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

German Made Simple: Learn to speak and understand German quickly and easily, Arnold Leitner Ph.D., Three Rivers Press, 0767918606
The Everything Learning German Book: Speak, write, and understand basic German in no time (Everything (Language & Writing)), Edward Swick, Adams Media, 159869989X
German: How to Speak and Write It (Beginners' Guides), Joseph Rosenberg, BN Publishing, 9650060359
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 Grammar Drills (Drills Series), Ed Swick, McGraw-Hill, 0071475141
Short Stories in German / Erzählungen auf Deutsch (New Penguin Parallel Texts), , Penguin (Non-Classics), 0140265422
Volks-Kochbuch (German Edition), Hedwig Heyl, Qontro Classic Books, B003VQRYX6
Märchen für Kinder (Illustrierte Ausgabe) (Dodo Press) (German Edition), Hans Christian Andersen, Dodo Press, 1409922952
Der Auftragskiller (German Edition), Berndt Rieger, CreateSpace, 1451552807

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