diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index cc67e37..6889bcb 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fi
 if [ $1 == "pandoc" ]
 then
     cat chapter/*.md > chapter/out.md
-    pandoc --citeproc --filter pandoc-crossref \
+    pandoc --lua-filter templates/germanquotes.lua --citeproc --filter pandoc-crossref \
         -M cref=true --top-level-division=chapter \
         --bibliography library/library.bib --biblatex \
         -o chapter/out.tex chapter/out.md
diff --git a/templates/germanquotes.lua b/templates/germanquotes.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66e82f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/germanquotes.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+-- see https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5470#issuecomment-489158514
+function Quoted(el)
+    if el.quotetype == 'DoubleQuote' then
+      return {pandoc.Str("„"), pandoc.Span(el.content), pandoc.Str("“")}
+    end
+  end
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