Texts and Podcasts

The title links below (left side) will take you to printed texts with related podcasts. The podcasts are designed to give assistance with understanding spoken German, vocabulary development and structural understanding. At the bottom of this page there is a series of links to a variety of supplementary materials to aid you in learning German. The links in the aqua colored boxes let you listen to an entire story in German but without text. If you would like to read the text as you listen, you may click on the title link after you have started the podcast and the text will appear.

Note: These files are intended only for students at the University

of St. Thomas for the purpose of learning German.

Texts Time   Podcast in German only

Immanuel Kant

Der Kategorische Imperativ

Was ist Aufklärung?

20.5 mins. each

 

Several formulations of Kant's famous "Categorical Imperative"

Kant's essay on objectives of the Enlightenment

 

Listen to the k.I.texts in German
Listen to the Aufklärung text in German

 
Reichstag 18 mins.    
Sonnenfinsternis File 1, 10 mins.

File 2, 20 mins.

File 3, 3 mins.

    

Maria Louise Kaschnitz

Gespenster

Hear the entire text in German:

File 1,19mins.

File 2, 12 mins.
File 1 (bio.), 8 mins

File 2 (text), 13 mins.

File 3 (text), 17 mins.

File 4 (text), 10 mins.

File 5 (text) 18 mins.

File 6 (text) 13 mins.

 File 7 (text), 16 mins.

File 8 (text), 15 mins.

File 9 (text), 8 mins.

File 10 (text), 15 mins.

File 11 (text), 17 mins.

File 12 (text), 19 mins.

 File 13 (text), 14 mins.

File 14 (text), 17 mins.

File 15 (text), 15 mins.

File 16 (text) 17 mins.

File 17 (text) 14 mins.
Der arabische Ring

An exotic adventure in subjunctive

 File 1, 19 mins.

File 2, 17 mins.

 File 3, 15 mins.

File 4, 8 mins.
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story in German, 6 mins.
Deutsche Bank 17 mins.    
Erlkönig (Goethe) 16 mins.    
Das Göttliche (Goethe) 19 mins.    
Es wird etwas geschehen

A tale of intense business drive

 file 1 (bio.), 8 mins.

file 2, text, 14 mins.

file 3, text, 17 mins.

file 4, text, 13 mins.

 file 5, text, 17 mins.

file 6, text 16 mins.

file 7, text, 11 mins.

file 8, text, 8 mins.
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in German, 17 mins.
Ein altes Blatt

Existentialism in German

 file 1 (bio.) 8 mins.

file 2, text, 14 mins.

file 3, text, 16 mins.

 file 4, text, 12 mins.

file 5, text, 10 mins.

a commentary, 12 mins.
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in German, 8 mins.
Der tolle Mensch

More radical existentialism

 file 1, text, 17 mins.

file 2, text, 12 mins.

 commentary, 13 mins.
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in German, 6 mins.
Die unwürdige Greisin

Has that woman no shame?

 file 1 (bio.), 8 mins.

file 2, text, 16 mins.

file 3, text, 13 mins.

file 4, text, 14 mins.

 file 5, text, 15 mins.

file 6, text, 14 mins.

file 7, text, 14 mins.

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in German, 18 mins.
Vom armen B. B.

Nichts Nennenswertes

 file1 (text), 17 mins.
Hear a song by

Brecht. Music

by Kurt Weill.

Sung by Lotte

Lenya
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in German, 4 mins.
Reklame

The poetry of sales

 file 1, text, 7 mins.    
Der Wolf

Heroic hunger.

 file 1, (bio.), 5 mins.

text file 1, 14 mins.

text file 2, 15 mins.

 text file 3, 11 mins.

text file 4, 14 mins.

commentary, 12 mins.
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in German, 13 mins.
Star Alliance file, text, 14 mins.    
Song by Wolf Biermann

footloose

 file 1, text, 12 mins.
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Der Stelzengänger

Günther Eich

      

Nationalhymne

      

Spe Salvi Benedict XVI

A German Pope Speaks

      

Christmas 1

    The angel comes to Mary

      

Christmas 2

     Jesus is born

      

 

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