The dataset contains the digitized full-text corpus of the Berlin daily newspaper “Der Tag”, edition A (1901–1921). It is organized by year and issue, providing XML metadata files as well as page-level full-text transcriptions in ALTO XML format.

“Der Tag” was published in Berlin until 1934, initially by the Scherl publishing house, then taken over by Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft and sold to Alfred Hugenberg in 1916. It was among the first German newspapers to include photographs.

There is hardly any research on this important newspaper which covered the first decades of th 20th century. Edition A of “Der Tag” is said to represent a wider range of political currents than other editions. Later when the newspaper had to be sold by its initial publisher August Scherl and finally ended up in the hands of the publisher Alfred Hugenberg, the newspaper became a mouthpiece for the proto-fascist German National People’s Party (Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP).