Kindlers literature encyclopedia

The first edition was published from 1965 to 1972 by Helmut Kindler [de] in 7 volumes and was partially a translation of the Italian encyclopedia "Dizionario Letterario Bompiani".

As the first edition started as a translation from Italian, it was primarily focused on romanesque literature.

Unlike in the first edition, there were also articles on anonymous works and the last volume consisted essays on national literatures.

On the other side, the coverage of pop culture, such as song lyrics and comics was added.

[3][4] In 2009 the German newspaper Die Welt called the entries of the Kindlers superior to Wikipedia articles.