Audio/Visual Media

Video, television and radio, cassettes and audio CDs provide a lively impression of the German language, culture, politics, society, economy and science in picture and sound. The material mostly purposing for an assignment abroad either are available to anyone or can be loaned or given to non-commercial organisers.

Materials for the German lessons in the following subject:

professional and technical terminology

regional and cultural studies

teacher training

literature

primary level

self-study

elementary level

Cultural Mediators outside of German speaking areas may borrow films with the help of the online film catalogue at their nearest Goethe Institute film archive. The total supply comprises well over 700 feature and documentary films.

www.goethe.de

These 49 videos, made between 2003 and 2007, are all about 15 minutes long and they cover all kinds of events and phenomena that occurred in the cultural, social and political life of Germany. An accompanying text provides background information on each topic, there is also a text transcript for each video. Films and accompanying materials can be accessed in German, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese.

www.goethe.de

Youth magazine on video for use in teaching abroad.

www.goethe.de

The German Programme sends messages every hour with information from Germany and the world. Besides the Deutsche Welle offers radio programmes in thirty languages.

www.dw-world.de

The Deutsche Welle sends news every hour on the hour, up-to-date reporting, magazines, and documentary programmes from the worlds of politics, economics, the arts, and sports in the languages German, English, Arabic and Spanish.

www.dw-world.de