German Thought and Culture: An Interactive Introduction
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Sources and Materials
Recommended texts:
We are going to use selections from these works for some of our discussions
(you do not have to purchase all of these books (all affordable paperbacks), materials will also be
scanned. All these texts are highly accessible, and offer palatable doses of indispensable cultural,
historical, and creative insights into life and thought in Germany and Switzerland.
- Fritz Stern, Five Germanys I Have Known. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Kendall Maycock, Switzerland – Culture Smart. A quick guide to customs and etiquette.
Kuperard, 2006.
- Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. Penguin, 2006.
- Mary Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany. Cambridge UP, 2004 (2nd edition).
- Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin. U of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Heinrich Heine, The Harz Journey and Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2007.
- Georg Büchner, Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 1994.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections, Penguin Classics, 1999.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Penguin Classics, 2003.
- Albert Einstein, The New Quotable Einstein. Princeton UP, 2005.
- Paul Celan, Collected Prose. Carnanet Press, 2006.
- Christa Wolf, Cassandra. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
- Max Frisch, Man in the Holocene, Dalkey, 2007.
- Michael Hofmann (ed.), Twentieth-Century German Poetry. An Anthology. Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2006.
- Walter Frisch, German Modernism: Music and the Arts. U of California Press, 2007.
- Patricia Rife, Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. Birkhäuser Boston, 2006.
- Michael Cherlin, Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination. Cambridge UP, 2007.
- Zafer Senocak, Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998.
U of Nebraska Press, 2000.
- Deniz Göztürk and Anton Kaes, Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005.
U of California Press, 2007.
- Audioarchive
Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, etc.: Original recordings of their
speeches and interviews.
German Search Engines
- www.abacho.de
- www.dino.de
- www.walhello.de
- www.acoon.de
- www.google.de
- Facts about Germany:
- http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/389.0.html
- Websites on Germany and Switzerland, with many useful links:
- http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/german.html
- http://www.werle.com/intagent/index.htm
- http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/Jump_Stations.html
- Goethe Institute (with useful links):
- http://www.goethe.de/
- Virtual Museums:
- http://webmuseen.de/
- http://www.dhm.de/lemo/
- German literature (free access to a wide range of German texts):
- http://gutenberg.spiegel.de
- http://www.poetryinternational.org
- German Parliament:
- http://www.bundestag.de/
- German News and Science Magazines:
- www.paperball.de
- www.natur.de
- www.spektrum.de
- www.spiegel.de
- www.sueddeutsche.de
- www.faznet.de
- www.freitag.de
- Swiss News:
- www.nzz-online.ch
- German Universities:
- http://www.uni-online.de/
- German Theater:
- http://www.hfph.mwn.de/~chwolf/Theaterparadies_Deutschland.html
- German Film:
- http://www.film.de/
- Daily Cultural links:
- www.perlentaucher.de