The Germanic MA Reading List includes works that the Graduate Program in Germanic Languages & Literatures recommends for new incoming graduate students.
Many different versions of these works may exist. This page describes the different formats and translations available through the Penn Libraries, including print, e-books, original texts, English translations, audio books, and films.
There are images of book covers, links, and details about e-book editions available. Some works may not be available as e-books.
German. Editions include Schwabe's critical edition, eds. Tomasek & Schäfer (2023), Deutsche Klassiker Verlag, eds. Haug & Schultz (2021), S. Fischer, ed. Kuhn (2003), and Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek, Nr. 4471-4473 (1996).
English. Translations of Tristan into English: Weston (1898), Zeydel (1948), Hatto (1960, rev. in 1967), and a 2nd revised version of Hatto, ed. Gentry from Continuum's German Library series (1988).
E-books
German. The original Middle High German, ed. Marold, Bd. 1 (De Gruyter, 2016) and the modern German translation and introduction, Bd. 2. Other editions include: ed. Massman (Göschen, 1843; reprint 2019), ed. Maurer (De Gruyter, 1986; reprint 2014).
English. Editions include ed. Whobury (Hackett, 2020), Weston (D. Nutt, 1899; 3rd printing, 1907).
Tristan by 
Tristan: Übersetzung by 
Tristan und Isolt by 
Tristan and Isolde by
Film & Performance
English. Tristan + Isolde (Kevin Reynolds, 2006). DVD.
Opera. Tristan und Isolde, Met Opera on Demand, 2016.
German. Hartmann von Aue: Gregorius, Der arme Heinrich, Iwein, hrsg. Merkens (Deutsche Klassiker Verlag, 2004). Reclam has dual Middle High German/New High German editions: Erec (Reclam, 2008), Iwein (Reclam, 2011). Gregorius, hrsg. Paul & Wachinger (M. Niemeyer, 2004). Der arme Heinrich (Hanser, 2003).
Der von Kürenberg: Der von Kürenberg : edition, notes and commentary / Gayle Agler-Beck. (John Benjamins, 1978). This edition has English and Middle High German.
English. Arthurian romances, tales, and lyric poetry: the complete works of Hartmann von Aue / translated with commentary by Frank Tobin, Kim Vivian, Richard H. Lawson. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001). Erec, trans. Resler (Penn Press, 1987).
E-books
German. Hartmann von Aue: Erec (De Gruyter, 2012). Iwein (De Gruyter, 2021). Gregorius (De Gruyter, 2020). Der arme Heinrich, hrsg. Maurer (De Gruyter, 2019). Many other online editions are available through the De Gruyter eBooks Complete (De Gruyter Book Archive).
Der von Kürenberg: Der von Kürenberg : edition, notes and commentary / Gayle Agler-Beck. (J. Benjamins B.V., 1978)
English. Arthurian romances, tales, and lyric poetry: the complete works of Hartmann von Aue / translated with commentary by Frank Tobin, Kim Vivian, Richard H. Lawson. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)
The University Library at Heidelberg has a digital facsimile of Codex Manesse.
German. Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit / Mechthild von Magdeburg, hrsg. Vollmann-Profe. (Deutsche Klassiker Verlag, 2003).
Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit / Mechthild von Magdeburg; trans. Margot Schmidt. (fromman-holzboog, 1995). A second, revised edition of the original Schmidt from 1955.
Mechthild von Magdeburg, "Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit": nach der Einsiedler Handschrift in kritischem Vergleich mit der gesamten Überlieferung / hrsg. Hans Neumann. (Artemis, 1990)
English. The flowing light of the Godhead / Mechthild of Magdeburg; trans. Frank Tobin. (Paulist Press, 1998)
Flowing light of the divinity / Mechthild von Magdeburg; trans. Mesch Galvani; ed. Clark. (Garland, 1991)
E-books
German. The original Middle High German with modern German translation, available through the Bibliothek des Mittelalters series in Deutsche Klassiker: Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit / Mechthild von Magdeburg, hrsg. Vollmann-Profe. (Chadwyck-Healey, 2004)
English. The revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297); or, The flowing light of the Godhead, trans. Menzies. (Longmans, Green and Co., 1953). Available through the Internet Archive.
German. Das Narrenschiff : nach der Erstausgabe (Basel 1494) [...] / hrsg. Manfred Lemmer. (Niemeyer, 2004).
Das Narrenschiff : Faksimile der Erstausgabe Basel 1494 mit dem Nachwort von Franz Schultz (Strassburg 1912) / hrsg. Dieter Wuttke. (Koerner, 1994). Reprint of the original published by Trübner, 1913.
Das Narrenschiff / Sebastian Brant. (Röderberg, 1980).
English. The ship of fools / translated by Alexander Barclay. (AMS Press, 1966)
The ship of fools. / Translated into rhyming couplets with an introd. and commentary by Edwin H. Zeydel, with reproductions of the original woodcuts. (Dover, 1962)
E-books
German. Das Narrenschiff / Sebastian Brant; hrsg. von Franz Schultz. (De Gruyter Mouton, 2015). This is a facsimile of the first edition from 1494.
English. The ship of fools / translated into rhyming couplets with an introduction and commentary by Edwin H. Zeydel ; with reproductions of the original woodcuts. (ACLS Humanities E-Book, 2012).
The ship of fools / trans. Alexander Barclay, ed. Jamieson. (D. Appleton & Co., 1874). The digital version of this 2-volume edition is available in HathiTrust, and a physical is also part of the Furness Collection.
A 1509 edition from Early English Books Online (EEBO), which also includes illustrations of the woodcuts:
The shyppe of fooles. (Wynky[n] de worde prynter, 1509). This early book was printed for Princess Margarete, Countess of Richmond and Derby.
A 1570 edition, also from Early English Books Online (EEBO): [The Ship of Fooles]. (John Cawood, 1570).
A digital Latin edition from 1498 is available from Early European Books.
German. Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen = De libertate christiana / Reinhold Rieger. Comparison of the Latin and German versions of Martin Luther's text.
An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation: Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen / Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen, hrsg. Kähler. (Reclam, 1962)
English. The essential Luther / ed. Helfferich. (Hackett, 2018). Includes this as "On the freedom of a Christian (1520)."
On the freedom of a Christian / by Doctor Martin Luther, written A.D. 1520 in Wittenberg; a Group Reading Guide prepared by Michael T Grzonka, Ph.D. (Clocktower Consulting, LLC, 2016)
The freedom of a Christian, 1520 / Timothy J. Wengert. (Fortress Press, 2016). This is an excerpt with addtional commentary from the following: The annotated Luther, eds. Hillerbrand, Stjerna, & Wengert. (Fortress Press, 2015)
Find additional English translations with a title search for: Tractatus de libertate Christiana. English.
E-books
German. Included in: Seminar Geschichte. Reformation / Nicole Grochowina. (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019).
Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen. Projekt "Freiheit2017," Evangelischer Bund (2024).
English. Modern History Sourcebook: Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian. Internet History Sourcebooks Project, ed. Paul Halsall, History Department, Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies. (1996-2024)
Print.
German. Deutsche Dichtung des Barock, hrsg. Hederer. (Hanser, 1961).
Dichtung, Religion und Gesellschaft im 17. Jahrhundert: die Sonnete des Andreas Gryphius / Wolfram Mauser. (W. Fink, 1976).
English. The sonnets of Andreas Gryphius, use of the poetic word in the seventeenth century / Marvin S. Schindler. (University of Florida Press, 1971).
Online
German. "Es ist alles eitel." Available at: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Es_ist_alles_eitel (2024).
Gryphius-Handbuch, hrsg. Kaminski & Schütze. (De Gruyter, 2016). See II.4.1 Sonette by Thomas Borgstedt.
English. Gryphius, Andreas. (August 11, 2007) "[No Comment]: Two Poems by Andreas Gryphius," Harpers Magazine. "All is Vanity," trans. Scott Horton. Available at: https://harpers.org/2007/08/two-poems-by-andreas-gryphius/.
"It's all vain," trans. Lane Jennings. Available at: https://allpoetry.com/Es-ist-alles-eitel (2011)
German. Werke, 3.Bd. / [Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoph von], hrsg. Streller. (Volksverlag Weimar, 1960)
English. The life of Courage / Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen; trans. Mike Mitchell. (Dedalus, 2015)
E-books
German. Werke. I, 2 / Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen; hrsg. Breuer. (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest, 2003). From the series Bibliothek der frühen Neuzeit, in Deutsche Klassiker.
English. Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah / Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. (Princeton University Press, 2015). From the Princeton Legacy Library series in the De Gruyter University Press Library, in De Gruyter eBooks Complete.
German. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan der Weise / von Peter von Düffel. (Reclam, 1998).
Nathan der Weise / G.E. Lessing; ed. David Hill. (New German Studies, German Dept., Hull University, 1988). German text with intro and critical essays in English.
English. Nathan the wise / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; ed. Edward Kemp. (Nick Hern Books, 2003)
Nathan the Wise: with related documents / by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; trans. & ed., Ronald Schechter. (Bedford/St.Martin's, 2004)
E-books
German. Nathan der Weise. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. In Werke und Briefe in zwölf Bänden. Band 9. Werke 1778-1780, 483-627. (Suhrkamp, 1993). This volume is part of the Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker.
There are numerous 19th-century copies in German in De Gruyter eBooks Complete, most of which are editions printed in German script.
English. Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts, ed. Morley, trans. Taylor. (Cassell & Company, 1893). Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3820.
Nathan the wise: A Philosophical Drama; trans. Raspe. (printed for J. Fielding, No 23, Pater-Noster-Row, 1781). This digital text is part of Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO).
Lessing's Nathan the Wise, trans. R. Dillon Boylan, ed. Ernest Bell. (McKay, 1901). This digital copy is from an original at Princeton University and available through HathiTrust. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101064785619.
Print.
German. Was ist Aufklärung?: Thesen und Definitionen / Kant ... [and others]; hrsg. Ehrhard Bahr. (Reclam, 1996).
English. Basic writings of Kant, ed.Allen W. Wood. (Modern Library, 2001).
Foundations of the metaphysics of morals, and What is enlightenment?; trans. Lewis White Beck. (Liberal Arts Press, 1959).
What Is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions / James Schmidt. (University of California, 1996).
E-books
German. Was ist Aufklärung?: Aufsätze zur Geschichte und Philosophie; ed. Zehbe. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1967). Digital copy is available through Digi20, a digital archive of humanities and social sciences books that is a project of the state library of Bavaria (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB).
English. What Is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions / James Schmidt. (University of California Press, 1996).
Print.
German. Faust / Johann Wolfgang Goethe; hrsg. Albrecht Schöne. (Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2017).
Faust: eine Tragödie (1808) / Goethe; ed. Karl Heinrich Hucke. (Aschendorff, 2008). Historical-critical edition with commentary.
Faust: eine Tragödie, erster und zweiter Teil / Johann Wolfgang Goethe. (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1977).
English. Faust, a tragedy, part I / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; trans. Eugene Stelzig. (Bucknell University Press, 2019)
Faust I & II / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; ed. & trans. Stuart Atkins. (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Goethe's Faust: parts I and II: an abridged version; trans. Louis MacNeice. (Oxford University Press, 1951).
E-books
German. Faust: Eine Tragödie / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (J.G. Cotta, 1808). Available through Project Gutenberg at: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/21000/pg21000-images.html.
English. Faust: a tragedy in two parts / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; trans. Thomas Wayne. (Algora, 2016).
The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust.' / H. B. Cotterill. (Ballantyne & Company, Ltd., 1912). Available through Project Gutenburg at: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25732/pg25732-images.html.
Hörbücher
German. Faust: der Tragödie zweiter Teil / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; [gelesen von Peter Stein ; Produktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk].
Film
Faust / Proline Film; dir. Alexander Sokurov. (Kino Lorber, 2014). DVD. In German, with optional English subtitles.
Print.
German. Der Sandmann = The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann; ed. & trans., Jolyon Timothy Hughes. (Hamilton Books, 2020). This is a bilingual edition, but with the original German and critical essays.
Der Sandmann / E.T.A. Hoffmann; ed. Peter Braun. (Suhrkamp, 2003).
E.T.A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann / von Rudolf Drux. (P. Reclam, 1994).
English. The golden pot: and other tales of the uncanny / E.T.A. Hoffmann; trans. Peter Wortsman. (Archipelago Books, 2023).
The Sandman / E. T. A. Hoffman; trans. Christopher Moncrieff. (Alma Classics, 2021).
The golden pot and other tales / E.T.A. Hoffmann; trans. Ritchie Robertson. (Oxford University Press, 2000).
E-books
German. Der Sandmann / E.T.A. Hoffmann. Virginia Commonwealth University. Available at: https://archive.vcu.edu/germanstories/hoffmann/sand.html.
English. Tales from the German, comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors / trans. Oxenford & Feiling. (Harper & Brothers, 1844). This HathiTrust digital copy includes "The Sandman" in English translation, p. 140.
The Sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann. Virginia Commonwealth University. Available at: https://archive.vcu.edu/germanstories/hoffmann/sand_e.html.
Spoken Word
German. Der Sandmann / E.T.A. Hoffmann. (Naxos, 2000). Available through Naxos Spoken Word Library.
German. Sämtliche Werke und Briefe / Heinrich von Kleist; hrsg. Reuss & Staengle. (C. Hanser, 2010).
Das Erdbeben in Chili ; Die Marquise von O-- ; Die Verlobung in St. Domingo / Heinrich von Kleist. (Suhrkamp, 2009).
English. Selected writings / Heinrich von Kleist; ed. & trans. David Constantine. (J.M. Dent, 1997)
Six German romantic tales / Heinrich von Kleist, Ludwig Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann; trans. Ronald Taylor. (Dufour Editions, 1985)
Die Verlobung in St. Domingo: Kleist's novelle in translation and as a basis for opera and drama / Almute Wedekind. (P. Lang, 1983)
E-books
German. Sämtliche Werke und Briefe in vier Bänden. Band 3. Erzählungen/Anekdoten/Gedichte/Schriften. (Suhrkamp, 1990). Band 3 of this digital edition includes Die Verlobung in St. Domingo.
English. "The Engagement in St. Domingo" by Heinrich von Kleist (1811), trans. Ray. Prospero's Isle. Available at https://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article1195#nh2.
Note: The 1997 Constantine translation, under Print above, is not available as an e-book, and it includes a translation, "Betrothal in St. Domingo," pp. 324-350 and available upon request to Penn students through the Penn Libraries scanning services. Go to the Franklin record, log in with your PennKey if necessary, select a copy of the book, and choose Request Scan.
Spoken Word
German. Die Verlobung in St. Domingo / Die heilige Cäcilie. (Naxos, 2000). Available through Naxos Spoken Word Library.
Opera.
Die Verlobung in San Domingo. / Werner Egk; hrsg. Bayerische Staatsoper. (Orfeo, 1993). Streaming audio. Available through Naxos Music Library.
German. Die Judenbuche: ein Sittengemälde aus dem gebirgichten Westphalen / Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. (Suhrkamp, 1999)
Droste-Hülshoffs Werke in einem Band / hrsg. Rudolf Walbiner. (Aufbau, 1982). From the Bibliothek detuscher Klassiker series.
English. The Jews' beech tree : a moral portrait from mountainous Westphalia: new biographical findings, a critical introduction, and a translation of the original work / by Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, ed. & trans. Jolyon Timothy Hughes. (University Press of America, 2014)
E-books
German. Werke in einem Band; ed. Heselhaus. (Hanser, 1912). This digital copy is from an original at Indiana University and available through HathiTrust. Available at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006056517
Die Judenbuche: ein Sittengemälde aus dem gebirgichten Westphalen. [n.d.] Zeno.org. Available at http://www.zeno.org/nid/20004710134.
English. The Jews' Beech. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe. Available at https://www.lwl.org/droste-download/texte/Judenbuche-Swan-LV.pdf
The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; masterpieces of German literature, ed. Kuno Francke, trans. Lilllie Winter. This digital copy is from an original at University of California and available through HathiTrust. Available at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007698969
Spoken Word
German. Die Judenbuche. (Naxos, 1999). Available through Naxos Spoken Word Library.
German. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen / Heinrich Heine. (Suhrkamp, 2010).
Deutschland: ein Wintermärchen / Heinrich Heine; hrsg. Werner Bellmann. (Reclam, 2001)
Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen / Heinrich Heine; ed. Ursula Roth & Heidemarie Vahl. (J.B. Metzler, 1995)
English. Deutschland: a winter's tale / Heinrich Heine; trans. T.J. Reed. (Angel Books, 1997). Bilingual edition, with German and English on facing pages.
The complete poems of Heinrich Heine: a modern English version / by Hal Draper. (Suhrkamp/Insel, 1982)
Germany, a winter's tale, 1844; trans. Herman Salinger. (L.B. Fischer, 1944)
E-books
German.
Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen. [n.d.] Zeno.org. Available at http://www.zeno.org/nid/20005027578.
English.
Germany. A Winter's Tale; trans. Joseph Massaad. Heinrich-Heine.net. Available at https://www.heinrich-heine.net/winter/winteregoodb.htm
Spoken Word
Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen. (2009). LibriVox. Available at https://librivox.org/deutschland-ein-wintermaerchen-by-heinrich-heine/.
Print.
German. Effi Briest: Roman / Theodor Fontane. (Suhrkamp, 2004)
Effi Briest: Roman / Theodor Fontane; hrsg. Christine Hehle. (Aufbau, 1998)
English. Effi Briest / Theodor Fontane; trans. Mike Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 2015).
E-books
German. Effi Briest / Thedor Fontane. (2004-2020). Project Gutenberg. Available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5323.
English. Effi Briest / Theodor Fontane; trans. Mike Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Effi Briest: Abridged, with biographical notes / Theodor Fontane; trans. William Cooper. (Duke Classics, 2012)
Effi Briest / Theodor Fontane; trans. William Cooper. (The Floating Press, 2010).
Print.
German. Gesammelte Werke in drei Bänden / Arthur Schnitzler; hrsg. Hartmut Scheible. (Artemis & Winkler, 2002)
English. Fräulein Else / Arthur Schnitzler. (Pushkin, 2012)
Fräulein Else / Arthur Schnitzler; trans. F.H. Lyon. (Pushkin, 1998)
Fräulein Else; a novel, trans. Robert A. Simon. (Simon and Schuster, 1971). This is a reprint of the original Simon translation from 1925.
E-books
German. Fräulein Else: Novelle / Arthur Schnitzler. (P. Zsolnay, 1924). Digital copies are from originals at University of Michigan and University of California and available through HathiTrust. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001197915
English. Fräulein Else; a novel / Arthur Schnitzler. (Simon and Schuster, 1925). This digital copy is from University of Michigan and available through HathiTrust. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001113347
Hörbücher
German. Fräulein Else / Arthur Schnitzler ; gelesen von Bettina Reifschneider. (Hierex Medien, 2018)
German. Die Verwandlung / Franz Kafka. (Suhrkamp, 1999)
There is a graphic novel version of Die Verwandlung:
Die Verwandlung von Franz Kafka / Text, Corbeyran; Zeichnung, Horne; Deutsche Adaption, Kai Wilksen. (Knesebeck, 2010)
English.
The metamorphosis: a new translation, texts and contexts, criticism / Franz Kafka; trans. Susan Bernofsky; ed. Mark M. Anderson. (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016).
The metamorphosis = Die Verwandlung / Franz Kafka; trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. (Schocken Books, 1968). This is a bilingual English and German edition.
E-books
German.
Die Verwandlung. (Kurt Wolff, 1917). Project Gutenberg. This edition is also available from HathiTrust.
English.
The metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka; ed. James Whitlark. (Salem Press, 2012)
Spoken Word.
German. Die Verwandlung. (Naxos, 2003). Available through Naxos Spoken Word Library.
German. Der Tod in Venedig: Erzählungen / Thomas Mann. (S. Fischer, 2000)
Der Tod in Venedig / von Thomas Mann. (S. Fischer, 1998)
English.
Death in Venice: complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives, ed. Naomi Ritter. (Bedford Books, 1998)
Death in Venice: a new translation, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Thomas Mann; trans. & ed. Clayton Koelb. (W.W. Norton, 1994)
E-books
German.
Der Tod in Venedig / Paul Thomas Mann. (Booklassic, 2015). Project Gutenberg.
English.
Death in Venice / Thomas Mann; trans. & commentary by Stanley Appelbaum. (Dover, 1995)
Spoken Word
Death in Venice, trans. by Kenneth Burke. (2021). LibriVox. Available at https://librivox.org/death-in-venice-by-thomas-mann/.
Film
Death in Venice / Warner Bros. Pictures; (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1971). DVD. This is the Criterion Collection DVD release from 2019.
Print.
Yiddish. Yiddish originals of Peretz are in the collection of the Library at the Katz Center and in Franklin, the Penn Libraries catalog.
English. The I.L. Peretz Reader / Harry Y. Gamble, ed. Ruth R. Wisse. (Yale University Press, 2002). Part of the New Yiddish Library series.
E-books
English. The I.L. Peretz Reader / Harry Y. Gamble. (Yale University Press, 2002)
Spoken Word
"Monish by Y.-L. Peretz read by Shane Baker." Congress for Jewish Culture. Vimeo. Available at https://vimeo.com/81988484
Print.
German. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder: eine Chronik aus dem Dreissigjährigen Krieg / Bertolt Brecht (Suhrkamp, 1999)
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder / Bertolt Brecht; hrsg. Jan Esper Olsson. (Suhrkamp, 1981)
English. Mother Courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht; trans. Tom Leonard. (Smokestack Books, 2014)
Mother Courage and her children: a chronicle of the Thirty Years' War / Bertolt Brecht; trans. Tony Kushner. (Methuen Drama, 2009)
Mother Courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht; trans. John Willett. (Penguin, 2007)
E-books
German. Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden. Zweiter Band: Stücke 2. (Suhrkump, 1997). This volume of selected works available through ProQuest One Literature is the only available e-book version of Mutter Courage but is no-frills plain text.
English. Mother Courage and Her Children. (Methuen Drama, 1995). Available through Drama Online.
German. Die Gedichte: neue kommentierte Gesamtausgabe in einem Band / Paul Celan; hrsg. Barbara Wiedemann. (Suhrkamp, 2018)
"Todesfuge" und andere Gedichte / Paul Celan. (Suhrkamp, 2004)
Todesfuge / Paul Celan. (Rimbaud, 1999). With commentary. From the series Texte aus der Bukovina.
English. Selected poems and prose of Paul Celan / trans. John Felstiner. (W.W. Norton, 2001)
Online
German. "Todesfuge." Lyrikline. Available at https://www.lyrikline.org/de/gedichte/todesfuge-66.
English. "Todesfuge," trans. Dean Rader. Poetry Foundation. Available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161127/todesfuge-64f9500d91c45.
Hörbücher
German. Paul Celan liest Todesfuge : Gedichte und Prosa 1952-1968 / ausführlicher Begleittext mit Hintergründen zu Celans Rezitationen und Stimme von Medienhistoriker Hans-Ulrich Wagner. (Der Hörverlag, 2020)
Print.
German. Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann: Erzählung / Heinrich Böll. (dtv, 2017)
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann: Erzählung / Heinrich Böll. (Kiepenhauer & Witsch, 1974)
English. The lost honor of Katharina Blum, or, How violence develops and where it can lead / Heinrich Böll; trans. Leila Vennewitz. (Penguin, 2009)
There is no e-book edition available.
Film
The lost honor of Katharina Blum. (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, 1975). Available through Kanopy.
Print.
German. Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages; Verblendung: Disput über einen Störfall / Christa Wolf; hrsg. Sonja Hilzinger. (Luchterhand, 2001)
Störfall: Nachrichten eines Tages / Christa Wolf. (Luchterhand, 1987)
English. Accident: a day's news / Christa Wolf; trans. Heike Schwarzbauer & Rick Takvorian. (Noonday Press, 1991)
There is no e-book edition available.
German. Mutterzunge: Erzählungen / Emine Sevgi Özdamar. (Suhrkamp, 2022)
Mutterzunge: Erzählungen / Emine Sevgi Özdamar. (Rotbuch, 1990)
English. Mother tongue / Emine Sevgi Özdamar; trans. Craig Thomas. (Coach House Press, 1994)
There is no e-book edition available.
Print.
German. Blues in schwarz weiss; Nachtgesang: Gedichte / May Ayim. (Unrast, 2022)
Blues in schwarz weiss: Gedichte / May Ayim. (Orlanda Frauenverlag, 1995)
English. Blues in schwarz weiss: a collection of essays, poetry and conversations / May Ayim. (Africa World Press, 2003)
There is no e-book edition available.
Frenzels Daten Deutscher Dichtung
Print.
Daten deutscher Dichtung: chronologischer Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte / Herbert A. und Elisabeth Frenzel. (DTV, 1990)
Daten deutscher Dichtung : chronologischer Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte / Herbert A. und Elisabeth Frenzel. (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1981)
Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur
Print.
Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart / hrsg. Rolf Grimminger; ed. Hans-Joachim Simm. (Hanser, 1980-2009)
Wellbery, A New History of German Literature
Print.
English. A new history of German literature / David E. Wellbery, editor-in-chief. (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004)
