G German
German language
| G1 | German language and phonetics | |
| G2 | Dialects | |
| G3 | Old German : grammars and composition | |
| G4 | Modern German : grammars and composition |
German literature : general
| G8 | Anthologies : general, where not century specific, for which see under Authors below | |
| G8.1 | Anthologies : poetry, as above | |
| G8.2 | Anthologies : drama, as above | |
| G8.3 | Anthologies : prose, as above | |
| G9 | Literary history. Literary theory and criticism if not genre- or century-specific. Festschriften (likewise) and other miscellaneous collections of articles | |
| G10 | History of drama. Theatre |
Authors : Texts, criticisms, biographies
| G11 | Authors who flourished up to and including 1199 : also general works on and anthologies of Old and Early mediaeval German | |
| G12 | Thirteenth century authors etc. Most of medieval German, eg Minnesang, since period it flourished usu. reckoned 1150-1300. Thus : | |
| G12.1 | General works on, and anthologies of Middle High German | |
| G13-G15 | 14th-16th century authors | |
| G16 | 17th century authors | |
| G16.1 | General works on, and anthologies of, the Baroque Period | |
| G17 | 18th century authors | |
| G17.1 | General works on, and anthologies of, the Goethezeit, Klassik, Sturm und Drang, Weimar (Goethe, Schiller, etc) | |
| G18 | 19th century authors | |
| G18.1 | General works on, and anthologies of, Romantik, Biedermeier, the Novelle,”bourgeois realism” etc | |
| G19 | Turn of the century (born after c. 1865) and 20th century authors | |
| G19.1 | General works on, and anthologies of, 20th century literature | |
| G19.2 | General works on, and anthologies of, turn of the century movements (Symbolism, Naturalism), Expressionism, WWI | |
| G19.3 | General works on, and anthologies of, writing of the period of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) | |
| G19.4 | General works on, and anthologies of, writing of the period of the Third Reich (1933-45) | |
| G19.5 | General works on, and anthologies of, post-1945 writing | |
| G20 | 21st century authors |
| G21 | Dutch | |
| G23 | Scandinavian | |
| G23.1 | Icelandic | |
| G23.2 | Danish | |
| G23.3 | Norwegian | |
| G23.4 | Swedish | |
| G23.5 | Finnish |