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German Studies: Selected Web Sites

A resource guide for faculty and students in German Studies at BGSU.

Research on the web

Links on this page connect you to useful news sources, online dictionaries, and public information about Germany and German-speaking nations.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm
An historical dictionary started by the Grimm brothers and completed by scholars. Took more than 100 years to finish.
H-German
A daily Internet discussion forum focused on scholarly topics in German history.
H-Germanistik
A German literature and philology discussion list. In German.
LEO German-English Dictionary
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Contains many books in German.
WordReference
A free online dictionary with around 100,000 words and phrases with over 200,000 translations. A subset of the Oxford dictionaries.

Organizations

AUSTRIA links (Uni Graz)
Fulbright Commission-Austria
The German Academic Exchange Program
German History in Documents and Images [German Historical Institute]
The German Studies Association
Germany Information Center USA
Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut produces a number of web projects and publications for German teachers and students.
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher

News Journals & Newspapers

To keep current on German news, check out national and regional newspapers frequently.

Television & Radio

Museums

Film

Reliable sources for German language films:

Featured Image

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany
by Thomas Wolf

Evaluating Sources

Did you know that anyone can publish a web site? Be sure to evaluate web information for authority, content and accuracy.

Politics

Deutscher Bundestag

Last Updated: Sep 11, 2017 7:45 PM
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Subjects: International Studies, Literature

Tags: german, german studies, literature, world language

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