Arts

Art in Germany: Architecture, Literature, German Painting and Music

German Architecture

famous cathedrals:
- romanic: Cologne (Köln) (the biggest in Germany and one of the biggest in the world - see picture), Speyer, Worms, Mainz, Münster, Hildesheim, Paderborn
- gothic: Freiburg i.B., Ulm (the highest in the world)
- baroc: Wieskirch, Frauenkirche (Munich)
- Books about German Cathedrals
castles: Neuschwanstein (Bavaria), Hohenschwangau (Bavaria), Charlottenburger Schloß (Berlin), Sanssousi (Potsdam), Burg Elz (an der Mosel), Feste Königsstein (near Dresden)
Books about German Castles
nice old cities: Rothenburg o.d.T., Dinkelsbühl, Celle, Detmold, Lemgo

Famous Architects and Styles

Bauhaus (Walter Gropius)
Frey-Otto - Architect of the Olympia Stadium in Munich
List of German Architects

German Literature

famous authors:
- Klassik:
  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
  - Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759-1815)
  - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
  - Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
  - Books about German Classic
- Clemens Brentano, Achim von Armin, Heinrich Heine
- Modern: Günther Grass, Heinrich Böll, Siegfried Lenz
- others: Karl May, Michael Ende, Erich Kästner
- and actual authors: Bernhard Schlink, Claudia Funke, Frank Schätzing, Daniel Kehlman
- Grimm's Fairy Tales in German
- German and other sayings in German

German Painting

Middle Age:

Dürer
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)
Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586)

Expressionism: Max Beckmann, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Paul Klee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Franz Marc, Otto Modersohn, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Müller, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff

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German Music

Here are two stores where you can get German music´(christmas, popular, folk, marching music etc.) in the USA:

famous composers:
If you are interested in a CD from one of these composers look here.
- early music: Telemann, Hummel
- Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Schumann, ....
- Henze
German songs at Deutschsprachiges Liederverzeichnis
Blues in Germany

Books about German

Dirty German: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang), Daniel Chaffey, Ulysses Press, 1569756732
German Demystified: A Self Teaching Guide, Ed Swick, McGraw-Hill, 0071475613
German Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily, Arnold Leitner Ph.D., Made Simple, 0767918606
German Grammar Drills (Drills Series), Ed Swick, McGraw-Hill, 0071475141
German: How to Speak and Write It (Beginners' Guides), Joseph Rosenberg, BN Publishing, 9650060359
The Wolf: How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI, Richard Guilliatt, Free Press, 1416573178
Practice Makes Perfect German Sentence Builder (Practice Makes Perfect Series), Ed Swick, McGraw-Hill, 0071599622
Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics), Bette Greene, Puffin, 0142406511
Rick Steves' German Phrase Book and Dictionary, Rick Steves, Avalon Travel Publishing, 1598801937
Practice Makes Perfect: German Vocabulary (Practice Makes Perfect Series), Ed Swick, McGraw-Hill, 0071482857

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