What's new
August 2011: I have taken early retirement, but continue to edit these pages ad hoc.
Listed below are new links added and changes made to WGSW in the last few months.
Tips on how to use this site.
May 2013
- Die deutsche Gedichtebibliothek : Gesamtverzeichnis deutschsprachiger Gedichte
Huge collection of (copyright-free) poems
September 2011
- Neue Rundschau
complete online since 1890. Free Testzugang lasts three months
March 2011
- Editionsprojekt Karl Gutzkow
- Informationskompetenz
Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz an deutschen Bibliotheken
February 2011
- Krimi-Couch
"Unabhängiges Online-Magazin zum Thema Kriminalroman" - not just from Germany
January 2011
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: Portal für Kultur und Wissenschaft
Opens Autumn 2012: will offer "einen zentralen Zugang zu digitalem Wissen und Kultur in Deutschland"
- GNARP: German-North American Resources Partnership
An inventory of digital projects in German Studies or from German-speaking countries
- Verzeichnis der künstlerischen, wissenschaftlichen und kulturpolitischen Nachlässe in Österreich
Locations of c. 6000 estates of Austrian cultural figures
November 2010
- Europeana
Digitised materials from Europe's museums, archives, libraries etc. Images, texts, sound and videos
October 2010
- abgeordnetenwatch.de
Promoting more transparency in Parliament; "der direkte Draht von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zu den Abgeordneten und Kandidierenden"
July 2010
- Stiftung Berliner Mauer
New! Includes the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
, Bernauer Strasse
June 2010
- Netzwerk Literaturkritik
from Rostock University. Links to people, publications, reviews, periods etc. Still under construction
May 2010
- Several additions to our database lists of historical newspapers and periodicals
April 2010
- The novels of Fanny Lewald
from Washington University in St Louis: ten digitised novels
March 2010
- Revisions and corrections to our economics
page
February 2010
- Metropolis 2710
On the 2010 restored version of Metropolis
- Several new links on our dictionaries
page - including...
- Wörterbücher und Indices
New from Mediaevum.de. Many medieval dictionaries, but New High German too
January 2010
- What's so funny about German?
more than you might think... Videos from stand-up comedian Henning Wehn