Oldenburg (17.01.11) "Contributions to the History of German Studies" is the title of a new book series published by Hirzel-Verlag in Stuttgart. It is jointly edited by Uwe Meves from the University of Oldenburg and his colleague Jens Haustein from Jena.

The volume "Germanistik in Prag und Jena - Universität, Stadt und Kultur um 1900. Der Briefwechsel zwischen August Sauer und Albert Leitzmann" by Jeannette Godau (University of Hohenheim) has now been published. At the centre of her study is the correspondence between the Prague Germanist August Sauer (1855-1926) and his Jena colleague Albert Leitzmann (1867-1950). Their correspondence, spanning a good 30 years, sheds light on academic, cultural and private aspects of scholarly life in Prague and Jena at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The first volume, which will follow in a few weeks' time, is dedicated to the "Discovery of the early modern period". Edited by Marcel Lepper and Dirk Werle, it will examine the question of how the "transitional epoch" of the early modern period was integrated into the changing constellations of German studies in terms of literary and linguistic history.

Volumes published so far:

Volume 1
Marcel Lepper/Dirk Werle (eds.): Entdeckung der frühen Neuzeit. Constructing an epoch in the history of literature and language since 1750, Stuttgart 2011.

Volume 2
Jeanette Godau: Germanistik in Prag und Jena - Universität, Stadt und Kultur um 1900. Der Briefwechsel zwischen August Sauer und Albert Leitzmann, Stuttgart 2010.

Volume 3
Michael Prinz/Ulrike Richter-Vapaatolo (eds.): Idioms, constructions, 'verblümte Rede'. Beiträge zur Geschichte der germanistischen Phraseologieforschung, Stuttgart 2011.

Volume 4
Jan Behrs: Der Dichter und sein Denker. Interactions between Literature and Literary Studies in Realism and Expressionism, Stuttgart 2013.

Volume 5
Hans-Harald Müller/Myriam Isabell Richter (eds.): Practised German Studies. Die Berichte des Seminars für deutsche Philologie der Universität Graz 1873 - 1918, Stuttgart 2013.

Volume 6
Hans-Harald Müller/Mirko Nottscheid (eds.): Disziplinenentwicklung als community of practice. Der Briefwechsel Wilhelm Scherer mit August Sauer, Bernhard Seuffert und Richard Maria Werner aus den Jahren 1876 bis 1886, Stuttgart 2016.

Volume 7
Uwe Meves: Programmatische Texte zur Deutschen Philologie. From the end of the 18th century to 1930 (BGG 7), Stuttgart 2015, LV and 443 pp.

Volume 8
Marcel Lepper/Hans-Harald Müller (eds.): Interdisziplinarität und Disziplinenkonfiguration: Germanistik 1780-1920, Stuttgart 2018.

Volume 9
Jörg Schönert/Ralf Klausnitzer/Wilhelm Schernus (eds.): Wilhelm Emrich. The life story of a humanities scholar before, during and after the Nazi era. 1929-1945: The career of an "intellectual" in the spectrum of influence of academic, professional and political institutions, Stuttgart 2018.

Volume 10
Jörg Schönert/Ralf Klausnitzer/Wilhelm Schernus (eds.): Zur Lebensgeschichte eines Geisteswissenschaftlers vor, in und nach der NS-Zeit. 1945-1959 Wilhelm Emrich's modelling of his academic existence, Stuttgart 2018.

Volume 11
Hand-Harald Müller/Felix Oehmichen (eds.): Richard Heinzel: Briefe an Wilhelm Scherer. With the collaboration of Christine Putzo, Stuttgart 2019.

Volume 12
Ralf Erik Werner (ed.): Goethephilosophie zwischen Dilettantismus und Universität. Letters from Gustav von Loeper to Hermann Grimm from the years 1870 to 1889, Stuttgart 2021.