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German Film:

The Rochester Public  library has over 150 film titles in German, most with English subtitles, free with your free RPL card and easy to find.   You can reserve at www.rochesterpubliclibrary.org or do the same search at the library computers.

---> Catalog  (2nd tab from left).   On the Catalog page, scroll down
---> Recommended Resources
---> Movies / ESL / CD-ROMS
---> German Films 

Your suggestions for this list are welcome; here are a few of the best, to start:

• Run Lola run / Lola rennt 1999  Features Franka Potente of the Bourne Identity series.
• Good Bye, Lenin ! /Lebt Lenin noch? 2003  German is reunited, but don't tell Mother.
• Lives of Others / Das Leben den Anderen  2004.  Follows East German secret police as  they spy on an East German couple.  Die Stasi = Staats Sicherheit  (state security)
• Das Wunder von Bern 2003  Soccer World Cup championship 1954 & post WWII Germany
• The Boat / Das Boot  1982  German U-Boat #96 (submarine) in the North Atlantic
• The Princess & the Warrior /Der Krieger u. die Kaiserin 2000  Franka Potente again.
• Europa, Europa /Hitlerjunge Salomon 1991  a Jewish boy survives by joining the Hitler Youth
• Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage.  Celebration of the life of a German resistance heroine.
  
• Jenseits der Stille  1997  A tender window into the life of a child with a deaf parent.
• Marx und Coca Cola.   Recommended, but I haven’t seen.  Your impression?

German Music:

A few 19th century classical composers from German-speaking lands:

Beethoven, Brahams, Mahler, Mendelssohn (brother & sister Felix & Fanny), Schubert, Schumann (husband & wife Robert & Clara), Strauss (father & son Johann & Richard), Wagner.

Some contemporary German-speaking pop-rock artists:

• Laith Al-Deen
• Die Fantastischen Vier
• Juli
• Xavier Naidoo
• Nena
• Revolverheld
• Debbie Rockt!
• Rosenstolz
• Sportfreunde Stiller
• Christina Stürmer
• Wir sind Helden