E-Texts in German Literature

• More and more, researchers are asking where to search the complete works of a writer, or how to search an entire novel.
• The increasing number of full-text literary works on the Internet and on CD-ROM's has begun to change the way literary scholars work.
• Searching across the entire corpus of a writer, the ability to create concordances, the power to discover new correspondences and relationships in and among literary works - these capabilities are opening up new fields of inquiry in literature.
• Issues in using E-texts. Types of E-Texts

DVD's and CD-ROM's in the Eisenhower Library 
(These are located in Audio/Visual on A level. Some do circulate.)

Digitale Bibliothek:
a collection of CD-ROM's that are easily searched, and that circulate. The following titles are available:

Deutsche Literatur von Lessing bis Kafka (Bd. 24)
Mehr als 70.000 Seiten Text von 58 deutschen Autoren mit illustrierten Biographien und bibliographischen Notizen zu jedem Werk.
CompFile 2861

Klassische werke der deutschen Literatur
CompFile 4597

Geschichte der deutschen Literatur
CompFile 2868

Briefe, Tagebücher, Gespräche: Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Bd. 10)
Contains 13,000 letters, diaries for a 57 year period, and 1,800 reports by contemporaries about
conversations with Goethe.
CompFile 1683

Heinrich Heine: Zeit, Leben, Werk
A multimedia CD-ROM, containing the text of Heine's collected works (1910 Oskar Walzel edition), the text of the important reference work, Gerhard Höhn's Heine-Handbuch, a biography, timeline, image archive and sound and video clips.
CompFile 705

Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus
Also held in print format on B Level: DD 256.5 .E52 
CompFile 2870

Enzyklopädie der DDR
Personen, Institutionen und Strukturen in Politik, Wirtschaft, Justiz, Wissenschaft und Kultur
CompFile 3336

Werke: Friedrich Nietzsche
A searchable database of Nietzsche's work based on Karl Schlechta's edition.
CompFile 3337

Immanuel Kant : Werke (Sonderband)
Based on the 12-volume edition of Kant's works edited by Wilhelm Weischedel, published 1977 by Suhrkamp.
CompFile

Die Luther-Bibel
Searchable database of Luther's Bible of 1545 along with the revised edition of 1912
CompFile 3339

Werke - Briefe - Materialien. Kurt Tucholsky (Bd. 15)
Searchable database of Tucholsky's works, with criticism and biographical information.
CompFile 3340

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: ausgewählte Werke (Bd. 11)
A searchable database of selected works of Marx and Engels
CompFile 3341
 

Web Resources that are licensed by the Library

Goethes Werke  (All US JHU)
Schillers Werke  (All US JHU)
Kafkas Werke  (All US JHU)	An electronic version of the critical edition of his complete works, Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebücher
Brechts Werke  (All US JHU)	The first authorised electronic edition of Brecht's works, based on Bertolt Brecht -Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden -  Jubiläumsausgabe um 100. Geburtstag, edited by Werner Hecht, Wolfgang Jeske and Jan Knopf, which collects Brecht's works and writings in six volumes with brief notes on each text.
Deutsche Lyrik in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek   (All US JHU)	Works from the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker im WWW  (All JHU (incl. International))	The work of more than 30 authors, including early German texts such as Lancelot and Ginover and Wolfram von Eschenbach; editions of important authors such as Herder, Kleist, and Büchner; and the works of philosophers such as Kant, Schleiermacher, and Fichte. Collections of historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts.
German Literature Collections  (All US JHU)	Cross search all of the above e-text collections at the German Literature Collections
Eighteenth Century Collections Online  (All US JHU)	A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. The collection consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera.
Past Masters: Full Text of Classic Works in the Humanities  (All US JHU)	INCLUDES: Hegel Werke and OUP Translations Kant Hauptwerke and Philosophische Briefe Leibnitz: Philosophische Schriften Wittgenstein: Collected Works, Nachlass, Published Works

Free Web Resources

WESS Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Organized by language, and maintained by a librarian, this list has links to texts in all the major European languages, including Provençal, Old Norse, Galician, and Catalan. Most are freely accessible. 

University of Virginia. Electronic Text Center
Includes approximately 51,000 humanities texts in 12 languages, with more than 350,000 related images. Some links are restricted to UVA users, but many are freely accessible. Information about the edition used in digitization is included. 

LitLinks
A project of Helmut Schulze, includes over 20,000 links to nearly 1400 authors writing in German, and nearly 2000 links to German translations of other literature. Organized alphabetically, entries provide links to online texts of individual authors. The search feature searches across the entire Clickfish site, so while the alphabetical arrangement makes locating texts by author simple, locating by title will result in a very mixed list of results.

Projekt Gutenberg
Die größte deutschsprachige Online-Literatursammlung. All the texts are in German, although not all are by German writers. Includes writers from ancient Greece to the 20th century. No searching across all texts, although a search of a single text or chapter can be done with the "Find" function in the browser. 

Erlanger Liste: Digitale Texte
Links to digital texts in German. Divided into genres, such as Allgemein, Aphorismen, Dada, Lyrik, Märchen, Volkslieder. 

Zeno.org: Zeno.org ist die größte Online-Bibliothek im deutschen Sprachraum

Digitale Sammlungen, Bayerische StaatsBibliothek: Digitalisierte Handschriften, Nachschlagewerke und Enzyklopädien, Quelleneditionen und -sammlungen, Zeitschriften

Arno-Schmidt-Referenzbibliothek: digitale und kostenlose Version von Büchern, die sich in Schmidts Nachlassbibliothek befinden oder die in Schmidts Werken eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Includes the four volume Wilhelm Busch collection, Humboldt's Kosmos, and the 1910
ed. of Muret's Enzyklopädisches englisch-deutsches Wörterbuch

Akademieausgabe von Immanuel Kants Gesammelten Werken

19th-Century German Stories             
Web editions for language learning & literary study. From Wilhelm Busch to Ludwig Tieck (it actually
includes a few late 18th century stories). German texts and English translations.

Project Gutenberg
The granddaddy of electronic texts on the Internet. Many language and literatures are to be found among the mostly English texts, including some of the more obscure European texts.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A "dynamic reference work", maintained and updated by an editorial board. Over 950 professional philosophers are donating their time and labor to collaboratively write, referee, and maintain the reference work.

Nibelungenlied
A scholarly digital edition

OAIster:
A searchable catalog of publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community. Broad subject coverage.

IntraText Digital Library
A large international archive of e-texts. Many languages and literatures.

Digital Scriptorium
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

The Online Books Page
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web