We are not alone in our endeavors to uplift the heterogeneity of German cultures across time, genre, and medium. Other initiatives of note are:
1) The Expanding German Studies project at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, an interactive bibliography with primary sources, lesson plans, and short reflections/essays by contributors about their work as innovative pedagogues.
2) The German Studies Collaboratory is a multidisciplinary and international virtual hub of lesson materials, syllabi, scholarly lectures, and primary sources/research materials spanning time, place, medium, and genre.
3) The Multicultural Germany Project‘s bibliography, which provides basic information about a wide range of subjects relating to questions of translation and circulation, intermediality, and mobilizing the archives of mobility. “Multicultural Germany” is not meant to demarcate a particular geopolitical zone or orientation but as a synecdoche, standing for the plurality of international, transnational, and intranational discourses of migration.
4) Black Central Europe, a project led by the Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN) whose work focuses on the Black Diaspora in German-speaking Central Europe, also provides teaching and research resources for a range of levels
5) The Global Feminisms Project (GFP) at the University of Michigan, founded in 2002, collects interviews with women’s movement activists and women’s studies scholars in sites around the world. The archive includes interviews with women from Brazil, China, Germany, India, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, and the United States. Access to the interview transcripts and videos is available in the original language or in English. The GFP was designed with curricular and research goals at its core. The materials lend themselves to comparative and interdisciplinary work, addressing issues that reach across disciplines and bring understandings of activism, historical context, identity formation, and social movements into play. For those hoping to incorporate the materials into their classes, they created lesson plans and have gathered syllabi and notes on thematic modules as well as bibliographies and additional materials. They also list publications that have used the GFP archive, including articles in Signs and Feminist Studies and a number of book chapters.
Use this link to access the several interviews with German feminist activists of all stripes. With each interview you’ll find name pronunciation guides, biographical information, images of each woman, and transcripts of the interviews.