About the German Collection

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Collection Description
Electronic Book and Text Collections
Electronic Journals
New Acquisitions
Other Libraries and Special Collections
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Collection Description

The Library's support of German Studies at Berkeley includes campus programs covering all periods and aspects of German linguistics and literature; the history of the German-speaking peoples from the earliest period to the present; as well as the politics, philosophy, sociology and cultural achievements of these populations. Berkeley's German Studies programs have been consistently ranked in the top echelon of such programs in the United States, and the Library strives to collect broadly and deeply across discliplinary lines in support of them.

In addition to its general collections of German Studies materials in the Main Stacks, the Library also has numerous special collections from and about Germany. One such body of materials in The Bancroft Library is the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection, which documents the life and works of the members of Germany's first literary society.

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Electronic Book and Text collections

Books and other texts in electonic form, available online either individually or as part of larger collections.

• Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker - Full-text searchable works of more than 30 classic German authors, inlcluding von Eschenbach, Eckhart, Achim and Bettine von Arnim, Büchner, Eichendorff, Fichte, Grillparzer, die Brüder Grimm, Hölderlin, Kant, Keller, Kleist, Schleiermacher, Storm, and others.
• Brechts Werke
• Goethes Werke
• Goethe's Faust - English translation
• Kafkas Werke
• Kant-Korpus
• Luthers Werke
• Schillers Werke
• Project Gutenberg - Online texts including over 420,000 pages of works by authors in German.
• Past Masters - Full-text, searchable archive of works by many German and Scandinavian philosophers, including Fichte, Hegel, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and Wittgenstein.
• Die Bibel nach der Übersetzung Martin Luthers
• Biblioteca Palatina - Late medieval manuscripts from the University Library, Heidelberg.
• Codex Manesse - a complete facsimile of the Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848.
• Deutsche Lyrik
• Innsbrücker Osterspiel Teil 1 und Teil 2 (PDF)
• Die Nibelung-Handschrift - Manuscript Version C, with commentary.
• Nineteenth Century German Stories - Full text from more than a dozen authors.
• Sophie - Works by German-speaking women writers.
• MATEO-Mannheimer Texts Online - A catalogue featuring scholarly monographs, dissertations and works in progress.
• The Editio Theodoro-Palatina - Features reprints of 15th-18th century works in the collection of the Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim.

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Electronic Journals

Journals in electronic form, available online either individually or as part of a larger collection. E-Journals only available for the Berkeley campus are listed in Pathfinder. The California Digital Library maintains a list of e-journals available to all UC libraries.

• Historische Zeitschrift - Searchable index to articles in the journal since 1859.
• History Journals Guide - international directory for journals and discussion lists in the fields of history and archaeology.
• Journal of Early Modern History - Online access to printed periodical.
• New German Critique - Selected issues searchable, via J-STOR.
• Speculum - The oldest U.S. journal dedicated exclusively to the study of the Middle Ages, via J-STOR.
• Zeitenblick - Online journal focusing on historical events from every epoch. Includes interviews, resources, and discussions regarding the latest trends in historical research.

New Acquisitions

Monthly lists of new acquisitions in a given subject area.

• June 2007 (PDF)
• May 2007 (PDF)
• May 2006 (PDF)
• April 2006 (PDF)
• January 2006 (PDF)
• August 2005 (PDF)
• July 2005 (PDF)
• June 2005(PDF)
• May 2005 (PDF)
• December 2004 (PDF)
• November 2004 (PDF)
• October 2004 (PDF)
• September 2004 (PDF)
• August 2004 (PDF)
• July 2004 (PDF)
  

Other Libraries and Special Collections

Listings of relevant library collections (including links to their catalogs). Libraries and collections at Berkeley may also be listed under "Related Pages".

Specialized Collections

UCB Dutch Collections
UCB Scandinavian Collections
UCB Media Resource Center (MRC) – Information on German film

Related UC Berkeley Libraries

UCB Anthropology Library
UCB Art History / Classics Library
UCB Environmental Design Library
UCB Law Library
UCB Music Library

Purchase Recommendation Form

If you'd like to recommend an item to be added to the collection, please use the Purchase Recommendation Form.

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