German Language Resources for Students and Teachers: Culture

Hueber provides "Landeskundetexte, Online-Übungen und Spiel & Spaß" in support of its Tangram aktuell textbook.

The German first public broadcasting station, ARD, offers these film versions of German fairy and folk tales. Each is approximately an hour long.

Is a Haus a house? This lexicon is arranged by language and context; if offers culture-specific images that teachers can use freely (Common Core Licence). With 2600 images, German concepts comprise a large part of this resource.

This site allows searching by poet, poem title, theme, and era. There's even a Gedicht des Tages.

This lesson, prepared by the Max Kade Institute of the University of Wisconsin, has German I and II students engage with historical German-American cookbooks in order to learn German emigration history and the history of the change of the German language among emigrants to the United States.

This game tests your knowledge and brings you into contact with a Facebook community.

This site collects and retells (in German) folktales (Sagen) and Märchen from around the world.

German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.