Publications

The ZfL publishes research results in a variety of formats (monographs, anthologies, essays). The ZfL currently has two special book series with Wallstein (Literatur- und Kulturforschung) and Kulturverlag Kadmos (LiteraturForschung). As a signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, the ZfL and its library support free access to publicly funded research findings on the internet.

The search fields to the right make it easy to find ZfL publications using the author’s name or keywords.

The ZfL researchers are active on the advisory and editorial boards of renowned periodicals and academic book series.

The ZfL publishes research results in a variety of book formats from monographs to anthologies as well as in other formats like supplements or special issues of journals.

The ZfL supports free access to publicly funded research findings on the internet and makes this research available to readers on the open access publication platform CompaRe.

Our blog posts are written by colleagues working at the institute as well as by guest contributors from around the world.

E-journal Interdisciplinary Conceptual History Forum

The ZfL publishes the open access e-journal Interdisciplinary Conceptual History Forum, featuring current debates in interdisciplinary conceptual history.

Online publication Interjekte

The ZfL publishes Interjekte, an open access online publication series open to various topics and themes.

Neighborhood
(online anthology)

Online Anthology of the research project “Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature.”

Current Publications

Book cover: Written at the top is “History in Dispute: Essays on the Historicization of Reinhart Koselleck, edited by Falko Schmieder” in German; at the bottom, Reinhart Koselleck leans against a bookshelf with his arms crossed and looking at the camera.

Falko Schmieder (ed./eds.)

Geschichte im Widerstreit
Beiträge zur Historisierung Reinhart Kosellecks

Wert der Vergangenheit vol. 13

Wallstein, Göttingen 2026, 351 pages

ISBN 978-3-8353-6053-2 (Print); 978-3-8353-8165-0 (PDF)

Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco (ed./eds.)

Dualla Misipo: Der Junge aus Duala. Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein frühes Werk der Schwarzen deutschen Literatur
literatur für leser:innen

Vol. 47, Issue 2

Peter Lang, Berlin 2026, 104 pages

ISSN 0343-1657; eISSN 2364-7183
DOI 10.3726/lfl.2024.02.01

Tobias Wilke

Lautbilder und Maschinenschrift
Modelle digitaler Sprachlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert

Brill Fink, Paderborn 2026, 189 pages

ISBN 978-3-7705-6967-0 (Print); 978-3-8467-6967-6 (E-Book)

Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper (ed./eds.)

The Rescuing Sovereign at Sea: Historical Perspectives on Maritime Law, Morals, and Politics
Forum in: International Journal of Maritime History

Vol. 38, Issue 1

SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks 2026, 152 pages

ISSN 0843-8714 (Print); 2052-7756 (Online)

Margarete Vöhringer, Christof Windgätter (ed./eds.)

Glaswelten
Materielle Kultur zwischen Zeigen und Verbergen

Designwissen vol. 4

Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2026, 288 pages

ISBN 978-3-86599-601-5

Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
Heft XX/1, Frühjahr 2026

Butler Trouble, ed. by Eva Geulen and Carlos Spoerhase

C.H. Beck, Munich 2026, 128 pages

ISBN 978-3-406-84366-2

Christoph Hesse, Klaus Bittermann (ed./eds.)

Umkämpfte Geschichte
Einsprüche gegen die Umdeutung des 7. Oktober

Theorie & Debatte vol. 1

Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2026, 304 pages

ISBN 978-3-89320-335-2

Oliver Precht (ed./eds.)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty als politischer Philosoph
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie

Vol. 73, Issue 5

De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2025, 75 pages

ISSN 0012-1045; eISSN: 2192-1482

Hanna Hamel

Der nächste Text
Postdigitale ästhetische Kooperation

Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2025, 222 pages

ISBN 978-3-7518-2098-1

Cover of the Journal for the History of Ideas entitled “Weltmacht DDR” (The GDR as a World Power). Against a white background is a black-and-white image of a car with a flag on the bumper and several passengers wearing fur hats.

Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
Heft XIX/4, Winter 2025

Weltmacht DDR, ed. by Christian Neumeier and Danilo Scholz

C.H. Beck, München 2025, 128 pages

ISBN 978-3-406-83112-6

Cover of the academic journal Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 61, Number 3 (July 2025), special issue on the aesthetics and politics of humour in Walter Benjamin.

Kevin Drews, Szilvia Gellai (ed./eds.)

The Opportunities of Laughter: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Humour in Walter Benjamin
Special Issue: Forum for Modern Language Studies

Vol. 61, Issue 3

Oxford University Press, Oxford 2025, 168 pages

ISSN 0015-8518 (Print), 1471-6860 (Online)

Cover of the volume “Epochenwenden,” edited by Barbara Picht and Henning Trüper.

Barbara Picht, Henning Trüper (ed./eds.)

Epochenwenden
Zur Aktualität historischer Periodisierung

Literatur- und Kulturforschung. Schriftenreihe des ZfL vol. 3

Wallstein, Göttingen 2025, 312 pages

ISBN 978-3-8353-5880-5
DOI 10.46500/83535880 (Open Access)