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The
web is amazing in this department. If you're looking
for anything written more than 70 years ago, not even
necessarily by a very well-known author, chances are
really quite good that you can find the complete text
on the web!
General Literary
Sites
- Contemporary
German Literature Tutorial Created at Case Western
Reserve University. Click on "Lit Questions"
in the menu on the right for some interactive exercises,
and on "German Literature" for some annotated
texts and many other resources and links.
- Germanistik
im Internet Comprehensive resource page compiled
by the Universität Erlangen with links to info
on all aspects of "Germanistik" (the study of German
Literature).
- http://www.xlibris.de
Die Seite ist grafisch sehr gut gemacht, und schnell.
Sie enthält Biografien der wichtigsten Klassiker,
Inhaltsbeschreibungen der Werke und eine eigene, gute
Linkliste (zum Beispiel zu einer super lustigen Klassiker-Parodie-Seite)
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Autorenlinks
der Universitätsbibliothek der FU Berlin
For almost any German-speaking author you can think
of, you can find here a link to one or more webpages
devoted to that author with info on the author and/or
links to online texts, biographical information, reviews
of the author's work etc. A great starting point
for web research on any given author.
- Projekt
Klassikerwortschatz
Acomprehensive resource page compiled by the Albert-Ludwigs
Universität Freiburg, including an extensive
link list, access to various online texts ("Volltexte"),
etc.
- Literatur
von den Wasserwelten An unusual site put together
by the Goethe Institute. Click on the hyperlinks
on the world map for literary texts from around the
world on the subject of water, many of which you can
hear read by the author. Most of these texts
are not in German, but you can click on "Übersetzung"
to see a translation into German.
Collections
of texts
- Projekt
Gutenberg The largest collection of German literature
on the Internet. Texts are organized for reading online
with longer works divided into chapters. There is
no provision for searching complete works or the Gutenberg
database. The collection is now located within the
Der Spiegel site, which means dealing with
frames and problems with the search function, but
you can get around these. To see a text without
the frame, click on "Druckversion" [=print version].
If you're having trouble with the site's search function,
try going to Google,
selecting "Advanced Search," and then specifying gutenberg.spiegel.de
as the domain--but this doesn't always work.
Note that you can see a complete listing by author
by clicking on "Autoren A-Z" at the bottom of the
page.
- LitLinks--Helmut
Schulze's Compendium of Online German Texts
Tremendous and well-organized collection. In
particular, this site includes links to many more
recent texts not found e.g. on the Projekt Gutenberg
Site.
- DINO-Liste:
Online-Literatur Organized by topic, this page
gives links to online texts of all sorts, not just
literary texts. If the link is broken, go directly
to http://www.dino-online.de/
and then click your way through Kultur ==> Literatur
==> Online-Literatur.
- Berliner
Zimmer: Literatur im Netz Another excellent site.
Click on "Autoren" to see a listing of links for individual
authors, or follow the wealth of other links to literary
sites online.
- Universität
Heidelberg Here you can find a selection of texts
digitalized by the Universität Heidelberg, as
well as a link to a wonderful annotated list of digitalized
texts worldwide: click on "Digitalisierte Literatur
weltweit" near the bottom of the page.
- Freiburger
Anthologie Currently (12/2003) includes roughly
600 poems from 1720-1900. Work is underway on adding
prose and dramatic texts.
- 19th
century German Stories Wonderfully done multimedia
editions from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Includes Struwwelpeter, Max und Moritz,
and a selection of the Grimm fairy tales, as well
as a great selection of other texts. For most
texts you can find a "story menu" that allows you
to read a dual-language version, or to read the text
side-by-side with a convenient dictionary window.
- Litgloss
(University of Buffalo) Collection of extensively
glossed texts in various languages. Currently
(2001) only a few German texts (4 by the Grimm Brothers,
two by Kafka, one by Kant), but plans for many more.
- literatur.primär
Contemporary Austrian prose and poetry
- The
Kassandra Project Last seen at http://www.reed.edu/~ccampbel/tkp/,
this site used to collect texts by "visionary German
women around 1800." The site has existed for
years and might reappear ==> try a Google
search if you're interested, and use the "Contact/Feedback"
link in the sidebar to let me know if you find something!
[http://www.pxcompany.com/kass_eng/ will come up,
but this is something else]
- DadaOnline
Small collection of dada texts in German or English
- Vorleser.net
Marvellous site where you can download free mp3 files
of various (mostly literary) texts being read aloud
in very clear German. Clicking on the audio icon gives
you just an excerpt of the text ==> click on the
disk icon to download the entire text. You can also
click on the document icon to see the written version
of the text in a separate browser window. To find
a specific text, click on "Autoren." A good
starting point might be the Grimm fairy tales, which
you can get to via the site's home page.
- Storyparadies.de
A growing site where users publish stories of all
kinds online. A great place to find shorter texts
written (generally) by ordinary people, and also a
place where you might try publishing some of your
own German writing online!
Poetry
Online Magazines Devoted to
Poetry
- Dulzinea
Includes opportunities to submit your own poetry in
German for contests ("Ausschreibungen") or in an online
forum with numerous participants; reviews; and a list
of related links.
Poetry Collections
Individual Poets
Individual authors and texts
Goethe:
Others:
Philosophy
Nietzsche:
Kant:
Marx:
Others:
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