In recent years the automatic detection of abusive language, offensive language and hate speech in several different forms of online communication has received a lot of attention by the Computational Linguistics and Language Technology community. While most approaches work on English data, publications on languages other than English are rare. This paper, submitted to the GermEval 2018 Shared Task on the Identification of Offensive Language, provides the results of several experiments regarding the classification of offensive language in German language tweets.