Resources (Hilfsmittel)
Campus Resources
Vassar College Libraries
German Studies Reading Room
Vassar librarian Ron Patkus maintains an online German Studies Reading Room, which provides quick access to an organized array of scholarly resources in German Studies as well as a wide variety of links of interest to students of German, including a convenient listing of German-language news sources on the web.
Special Collections
The Vassar College Library also has a rich collection of rare books and other materials in the Catherine Pelton Durrell '25 Archives and Special Collections, including children’s books printed in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, first editions of German works, early additions of the Grimm Brothers' fairytales, and several interesting late-19th- and early-20th-century German periodicals. In addition, the collection contains pamphlets and other printed items dealing with the world wars, the rise of Nazism, and the image of Jews in Germany. Most recently, the Library received the Morris and Adele Bergreen Albert Einstein Collection, 1919-1988 with Einstein’s correspondence with his executor Otto Nathan as well as other materials documenting his social activism. These items are regularly used in German classes, which often meet for a session or two in special classrooms located in the Library’s Special Collections Department.
Doing Research in German Cultural Studies
Resources compiled by Gretchen Lieb, Reference Librarian at the Vassar College libraries, for the course German 106.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center serves as an important resource for German Studies courses, which have often met in the Art Center's classroom to view items from Vassar's substantial collections. In addition to its own extensive permanent collections in painting, prints, drawings and sculptures, it frequently features visiting exhibitions representing the most important German artists of the past and present. In 2003 the Art Center hosted a special exhibition of Käthe Kollwitz drawings, Käthe Kollwitz: The Art of Compassion. The exhibition explored the artist’s development over a fifty-year career and featured 74 drawings and prints and five sculptures, including 30 outstanding drawings from the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, most of which had never been seen before in the United States. The prints and sculptures in the exhibition were selected to complement the rarely viewed drawings from Stuttgart.
The Foreign Language Resource Center (FLRC)
The FLRC, located at the south entrance of Chicago Hall, offers a variety of services and facilities to students and teachers. Its servers store the many computer applications that form an important part of German instruction, which are accessible online. In addition, the FLRC houses a computer classroom, individual computers and video viewing stations, as well as a broad collection of foreign language tapes and DVDs.
German Television
German satellite television is available in the German lounge in Chicago Hall 130. Students can see a mix of news, documentaries, comedy and crime series, childrens' shows, and music videos. See the programming schedule for further details.
Selected Online Resources
Internship Possibilities for Students
Resources compiled by Pauline Hilmy '06, with commentary.
Electronic Text Collections: German Literature
Includes German literature available on-line from the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Selected Online Resources on African-Americans and Blacks in German
Resources compiled by the department.
German Corner
The web sites relating to German-Americans
http://www.germancorner.com
http://www.germanheritage.com