English summary: For a long time it was not considered simply matter-of-course to concern oneself with the history of German Studies. With his professorial dissertation on Jacob Grimm's "wild philology" published in 1979 Ulrich Wyss was one of the pioneers of a historical approach to critical, self-reflection on the subject. The 25 articles from the past 30 years collected here in a single volume for the first time are characterized by a dogged confrontation...