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Explore 20 free texts (CI) for upper beginners & intermediates. Each text uses our learning system, that includes native audio, a comprehension quiz and flashcards for recall.

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Upper Beginner Texts: A2

Rammstein

An industrial metal band with explosive live shows.

Schlager Music

Catchy, sentimental pop from German-speaking Europe.

Hildegard von Bingen

A medieval abbess, composer, mystic, and polymath.

German Christmas Markets

Traditional winter markets selling crafts, food, and Glühwein.

Berlin's Holocaust Memorial

A vast field of concrete blocks near Brandenburg Gate.

Sophie Scholl

A student and White Rose anti-Nazi resister, executed in 1943.

Struwwelpeter

An well-known German children's book of dark cautionary tales.

Anne Frank

A young diarist who hid from the Nazis, and died in the Holocaust.

Lower Intermediate Texts: B1

New German Cinema

A 1960s–80s film movement that challenged mainstream cinema.

Bauhaus

A design school that merged art, craft and industry into modernism.

The German Witch Hunt

The early modern persecutions of alleged witches across Germany.

Anton Wilhelm Amo

A Ghanaian-born philosopher, and the first Black professor in Germany.

Nietzsche's Life & Philosophy

A philosopher who critiqued morality and truth.

Käthe Kollwitz

An important artist and printmaker, who depicted grief and war.

Carl Jung

The Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology.

Berghain

A legendary Berlin techno club with a strict door policy.

Upper Intermediate Texts: B2

The Witch Craze

The 16th–17th-century mass witch trials and executions in Germany.

Schinderhannes

The notorious Rhineland robber, executed by guillotine in 1803.

German Mythical Creatures

Supernatural beings from folklore, haunting fields and homes.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

A romantic author, who wrote uncanny tales like 'The Nutcracker'

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08 Nov 2024

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06 Sep 2024

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