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Deutsches Textarchiv
The German Text Archive provides access to texts, a linguistic search, downloads, and documentation about its digitization and text formats.
About Deutsches Textarchiv
Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) is a platform providing collections and corpora of German-language texts across disciplines and genres. Its core corpus contains around 1,500 titles, selected in a balanced way across text types, with a publication period from the early 17th to the early 20th century. A separate extension corpus adds about 4,000 digitized historical sources, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries. The full texts are freely accessible and can be searched across the entire collection in a spelling-tolerant way using computational linguistic methods. Texts are prepared in the TEI-P5 DTABf format and can be viewed in a text-image view or downloaded. Analysis is possible through DWDS tools such as word frequency curves or DiaCollo, or via external tools like Voyant Tools and the Language Resource Switchboard. The DTA currently serves as a repository for structured historical texts within the NFDI consortium Text+ and supplies historical corpora for the Wortgeschichte digital dictionary project. Users can search 5,483 works. Downloadable texts are available under a Creative Commons license, while rights to displayed image digitizeds remain with the owning libraries.
Key features
- Spelling-tolerant full-text search across the entire DTA collection
- Core corpus of around 1,500 titles from early 17th to early 20th century
- Extension corpus of about 4,000 sources, mainly 17th to 19th centuries
- TEI-P5 DTABf encoded texts with text-image view and download
- Integration with DWDS tools for word frequency curves and DiaCollo
- Links to external analysis tools such as Voyant Tools and LRS
Best for: Researchers, linguists, and historians working with historical German-language texts.
Good for
- Full texts are freely accessible.
- Texts are prepared in the documented TEI-P5 DTABf format.
- Downloadable texts are available under a Creative Commons license.
Watch out for
- Interface and documentation are primarily in German.
- Rights to displayed image digitizeds remain with the owning libraries.
- Not all content is under a Creative Commons license; exceptions are possible.
Deutsches Textarchiv at a glance
- Website
- deutschestextarchiv.de
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- German
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Deutsches Textarchiv FAQ
Which time period does the core corpus cover?
The core corpus covers the early 17th century to the early 20th century.
How many works can I search in the DTA?
You can search in 5,483 works.
What format are the texts available in?
All texts and corpora of the DTA basic stock are prepared in the TEI-P5 format DTABf and are available via a text-image view on the DTA website and for download.
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