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Directory of Essays by P. A. Schons

originally published by the Germanic-American Institute

People

Johann Sebastian Bach

Kurt Beck (pdf)

Ludwig van Beethoven (pdf)

Alban Berg (pdf)

St. Boniface

Karl Bosch (pdf)

Johannes Brahms

Wernher von Braun

Georg Büchner

Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Christian Doppler (pdf)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (pdf)

Albert Einstein

Ludwig Erhard

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Joschka Fischer

Felix Frankfurter

Anna Freud

Hans Georg Gadamer (pdf version)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Günter Grass

Otto von Guericke

Fritz Haber (pdf)

Jürgen Habermas (pdf)

Albert Hague (pdf version)

Regina Halmich (pdf)

Johann Hamann

Georg Friedrich Händel

Bruno Hauptmann

Franz Josef Haydn (pdf)

Heinrich Heine

Hermann  Helmholtz (pdf)

Werner Herzog

Hermann Hesse

Hildegard von Bingen

August Horch (pdf)

Karl Jung

Franz Kafka (pdf)

Immanuel Kant

..Kant and Hamann

Marie Louise Kaschnitz (pdf)

Helmut Kohl

Horst Köhler (pdf)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Lotte Lenya

Gottfried Lebniz (pdf)

Alexander Lippisch

Heinrich Mann

Thomas Mann

Marie-Antoinette

Albert Marcuse

Dieter Mateschitz

Angela Merkel (pdf)

Gustav Mahler

     The Composer (pdf)

     The Conductor (pdf)

Kurt Masur

Lise Meitner

Felix and Moses Mendelssohn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (pdf)

Mike Nichols

Friedrich Nietzsche

August Oetker (pdf)

Wolfgang Petersen

Max Planck (pdf)

Porsche Family

Quandt Family (pdf)

Karl Rahner (pdf)

Joseph Ratzinger (pdf)

Johannes Rau

Leni Riefenstahl (pdf)

Hans Riegel (pdf version)

Luise Rinser (pdf version)

Wilhelm Röntgen

Felix Salten

Heinrich Schliemann

Volker Schlondorff (pdf)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Karl Schurz

Gerhard Schröder

Sam Spiegel

Axel Springer

Edith Stein

Friedrich von Steuben

Edmund Stoiber (pdf version)

Johann Strauß (pdf)

Richard Strauss (pdf)

Amelia zur Helle Thyssen

Friederich Weyerhaeuser

Bernhard Wicki

Billy Wilder (pdf version)

Themes

3 German Scientists

4 German Women (Hildegard, Freud, Stein, Thyssen)

Bambi, the Austrian Deer (The origins of Bambi)

The Categorical Imperative (pdf)

Cathedral of Aachen (pdf)

Cathedral of Cologne

Cathedral of Munich

Cathedral of Trier

The Christmas Tree (pdf)

Economic Democracy (The German socioeconomic system)

Emigrants (Several noted emigrants from Germany and Austria)

German Poetry for Fall

German Literature (Two stories with a focus on heat)

Germanic Short and Small (Various small things in Germany and Austria)

The German Language (History of the language)

German Love Poetry

German Composers

German Scientists

The Grinch (The composer of the music) (pdf version)

Liechtenstein (A tiny Germanic nation)(pdf version)

Royalty, Rivers and Rats (Central Germany in and near Paderborn)

Teutonic Knights (html)(The Crusades) (pdf)

Trier (the oldest city in Germany)

Two Gentlemen of Königsberg (Hamann and Kant)

Business and Economics

Adidas (Sports gear)

Allianz Versicherung (The story of a Munich insuracne company)

Audi (pdf)  (The car company)

BASF (pdf)  (A German chemical company)

Bayer (A German chemical company)

Beck's ( A Brewery)

BMW (pdf) (The car company)

Die Deutsche Bank (One of the world's largest)

Die Deutsche Post (A German postal service)

Deutsche Welle (pdf) (German radio and tv)

DHL (A German delivery service)

Haribo (The gummi bear company) (pdf version)

The Economic Miracle of Ludwig Erhard (Economic redevelopment)

The Euro (a new money for Europe)

German Business (An overview of several German businesses)

Henkel (A German Chemicals Company)

Merck (A German and an American company)

Dr. Oetker (pdf)  Cooking and baking)

Lufthansa (The story of a German Airline)

Porsche (The story of a German Car Company)

Red Bull (Providing Austrian energy)

SAP ( pdf) ( A Computer Software Company)

Schwing (Concrete Pumps) (pdf)