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Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue.
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Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso (30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of Peter Schlemihl, a famous story about a man who sold his shadow.
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Adolf Glassbrenner
Adolf Glassbrenner (27 March 1810 in Berlin25 September 1876), was a German humorist and satirist, considered part of the Young Germany Movement.
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".
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Aldona Gustas
Aldona Gustas (born 2 March 1932 in Lithuania) is a female Lithuanian – German poet and illustrator who has lived in Berlin since the early 1940s.
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Alemannic German
Alemannic (German) is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family.
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Alfred Döblin
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
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Alice Rühle-Gerstel
Alice Rühle-Gerstel (Prague, 24 March 1894 – Mexico, 24 June 1943) was a German-Jewish writer, feminist, and psychologist.
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Alice Schwarz-Gardos
Alice Schwarz-Gardos (31 August 1916 in Vienna - 14 August 2007 in Tel Aviv) was an Austrian-born Israeli journalist and author.
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Andreas Eschbach
Andreas Eschbach (born 15 September 1959, in Ulm) is a German writer, primarily of science fiction.
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Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius (2 October 161616 July 1664) was a German lyric poet and dramatist.
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Andreas Mand
Andreas Mand (born December 14, 1959) is a German contemporary author of novels, short stories and essays and a playwright.
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Anna Gmeyner
Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an exiled German and Austrian author, playwright and scriptwriter, who is now best known for her novel Manja (1939).
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Anna Kaleri
Anna Kaleri (born 1974 in Wippra) is a German writer and screenwriter.
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Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.
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Annette Kolb
Annette Kolb (born February 3, 1870 in Munich; died December 3, 1967 in Munich) was the working name of German author and pacifist Anna Mathilde Kolb.
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria, Freiin von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (10 or 12 January 179724 May 1848), was a 19th-century German writer and composer.
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Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Anthony Ulrich (German: Anton Ulrich; 4 October 1633 – 27 March 1714), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his elder brother Rudolph Augustus, and solely from 1704 until his death.
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Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer and anti-war and antifascist activist.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.
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August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome
August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (Sengwarden, 8 June 1753 – 11 June 1833, Rödelheim) was a German economist and statistician, and Professor of Cameralism at the University of Giessen.
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August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel (8 September 176712 May 1845), usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Austrian literature
Austrian literature is the literature written in Austria, which is mostly, but not exclusively, written in the German language.
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B. Traven
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Baron d'Holbach
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.
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Bernhard Hennen
Bernhard Hennen (born 1966 in Krefeld) is a German writer of fantasy literature.
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Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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Biedermeier
The Biedermeier period refers to an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848, during which the middle class grew in number and arts appealed to common sensibilities.
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Blood and Soil
Blood and soil (Blut und Boden) is a slogan expressing the nineteenth-century German idealization of a racially defined national body ("blood") united with a settlement area ("soil").
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Bodo Uhse
Bodo Uhse (12 March 1904 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden - 2 July 1963 in Berlin) was a German writer, journalist and political activist.
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Books in Germany
As of 2017, ten firms in Germany rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: C.H. Beck, Bertelsmann,,, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group,, Springer Nature, Thieme,, and Westermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe.
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Bruno Frank
Bruno Frank (Stuttgart, June 13, 1887 - Beverly Hills, June 20, 1945) was a German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist.
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Burkhard Spinnen
Burkhard Spinnen (born December 28, 1956 in Mönchengladbach) is a German author.
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Carl Spitteler
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring".
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Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky (3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament.
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Carolingian dynasty
The Carolingian dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.
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Chapbook
A chapbook is a type of popular literature printed in early modern Europe.
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Charlotte Link
Charlotte Link (born 5 October 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German writer.
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Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a late-12th-century French poet and trouvère known for his work on Arthurian subjects, and for originating the character Lancelot.
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Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf (née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929, Landsberg an der Warthe – 1 December 2011, Berlin) was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist.
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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (4 July 171513 December 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.
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Christian Felix Weiße
Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) was a German writer and pedagogue.
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Christian Garve
Christian Garve (7 January 1742 – 1 December 1798) was one of the best-known philosophers of the late Enlightenment along with Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn.
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Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht (born 29 December 1966) is a Swiss novelist and journalist.
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Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a German jurist and philosopher.
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Christian Wolff (philosopher)
Christian Wolff (less correctly Wolf,; also known as Wolfius; ennobled as Christian Freiherr von Wolff; 24 January 1679 – 9 April 1754) was a German philosopher.
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Christoph Friedrich Nicolai
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (18 March 1733 – 11 January 1811) was a German writer and bookseller.
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Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland (5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer.
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Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.
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Clemens J. Setz
Clemens J. Setz, born 15 November 1982 in Graz, is an Austrian writer and translator.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna (Wiener Kongress) also called Vienna Congress, was a meeting of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815, though the delegates had arrived and were already negotiating by late September 1814.
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Courtly love
Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.
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Cultural movement
A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work.
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Dada
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.
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Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
Daniel Casper (25 January 1635 in Nimptsch, Niederschlesien – 28 April 1683 in Breslau, Niederschlesien), also spelled Daniel Caspar, and referred to from 1670 as Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, was a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat, poet, and chief representative of the Second Silesian School.
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Das Gedicht
Das GEDICHT (German lit.The Poem), established 1993, is the largest poetry magazine in the German-speaking world.
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Dietmar Dath
Dietmar Dath (born 3 April 1970) is a German author, journalist and translator.
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Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein (born 9 October 1962, in Dresden) is a German poet and essayist.
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (commonly abbreviated as E. T. A. Hoffmann; born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 177625 June 1822) was a Prussian Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.
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Early Modern literature
The history of literature of the Early Modern period (16th, 17th and partly 18th century literature), or Early Modern literature, succeeds Medieval literature, and in Europe in particular Renaissance literature.
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Early New High German
Early New High German (ENHG) is a term for the period in the history of the German language, generally defined, following Wilhelm Scherer, as the period 1350 to 1650.
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East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), existed from 1949 to 1990 and covers the period when the eastern portion of Germany existed as a state that was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period.
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Edgar Hilsenrath
Edgar Hilsenrath (born 1926) is a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin.
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Eduard Mörike
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875) was a German Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels.
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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.
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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family.
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Emil Ludwig
Emil Ludwig (25 January 1881 – 17 September 1948) was a German-Swiss author, known for his biographies and study of historical "greats.".
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives.
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Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist who created many works about the horrors of war.
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Erika Mitterer
Erika Mitterer (1906–2001) was an Austrian writer.
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Ernst Bloch
Ernst Bloch (July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher.
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Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.
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Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a highly decorated German soldier, author, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel.
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Ernst Wiechert
Ernst Wiechert (18 May 1887 – 24 August 1950) was a German teacher, poet and writer.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Exact sciences
The exact sciences, sometimes called the exact mathematical sciences are those sciences "which admit of absolute precision in their results"; especially the mathematical sciences.
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Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Feridun Zaimoğlu
Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 4 December 1964 in Bolu) is a German author and visual artist of Turkish origin.
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Fin de siècle
Fin de siècle is a French term meaning end of the century, a term which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom turn of the century and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Frank Schätzing
Frank Schätzing (born May 28, 1957), is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).
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Frank Thiess
Frank Thiess (13 March 1890 – 22 December 1977) was a German writer.
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt General Newspaper), abbreviated FAZ, is a centre-right, liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: (in German).
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
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Franz Werfel
Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
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Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (born 20 December 1924 in Vienna) is an Austrian poet.
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist.
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet.
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Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher.
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (25 January 1743 – 10 March 1819) was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, socialite, and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi.
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Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen (11 August 1884 – 16 February 1945) was a German author.
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Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (November 21, 1768 – February 12, 1834) was a German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity.
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Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Günter Kunert
Günter Kunert (born March 6, 1929) is a German writer who left the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to live in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).
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Geographical distribution of German speakers
In addition to the German-speaking area (Deutscher Sprachraum) in Europe, German-speaking minorities are present in many countries and on all six inhabited continents.
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Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and the most important figure of German idealism.
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.
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German dialects
German dialect is dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continua that connect German to the neighbouring varieties of Low Franconian (Dutch) and Frisian.
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German diaspora
German diaspora (Deutschstämmige; also, under National Socialism: Volksdeutsche) are ethnic Germans and their descendants living outside Germany.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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German literature
German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.
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German Renaissance
The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance.
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German Romanticism
German Romanticism was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature and criticism.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut (GI, "Goethe Institute") is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations.
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Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (2 May 1886 – 7 July 1956) was a German poet, essayist, and physician.
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Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.
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Group 47
Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a group of participants in German writers' meetings, invited by Hans Werner Richter between 1947-1967.
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Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag (13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright.
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Hans Bender
Hans Bender (5 February 1907 – 7 May 1991) was a German lecturer on the subject of parapsychology, who was also responsible for establishing the parapsychological institute Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg.
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Hans Blüher
Hans Blüher (17 February 1888 in Freiburg in Schlesien - 4 February 1955 in Berlin) was a German writer and philosopher.
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Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada (born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century.
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Hans Folz
Hans Folz (1437 – January 1513) was a German author of the late medieval or early Renaissance period.
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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621/22 – 17 August 1676) was a German author.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929 in Kaufbeuren) is a German author, poet, translator and editor.
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Hans Wollschläger
Signature, 1988 Hans Wollschläger (17 March 1935, Minden – 19 May 2007, Bamberg) was a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.
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Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller (9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director.
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Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Theodor Böll (21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers.
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Heinrich Eduard Jacob
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.
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Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.
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Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube (September 18, 1806 – August 1, 1884), German dramatist, novelist and theatre-director, was born at Sprottau in Prussian Silesia.
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Heinrich Mann
Luiz (Ludwig) Heinrich Mann (27 March 1871 – 11 March 1950) was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes.
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Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 177721 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist.
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Heinrich Wittenwiler
Heinrich Wittenwiler was a late medieval Alemannic poet (lived roughly 1370 – 1420).
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Heinz Ludwig Arnold
Heinz Ludwig Arnold (29 March 1940 in Essen – 1 November 2011 in Göttingen) was a German literary journalist and publisher.
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Heliand
The Heliand (historically) is an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century.
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Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (November 1, 1886 – May 30, 1951) was a 20th-century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists.
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter.
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Hermann Kesten
Hermann Kesten (28 January 1900 – 3 May 1996) was a German novelist and dramatist.
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Herta Müller
Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Hildebrandslied
The Hildebrandslied (Lay or Song of Hildebrand) is a heroic lay written in Old High German alliterative verse.
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History of German
The history of the German language as separate from common West Germanic begins in the Early Middle Ages with the High German consonant shift.
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History of literature
The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment, enlightenment, or instruction to the reader/listener/observer, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.
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History of modern literature
The history of literature in the Modern period in Europe begins with the Age of Enlightenment and the conclusion of the Baroque period in the 18th century, succeeding the Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
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Hugo Wolf
Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy.
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
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Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll (married name Ingrid Gullatz, born 29 September 1935 in Shanghai) is a German thriller writer.
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Inner emigration
Inner emigration (Innere Emigration) is a controversial term used to describe the situation of German writers who were opposed to Nazism yet chose to remain in Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933.
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Jürgen Becker
Jürgen Becker (born August 27, 1959) is a German comedian, kabarett artist, and actor.
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann (27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a German philosopher, whose work was used by his student J. G. Herder as a main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment.
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried (after 1802, von) Herder (25 August 174418 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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Johannes R. Becher
Johannes Robert Becher (22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet.
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Johannes von Tepl
Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 – c. 1415), also known as Johannes von Saaz (Jan ze Žatce), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German (or late Middle German—depending on the criteria).
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist.
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Karl Gutzkow
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (in Berlin – in Sachsenhausen) was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century.
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Karl Krolow
Karl Krolow (11 March 1915 – 21 June 1999) was a German poet and translator.
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Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (26 October 1757 – 10 April 1823) was an Austrian philosopher who helped to popularise the work of Immanuel Kant in the late 18th century.
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829), usually cited as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and Indologist.
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Kathrin Schmidt
Kathrin Schmidt (born 12 March 1958 in Gotha), is a German writer.
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Kindler literature encyclopedia
The Kindler Literature encyclopedia (in German: Das Kindler Literatur Lexikon) is an encyclopedia released in Germany covering information about world literature.
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King Arthur
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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Klaus Mann
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer.
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Klaus Modick
Klaus Modick (born May 3, 1951) is a German author and literary translator.
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Kurt Marti
Kurt Marti (31 January 1921 – Bern, 11 February 2017) was a Swiss theologian and poet.
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Late Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 AD.
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Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in Central Europe.
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright.
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List of German-language authors
This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the German language.
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List of German-language philosophers
This is a list of German-language philosophers.
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List of German-language playwrights
This is a list of German-language playwrights.
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List of German-language poets
This list contains the names of individuals (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote poetry in the German language.
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List of literary movements
This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance.
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Literary realism
Literary realism is part of the realist art movement beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature (Stendhal), and Russian literature (Alexander Pushkin) and extending to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Literature
Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.
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Literature of East Germany
East German literature is the literature produced in East Germany from the time of the Soviet occupation in 1945 until the end of the communist government in 1990.
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Ludolf Wienbarg
Christian Ludolf Wienbarg (25 December 1802 – 2 January 1872) was a German journalist and literary critic, one of the founders of the Young Germany movement during the Vormärz period.
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Ludwig Börne
Karl Ludwig Börne (born "Loeb Baruch"; 6 May 1786 – 12 February 1837) was a German-Jewish political writer and satirist, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement.
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Ludwig Renn
Ludwig Renn (22 April 1889 in Dresden – 21 July 1979 in Berlin) was a German author.
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Ludwig Tieck
Johann Ludwig Tieck (31 May 1773 – 28 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic.
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Ludwig Uhland
Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.
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Luso-Germanic Literature
Luso-Germanic literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language in Brazil.
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Marc Degens
Marc Degens (born 18 August 1971) is a German novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and musician.
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Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer.
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Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz (born Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet.
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Marlene Streeruwitz
Marlene Streeruwitz (born 28 June 1950) is an Austrian playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer.
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Martin Opitz
Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (23 December 1597 – 20 August 1639) was a German poet, regarded as the greatest of that nation during his lifetime.
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Martin Walser
Martin Walser (born 24 March 1927) is a German writer.
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Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist.
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Media of Germany
Mass media of Germany includes a variety of online, print, and broadcast formats, such as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines.
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Medieval German literature
Medieval German literature refers to literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty; various dates have been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Reformation (1517) being the last possible cut-off point.
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Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger (22 March 1924 – 7 June 2007) was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Middle High German
Middle High German (abbreviated MHG, Mittelhochdeutsch, abbr. Mhd.) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages.
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Migrant literature
Migrant literature is either written by migrants or tells the stories of migrants and their migration.
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Minnesang
Minnesang ("love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany that flourished in the Middle High German period.
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Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.
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Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Muspilli
Muspilli is an Old High German poem known in incomplete form (just over 100 lines) from a ninth-century Bavarian manuscript.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.
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Naturalism (literature)
The term naturalism was coined by Émile Zola, who defines it as a literary movement which emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a Swedish poet and playwright of Jewish German birth.
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New Objectivity
The New Objectivity (in Neue Sachlichkeit) was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism.
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Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied (Middle High German: Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem from around 1200 written in Middle High German.
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Norbert Scheuer
Norbert Scheuer (born December 16, 1951 in Prüm, Westeifel, Rheinland-Palatinate) is a German author.
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Novalis
Novalis was the pseudonym and pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), a poet, author, mystic, and philosopher of Early German Romanticism.
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Occasional poetry
Occasional poetry is poetry composed for a particular occasion.
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Old High German
Old High German (OHG, Althochdeutsch, German abbr. Ahd.) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 700 to 1050.
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Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf (22 July 1894 – 28 June 1967) was a German author.
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Oswald von Wolkenstein
Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377, presumably in Castle Schöneck in Kiens – August 2, 1445 in Merano) was a poet, composer and diplomat.
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Otto Rühle
Otto Rühle (23 October 1874 in Großschirma – 24 June 1943 in Mexico) was a student of Alfred Adler and a German Marxist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars.
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Parzival
Parzival is a medieval romance written by the knight-poet Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German.
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Paul Celan
Paul Celan (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German language poet and translator.
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Paul Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator.
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Paul-Henri Campbell
Paul-Henri Campbell (born 1982) is a German-American author.
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Periodization
Periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of timeAdam Rabinowitz.
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright and translator.
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Peter von Matt
Peter von Matt (born 20 May 1937) is a Swiss philologist and author.
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Philip Melanchthon
Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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Pontus and Sidonia
Pontus and Sidonia (French: Ponthus et la belle Sidonie or just Ponthus et Sidoine) is a medieval prose romance, originally composed in French in ca.
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Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.
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Propaganda in Nazi Germany
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's leadership of Germany (1933–1945) was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies.
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Prose
Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.
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Rafik Schami
Rafik Schami (رفيق شامي) (born Suheil Fadel (سهيل فاضل)Clauer, Markus (n.d.) (trans. by Jonathan Uhlaner).. Goethe Institut. June 1946) is a Syrian author, storyteller and critic.
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Rainald Goetz
Rainald Maria Goetz (born May 24 1954 in Munich) is a German author, playwright and essayist.
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Realism (arts)
Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.
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Reformation
The Reformation (or, more fully, the Protestant Reformation; also, the European Reformation) was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and other Protestant Reformers in 16th century Europe.
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Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident.
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Reinhold Schneider
Reinhold Schneider (Baden-Baden, May 13, 1903 – Freiburg im Breisgau, April 6, 1958) was a German poet who also wrote novels.
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Renaissance humanism in Northern Europe
Renaissance Humanism came much later to Germany and Northern Europe in general than to Italy, and when it did, it encountered some resistance from the scholastic theology which reigned at the universities.
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Revolutions of 1848
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People's Spring, Springtime of the Peoples, or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848.
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Ricarda Huch
Ricarda Huch (18 July 1864 – 17 November 1947) was a pioneering German intellectual.
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Richard Riemerschmid
Richard Riemerschmid (20 June 1868 – 13 April 1957) was a German architect, painter, designer and city planner from Munich.
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Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse (born 21 June 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.
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Robert Neumann (writer)
Robert Neumann (born 22 May 1897 in Vienna, died 3 January 1975 in Munich) was a German and English-speaking writer.
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and an influential music critic.
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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (16 April 1940 – 23 April 1975) was a German writer of poems, short stories, a novel, essays, letters, and diaries.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (5 January 1846 – 15 September 1926) was a German philosopher.
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Rudolf Olden
Rudolf Olden (January 14, 1885 in Stettin – September 18, 1940) was a German lawyer and journalist.
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Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch (16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet.
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Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457 – 10 May 1521) was a German humanist and satirist.
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Sebastian Franck
Sebastian Franck (20 January 1499 – c. 1543) was a 16th-century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer.
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Sensibility
Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another.
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Ship of Fools (satire)
Ship of Fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff, Latin: Stultifera Navis, original medieval German title: Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant.
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Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, also known as Sibylle von Braunschweig-Luneburg and Sibylle of Brunswick-Luneburg, (4 February 1629 – 12 December 1671), a member of the House of Welf, was a daughter of Duke Augustus II of Brunswick-Lüneburg and, by marriage, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
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Siegfried Kracauer
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Siegfried Lenz
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Sigmund von Birken
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Simplicius Simplicissimus
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Sophie Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women
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Sophie von La Roche
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South Tyrol
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Standard German
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Stefan Zweig
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Stiftung Lesen
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Sturm und Drang
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Subjectivity
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Swiss literature
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Symbolism (arts)
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Theo Breuer
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Theodor Fontane
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Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder
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Theodor Mommsen
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Theodor Mundt
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Thomas Bernhard
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Thomas Kling
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Thomas Mann
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Thomas Murner
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Tragedy
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Uljana Wolf
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Vormärz
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Walter Abish
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Walter von Molo
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Walther von der Vogelweide
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Weimar Classicism
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Werner Bergengruen
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Werner Finck
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West Germany
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Wilhelm Genazino
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Wilhelm Müller
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Wilhelm Raabe
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Willibald Alexis
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Wolf Biermann
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Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Young Germany
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