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The Duden Package includes the following dictionaries: Das große Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, Deutsches Universalwörterbuch, Die deutsche Rechtschreibung, Das Synonymwörterbuch, Das Herkunftswörterbuch, Richtiges und gutes Deutsch, Wörterbuch medizinischer Fachbegriffe, Recht A-Z, Das große Fremdwörterbuch, Wirtschaft von A bis Z, Lexikon der Vornamen, Wörterbuch der Abkürzungen, Familiennamen, Das große Wörterbuch der Zitate und Redewendungen, Geographische Namen in Deutschland, Das neue Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen, Wörterbuch der New Economy.
Full text database of German texts. Includes works of major German authors spanning eleven centuries as well as historical, philosophical, theological, political, and art history texts. Collections of essays, speeches, and other non-literary material add context and background material.
Unrestricted access to Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage: millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany.
Goethes Werke contains the complete text of the 143 volumes of the definitive Weimar Edition. In this database, 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.
Goethes Werke contains the complete text of the 143 volumes of the definitive Weimar Edition. In this database, 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.
Digital edition of the Nationalausgabe, the definitive collection of literary works, letters, and conversations by Friedrich Schiller. Edited by Norbert Oellers, one of the world's leading scholars of German literature.
German Literary Expressionism Online. Full-text articles from 151 German journals, yearbooks, collections, and anthologies covering the period of Expressionism (early 20th century).
The database The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels Online contains transcriptions of all handwritten documents from 1923 to July 1941, as well as subsequent writings that were dictated up to 1945. Information about the database can be found in the introductory texts "Notes on the Production of this Edition" as well as the "Introduction to this Collected Edition."
A digitized multimedia library of the European cultural heritage: digitized books, manuscripts, photos, paintings, maps, audio and film material, newspapers, etc.
Primary Sources at UCLA Special Collections
UCLA holds a rich collections of German materials. This list includes a few examples. Search the Online Archive of California for more information
Materials found in Werfel's study at the time of his death. Includes correspondence, manuscripts, clippings and printed materials, pictures, artifacts, periodicals, and books.
Microfilm copies of the Arthur Schnitzler Archives from Cambridge. The microfilm includes manuscripts, correspondence, scripts, sketches, a dissertation on Schnitzler, and autobiographical material and documents related to Arthur Schnitzler's father, Johann Schnitzler.
35 reels of positive microfilm of more than 100,000 handwritten pages of manuscripts and letters. The originals are at the Lower Saxony State Library, Hanover, Germany.
The German part of the collection includes pamphlets, newspapers, books, magazines, pictures, photographs, filmstrips, slides, ephemera, and objects relating to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei in Germany.
The strength of the collection resides in English and American publications before 1840, supported by foreign language editions, pop-up and other movable books, and harlequinades—among them more than 100 seventeenth to nineteenth century books in German.
PT1101 B471. Major collection of German first editions. The collection is based on the Taschengoedeke edition. More than 15,000 works by almost 2,500 authors. Individual titles of the collection are listed on the UCLA Library catalog.
SRLF. Includes over 3000 German, Swiss, and Austrian printed books from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Individual titles of the collection are listed on Melvyl.
Zentralbibliothek Zürich, 1846 microfiches: PT2392.L2 Z5 2001; guide: The correspondence of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) : guide to the microform collection, PT2392.L2 Z5 2001 guide
The German government archive (Bundesarchiv) has microfilmed some two million pages of documents from the German Colonial Office (Reichskolonialamt). CRL, under Reichskolonialamt : Bestand R 1001 / bearbeitet von Michael Hollmann. Online finding aid available through the CRL catalog.
The library holds cd-rom editions of the selected works of a number of other German authors (e.g. Theodor Fontane, Heinrich Heine, E.T.A. Hoffmann, G. E. Lessing, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Kurt Tucholsky, etc.) as well.
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