Newspapers

Paperball covers the current issues only of German daily newspapers. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by broad subject area. Good for local papers
Google News: archive search New! Searches several years of newspaper archives. Can be refined by language and target publication

FOCUS with a *free* searchable archive since 1993
Freitag: Ost-West-Wochenzeitung Available since December 1998
konkret: Zeitschrift für Politik und Kultur Left-wing monthly, archived since 2000
Der Spiegel now with *free* searchable archive of the whole magazine since 1947
Stern.de with searchable archive since 1993 - click on Magazin
Die Zeit archived since 1946; book reviews only since 2003
Die Zeit zum Hören New! - selected articles as audio files

Berliner Morgenpost with archive since 15 November 1996
Berliner Zeitung
BILD online with archive since June 1996
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The current issue of FAZ free online. Some "non-news" Ressorts require (free) online registration. The archive (1993 on) is still available only for a fee.
FAZ - English version Selected articles from the paper edition, searchable since April 2000
Frankfurter Rundschau with free 14-day archive of the online version; 1991 on available only for a fee
Hamburger Morgenpost Issues available since 1 November 1996
Kölner Illustrierte with a year's archive
Netzeitung New online newspaper
Neues Deutschland New!
Süddeutsche Zeitung now with a month's free archive
Der Tagesspiegel searchable archive is free for the last 30 days, chargeable before then
taz the complete paper. With a searchable database of all issues for the last year
Die Welt with online archive searchable since May 1995. Individual issues can also be retrieved

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