
Information about Austria
http://www.austria.info/xxl/_site/uk/_area/416152/home.html
Germany:
General Information
On Geography, economy, political system, media etc. (English/German)
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/brd.html
www.deutschland.de
Statistisches Bundesamt
Extensive data on various areas of German life (German)
www.destatis.de/jetspeed/portal/cms
Switzerland:
Schweizer Internet-Links
www.yoodle.ch
Swiss Cities
(English)
www.myswitzerland.com/en.cfm/home
Information about Switzerland
(German)
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/WWF/Suche/Europa/ch.htm
Duden online
Dictionary of German spelling
www.duden.de/deutsche_sprache
Forum Deutsch als Fremdsprache
(German)
www.deutsch-als-fremdsprache.de
German Grammar
www.dartmouth.edu/~german/Grammatik/Grammatik.html
Zeitschrift für interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht
Regularly updated information on Teaching German as a Foreign Language (German)
www.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/ejournal/ejournal.html
Yahoo-Education: German Universities
Links to German Universities
www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Germany/Education
Structures of the Education and Initial Training Systems in the European Union
Detailed information on education systems in 17 European countries (English)
www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/de
tailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=
ED398432&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&accno=ED398432
Bundesregierung
Official homepage of the German Government (German)
www.bundesregierung.de
Woche im Bundestag
Reports from last week’s sessions in German parliament, ordered chronologically/ with regard to topics (German)
www.bundestag.de/wib/wib.htm
Austrian constitution
(English)
www.vescc.com/constitution/austria-constitution-eng.html
German constitution
(English)
www.psr.keele.ac.uk/docs/german.htm
Constitution of Liechtenstein
(English/German)
www.legislationline.org/legislations.php?jid=31<id=14
Swiss constitution
(English)
www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/sz00000_.html
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Information on current economical issues (German/English)
www.diw-berlin.de
Wirtschaftswoche
German magazine on economics and politics (German)
www.wiwo.de
Cybrary of the Holocaust
Information on the Holocaust, including list of archives and interviews with victims (English)
www.remember.org/index.html#history
Fall of the Berlin Wall
www.goethe.de/ges/pok/dos/dos/mau/enindex.htm
Imdb Multi-search
American archive of film titles, directors, actors etc.
www.us.imdb.com/search
CineGraph
Website of German research group, including excerpts from a biographical encyclopaedia on German cinema (German)
www.cinegraph.de
Hörspielarchiv
Archive of audio plays, authors, speakers etc. (German)
www.ard.de/radio/hoerspiel-lesung/hoerspielarchiv/-/id=570460/1d30kla/index.html
Movieline
News on current films (German)
www.movieline.de
GERMNews
Current affairs in Germany, also includes archive of news items from 1993 to today
www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/germnews
Focus
German news magazine (weekly)
www.focus.de
Frankfurter Rundschau
Current edition of German national, liberal/ leftwing daily newspaper
www.fr-aktuell.de
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Current edition of leading Swiss daily newspaper
www.nzz.ch
Der Spiegel
Selection of stories from current edition of leading German news magazine (weekly)
www.spiegel.de/spiegel
Der Standard
Current edition of leading Austrian national daily newspaper
www.derstandard.at
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Current edition of Munich’s daily newspaper
www.sueddeutsche.de
Die Welt
Current edition of German national, conservative daily newspaper
www.welt.de
Tageszeitung (taz)
Current edition of alternative/ leftwing Berlin daily newspaper
www.taz.de
Zeitungen im Web
Concise, commented list of links to websites of German newspapers and magazines
www.infodrom.north.de/zeitungen.html
Deutschlandradio
www.dradio.de
Deutsche Welle
www.dw-world.de
Rundfunkantalten der ARD
Public broadcasting radio stations in Germany
www.ard.de/radio/alle-wellen/-/id=135130/14o6sfo/index.html
ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands)
German public television station (Cooperation of German Regional Broadcasting Organisations)
www.ard.de
ARTE
German-French TV channel with a focus on culture (German/French)
www.arte.tv/de
ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen)
German public television
www.zdf.de