Research Guides: Global Cultural Studies: German Resources

German Reference Resources

(Ebook) A Companion to German Cinema
ISBN: 9781405194365

Publication Date: 2012
(Ebook) Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture
ISBN: 9780415124485

Publication Date: 1999
(Ebook) Encyclopedia of German Literature
ISBN: 1579581382

Publication Date: 2000
(Print) Modern Germany
Call Number: MOH 2nd Floor Stacks DD14 .J64 2022

ISBN: 9781440864537

Publication Date: 2022
(Print} Modern Germany
Call Number: MOH Reference DD14 .M64 1998

ISBN: 0815305036

Publication Date: 1998

Websites

German History in Documents and Images
A collection of digitized historical materials from 1500 - present day, divided into 10 periods in German history. Provided by the German Historical Institute.
Germany Divided and Reunified
Primary source document links, EuroDocs, Brigham Young University.
19th-Century German Stories
a selection of short narrative works in German from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries, featuring verified texts from documented editions and, whenever possible, English translations.

Access World News
Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.
Contemporary World Music
Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Starting with over 2,000 albums, and over 29,500 tracks, regular additions are made to this collection.
Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 400 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.

German Newspapers

Neues Deutschland : Zentralorgan der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands.
Call Number: MOH Bound Newspaper

Neues Deutschland ( 'New Germany') is a left-wing German daily newspaper, headquartered in Berlin. For 43 years it was the official party newspaper of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), which governed East Germany (officially known as the German Democratic Republic)

Neues Deutschland Index
Browse and Search issues of this East German Newspaper from 1946-1990.

Vorwärts; Sozialdemokratische Wochenzeitung.
Call Number: MOH Bound Newspaper

Vorwärts ("Forward") is a newspaper published by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Founded in 1876, it was the central organ of the SPD for many decades.

German Videos

Find German Language DVDs in the Willamette University Libraries by clicking on this link,

Streaming Video Databases

Kanopy
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, tv series, and more. Do a search for the word German or Austrian and you'll find a wonderful variety of films and programs about all things German or Austrian,

Berlin - Schönhauser Corner (Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser).[Kanopy]
They are East Berlin teenagers. They want to be free – to dance to rock’n’roll, trade forbidden western goods and get away from the constraints of their parents and the state. This classic 1950’s teen cult film became a box-office hit and was greeted with suspicion by East German officials.

Academic Video Online [AVON]
Provides videos of documentaries, interviews, performances, and more. Contains more than 80,000 video titles spanning a range of subject areas including cinema studies.

Silly [AVON]
A two-hours documentary produced out of 200 hours of amazing footage, showing the history of the GDR cult band Silly

Follow this link to access Willamette Student Senior German Studies Theses. You'll need to login with your Willamette ID to see the whole collection.

German Theses

Follow this link to find other guides for German Related courses

(Some of these are older courses and may not have been revised lately)