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GERMAN LITERATURE COLLECTIONS
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
Goethes Werke (Weimarer Ausgabe)
Schillers Werke (Nationalausgabe)
Bertolt Brechts Werke (Jubiläumsausgabe)
Kafkas Werke (Kritische Ausgabe)
Chadwyck-Healey German Resources
Die Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams Universalbibliothek

Delve into the rich background of
German culture, language, and
literature through the works of
some of its renowned thinkers,
authors, and poets. Seven Chadwyck-Healey electronic
resources—German Literature Collections, Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher
Klassiker, Goethes Werke (Weimarer Ausgabe), Schillers Werke
(Nationalausgabe), Bertolt Brechts Werke (Jubiläumsausgabe), Kafkas Werke
(Kritische Ausgabe), and Die Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams Universalbibliothek—
offer patrons a chance to study and explore these notable German texts online.

Kafka
Brecht
Goethe Schiller

German Literature Collections
German Literature Collections is a single place from
which researchers can access individual Chadwyck-
Healey German databases. This service offers the
German literature products Goethe, Schiller, Kafka,
Brecht, and Die Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams
Universalbibliothek. German Literature Collections
customers can also choose to subscribe to Digitale
Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker as a standalone
database available through the German Literature
Collections resource. It is available to non-German
Literature Collections customers for purchase only.
German Literature Collections does not include any
additional data to the original products. Updates to
German Literature Collections coincide with updates
of the individual collections, mainly of Digitale
Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker. | With German
Literature Collections, your patrons can:
• Cross-search full texts for author, keyword, title,
and title keyword
• Navigate easily between individual collections
• Find and check quotations quickly
• Conduct linguistic research
• Search texts that have not been available together
before
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher
Klassiker http://klassiker.chadwyck.com
The Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker is the
electronic edition of the renowned Bibliothek
deutscher Klassiker. The Bibliothek deutscher
Klassiker is highly regarded as the premier collection
of literary and non-literary German writing. The texts
range from early German writing to the works of
major authors of the 19 th century, and include literary,
historical, political, philosophical, and theological
texts. | Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker
contains all the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag editions
except Schiller, Goethe, and Wieland. Published in
cooperation with the Deutscher Klassiker Verlag
Frankfurt am Main, the database provides electronic
access to 133 volumes of the print edition, SGML
coded and manually keyed. The electronic edition will
be published in eight complete full-text releases
online and on CD-ROM. | All the texts have been
newly edited by leading international scholars and are
accompanied by extensive commentaries. The
database holds 31 single-author editions
(Werkausgaben), including writers such as Wolfram
von Eschenbach, Kleist, and Kant, and all 16
collections (Sammelwerke) of historical
philosophical, theological, political, and art history
texts. | Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker allows
users to cross-search eleven centuries of German
literature. Users can search full text for author,
keyword, title, and title keyword.
Goethes Werke (Weimarer
Ausgabe) http://goethe.chadwyck.com
Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet and a writer who
exercised a profound influence on the German
language of today. Goethes Werke contains the
complete text of the 143 volumes of the definitive
Weimar Edition. Every word of Goethe’s literary and
scientific works, his diaries, and his letters from the
Weimar Edition is included, as are all illustrations,
notes, variants, and indexes from the published
volumes. | Also included are Goethes Gespräche,
edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann,
Leipzig, 1889-96, and Goethes Werke, Nachträge zur
Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe, Munich,
1990. The Nachträge include all Goethe’s letters
discovered since the Weimar Edition was finished and
makes this the most complete collection of Goethe’s
letters in existence. | Detailed coding of text allows
researchers to perform very precise searching. Users
can search for any word or phrase anywhere in the
text or title of a work. Researchers are also able to
move instantly between main texts and relevant
critical apparatus and to display both on the screen at
the same time.

Sie kämmt es mit
Und singt
-Heinrich Heine
Schillers Werke (Nationalausgabe)
http://schiller.chadwyck.com
Friedrich Schiller’s (1759-1805) literary works, his
writings on history, and his philosophical and critical
works have been extremely influential in German
literature. Published under license from Verlag
Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger Weimar GmbH & Co.,
Schillers Werke comprises the whole of the
Nationalausgabe, the finest and most complete critical
edition of Schiller’s works, letters, and conversations.
| Schillers Werke currently includes 46 volumes, with
further volumes added to the Web edition. It includes
the complete text of each volume of his poetry and
plays, the translations, minor prose works, historical
and philosophical writings, letters to and from
Schiller, and the Conversations, as well as critical
notes, variants, indexes, and illustrations. | A range of
search fields lets users locate individual works
according to title, genre, or publication date.
Researchers can also search for a word or phrase
anywhere in Schiller’s complete works, locating word
stems, variant spellings, words in combination, or
words in close proximity.
Bertolt Brechts Werke
(Jubiläumsausgabe)
http://brecht.chadwyck.com
The first authorized electronic edition of Brecht’s
(1898-1956) writings, the Chadwyck-Healey Bertolt
Brechts Werke collection is based on Bertolt Brecht -
Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden –
Jubiläumsausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag, the six-
goldenem Kamme
ein Lied dabei...
volume compilation of Brecht’s works and writings
with brief notes on each text. | Produced with the
cooperation of German publishers Suhrkamp Verlag,
Frankfurt am Main, this literary resource provides
scholars with broad access to a range of Brecht’s
works, from his poetry and drama to his critical
writings. It enables researchers to carry out more
comprehensive analyses that compare and contrast his
approach to the role of drama and his philosophy
from his early work during the Weimar Republic
through his time in the United States to his final
residence in the German Democratic Republic. | Your
patrons from beginners to advanced searchers will
find Brechts Werke an easily navigable database.
Every single work can be searched in either the text
or in a heading. Users may search the entire database
or limit searches to genre, texts, critical apparatus,
date range, and other areas.
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All of the German Literature databases have interfaces available in both English and German, with the exception of Goethe.
All the texts in the databases are manually keyed and quality checked.
Search functionality in the databases allows researchers to search for words anywhere in the databases, locating variant
spellings, words in combination, and words in close proximity.

Kafkas Werke (Kritische Ausgabe)
http://kafka.chadwyck.com
Kafkas Werke (Kritische Ausgabe) makes 15 volumes
of Kafka’s (1883-1924) novels, short stories, and
diaries available electronically for the first time.
Produced in cooperation with S. Fischer Verlag,
Kafkas Werke includes the complete texts of Franz
Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher.
New research material is added regularly to the Web
edition by the editorial board, creating the most
comprehensive and up-to-date version of Kafka’s
works ever published. | This database allows
researchers to trace the development of important
themes, terms, and motifs throughout Kafka’s work,
and a variety of search tools makes it easy for users to
find the information they want.
Die Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams
Universalbibliothek
http://glp.chadwyck.com
Die Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams Universalbibliothek is
an ambitious and far-reaching project that puts 600
years of German poetry online. This database gathers
together works from the 15 th century right up to the
beginning of the 20 th century (1457-1929)—no other
single collection contains this volume or breadth of
German poetry in electronic format. | Die Deutsche
Lyrik in Reclams Universalbibliothek illustrates the
development of German literature and language. The
database allows researchers to examine the influences
of poetry, politics, literary theory, and philosophy.
Users could compare Mörike and Uhland’s view on
the nature of poetry, or Heine and Herder on their
contributions to contemporary philosophical thought.
It also includes the texts of a number of anthologies
that increase the scope and the range of the resource
and put lesser known authors into context. | Published
in cooperation with Phillipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart,
Die Deutsche Lyrik covers all volumes of German
poetry published within Reclams Universalbibliothek
since 1945.
To Learn More
For more information on any of these databases, or
other German databases in the Chadwyck-Healey
collection, or to sign up for a free trial, please call
your sales representative at 734-761-4700 or 800-521-
0600, ext. 3183 or 3452. Or you can visit our website
at www.chadwyck.com.
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