Ten tips for deciphering old German handwriting is a post by Katherine Schober on deciphering Kurrentschrift, with useful links, for example to wordmine.info, which is a kind of crossword-solving site.

Apparently Sütterlinschrift is a modern version of Kurrentschrift. Here’s a picture of Ludwig Sütterlin (source here (PDF)).

Thanks to Ann Sherwin for the link.