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

Behind the Wheel - German 1 (Behind the Wheel Level 1), Behind the Wheel, Behind the Wheel, 142720716X
German: How to Speak and Write It (Beginners' Guides), Joseph Rosenberg, BN Publishing, 9650060359
Summer of My German Soldier (Puffin Modern Classics), Bette Greene, Cover to Cover Cassettes, 0756967732
English Grammar for Students of German, Cecile Zorach, Olivia & Hill Pr, 0934034311
An Honorable German, Charles McCain, Grand Central Publishing, 0446538981
German Grammar Drills (Drills Series), Ed Swick, McGraw-Hill, 0071475141
German Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily, Arnold Leitner Ph.D., Made Simple, 0767918606
Webster's New World German Dictionary: German/English English/German, Peter Terrel, Webster's New World, 0139536213
Essential German Grammar, Guy Stern, www.bnpublishing.com, 956291450X
Langenscheidt Pocket German Dictionary: German-english/ English-german (Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary), , Langenscheidt Publishers, 1585735930

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