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Online sources for German literature, culture, and language on the Internet.
Frankfurt Book Fair
In addition to annually organizing the largest international book fair in the world, the Frankfurt Book Fair is present each year at over 30 book fairs around the world. It brings together the activities of German publishing companies and organizes accompanying cultural events, thus creating the optimal conditions for international contacts, information exchange and trade.
The Frankfurt Book Fair administers the German Book Office in New York as well as offices in Beijing, Warsaw, Moscow, Novosibirsk and Bucharest which function as skilled information and service centers for German books and cooperate closely with national publishers, booksellers, libraries and universities.
Goethe-Institut New York
Goethe-Institut e.V. is the Federal Republic of Germany's most important operational partner for the development and implementation of foreign cultural policy. The Goethe-Institut is the organization for the teaching and dissemination of German language and culture worldwide. The following website of the Goethe-Institut New York provides an overview of activities and initiatives that promote German literature in the US:
new books in german
This British journal is published twice-yearly and is aimed primarily at editors who would like to publish more translations. An editorial committee made up of British literary experts and book trade members selects new German-language publications with particular potential for translation and presents them for review in the journal and its accompanying website. Three thousand copies of the journal are distributed throughout the world.
German Consulate New York
On the website of the German Consulate General New York you will find information on German politics, the economy, and cultural affairs, as well as detailed information on the legal services provided by the Consular Section of the Consulate General. Apart from information to visitors and German citizens the site offers numerous links to different German governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations which are designed to facilitate your search for information on and from Germany.
Deutsches Haus at NYU
Deutsches Haus sponsors contemporary German Literature in New York City. The university hosts several emerging and established German writes as part of their writers-in-residence program. Public readings in German and English and symposia and panel discussions devoted to contemporary literature in Germany and the USA have become popular events.
Pro Helvetia
Pro Helvetia, the Arts Council of Switzerland, was founded in 1939 to support and organize art shows, documentary exhibitions on cultural aspects of Switzerland, book exhibitions, Swiss films screenings, tours by theatre and dance troupes, and tours by orchestras and ensembles from all areas of music. Pro Helvetia also subsidizes the printing or translation of publications dealing with Swiss culture or Switzerland’s cultural relations with other countries.
PEN Translation Committee
The Translation Committee at PEN American Center was founded in 1959 to protect and support the work of literary translators and to celebrate the art of translation. They also provide an on-line list of books that PEN members recommend for translation as well as a directory of literary translators and present awards and grants for books in translation.
Litrix.de
Litrix.de, initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation and supported by the Goethe-Institut, promotes an appreciation of contemporary German literature in translation. Extensive sample translations (generally 20 pages) help the website’s visitors obtain an overview of contemporary German literature. The website also contains portraits of writers, their works, as well as more general information on the German literary and publishing scene. In 2004, funding will be provided for translations into Arabic, and the following year, it is envisaged that the promotion program (not only financial assistance, but also the organization of training courses for literary translators) will focus on an East Asian language.
www.foreign-rights.at
Established by the Department for Books and Media in the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and in co-operation with Buchmarketing GmbH, this online database (www.foreign-rights.at) provides up-to-date information on books from Austria as well as Austrian publishing houses. Titles are sorted by subject and contain a synopsis of the book’s content along with the contact information of the publisher. Advanced search options are available as well.
Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders - The Online Magazine for International Literature undertakes to promote international communication through translation of the world's best writ-ing. Their ultimate aim is to introduce exciting international writing to the general public, by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world. In the richness of cultural information we present, they hope to help foster a "globalization" of cultural engagement and ex-change, one that allows many voices in many languages to prosper.
Sign and Sight
The English version of the German online cultural magazine Perlentaucher, this website provides a lively and informative view of cultural and intellectual life in Germany. The section “In Today's Feuilletons,” which appears every business day summarizes the highlights of the cultural pages of the major German-language newspapers. In the “Features” section, signandsight.com publishes a selection of especially noteworthy articles in English translation. “Books this Season” is a selection of the most interesting and most discussed (for better or worse) recent literature. Orhan Pamuk, Marcel Reich-Ranicki and Jürgen Habermas are among the authors writing for signandsight.com.
German-language authors |
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| The Brecht Yearbook (E) | digicoll.library.wisc.edu | |
| C.F.Gellert (G) | members.aol.com | |
| Hermann Hesse (G/E) | www.gss.ucsb.edu | |
| Elfriede Jellinek (G) | ourworld.compuserve.com | |
| Die Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft (G) | www.else-lasker-schueler-gesellschaft.de | |
| A Complete Review: A Literary Salon and Site of Review (E) | www.complete-review.com | |
German literary organizations |
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| ALG: die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften (G) | home.snafu.de | |
| American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (E) | www.aicgs.org | |
| Goethe-Institut (G/E) | www.goethe.de | |
| Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim (G) | www.ids-mannheim.de | |
| Institut zur Erforschung und Förderung österreichischer und internationaler Literaturprozesse (G/E) | www.inst.at | |
| Inter Nationes (G/E) | www.goethe.de | |
| Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (G) | www.dla-marbach.de | |
| Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (G) | www.lcb.de | |
| Modern Language Association (E) | www.mla.org | |
Journals of German-language literature and literary theory |
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| arcadia: Zeitschrift für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (G) | www.degruyter.de | |
| Dimension2: Contemporary German-Language Literature (E) | members.aol.com | |
| Electronic Journal & Literatur Primär (G) | ejournal.thing.at | |
| Germanistik im Netz (G) | www.germanistik-im-netz.de | |
| Modern Language Journal (E) | mlj.miis.edu | |
| Modern Language Notes (E) | muse.jhu.edu | |
| Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History (E) | depts.washington.edu | |
| Modern Language Review E) | www.mhra.org.uk | |
| Monatshefte (E) | monatshefte.org | |
| New German Review (E) | www.germanic.ucla.edu | |
| Text + Kritik: Zeitschrift für Literatur (G) | www.etk-muenchen.de | |
German cultural studies (Associations, Forums and Publications) |
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| Aktuelles aus der DDR-Forschung (G) | www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de | |
| diss.sense: Ein Forum für z.B. "postmoderne medienkommunkation" (G) | www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de | |
| German Historical Institute (E) | www.ghi-dc.org | |
| German Studies Association (E) | www.thegsa.org | |
| Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik (G) | www.sbg.ac.at | |
| Jura Soyfer: Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (G) | www.soyfer.at | |
| New German Critique (E) | www.arts.cornell.edu | |
| Women in German (E) | www.womeningerman.org | |
| Women in German Studies (E) | www.wigs.ac.uk | |
| Zeitschrift für KulturAustausch (G) | cms.ifa.de | |
German-language libraries and archives |
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| Deutsche Bibliothek (G) | www.d-nb.de | |
| Deutsche Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte (Hanover) (G) | www.grass-gis.de/bibliotheken | |
| Deutsche Bibliotheken Online (G) | digilink.digibib.net | |
| Digitale Bibliothek (G) | www.digitale-bibliothek.de | |
| August Herzog Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (G) | www.hab.de | |
| Informationssystem der Staats-und-Universitätbibliothek Göttingen(G) | www.sub.uni-goettingen.de | |
| Literaturrecherche im Internet(G) | www.biblint.de | |
| Österreichisches Literaturarchiv (G) | www.onb.ac.at | |
| Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv (G) | www.nb.admin.ch | |
| WEBIS: Sammelschwerpunkte an deutschen Bibliotheken (G) | webis.sub.uni-hamburg.de | |
Links to university german departments |
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| Germanistik - Universität Heidelberg(G) | www.gs.uni-hd.de | |
| Germanistik Institut (University of Innsbruck) (G) | www.uibk.ac.at | |
Information for students and teachers of German |
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| Actilingua Academy (language courses in Vienna) (E) | www.actilingua.com | |
| American Association of German Teachers (E) | www.aatg.org | |
| Canadian Association of Teachers of German (E) | www.cautg.org | |
| Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland (E) | www.swan.ac.uk | |
| Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache (G) | www.tu-dresden.de | |
| Deutsche Sprache: Zeitschrift für Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation (G) | www.ids-mannheim.de | |
| E-mail Discussion Groups and Newsgroups (E) | www.swansea.ac.uk | |
| External Links (E) | www.swansea.ac.uk | |
| Fachinformationen Germanistik (G) | isis.ub.fu-berlin.de | |
| German Studies Association (E) | thegsa.org | |
| Nützliche Adressen für Germanisten (G/E) | www.fingerhut.de | |
| Projekt Literatur (G) | www2.vol.at | |
| Wirtschaftsdeutsch (G) | www.wirtschaftsdeutsch.de | |
| Wisconsin list (E) | www.langlink.net | |
| (G) German text only, (E) English text only, (G/E) Bilingual German & English texts. | ||
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