Landeskunde

Here you find a variety of topics regarding the three biggest German speaking countries: Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Please click on the categories below to access the material.

Deutschland

Österreich

Schweiz

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The website was created as part of the DAAD-funded project of the Centre for Irish-German Studies Exploring the past, enhancing the current position, and working towards 250 years of German Studies in Ireland, 2022-2024, which was led by Professor Gisela Holfter (CIGS, University of Limerick), recent and current presidents of the GSAI (Dr Joseph Twist, UCD; Associate Professor Marieke Krajenbrink, UL; Dr Linda Shortt, MU and Associate Professor Michaela Schrage-Früh, UG), and the project’s Research Assistant Natascha Guggi (UL).

The website is now further expanded thanks to one of the four strands of the 2025-2027 DAAD-funded project of the Centre for Irish-German Studies (“Irish-German Studies and its many facets: research, dialogue and promotion to enhance German Studies in Ireland in a European context”) with everybody still on board and with more colleagues (including Dr Anita Barmettler, Orla Prendergast, Associate Professor Veronica O’Regan and Marah Moloney Weissbrich) involved in this part.

If you have any topic requests or your own teaching materials that you would like to make available to others, please contact us.