I am using Kiten 1.3 with Kubuntu 12.10 on a Samsung N220 netbook.
I can swear that some days before it displayed my german results for my search words.

Currently it doesn't. I installed the jpn-deu dictionary files with apt-get to my system.

Now there is
/usr/share/dictd/freedict-jpn-deu.dict.dz
/usr/share/dictd/freedict-jpn-deu.index

in it.

I added booth files as dictionary to my Kiten settings. But nothing happend.
I only see english answers to my search words.

what could be wrong or what information is always usefull?

Are your German <-> Japanese dictionaries in either Edict or Kanjidic format? If so, did you add them to the right dictionary section?

How do I know?

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user@kubuntu-monster:~$ apt-cache showpkg dict-freedict-jpn-deu
Package: dict-freedict-jpn-deu
Versions:
1.3-4ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_universe_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_universe_binary-i386_Packages
                  MD5: 07795268d71f1a54551916b6aaca6ab6
 Description Language: de
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_universe_i18n_Translation-de
                  MD5: 07795268d71f1a54551916b6aaca6ab6
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_universe_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 07795268d71f1a54551916b6aaca6ab6


Reverse Depends:
Dependencies:
1.3-4ubuntu1 - dictd (16 (null)) serpento (0 (null)) dict (16 (null)) opendict (16 (null)) kdict (0 (null))
Provides:
1.3-4ubuntu1 - dictd-dictionary
Reverse Provides:


Does this help?

I add both files

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/usr/share/dictd/freedict-jpn-deu.dict.dz
/usr/share/dictd/freedict-jpn-deu.index

to edict and kanjidic section in the Kiten settings.

The dictionaries you installed appear to belong to software called "dictd" which is a dictionary server.
From what I have been able to find, it's format is incompatible with both Edict and Kanjidic.

I'm not sure why it appeared to work initially though.