German studies links

Newspapers, magazines, other media

• Zeit Online, major German daily newspaper
• Frankfurter Allgemeine, German daily newpaper
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Swiss daily newspaper
• Der Spiegel, German weekly news magazine
• Deutsche Welle. In addition to the latest news on their website the Deutsche Welle offers an email service twice daily.

Universities, research, educational sites

• European Studies at the University of Melbourne
• University of Heidelberg
• Saarland University
• University of Freiburg
• The Free University of Berlin
• Institute for German and Dutch Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin
• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
• The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) website

Governments, regions, cities

• Official website of the German government
• Official website of the Austrian Parliament
• Information on the German capital
• Information on Munich, the Bavarian capital
• Information on Cologne
• Information on Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg
• Information on Vienna, the capital of Austria
• Information on the Austrian region of Tyrol
• Information on the Austrian region of Carinthia
• Information on the Austrian region of Upper Austria
• Information on the Austrian region of Vorarlberg
• Austrian views

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

• Vitra Design Museum

Search engines

• The German Yahoo

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.