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Selected Internet Sources in German Studies

Literature & Culture

German Studies Web: Literature Resources (WESS) An excellent starting point for German Literature on the Web, created and maintained by the Germanists of the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. All sources on these pages have undergone review.

External links: literature (Duncan Large, University of Wales Swansea)

German Literature Resources (New York University) NYU's German Literature pages include an excellent Research Guide.

German Studies Trails (UNC Greensboro)

Gutenberg digital bible

High medieval Germany(Online reference book for Medieval Studies) - Links to German medieval literature, as well as a number of historical documents and teaching resources for the period.

links zu literatur, film, kunst und theater (Glossen)

Literaturcafe Announcements, interviews, reviews by contributors

Perlentaucher An online cultural magazine with publication notification, daily updates on the feuilleton sections of major German-language newspapers, including summaries of reviews, and an overview of cultural events worldwide. Searchable, with many options for advanced searches.

BUBL Subject Tree - Language BUBL (BUlletin Board for Libraries) provides a subject-based service to the academic and research community via the BUBL Subject Tree.

German Literature
Well-reviewed site from the comprehensive humanities website Voice of the Shuttle.

Women's Studies

Database of Women Writers in Germany since 1945 - Publicly accessible index of over 15,000 authors from Uni. Bremen.

Sophie: A digital library of early German women's writing (BYU) - A growing digital library of fiction written by German women between 1740 and 1923.

Women in German (WiG)

1998 WiG conference: Feminisms deutsch-deutsch: Feminist theory and practice in Germany since 1989

General German Studies

German Studies Web (WESS)

German Americana Web Resources and Links (Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The German Internet Project (University of North Carolina)      

History of Germany: Primary documents - A collection of links to German primary source documents from the middle ages to the present.

germanistik.net - Internet resources for Germanists (Alan Ng)

Ausländer in Deutschland (Tufts University)

For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan An online exhibition from the Library of Congress

University of Sheffield Centre for Luxembourg Studies

Travel & Events

Area Handbooks From the Library of Congress Country Studies program

German Search Engines

Bellnet An index with search engine that is limited to German-language sites. Links are organized by category, as with Yahoo, (Wirtschaft, Essen & Trinken, Sport, Sonstiges, Medien, Private Homepages, etc.) The search engine also organizes the results of your search into categories. It is best searched using German terminology, and it does not seem to search personal names well at all.

Deutsche Meta-Suchmaschine The "Meta Search Engine" that will send your search through multiple German language search engines. The meta search engine translates your query into the syntax and terminology of the respective engines and displays the results of each search.  

Paperball Search German newspapers online by keyword.

Google.de This search engine can be limited to German language websites.

Listservs

Listservs related to the study of German  

H-Net Lists An extensive network of listservs related to the humanities and social sciences.  

ListSoft Catalog of LISTSERV lists