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Hartmut Rastalsky’s "Resources for German Students and Teachers"
A rich and entertaining set of resources for students and teachers of German at any level. These pages include, but are by no means limited to the following topics:

Interactive Grammar Tutor
Summaries, detailed explanations, extensive examples, practice exercises and diagnostic exercises for all the basic aspects of German grammar.

Learning Strategies/Study Advice
Advice for learning German on your own, reading and listening strategies, mastering vocabulary, buying a dictionary, and more.

Course Outlines and Materials

German on the Web

A comprehensive collection of links organized by categories, under the general headings "Language Learning & Reference Resources," "Media: Live TV & Radio, Newspapers & Magazines," and "Links by Subject Area."

Public-Domain Images for German Studies

Various members of the Department have assembled a large number of images that we hope will be useful to students and faculty alike.  All are in the public domain, and thus may be used freely for educational purposes.  The large, searchable database we envision is still under construction, but we plan to add individual images to these pages steadily meanwhile.

 

Scholarly Research

• Journals and Book Series Edited by GLL Faculty
• Major Conferences at U of M
  • Rethinking Weimar (April 2002)
  • The Unification Effect: Ten Years After (December 1999)

• Unpublished Research by GLL Faculty

 

The Goethe Institute Collection at U of M’s Language Resource Center                           This extraordinary resource includes the entire collection of the former Goethe-Institut Ann Arbor, which it kindly donated to U of M when it closed in 1999.  The collection is now fully catalogued and searchable online.  It also circulates: local patrons may view the collection and check out items in person, and the LRC is also willing to ship items to users throughout the Upper Midwest.

Midwest Office of CDS International at the University of Michigan
U of M's German Department is home to The Midwest Office of the prestigious internship organization CDS International.  The CDS Midwest Representative is Peggy Wunderwald-Jensen, who also teaches German for GLL, and has an office on the third floor of the Modern Languages Building.

The Turkish-German Studies Group
The Turkish-German Studies Group ties together issues related to current and historical relationships between Germany and Turkey; Turkish migrant populations and their descendants in Germany; and more general issues of cross-cultural and multicultural realities within Germany. Apart from the Turkish-German focus, the group also provides a forum for the debate around transnational migration, African Germans, Jewish Germans, and Arab Germans.

The German Film Institute

Michigan hosts the biannual German Film Institute (2004 and 2006). This event brings together eminent scholars in the field of German Film Studies for a week-long seminar of screenings and intensive discussions. This year's Institute is devoted to the topic of "Unknown Weimar II: International Connections." Screenings will be open to the public. Click on the title immediately above to learn more about the GFI.

Robin Queen's Germanic Linguistics Links

 

Other Local and Regional German Studies Resources

Other National and International German Studies Resources

Departmental Libraries