Other German Links and Search Engines

  • Before you go digging through the links and search engines for German web resources, start at home: UH's own language lab as catalogued a variety of German links to help students do their research or get that extra Deutsch-Fix they need.  Take a look.

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  • Germany's most popular search engine, so far, is Fireball.  It's a little slow with annoying ads, though.
  • It's "cousin," Paperball, will help you find newspapers in German.

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  • Having trouble finding a German-speaking Web site? DINO provides listings broken down into subjects, such as "Wissenschaften" and "Medien," etc. If you still don't see what you need, try their Suchmaschine

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  • Want to check several German search machines at once?  Then you need to visit MetaGer. This service will run your search simultaneously on over a dozen different databases and give you a list of the results.  Saves time!

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  • Even more German search engines and all manner of links are collected at German WWW Trails. Happy browsing!

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  • Robert Shea's many pages and links make his site an ideal place for "one-stop shopping" for things Germanic.

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  • One of the best collections of sites comes from my alma mater wash uWashington University in St. Louis.

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    From Austria, an organization of women scholars, Ariadne, puts out the Ariadne-Newsletter with information on new materials in women's and gender studies at the National Library in Vienna.

    For more on scholarship by or concerning women, click on the Women in German (WIG) web site.
     

  • And try this site for more on feminist theory internationally.

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  • Sometimes an exhibit is just (not) an exhibit.  You take a look and judge for yourself: click on the logo below for an on-line view of the Sigmund Freud exhibit at the Library of Congress.


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  • The WIG-List linked me to the Eastern German Studies Group, an outfit interested in a broad selection of topics that deal with the German Democratic Republic and its aftermath.

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  • More on GDR culture and politics (and other topics) from Stanford University (be sure to check out their other useful sites)!

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  • And speaking of the East, learn all about that two-stroke marvel, the Trabant, at this small collection of Trabi-related links Trabi
  • If that isn't enough for you, the American Association of Teachers of German can connect you even further.  Our own Houston Chapter has its web page here.

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  • But wait: there's more! From our friends in the frozen North, well, I guess it doesn't get too cold in B.C.  Peter Golz manages the CAUTG Homepage out of Victoria.

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  • A link from California: The Germanic Homepage has many useful sites.

    • When is a chair not just a chair?  When, despite its simplicity, it has become an international symbol of an aesthetic, architectural, and political movement: the Bauhaus.  And when it's also a link. Find out more at a very nice site with many images by clicking on the furniture above.
     
     

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