The German Literary Expressionism Online contains 151 journals, yearbooks, collections and anthologies from the early 20th century in full text. Many of the most important literary figures of the 20th century made their first literary appearances in periodicals. They included Hugo Ball, Johannes R. Becher, Gottfried Benn, Georg Heym, Klabund, Else Lasker-Schèuler, Georg Trakl, and Franz Werfel. Authors, philosophers, theologians, politicians, historians, art historians, psychologists, and many others not belonging to the central circle of expressionists, also wrote for the new journals; such as Martin Buber, Gerhart Hauptmann, Theodor Heuss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gustav Landauer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Arthur Schnitzler. Included in the database are journals with literary aspirations, such as “Der Sturm” and “Die Weissen Blèatter,” as well as journals with political objectives, such as “Die Aktion.” The database serves as a source on German literature of the Modern era and can be used for the study of the history of art, theatre, film, dance and music between 1910 and 1930. Materials contained in the database are presented as online facsimiles, with a variety of search possibilities, including full text. A scholarly introduction and short bio-bibliographical articles on the 350 Expressionist authors represented complete the database.

Germanistik is the central international journal covering the study of German language and literature, including associated fields. – Publisher’s blurb.

Access to this resource is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus users.

Die seit 1859 erscheinende Historische Zeitschrift ist eine der großen international verbreiteten wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften. Seit ihrer Gründung ist sie unabhängig von Subventionen, weltanschaulichen Gruppierungen und Verbänden und gilt als repräsentatives Organ der deutschsprachigen Geschichtswissenschaft. – Publisher’s blurb.

(This historical magazine published since 1859 is one of the large international scientific technical periodicals. Since its establishment it is independent of subsidies, world-descriptive groupings and federations and is considered as a representative organ of the German-language science of history.)

Text in German.

Earlier issues available via Digizeitschriften.

(Access to current issues restricted to the Evanston campus)

Forschungen zur Brandenburgischen und Preussischen Geschichte publishes articles on the history of Prussia and Brandenburg Germany.  Published on behalf the Prussian historical commission and secret public records Prussian cultural possession of W. Neugebauer and F. – L. Kroll.   Articles are in German.

“Zeitschrift für Slawistik” publishes critical essays on language and literature, on popular poetry and on the cultural history of Slavic people in the past and present.  Special attention is paid to German-Slavic linguistic, literary and cultural relations within their European context, to onomastics, history and poetology of literary genres, Baltic studies, Sorbic studies, and to the history of Slavic studies. – publisher’s blurb.

(Available on the Evanston campus only.)

Literary Imagination is a forum for all those interested in the distinctive nature, uses, and pleasures of literature, from ancient to modern, in all languages. Its aim is to encourage wide-ranging discussions between those committed to the reading and study of literary works, and to the reading and writing of poetry, fiction, translations, drama, non-fiction essays, criticism, and scholarship concerned with them.

The German Quarterly serves as a forum for all sorts of scholarly debates – topical, ideological, methodological, theoretical, of both the established and the experimental variety, as well as debates on recent developments in the profession.

Earlier issue are available through JSTOR.

Unique in both range and approach, Literature Compass publishes peer-reviewed surveys of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline.

Literature Compass features a new kind of core content: survey articles foreground important trends while viewpoint articles challenge the received wisdom. Generating a strong sense of dialogue and engagement, Literature Compass gives desktop access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research, providing an ideal entry point for the non-specialist.

A peer-reviewed journal, it is the only American publication that explores issues in modern Germany from the combined perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural studies. It provides a forum for critical analysis and debate about politics, history, film, literature, visual arts, and popular culture in contemporary Germany.