diff --git a/app/[locale]/works/[category]/page.tsx b/app/[locale]/works/[category]/[id]/page.tsx
similarity index 56%
rename from app/[locale]/works/[category]/page.tsx
rename to app/[locale]/works/[category]/[id]/page.tsx
index 957d4f6..2741a93 100644
--- a/app/[locale]/works/[category]/page.tsx
+++ b/app/[locale]/works/[category]/[id]/page.tsx
@@ -1,55 +1,87 @@
 "use client";
 import type { RefinementListItem } from "instantsearch.js/es/connectors/refinement-list/connectRefinementList";
 import { useTranslations } from "next-intl";
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
 import { Results } from "@/components/instantsearch/results";
 import { SingleRefinementDropdown } from "@/components/instantsearch/single-refinement-dropdown";
 import { SingleRefinementList } from "@/components/instantsearch/single-refinement-list";
 import { ThomasBernhardInstantSearchProvider } from "@/components/instantsearch/thomas-bernhard/thomasbernhard-instantsearchprovider";
 import { MainContent } from "@/components/main-content";
+import { getWorks } from "@/lib/data";
+import type { BernhardWork, Category } from "@/lib/model";
 
 interface WorksPageProps {
 	params: {
 		category: string;
+		id?: string;
 	};
 }
 
 export default function WorksPage(props: WorksPageProps) {
-	const ct = useTranslations("BernhardCategories");
-	// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-	const categoryLabel = ct(props.params.category as any);
-	// TODO validate category
 	const t = useTranslations("InstantSearch");
+	const ct = useTranslations("BernhardCategories");
 	const tl = useTranslations("Languages");
 
-	// TODO get id -> year+title dictionaries from backend
+	// TODO validate category
+	const category = props.params.category;
+	const categoryLabel = ct(category as Category);
+
+	// get id -> work info dictionary once on pageload
+	const [works, setWorks] = useState({} as Record<string, BernhardWork>);
+	useEffect(() => {
+		const get = async () => {
+			setWorks(await getWorks(category as Category));
+		};
+		// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-floating-promises
+		get();
+	}, [category]);
 
 	return (
 		<ThomasBernhardInstantSearchProvider
-			filters={`contains.work.category:=${props.params.category}`}
-			// pageName={props.params.category} // hack
-			// pathnameField="contains.work.yeartitle"
-			queryArgsToMenuFields={{ work: "contains.work.yeartitle", language: "language" }}
+			filters={`contains.work.category:=${category}`}
+			pageName={category} // hack
+			pathnameField="contains.work.id"
+			queryArgsToMenuFields={{ language: "language" }}
 		>
 			<MainContent>
 				<div className="grid h-full grid-cols-[25%_75%] gap-6 px-2">
 					<div className="relative h-full">
 						<SingleRefinementList
 							allLabel={categoryLabel}
-							attribute={"contains.work.yeartitle"}
+							attribute={"contains.work.id"}
 							// format as title (year) instead of showing facet count
 							refinementArgs={{
 								// workaround like https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch/issues/2568
 								transformItems: (items: Array<RefinementListItem>) => {
-									return items
-										.filter((item) => {
-											return item.label.startsWith(props.params.category);
-										})
-										.map((item) => {
-											const [_category, year, title] = item.label.split("_");
-											item.label = Number.isNaN(parseInt(year!)) ? title! : `${title!} (${year!})`;
-											return item;
-										});
+									return (
+										items
+											// the refinement may contain out-of-category works which are contained in
+											// publications which also contain works of this category (and therefore show up
+											// in the filtered search)
+											.filter((item) => {
+												return item.value in works;
+											})
+											.sort((a, b) => {
+												const ya = works[a.value]!.year;
+												const yb = works[b.value]!.year;
+												if (!ya) {
+													return 1;
+												} else if (!yb) {
+													return -1;
+												} else {
+													return ya - yb;
+												}
+											})
+											.map((item) => {
+												const work = works[item.value]!;
+												item.label = work.short_title ?? work.title;
+												if (work.year) {
+													item.label += ` (${work.year.toString()})`;
+												}
+												return item;
+											})
+									);
 								},
 							}}
 						/>
diff --git a/components/bernhard-links.tsx b/components/bernhard-links.tsx
index f562aea..521a2cf 100644
--- a/components/bernhard-links.tsx
+++ b/components/bernhard-links.tsx
@@ -10,11 +10,7 @@ interface BernhardWorkProps {
 
 export function BernhardWorkLink(props: BernhardWorkProps) {
 	return (
-		<AppNavLink
-			href={encodeURI(
-				`/works/${props.work.category!}?work=${props.work.category!}$${props.work.year ? props.work.year.toString() : "None"}$${props.work.short_title!}`,
-			)}
-		>
+		<AppNavLink href={encodeURI(`/works/${props.work.category!}/${props.work.id.toString()}`)}>
 			{props.display_title ?? props.work.title}
 		</AppNavLink>
 	);
diff --git a/components/instantsearch-view.tsx b/components/instantsearch-view.tsx
index 8f25921..4ebb0ad 100644
--- a/components/instantsearch-view.tsx
+++ b/components/instantsearch-view.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 "use client";
 
-import { LayoutGrid, LayoutList } from "lucide-react";
+import {
+	ArrowDownAZ,
+	CalendarArrowDown,
+	CalendarArrowUp,
+	LayoutGrid,
+	LayoutList,
+} from "lucide-react";
 import { useTranslations } from "next-intl";
 import { type ReactNode, useState } from "react";
 import { Switch } from "react-aria-components";
@@ -21,8 +27,8 @@ interface InstantSearchViewProps extends Partial<ThomasBernhardInstantSearchProv
 }
 
 const sortOptions = {
-	"year:desc": CalendarArrowUp,
 	"year:asc": CalendarArrowDown,
+	"year:desc": CalendarArrowUp,
 	"title:asc": ArrowDownAZ,
 };
 
diff --git a/components/instantsearch/instantsearchprovider.tsx b/components/instantsearch/instantsearchprovider.tsx
index d1c92fa..0fa15be 100644
--- a/components/instantsearch/instantsearchprovider.tsx
+++ b/components/instantsearch/instantsearchprovider.tsx
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ export function InstantSearchProvider(props: InstantSearchProviderProps): ReactN
 			indexName={collectionName}
 			routing={{
 				router: {
+					// FIXME without pageName the url rewriter eats up queryargs?
+
 					// "The difference here is that routing.router takes the same options as the historyRouter."
 					createURL({ location, routeState, qsModule }) {
 						const parts = location.pathname.split("/");
diff --git a/components/instantsearch/results.tsx b/components/instantsearch/results.tsx
index 4251f99..201ee4d 100644
--- a/components/instantsearch/results.tsx
+++ b/components/instantsearch/results.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 "use client";
 
-import { LayoutGrid, LayoutList } from "lucide-react";
+import {
+	ArrowDownAZ,
+	CalendarArrowDown,
+	CalendarArrowUp,
+	LayoutGrid,
+	LayoutList,
+} from "lucide-react";
 import { useTranslations } from "next-intl";
 import { type ReactNode, useState } from "react";
 import { Switch } from "react-aria-components";
@@ -16,6 +22,12 @@ interface ResultsProps {
 	children?: ReactNode;
 }
 
+const sortOptions = {
+	"year:asc": CalendarArrowDown,
+	"year:desc": CalendarArrowUp,
+	"title:asc": ArrowDownAZ,
+};
+
 export function Results(props: ResultsProps): ReactNode {
 	const t = useTranslations("InstantSearch");
 
@@ -38,7 +50,7 @@ export function Results(props: ResultsProps): ReactNode {
 				<span className="grow">
 					<InstantSearchStats />
 				</span>
-				<InstantSearchSortBy sortOptions={["year:asc", "year:desc", "title:asc"]} />
+				<InstantSearchSortBy sortOptions={sortOptions} />
 				{props.children}
 				<Switch
 					className="react-aria-Switch"
diff --git a/lib/data.ts b/lib/data.ts
index d09b03a..a0ca099 100644
--- a/lib/data.ts
+++ b/lib/data.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { Client } from "typesense";
 
 import { env } from "@/config/env.config";
-import type { Publication } from "@/lib/model";
+import type { BernhardWork, Category, Publication } from "@/lib/model";
 
 export const client = new Client({
 	nodes: [
@@ -77,3 +77,25 @@ export async function getPublications({
 			}) as unknown as Array<Publication>;
 		});
 }
+
+export async function getWorks(category: Category): Promise<Record<number, BernhardWork>> {
+	const x = await collection.documents().search({
+		q: "*",
+		filter_by: `contains.work.category:${category}`,
+		per_page: 250, // hard maximum
+	});
+	const works = x.hits?.reduce((accumulator: Record<number, BernhardWork>, hit) => {
+		const pub = hit.document as Publication;
+		pub.contains
+			.filter((translation) => {
+				return translation.work.category === category;
+			})
+			.forEach((translation) => {
+				if (!(translation.work.id in accumulator)) {
+					accumulator[translation.work.id] = translation.work;
+				}
+			});
+		return accumulator;
+	}, {});
+	return works!;
+}
diff --git a/scripts/3_to_typesense.py b/scripts/3_to_typesense.py
index 51851f3..2d86edf 100755
--- a/scripts/3_to_typesense.py
+++ b/scripts/3_to_typesense.py
@@ -136,10 +136,6 @@ def del_empty_strings(o, field_names):
 
     w["category"] = categories[w["category"]] if w["category"] else "fragments"
 
-    # helper field for the faceted listing by work
-    # w["yeartitle"] = f'{w["category"]}_{w["year"]}_{w["short_title"].replace(" ", "_")}'
-    w["yeartitle"] = f'{w["category"]}_{w["year"]}_{w["short_title"]}'
-
 for t in translations:
     t["work"] = works[t["work"] - 1]
     t["translators"] = [translators[t_id - 1] for t_id in t["translators"]]