📚 German

30 works · ordered by editions in print

From Luther’s Bible to the reform spelling: grammars, dictionaries and the orthography fights.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject german language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Iphigenie auf Tauris	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1787	92
Hermann und Dorothea	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1799	90
Wallenstein	Friedrich Schiller	1800	80
Duden	Konrad Duden	1902	61
Biedermann und die Brandstifter	Max Frisch	1958	52
Minna von Barnhelm	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	1868	47
Komm Mit!	George Winkler	1995	41
The Red Circle	Arthur Conan Doyle	1911	35
An Historical Dictionary of German Figurative Usage	Keith Spalding	1952	32
LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen	Victor Klemperer	1947	30
Drei Männer im Schnee	Erich Kästner	1934	25
Sternstunden der Menschheit	Stefan Zweig	1920	24
Der Trompeter von Säkkingen	Joseph Viktor von Scheffel	1863	23
Treffpunkt Deutsch	E. Rosemarie Widmaier	1991	22
Modern German Grammar	Bill Dodd	1996	17
Das Wunschkind	Ina Seidel	1930	16
Kaleidoskop	Jack Moeller	1983	16
Kontakte	Tracy D. Terrell	1988	16
Deutsch Heute	Jack Moeller	1979	14
German grammar in context	Carol Fehringer	2002	14
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick	Carl Zuckmayer	1930	13
Via Mala	Knittel, John	1934	13
Die Physiker	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	1962	13
Practising German grammar	Martin Durrell	1993	13
English grammar for students of Spanish	Cecile Zorach	1980	12
Hammer's German Grammar and Usage	Alfred Edward Hammar	1991	12
Angélique se révolte	Anne Golon	1961	11
Essential German grammar	Martin Durrell	2002	11
German	Paul Coggle	1989	10
Deutsch, na klar!	Robert Di Donato	1991	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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