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.

Books

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.

read more

Open access

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.

read more

ZfL BLOG

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

read more

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.

read more

Online publication Interjekte

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

read more

Neighborhood
(online anthology)

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

read more

Current Publications

Bernardo Bianchi, Andreas Lipowsky, Oliver Precht (ed./eds.)

Die ontologische Wende
Indigene Kosmologien und die Dekolonisierung des Seins

suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft vol. 2491
Suhrkamp, Berlin 2026, 650 pages
ISBN 978-3-518-30091-6
Falko Schmieder (ed./eds.)

FORUM INTERDISZIPLINÄRE BEGRIFFSGESCHICHTE

main topic: KOMMUNIKATION, ZENSUR
E-JOURNAL (2026) 15th YEAR / ISSUE 1
Berlin 2026, 57 pages
ISSN 2195-0598
DOI 10.13151/fib.2026.01.01
Susanne Frank, Zaal Andronikashvili, Thomas Lahusen (ed./eds.)

The Soviet Literary Cosmopolis
Literature, Nation-Building and the Claim on the World

WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures vol. 26
De Gruyter, Berlin 2026, 395 pages
ISBN 978-3-1122-4205-6 (Print); 978-3-1122-4206-3 (eBook)

Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
Heft XX/2, Sommer 2026

Türhüter, ed. by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Martin Mulsow, and Stephan Schlak
C.H. Beck, Munich 2026, 128 pages
978-3-406-84368-6
Catriona Corke, Ivana Perica, Philipp Wegmann (ed./eds.)

Literary Acts of Agency
Negotiating the Rule of Law

De Gruyter, Berlin 2026, 155 pages
ISBN 9783111506302 (Print); 9783111506692 (E-Book)
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)
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