Twenty “site admin templates” are available in English only. These templates are easy for site administrators to install in a template gallery without requiring server administration access. The remaining twenty “server admin templates” are available in eleven languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean, and Hebrew). These are site definitions, providing tighter integration and enhanced functionality within the Windows SharePoint Services platform. They require a server administrator to install. You can download all the English templates from here...
They are hosted here so you can evaluate them. If you get a login prompt, use "corp\demouser" with password pass@word1. This will give you contributor access to most functionality but don't bother requesting access for any operation that brings up the access denied message as it won't be given.
You can also view them in German here http://live.sharepointcommunity.de/templates/default.aspx