Internet Search/Catalog Sites
For many purposes, Google Deutschland or Yahoo! Deutschland may be the best choice, but the following sites could also be helpful in introducing you to some of what the German Internet has to offer.

GMX

WEB.DE

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General Media Sites

Perlentaucher. Regularly updated overviews of and links to the most interesting articles from the German and international press.

Media-Daten Verlag. Basic information on all print media (newspapers, magazines, trade journals, book publishers, etc.) and links to other media information sites.

PZ-online. Lots of statistics about popular German magazines (PZ stands for Publikumszeitschriften) from the Verband Deutscher Zeitschriftenverleger.

Germany
The listings here are limited to major "überregionale" papers. There are many other German newspapers on the Internet, but most of them are local or regional papers.

Bild. The tabloid that is read by about ten times as many Germans as any other newspaper.

Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). A leader among Germany's politically conservative dailies.

Frankfurter Rundschau. Another important daily from Frankfurt, politically left of center.

Die Süddeutsche Zeitung. Probably Germany's most important mainstream left-of-center daily, based in Munich.

Die Welt. Another popular, though considerably more serious, paper from the publisher of "Bild" (Axel Springer AG).

DIE ZEIT. One of the most important weekly newspapers in the world. Excellent articles on a wide variety of topics.

die tageszeitung (taz). Germany's leading "alternative" newspaper, based in Berlin.

Handelsblatt. The German counterpart to the Wall Street Journal.

Austria

Kurier. Somewhere between a tabloid and a serious newspaper.

Die Kronen Zeitung. Austria's #1 tabloid.

Die Presse. Conservative (some would say "dry").

Der Standard. A relatively young newspaper (founded in the 1988), perhaps Austria's best today; politically liberal.

Switzerland

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). An important paper, read throughout the German-speaking world and beyond.

Blick. A Swiss counterpart to Germany's "Bild".

General news magazines (comparable to Time and Newsweek)

Germany

Der Spiegel. The dominant German news magazine since the post-war period, historically left of center, but drifting somewhat to the right in recent years. This page is specific to the magazine. The parent page covers the whole Spiegel media "empire".

Focus. Founded in 1993 as a right-of-center alternative to Spiegel.

Stern. Stern could be classified with the Illustrierten below, but it has significantly more political news than any other publication in that category.

Austria

Profil. The most widely read German-language news magazine published outside of Germany.

Business (comparable to BusinessWeek, Fortune, The Economist)

WirtschaftsWoche. The only major general business weekly in Germany.

Capital. Another important publication focusing on business and finance; appears biweekly.

impulse. Germany's most important monthly business magazine.

Karriere. A monthly magazine aimed at younger readers focused on their careers.

Illustrierte (roughly comparable to People and Us)
A very popular genre in Germany with a long tradition.

Bunte. The most popular German Illustrierte.

Gala. Another major Illustrierte, a little more modern and youthful than Bunte or Super illu.

SUPERillu. A very popular magazine among East Germans; not widely read by West Germans.

"Women's magazines" (comparable to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal)
Fashion, beauty, diets, fitness, lifestyle, sex tips, etc. These are Illustrierte aimed specifically at a female audience. In addition to the publications listed below, some of the well-known international women's magazines also have German editions, including Cosmopolitan and Elle. A different kind of "women's magazine" is represented by Emma, a feminist publication comparable to Ms. magazine.

Brigitte.

Freundin.

FÜR SIE.

Science, geography, knowledge (comparable to National Geographic)

Geo.

P.M. The initials stand for Peter Moosleitner, the magazine's creator.

Germany

ARD. The major public broadcasting corporation in Germany, responsible for both radio and television. Click on the "Radio" link for information specific to German public radio. Links to the varioius regional broadcasters are at the bottom of the page. You can listen to most stations live on the Internet.

Austria

ORF. The Österreichischer Rundfunk, Austrian counterpart to the ARD. Its Internet offerings are unfortunately rather meager.

Switzerland

DRS. Schweizer Radio DRS.

International

Deutsche Welle. The international broadcasting branch of the ARD. (No longer available live on the Internet in the U.S., but you may be able to watch it if you live elsewhere.)

Public channels

Germany

Das Erste. Germany's first TV channel, part of the ARD. The ARD's television news service, Tagesschau, is one of the best Internet resources for German television. All of the many news shows produced by Tagesschau are available for Internet viewing. You can watch current broadcasts live as well as recordings of earlier programs. Das Erste now also offers a wide variety of other programs for on-demand Internet viewing at: http://www.daserste.de/interaktiv/videos.asp.

ZDF. Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen. The other major public channel in Germany.

In addition to Das Erste and ZDF, each region has its own third public television channel. These can be accessed by following the links to the regional broadcasters at the bottom of the ARD home page and then clicking on "Fernsehen". Below the regional broadcasters are links to a number of specialized channels, such as the documentary channel Phoenix, which has substantial on-demand Internet offerings.

Austria

ORF. Same site as under "Radio" above. Internet offerings are limited, but you can (at least for the moment) watch the news program Zeit im Bild 2. (Click on "ZIB 2 on demand".)

Switzerland

SF. Schweizer Fernsehen.

Major private channels

SAT.1

RTL. The most watched private channel in Germany.

ProSieben. Has a large selection of recent programs available for Internet viewing. Click on "show & comedy" at the top of the ProSieben home page, then click on "videos" at the bottom of the list on the left.

Secondary general cable channels

RTL2.

kabel eins.

VOX.

Specialized channels

News

n-tv. This and the next are both 24-hour news channels. LIVE

N24. The news channel of the ProSieben group.

Euronews. Based in France but broadcasts news in several European languages. Click on "Deutsch".

Sports

Sport1.

Eurosport. A Europe-wide channel. This link is to the German version, but they also broadcast the same content in other languages.

Music

MTV. The German version of the well-known American cable music channel.

Viva.

GIGA. LIVE

Children's

SuperRTL.

KI.KA. (Der Kinderkanal). The childern's channel of the public broadcasting corporation ARD/ZDF.

Home shopping

HSE24. LIVE

New Media

Online magazines (comparable to Salon and Slate)

Telepolis.

Netzeitung.de.

Blogs, etc.

blogger.de. Information about, and links to, German weblogs.

de.indymedia.org. The Independent Media Center (IMC) in Germany, part of a global movement of leftist (anti-globalist, anti-capitalist) independent journalists. There is also a (multilingual) IMC in Switzerland.

WIKINEWS. The German-language version of this new participatory news medium.

Video sharing
German counterparts to YouTube, etc.

MyVideo.

sevenload.

TipClip.de.

kanalB. This does not really belong in this category, but I'm not sure where else to put it.

Video activism

Videoactivism. Portal with information about video activism and links to sites.

kanalB.

ak kraak.

Filmpiraten.

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