Lists of German-Language News Sources
- German Studies News SourcesAnnotated list of German-language news sources including newspapers, news magazines, radio and TV broadcasters, and more.
News Databases
Note: The news sources available in these databases frequently change. To know what is available and where, search for the newspaper or news magazine by title in the eJournal Search.
- ProQuest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowBrowsing and searching of articles for a number of German-language newspapers, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Presse (Wien), Die Tageszeitung, Die Welt, and Die ZEIT.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNo browsing, only searching of articles. Access to historical and current articles from German-language news sources, such as Handelsblatt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Presse (Wien), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Der Tagesspiegel, taz, die Tageszeitung, Die Welt, and Die Zeit.
- Factiva This link opens in a new windowAccess to German-language news sources such as Berliner Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Presse (Wien), Der Spiegel, Der Standard, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Der Tagesspiegel. NOTE: the academic license for libraries does not provide access to ALL German news sources.
- ICON Newspaper Digitization Projects This link opens in a new windowThe International Coalition on Newspapers includes links to collections of US & international newspapers that have been digitized.
Historical News Sources
- ANNO (Austrian Newspapers Online)From the Austrian National Library, scanned images of Austrian newspapers from 16th to 20th centuries. Browsing and searching available.
- Compact Memory: Retrospektive Digitalisierung jüdischer Periodika im deutschsprachigen Raum1806-1938. German-language Jewish newspapers and journals.
- DDR PresseProject for the digitization of three exemplary papers (Neues Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung and Neue Zeit)
- Digital Exile Press (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)Digitization of 30 exile German-language magazines from 1933-1945. Access links to magazines in DNB Catalog.
- e-newspaperarchives.chAccess to historical and current Swiss newspapers in French, German and Italian digitized by the Swiss National Library and other Swiss libraries.
- Eureka.cc This link opens in a new window
- Europeana/European LibraryHistorical German-language newspapers via Europeana/European Library
- Historic German Newspapers Online (EuroDocs)Part of EuroDocs, list on open access historical newspapers from Germany.
- Index Deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815The index of German-language magazines (IDZ) contains about 100,000 articles from 195 German-language magazines of the years 1750 to 1815.
- Neues Deutschland Digital Archive: 1946-2020 This link opens in a new window
- ZEFYS: ZeitungsinformationssystemMajor digitization project that provides scans historical German-language newspapers from Germany and elsewhere.
- Zeitgeschichtliches ArchivOf interest, in particular, for the period immediately after World War II. Indexes 9 million newspaper clippings. The search is free but there is a fee for obtaining copies of the documents. Registration required to search.
- Access World News This link opens in a new window
Newspapers from Center for Research Libraries.
Use the CRL newspaper search page to find German-language newspapers. Newspapers are available via hard copy, microfilm, or online. Request microfilm and hard copy via Interlibrary Loan.
