Subject Guide German Studies

Shortened print version of the subject guide languages and literatures (PDF)

Databases

Please also note our databases for general and comparative linguistics and literature studies.

General

• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)
  Bibliography of German language and literature. Report period: 1985 - Information
• MLA
   International bibliography on modern languages and literatures
• Germanistik im Netz
  Virtual Library German studies; hosted by the University Library Frankfurt am Main. Provides simultaneous search in select databases, library catalogues, internet sources and full text databases, including information on German studies as an academic discipline
• DBIS
  freely accessible databases and electronic full texts (incl. National licenses and Pay per use)

Linguistics

• Bibliographie linguistischer Literatur (BLL-DB)
  Bibliography of Linguistic Literature - Information on BLL-DB
• Bibliographie zur deutschen Grammatik
  Freely accessible and permanently updated bibliography
• Duden Familiennamen
• Duden Vornamen
• Dictionaries online

Literature

• Kritisches Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG) - Information on Munzinger online
  Report period: from 1945 on
• Klassik online - Internationale Bibliographie zur Deutschen Klassik 1750-1850
  International bibliography on German classical literature 1750-1850. Bibliographical database on German literature from the Enlightenment to late Romanticism
• Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv zur deutsch- und fremdsprachigen Literatur (IZA)
  IZA, research institution of Institut für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Literaturkritik at Innsbruck University, studies the reception of German and foreign literatures in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
• Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL)
  Dictionary of world literature from the beginnings to the present
• IASL online : Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur
  International archive for the social history of German literature. Reviews, articles

Journal Articles

• Online Contents SSG German language and literature studies
  Search for journal articles from approx. 141 Journals from 1993 on. Approximately 158,000 records of journal articles and reviews

Mediaeval Studies

• Lexikon des Mittelalters  
  Dictionary of the Middle Ages - Information on Lexikon des Mittelalters

Folklore

• Internationale Volkskundliche Bibliographie (IVB) online
  International bibliography of folklore. Report period: 1985-1998; approx. 80,000 records

Didactics of Language and Literature

• Fis Bildung Literaturdatenbank
  German Education Index. - Contains bibliographic records from all fields of educational sciences and specialized didactics. Report period: 1980 -

Electronic Full Texts

• Einladung zur Literaturwissenschaft : Supplementary self-study programme / by Jochen Vogt
• GiNDok - Publication platform for German studies
• National license (accessible throughout Germany):
  • Corvey Digital Collection: Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries - Information
  • Deutschsprachige Frauenliteratur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts - Information
  • Der Literarische Expressionismus Online - Information
    Compilation of 151 journals, yearbooks, collections and anthologies of the early 20th century with a total of 40,000 articles and 79,000 pages in full text. Bibliography and full text database
• In the Digital Library:  
  • Brecht, Bertolt: Werke : Jubiläumsausgabe auf CD-ROM - Info zur Volltextdatenbank Bertolt Brecht
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Weimarer Ausgabe - Info zur Volltextdatenbank Goethe, Weimarer Ausgabe
  • Kafka, Franz: Werke - Info zur Volltextdatenbank Franz Kafka
  • Schiller, Friedrich von: Nationalausgabe - Info zur Volltextdatenbank Schiller, Nationalausgabe
• Here you can read the dramatic story of the Büchersau
• CD-ROMs in the Emil-Figge-Bibliothek

Text Archives

• "DIE ZEIT"-Schülerbibliothek - Shelf mark list (HTML) - Shelf mark list (PDF)
• Projekt Gutenberg.de
  The German equivalent to Project Gutenberg
• Sophie: A Digital Library of Early German Women's Writing
  Text collection (in German and English translation), Brigham Young University
• Bibliotheca Augustana
  A collection of texts by University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg
• Ausgewählte Lyrik deutschsprachiger Dichterinnen
  A collection of poems by German speaking women poets from the 17th to the early 20th centuries

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Links

• Fachinformationen Germanistik (University Libary of the FU Berlin)
• Germanistik im Internet (University of Erlangen)
  Very comprehensive and well structured list
• Literaturbüro NRW e.V.
  Projects, dates, literary life, links ...
• Literaturkommission für Westfalen (LWL)
• Westfälisches Literaturbüro, Unna
• Literaturbüro NRW-Ruhrgebiet
• NRW-Literatur im Netz - compiled by Westfälisches Literaturbüro, Unna
• Literaturportal-Westfalen.de
  An internet portal on Westphalian literature: main works in audio files, an alphabet of authors and places, reference list of keywords, videos, literary life
• Fritz Hüser-Institut für deutsche und ausländische Arbeiterliteratur, Dortmund
• Deutscher Bildungsserver (German Education Server): Materials for German teaching

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