Although the free positioning of words in German sentences is an advantage, the words are often too long, and the tight compactness of letters doesn't help in the game. It was a heavy blow when 700 years ago the Swabian-Allemanian sibilant sch came into usage. As might be expected, it is not easy to find a coherent story in the German letter-palindrome. Only the syntax-free structures from the studios of visual and concrete poetry, such as the ones by Timm Ulrich, are truly remarkable. They limit themselves to palindromes of single words or word-groups.
Manual techniques assume special significance in the construction of palindromes.
One turns of course to aids for systematic permutation. Ordinarily the hinge is built with the central letter or, more seldom, a blank. First names are useful in many ways. They are hardly ever inflected and need no articles. Examples like Amme Emma , der fette Fred or the common Tim populate German palindromes.