Resources
Here are select resources to support and motivate your study of German beyond the classroom. It's really just a slim sampling of what's out there. Please let us (goertz@umich.edu) know if you discover new ones that are particularly relevant, helpful, fun, innovative or inspiring to you and they will be added to the list. Thank you!
University of Michigan
Language Resource Center: https://lsa.umich.edu/lrc
Germanic Languages Department: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/links/
Askwith library: https://www.lib.umich.edu/askwith-media-library
Study Abroad/Internships
see also Study/Work Abroad tab for more complete list and and information
CGIS: https://lsa.umich.edu/cgis/undergraduate-students/programs0/europe.html
https://lsa.umich.edu/german/undergraduate-students/internships---study-abroad.html
Scholarships
Walter & Florence E. Aupperle Scholarship for German Majors/Minors
https://www.aaacf.org/Grants-Scholarships/Scholarships-Resources-How-to-Apply
RC Brown Scholarship
Language Exchange Partners
Online chat partners: https://www.learngermanonline.org/chat-with-german-native-speakers/
HelloTalk: free app (Android and iOS) for finding conversation partners
Italki: website/app to find conversation partners in exchange for teaching your native language
Online Resources
Culture
Goethe Institute: goethe.de
Deutsche Welle: dw.com
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: bpb.de
German Regions and Dialects: https://www.dw.com/de/deutsch-lernen/dialektatlas/s-8150
Historical Timeline: https://www.hdg.de/lemo/kapitel.html
German news in English: www.thelocal.de/
News in simplied German: www.nachrichtenleicht.de/
Newsletter: https://www.eurotopics.net/en/
Diversity and Inclusion Blog: https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/ddgc-blog
Literature
E-Books Projekt Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/DE_Hauptseite
Free e-books: https://www.learngermanonline.org/free-ebooks-for-download/
Poetry: deutschlyrik.de
Writers/poets: https://www.planet-schule.de/rss/article/360.html
Simplified Language Resources
News: https://www.nachrichtenleicht.de/
(Super) Easy German: https://www.easygerman.org/
Leicht Sprache: https://www.einfach-teilhaben.de/DE/LS/Home/leichtesprache_node.html
Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales: https://www.bmas.de/DE/Leichte-Sprache/Seiten-leichte- Sprache/seiten-leichte-sprache.html
Grammar
Grimm Grammar: https://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/gr/about.html
Language
Gender neutral language: https://wp.nyu.edu/compass/2018/04/23/exploring-genderqueer-identity-within-gendered-german/
German idioms: www.dw.com/de/die-besten-deutschen-redensarten/g-18427543
YouTube
Easy German
Deutsch mit Marija
Learn German with Anna
Learn German with Jenny
Television
List of German TV sites: https://www.learngermanonline.org/watch-german-tv-online/
ZdF Mediathek: zdf.de
Arte: https://www.arte.tv/de/
ARD: https://www.ardmediathek.de/
Crime Shows: https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/krimi/tatort/index.html
Comedies: www.myspass.de/
Audio/Podcasts/Radio
List of German radio stations: https://www.learngermanonline.org/german-online-radio/
List of podcasts: https://www.podcast.de/podcasts/charts/
Slow German: https://slowgerman.com/
Easy German: https://www.easygerman.org/podcast
Deutsche Welle: dw.com (e.g. Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten, Radio D, Mission Berlin)
Deutschlandfunk: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/
German audiobooks: vorleser.net
German poetry: https://www.deutschelyrik.de/
Dichter dran: https://www.planet-schule.de/sf/php/sendungen.php?reihe=1341
Audioplays: www.hoerspielundfeature.de/
Music
Classical and Modern
Lieder: Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Schumann, Wolff
Opera: Mozart Die Zauberflöte, Weber Der Freischütz, Berg Wozzeck, Korngold Die Tote Stadt, Weill Die Dreigroschenoper, Ullmann Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Weimar-era
Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich, Comedian Harmonists, Zarah Leander, Kurt Weill, Friedrich Holländer
Retro/Kabarett
Max Raabe, Ute Lemper, Dagmar Manzel, Hildegard Knef, Vivian Kanner
Singer-Songwriter
Namika, Roger Cicero, Peter Fox, Faber, Sophie Hunger, Max Prosa, Nina Hagen, Wolf Biermann, Mani Matter, Rainhard Mey, Samy Deluxe, Tom Bendzko, Ansa Sauermann, Gregor Meyle, Nena, Falco, Cro, Clueso
Bands
Kraftwerk, Wise Guys, Wir sind Helden, Tokio Hotel, Die Prinzen, Virginia Jetzt, Einshoch6, Elements of Crime, LaBrassaBanda, Rammstein, Einstürzende Neubauten, Querbeat, Die Toten Hosen, The Disorientalists, Dissidenten
Spotify
The Sound of (city name): http://eliotvb.carto.com/viz/971d1556-0959-11e5-b1a4-0e9d821ea90d/embed_map
Free Apps
Goethe Institut: https://www.goethe.de/de/spr/ueb.html
Deutsch Perfekt Wort des Tages: https://www.deutsch-perfekt.com/vokabeln-lernen/deutsch/
Quizlet: quizlet.com
Babbel
Lingq
Online Dictionaries
German-English: dict.cc
Leo: https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/
PONS: https://en.pons.com/translate
Langenscheidt: https://de.langenscheidt.com/
Linguee: https://www.linguee.com/english-german
Recommended Books in German Studies
Here is a brief sampling—admittedly random, subjective and incomplete — of interesting books in German Studies on my bookshelf, beginning with select titles by U-M faculty, in other words, professors you can actually meet and take courses from if you want to pursue a German major! You will find more publications on the LSA Germanic Languages & Literatures website: https://lsa.umich.edu/german/people/faculty/graduate-faculty.html. Taken as a whole, these titles also reflect the wide array of topics you might come across in our German courses, at the university or on your path through German Studies. Please send us (goertz@umich.edu) any titles that you think should be included on this list.
UM Faculty
Kerstin Barndt: Sentiment and Sobriety. The New Woman Novel in the Weimar Republic
Kristin Dickinson: DisOrientations: German Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation
Julia Hell: The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
Andrei Markovitz: The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe
Helmut Puff: After the History of Sexuality
Scott Spector: Modernism without Jews? German-Jewish Subjects and Histories
Kira Thurman: Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms
Johannes von Moltke: No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema
Silke-Maria Weineck: The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West
Non-UM
Leslie Adelson: The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature
Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk, et al: Refugee Routes Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing
Nina Berman: German Colonialism Revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences
Ian Buruma: The Wages of Guilt
Tina Campt: Other Germans
Gordon Craig: The Germans
Peter Gay: Weimar Culture
Sander Gilman: Freud, Race and Gender
Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling and Anton Kaes: Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration
James Hawes: The Shortest History of Germany
Ursula Hegi: Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America
Irene Kacandes et al: A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies
Eric Kandel: The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain
Jennifer Kapczynski, Michael Richardson: A New History of German Cinema
Natasha Kelly: Rassismus. Strukturelle Probleme brauchen Strukturelle Lösungen
Nora Krug: Heimat
Brian Ladd: Ghosts of Berlin
Priscilla Layne: White Rebels in Black
Erin McGlothlin: Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies
May Opitz, et al.: Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
H. Glenn Penny: In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology
Alexandra Richie: Faust's Metropolis
Peter Schneider Berlin Now
Zafer Senocak: Atlas of A Tropical Germany
Peter Sichrovsky: Born Guilty
Julia Sonnevend: Stories without Borders
Peter Watson: The German Genius
Podcast of new books in German Studies
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-books-in-german-studies/id671875824
Interesting Articles (list under construction)
"Germany establishes first Holocaust Studies Professorship": https://www.dw.com/en/germany-establishes-its-first-holocaust-studies-professorship/a-38885174
"Gendern: Ein Pro und Kontra": https://www.lpb-bw.de/gendern
Conversation with Detroit-born and Berlin-based singer-songwriter Daniel Kahn: www.thecedar.org/news-articles/2019/5/28/a-conversation-with-klezmer-punk-rocker-daniel-kahn