BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ babelbib/bibgerm replacement for polyglossia/xelatex

[l0calh05t]

This simple example fails when using polyglossia, complaining that \Btxtechreplong (billingsley74telescope is defined as a techreport in the bib file) is undefined (as if babelbib/bibgerm had not been included):

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% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
%\usepackage[german]{babel}
%\usepackage{bibgerm}
\usepackage{babelbib}

\setmainlanguage{german}
\bibliographystyle{geralpha}

\begin{document}
\cite{billingsley74telescope}
\bibliography{literature}{}
\end{document}

When using babel (which can cause problems in xelatex, especially when using hyperref) it works. Is there any way to get a correct (german) bibliography using polyglossia?

[localghost]

It's in the nature of the things that babelbib and polyglossia contradict. Since the first one explicitly is meant to work with babel, I'm not surprised about difficulties.


Thorsten