German studies links

Newspapers, magazines, other media

Universities, research, educational sites

Governments, regions, cities

Language and literature

  • The Goethe Institute. A highly-recommended website
  • Literaturkritik, a professionally designed internet magazine devoted to current German literature (in German)
  • Lyrikline, a good collection of modern poetry, it includes audio.

Museums

Search engines

Databases, catalogues, dictionaries, translation

  • German Books in Print (Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher). This web page is operated by the German booksellers organisation.
  • Das Wortschatz-Lexikon stellt sich zum Ziel, den deutschen Wortschatz so vollständig wie möglich zur Verfügung zu stellen. Grundlage ist der gegenwärtig in maschinenlesbaren Quellen zur Verfügung stehende Text. Momentan enthält die Datenbank fast 5 Millionen Wortformen.
  • A link to the library catalogue of the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main.
  • KIT Biblioithek, This web page allows searches in a variety of networked library catalogues, including Die Deutsche Bibliothek (for titles from 1980 onwards).
  • Inventory of primary Web resources in the Distributed Digital Research Library Germany (Retrodigitization). Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The inventory contains primary Web-accessible resources created by German research libraries and other academic institutions.
  • Bing translator, a web-based machine translator. You can cut and paste text into it and it will do its job - surprisingly well, as long as the input does not get too complicated.