Subject & Course Guides: German Studies: Useful Websites

Email Listservs

H-German
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Email listserv covering German Studies (mainly History). Includes calls for proposal, new publication announcements, review of recent books.
H-Germanistik
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Email listserv covering German literature and philology. Includes calls for proposal, new publication announcements, reviews of recent books.
H-Net
Covers all areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences. Discipline and topical networks.
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H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences

Literary & Cultural Magazines

Literatur im Netz
Litrix.de
English-language reviews of recently published German fiction and non-fiction.
Perlentaucher.de
An online culture and literary magazine for German-speaking Europe. Contains articles, abbreviated book reviews, and synopses from feature sections ("Feuilletons") in the German-language press.
Rezensionsforum Literaturkritik.de
Book reviews and literary criticism.
Signandsight
English version of the German online culture magazine Perlentaucher (see above).
Volltext : Zeitung für Literatur
Austrian literary magazine, includes reviews of current literature.

Germanic Studies Links

German Studies Trails on the Web
Maintained by Andreas Lixl, Professor of German at the UNC-Chapel Hill. Includes links to resources in German Studies arranged by categories such as "Kunst und Kultur" and "Naturwissenschaft und Technik."
German Studies Web
Access to scholarly resources covering all aspects of German Studies (literature, politics, history, etc.) that have been selected and evaluated by academic librarians. Includes links to digital texts, reference, news sources.
Germanistik im Netz
Extensive portal to German language and literature sites. Includes links to electronic journals, lists of new acquisitions at the DNB and the Uni Frankfurt. Also has an index of resources listed by topic or literary period.
Germanistik.net: Internet Resources for Germanists
Links to conferences, job openings, topics in German Studies, German language instruction, Netherlandic Studies, and German departments around the world.
Intute: German Studies
A free online service from the UK providing you with access to Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.
Literaturwelt
Internet directory and search engine for German literature.
Portals to the World: Europe
Links to internet resources about European countries selected by Library of Congress subject experts. Organized by country.
produktive | differenzen: forum für differenz- und genderforschung
Includes interdisciplinary resources about gender studies, deconstrunctionism, system theory/radical constructionism. Has a glossary, bibliographical database, and some full-text articles.
Scandinavian Studies Web
Access to scholarly resources covering all aspects of Scandinavian Studies (literature, politics, history, etc.) that have been selected and evaluated by academic librarians. Includes links to digital texts, reference, news sources.
Voice of the Shuttle
Administered by Alan Liu and a development team at the UCSB English Department. Includes annotated links to webpages in the Humanities and Humanities-related disciplines. For German Literature, follow the link for "Literatures (Other than English)."
Warwick German Studies Web
Comprehensive collection of links compiled by the folks at the Warwick University (UK) German Dept. Includes links to German information resources and collections at other universities, and listings of German search engines.
X-Libris: die deutschen Klassiker
Provides bibliographical and biographical information for German literature from Grimmelshausen to Kafka. Includes introductions to works and literary periods.
Yiddish Sources
Portal that offers comprehensive information to anyone who is interested in in Yiddish and Yiddish Studies