"The literary canon, firmly circumscribed and defined by numerous literary histories which establish the standards of our field, provides a most useful hermeneutic framework for everything we do in literary studies, hence in German Studies. Yes, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka have proven to be giants in our field. And so have Heinrich von Veldeke, Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried von Strassburg, Walther von der Vogelweide, and many others. What can the current state of art in Medieval Studies inform us about the problematic issues concerning the canon [...]?" - Albrecht Classens mediävistische Überlegungen zur Kanon-Debatte in der Germanistik sind auch auf der Homepage der Zeitschrift kostenfrei nachzulesen.