Literature

Link lists, mailing lists

Autorenlinks.de New! Links to individual German authors
Autorinnen und Autoren: biographische und sonstige Informationen Ulrich Goerdten's page at the FU Berlin
Düsseldorfer Virtuelle Bibliothek: Germanistik
Germanistische Fachinformationen im WWW from the UB der Freien Universität Berlin, Fachreferat Germanistik
Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Germanistik: wichtige germanistische Internetressourcen from Heidelberg
Germanistik im Internet the excellent Erlangen page
Germanistik im Netz New! DFG-supported portal for German language and literature

H-Germanistik New! Reviews, conference announcements etc

General literature sites

Daten der deutschen Literatur Factual information on authors and epochs, plus listings of literature on TV
Leitseite Literatur Wolfgang Pohl's page. In three sections: Deutsche Literaturgeschichte; Studio für alte Literatur; Deutsches Theater nach 1945
Literaturport New! Contemporary literature site: biographies and audio clips by the authors themselves
Netzwerk Literaturkritik New! from Rostock University. Links to people, publications, reviews, periods etc. Still under construction
Xlibris: die deutschen Klassiker Author biographies, work synopses, bibliographies, information by period
Literaturlexikon online: elektronisches Nachschlagewerk für Leser New! In progress: so far contains Figurenlexika for Thomas Mann and Musil

Teaching and theory

Materialien zum Deutschunterricht most author-based links under Mittelstufe and Oberstufe
Lyriktheorie New! Theoretical texts on lyric poetry from c. 1700 to c. 1910
Annotierte Bibliographie zur Literaturtheorie New! Göttingen database of research on literary theory. In progress

Digitale Literatur

Berliner Zimmer: Literatur im Netz
futuristischer Lesesalon Projects from the Stadtbücherei Stuttgart
Hypertext-Literatur Hyperfictions der Frühphase (bis 1998). Continued at:
cyberfiction: korpus deutschsprachiger hyperfictions
leeon.de New! Site by hyperfiction author Stefan Maskiewicz
Liter@tur: Computer/Literatur/Internet
Netzliteratur.net: Netzliteratur // Internetliteratur // Netzkunst New!
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Schreiben am Netz New! From the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zürich

Collections of texts in electronic form

Electronic Text Center, Virginia: German language resources
Projekt Gutenberg-DE - courtesy of Der Spiegel
Libreka New! Digital texts in all subjects
Zeno.org Deutschsprachige Volltextbibliothek
Die deutsche Gedichtebibliothek : Gesamtverzeichnis deutschsprachiger Gedichte New! Huge collection of (copyright-free) poems
Bibliotheca Augustana Collections of electronic texts in several languages. The German section is still fragmentary
ALO: austrian literature online New! Electronic texts - not just Austrian
Freiburger Anthologie New! Anthology of poems and songs from 1720-1900
Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-speaking Women New! Literary texts from c. 1740-1923. Also music, journalism etc
Ausgewählte Lyrik deutschsprachiger Dichterinnen New!
lyrikline Audio library of German-language poetry. Needs Shockwave plugin and RealAudio player

Literary periodicals

Berliner Zimmer: Magazine
Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum Full-text digitised review journals and literary periodicals. 45 journals now searchable and browsable here
Exilpresse digital: deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945 from the Deutsche Bibliothek. Full-text exile periodicals and newspapers. All text is searchable
German and Austrian exile periodicals 1933-1945 New! List of the British Library holdings
Scholarly journals in Germanistik Useful list from Wisconsin. Indicates which titles offer full text online

Berlinische Monatsschrift, 1783-1811 digitised edition from Bielefeld - now with keyword index
dichtung digital: magazin zur digitalen ästhetik New!
Gangway: the online lit mag bilingual Australian - Austrian literature magazine
German Life and Letters: cumulative index 1936-2002
glossen bi-lingual journal - interdisciplinary, though mostly literary
Goethe Yearbook cumulative table of contents since 1982
IASL online free reviews and discussion journal - spinoff from Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur
Kladderadatsch (1848-1944) - digital the satirical magazine. From Heidelberg
KulturPoetik: Zeitschrift für kulturgeschichtliche Literaturwissenschaft New! Abstracts and some articles
Literaturen: das Journal für Bücher und Themen Website for the new literary journal - articles, reviews etc. The archive contains some articles online
Lyrik-Zeitung & Poetry News New! "Eine Zeitung für Lyrik-Profis". Archived since January 2001
Neue Rundschau New! complete online since 1890. Free Testzugang lasts three months
Orbis linguarum Tables of contents online, plus most full-text articles from 1999 on
parapluie: elektronische zeitschrift für kulturen, künste, literaturen New!
Simplicissimus New! 1896-1945 online
Sporadicum
Ulk: illustriertes Wochenblatt für Humor und Satire (1914-1930) From Heidelberg
wespennest Austrian literary magazine. Includes downloadable issues in Adobe Acrobat format
wortlaut.de: Göttinger Zeitschrift für neue Literatur New!

Organizations, archives, publishers

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung e.V
Deutscher Germanistenverband
Die Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle/Salle
Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurt am Main
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik
Österreichisches Literaturarchiv in the Austrian National Library
Schiller-Nationalmuseum - Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv includes catalogue of literary manuscripts in other Swiss libraries and archives
Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen
Stiftung Frauen-Literatur-Forschung e.V.
Centre for Contemporary German Literature, University of Wales Swansea
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin New!
literaturWERKstatt Berlin

Literary databases etc

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Data for 1985-2009 freely available
Gezett Autorenportraits Photographs of contemporary authors - not just German
Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv zur deutsch- und fremdsprachigen Literatur over 1 million articles on 30,000 authors from 80 journals and newspapers. About a fifth are available on line; the rest can be obtained in person or by post
KLG online Searching is free; display of full results requires payment
Literaturlexikon online New! Lexikon of characters, places, topics in many major German aurtthors' works
Projekt Historischer Roman From the Institut für Germanistik, Universität Innsbruck: searchable database of c. 6300 historical novels in German published 1780-1945, additionally all those from the GDR, plus documentation, secondary articles etc
Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller in Westfalen
Krimi-Couch New! "Unabhängiges Online-Magazin zum Thema Kriminalroman" - not just from Germany
Das Syndikat: Autorengruppe deutschsprachige Kriminalliteratur New! Based on the Bochum archive: over 600 Krimi-Autoren und Autorinnen
www.aphorismen.de 42,000 quotations, aphorisms online. Can also be found at zitat.net
zitate.at over 200,000 quotations available on subscription; free demo online

Reviews and prizes

Fachbibliographien und Online-Datenbanken (FabiO): Rezensionen list of reviews servers
Deutschlandradio Literatur interesting site from DLF with soundbites from programmes, literary news, interviews and a searchable database of reviews of recent publications
Internet-Portal Marcel Ranicki New! Site for the Literarisches Quartett's famously combative presenter
Literaturhaus Wien: Buch-Magazin Reviews, links, publishers for Austrian authors
Literaturkritik.de: Rezensionsforum für Literatur und für Kulturwissenschaft Reviews of new literary and cultural titles (not just German)
New Books in German Online version of the magazine promoting new German books to English-language publishers. Mostly literary texts
Perlentaucher.de New! Database of books reviewed since 15.3.2000 in the major German Feuilletons, plus contents of European magazines, the Literaturbeilagen since autumn 1999 and book trade news. Some entries link through to the newspaper articles themselves
Rezensionen aus Zeitungen und Fachzeitschriften mostly on literature. From biblint.de
Rezensionen online open New address!
Liste von Literaturpreisen New - from Wikipedia

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