About This Project
Tintenspur is an independent guide to nonfiction and biography. It explains genres, methods and work with sources.
What This Is About
The site explains how biographies, reportage and other nonfiction books work and how their care can be recognized. It is an information resource on a genre. We are not a publisher, we do not issue books, and we have no ties to any publisher, author or writer.
Editorial Approach
The articles aim to give orientation, not to pass judgment on individual books. We name no current titles and recommend nobody. Statements about people, events, institutions and dates are limited to things that can be looked up in publicly accessible, recognized sources, such as the Federal Agency for Civic Education, the German Historical Museum or the German Emigration Center. What we cannot document, we leave out.
Limits of This Resource
The texts replace neither specialist literature nor advice from an archive. Each archive sets its own rules of use, so please ask there.