German Studies (magazine)
| German studies. International division
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| description | International specialist period for German studies |
| Area of Expertise | German language and literature studies |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Walter de Gruyter, Berlin |
| First edition | 1960 |
| Frequency of publication | two double issues annually |
| editor | Bernd Bastert, Joachim Jacob, Heidrun Kämper, Jörg Kilian, Dorothee Kimmich, Florian Kragl, Christine Lubkoll, Sabine Schneider |
| Web link | http://www.degruyter.com/db/germanistik www.degruyter.com/view/j/germ, http://www.degruyter.com/db/germanistik |
| ISSN (print) | 0016-8912 |
| ISSN (online) | 1865-9187 |
The German. The international reference organ with bibliographical references is the central bibliographical reporting organ of German linguistics and literary studies . It has been published as a quarterly periodical since 1960 , most recently in two double issues per year . Its aim is to give scientists as well as students and teachers a working tool by listing the relevant new publications in the international field of German studies as comprehensively as possible. Wherever they come into contact with Germanistic issues, work from related disciplines (e.g. book , theater and media studies , historical research , theology ) are also included.
Plant and structure
Both independent ( monographs , editions , anthologies ) and dependent publications ( journal articles, contributions to anthologies ) are recorded, totaling several thousand titles per year. The individual entries are arranged according to subject groups and indexed using a careful indexing system that enables quick and precise research. In the print version, the search terms can be found in a register in the appendix; the online version offers the possibility of complex search queries.
A special feature of "German Studies" is that around a third of the monographic contributions are presented in short presentations. These presentations are intended to facilitate orientation in the abundance of new academic literature on German linguistics and literature that is published every year.
history
The idea of founding “German Studies” was taken up at the end of the 1950s by the publisher Hermann Niemeyer at the suggestion of Hans Walter Bähr . Niemeyer brought the idea to the medievalists Helmut de Boor and Hugo Kuhn . Bähr, who took over the editorial management, de Boor and Kuhn assembled an international group of representatives of German literature and linguistics in an editorial board (including Richard Alewyn , Richard Brinkmann , Victor Lange , Robert Minder , Hugo Moser , Emil Öhmann , Wolfgang Paulsen , Richard Samuel , Albrecht Schöne ). They founded “Germanistik” with the aim of making German studies visible worldwide and, last but not least, accessible to German studies abroad.
The first issue appeared in 1960. With the establishment of the new sub-discipline German Linguistics at the end of the 1960s and developments in science policy, the assignment of “German Studies” to the Mannheim Institute for German Language was dissolved in the mid-1980s. Since 1987, an elected editorial board representing the specialist sections of Medieval Studies , Linguistics and Modern German Literature has been responsible for the department ( Wilfried Barner , Richard Brinkmann , Klaus Grubmüller , Helmut Henne , Johannes Janota , Wolfram Mauser (philologist) , Heinz Vater , Wilhelm Vosskamp ) and supported by an international advisory board. The “Germanistik” was published from 1960 to 2005 by Max Niemeyer Verlag in Tübingen . After its sale, it was incorporated into the Walter de Gruyter publishing house in 2006 . Current editors of "German Studies" are Bernd Bastert (older German literature), Joachim Jacob (newer German literature), Heidrun Kämper (linguistics), Jörg Kilian ( language didactics ), Dorothee Kimmich (newer German literature), Florian Kragl (older German literature) , Christine Lubkoll (Newer German Literature) and Sabine Schneider (Newer German Literature).
Large parts of the “German Studies” archive are now in the German Literature Archive in Marbach . This also applies to the subject index, which has been and is being updated again and again over the years, so that relevant research trends and methodological and theoretical shifts in focus become visible.
While the “Germanistik” continues to appear as a regularly updated print version, it has also been available in electronic form (as an e-book and as a separate online database ) since 2014 . The previous years are continuously recorded here and indexed for the search.
literature
- German studies. International organ of presentations with bibliographical references, vol. 1 (1960) to 46 (2005): Max Niemeyer (Tübingen), 47 (2006) to 50 (2009): Max Niemeyer (Tübingen) as imprint of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 51 (2010) to 52 (2011): Walter de Gruyter (Berlin, New York), from 53 (2012): Walter de Gruyter (Berlin, Boston).
- Erhart, Walter: The magazine 'Germanistik'. In: Robert Harsch-Niemeyer (Hrsg.): Contributions to the method history of the newer philologies. For the 125th anniversary of Max Niemeyer Verlag. Tübingen 1995, pp. 211-224.