German News on the World Wide Web:
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is perhaps the most prominent German weekly newsmagazine, somewhat
comparable to Time or Newsweek in the United States. Full coverage of
national and international news along with cultural reviews and editorial commentary
respresenting a range of social and political perspectives. Although the entire issue is
not available on the Web, you get a good sense here of what Der Spiegel has to
offer.
Die Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine are two of the
most widely-circulated German daily papers. Both offer extensive, in-depth coverage of
currrent national and interantional events as well as highly regarded Arts and Literature
sections and compelling editorial commentary. The selections from these papers printed
online offer up-to-the-minute information about what is going on in Germany and in the
world.
German Studies on the World Wide Web:
German Studies Trails on the Internet
The German Studies Trails were compiled by Andreas Lixl, Professor of German at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Listed here are some of the most useful
interdisciplinary German resources on the World Wide Web. The literature and culture
trails include language learning tools, current information on the status of the
profession and on literary theory, and much more, including a lexicon of rhetorical terms
and Robert Leventhal's Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the
Humanities. Children's pages can be found on the KinderWeb; you can join German Chatrooms
and work through German Web Exercises on various levels of proficiency, or look for
multimedia Teaching Tools and Software links.
germanistik.net - Internet Resources
for Germanists
This collection of links of academic interest for Germanists around the world is
maintained at the University of Wisconsin and includes information on cultural studies,
linguistics, philology, and Dutch Studies as well as on German literature. Information is
available on upcoming conferences, job openings, academic journals, and on professional
organizations and institutes in German-speaking countries, the Netherlands, and the USA.
DINO-Deutschsprachige Searchengine
This search engine links to over 2,300 German-language pages on the Web, and is organized
in a fairly friendly manner. DINO also provides information on how to use the Web to find
employment and to advertise products or businesses.
