Filmregisseurinnen

1. Visit the web site of the film festival Feminale, Internationales FrauenFilmFestival (http://www.feminale.de/), held in Cologne. This festival is an international showing of works by women directors, including feature films, documentaries, and television programs. In German.

2. The home page for CineGraph (http://www.cinegraph.de/) maintains a databank of information about German film. It includes biographies of important directors, such as Doris Dörrie, as well as screenplays of classic German films. This site is primarily text-based with some pictures. In German with summary and a site guide in English.

3. Visit one of the most important and historic German film studios, Babelsberg (http://www.filmpark.potsdam.de/). Babelsberg was the site for such classic films as "The Blue Angel" and "Metropolis." It has been an active studio since 1912, through the years of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic, and is still making movies. In German and English.

Gleichberechtigung

1. The Federal Ministry for Family, the Elderly, Women, and Youth, the Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (http://www.bmfsfj.de/) offers a page which gives the constitutional basis of policies benefiting women in Germany and links to a statement of the current situation of women (http://www.bmfsfj.de/Politikbereiche/Gleichstellung/frauen-und-beruf.html). In German.


2. Deutsches Historisches Museum (http://www.dhm.de/) presents an exhibition of the women's movement, die neue Frauenbewegung, of the 1960's (http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/DasGeteilteDeutschland
/KontinuitaetUndWandel/UnruhigeJahre/neueFrauenbewegung.html), with text and pictures. In German.

3. Many German cities have an office for women's issues. This office in Karlsruhe (http://www.karlsruhe.de/Stadt/Frauen/) has a good summary of the concerns of the contemporary German woman. In German.

Familienpolitik

1. Frauennetz (http://www.frauennetz.de/) is a web site that specializes in women's issues: everything from business advice to cookbooks for children. In German.

2. The office of equal opportunities at the Fachhochschule Oldenburg (http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/oow/frauenb/ol/index.shtml) has information about women's issues and government policies. In German and English.

3. Private companies must also develop policies for women in the workplace. Xerox of Austria (http://www.xerox.at/) outlines their policy on the Web (http://www.xerox.at/24c6.htm). In German.

Berufstätige Frauen

1. The Museum der Arbeit, in Hamburg-Barmbek (http://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/) is devoted to the history of work. Get a taste of their exhibits through the pictures and text about the exhibit devoted to work and gender (http://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/Ausstellung/geschlecht.html) In German. Home page also in English.

2. For more links for women's issues go to the home page of the Frauenbüro der Universität Hannover. (http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/frauenbuero/). In German.