The Philological Library holds a broad range of subjects:

• Literary theory and comparative literature
• English studies
• Byzantine studies
• German studies
• Indian philology / South Asia studies
• Classical studies
• Latin America Institute
• Medieval Latin Philology
• Modern Greek studies
• Dutch philology
• Philosophy
• Romance studies
• Slavic studies (literature studies)
• Comparative and Indo-Germanic linguistics

Judaica from the estate of Prof. Dr. Gert Mattenklott

Collections of theater studies, film studies, musicology are located in the Library of the Institute for Theater Studies.