ABSTRACT
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Theodor W. Adorno 1903–1969
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Aestheticization of Politics
entry |6 pages
Aesthetics
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Ilse Aichinger 1921–
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Peter Altenberg (Richard Engländer) 1859–1919
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Anacreontic Poetry
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Alfred Andersch 1914–1980
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Lou Andreas-Salomé 1861–1937
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Annolied ca. 1080
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Antifascist Literature
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Hannah Arendt 1906–1975
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Eichmann in Jerusalem 1963
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Achim von Arnim 1781–1831
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Bettina von Arnim 1785–1859
entry |2 pages
Arthurian Romance
entry |3 pages
Louise Aston 1814–1871
entry |3 pages
Athenäum
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Aufklärung
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Rose Ausländer 1907–1988
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Austria: Late Habsburg Literature in Vienna
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Austria: Interwar
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Austria: Post 1945
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Autobiography
entry |4 pages
Avant-Garde
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May Ayim 1960–1996
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Ingeborg Bachmann 1926–1973
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Malina 1971
entry |3 pages
Simultan 1972
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Poetry
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Hermann Bahr 1863–1934
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Hugo Ball 1886–1927
entry |5 pages
Baroque
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Johannes R. Becher 1891–1958
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Jurek Becker 1937–1997
entry |2 pages
Richard Beer-Hofmann 1866–1945
entry |4 pages
Walter Benjamin 1892–1940
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Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit 1936
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Das Passagen-Werk 1982
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Gottfried Benn 1886–1956
entry |6 pages
Berlin
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Berliner Ensemble
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Thomas Bernhard 1931–1989
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Frost 1963
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Heldenplatz 1988
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Wittgensteins Neffe 1982
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Biblical Drama
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Biedermeier Period
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Wolf Biermann 1936–
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Bildung
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Bildungsroman
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Maxim Biller 1960–
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Bingen, Hildegard von, see Hildegard von Bingen
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Bismarck Era
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Der Bitterfelder Weg
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Blätter für die Kunst
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Der Blaue Reiter
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Johannes Bobrowski 1917–1965
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Johann Jakob Bodmer 1698–1783
entry |2 pages
Helene Böhlau 1859–1940
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Jakob Böhme 1575–1624
entry |5 pages
Heinrich Böll 1917–1985
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Ansichten eines Clowns 1963
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Wo warst du, Adam? 1951
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Ludwig Börne 1786–1837
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Bourgeois Tragedy
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Sebastian Brant 1457–1521
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Volker Braun 1939–
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Bertolt Brecht 1898–1956
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Die Dreigroschenoper 1928
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Mutter Courage 1949
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Johann Jakob Breitinger 1701–1776
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Clemens Brentano 1778–1842
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Hermann Broch 1886–1951
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Die Schlafwandler 1931–1932
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Georg Büchner 1813–1837
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Dantons Tod 1835
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Woyzeck 1879
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Bundesrepublic Deutschland see Federal Republic of Germany
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Cabaret
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Elias Canetti 1905–1994
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Die Blendung 1935
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Novel by Elias Canetti
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Die Fackel im Ohr 1980
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Masse und Macht 1960
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Veza Canetti 1897–1963
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Carolingian Period
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Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg see Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina
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Todesfuge 1948
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Adelbert von Chamisso 1781–1838
entry |3 pages
Gino Chiellino 1946–
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Children's Literature
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Classicism see Klassik
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Concrete Poetry
entry |5 pages
Court Culture
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Criticism
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Dadaism
entry |4 pages
Decadence
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Deutsche Demokratische Republik see German Democratic Republic
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Alfred Döblin 1878–1957
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Berlin Alexanderplatz 1929
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Documentary Literature
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Heimito von Doderer 1896–1966
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Die Strudlhofstiege 1951
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Tankred Dorst 1925–
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Albert Drach 1902–1995
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Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 1797–1848
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt 1921–1990
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Die Physiker 1962
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Christine Ebner 1277–1356
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830–1916
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Eckhart, Meister, see Meister Eckhart
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Günter Eich 1907–1972
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff 1788–1857
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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts 1826
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Carl Einstein 1885–1940
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Empfindsamkeit
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Ems, Rudolf von, see Rudolf von Ems
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Episches Theater
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Epistolary Novel
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Eschenbach, Wolfram von, see Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Expressionism
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Das Ezzolied 1063
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Fairy Tales
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Hans Fallada 1893–1947
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Fascism and Literature
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1945–1982
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Federal Republic of Germany
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Lion Feuchtwanger 1884–1958
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Jud Süß 1925
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Hubert Fichte 1935–1986
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762–1814
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Film and Literature
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Caroline Auguste Fischer 1764–1842
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Marieluise Fleißer 1901–1974
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Paul Fleming 1609–1640
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Theodor Fontane 1819–1898
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Effi Briest 1895
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Der Stechlin 1899
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Louise von François 1817–1893
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Frankfurt School
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Karl Emil Franzos 1848–1904
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Sigmund Freud 1856 – 1939
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Gustav Freytag 1816–1895
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Erich Fried 1921–1988
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Max Frisch 1911–1991
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Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–
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Gandersheim, Hrotsvith, see Hrotsvith von Gandersheim
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Das Genie
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Stefan George 1868–1933
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Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod, mit einem Vorspiel 1899
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German, Middle High, see Middle High German
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German Language
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
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Faust: Part I 1808, Part II 1832
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Die Leiden des jungen Werthers 1774
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Die Wahlverwandtschaften 1809
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Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1795/96
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Claire Goll 1891–1977
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Yvan Goll 1891–1950
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Gottfried von Straßburg fl. 1200
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Jeremias Gotthelf 1797–1854
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Johann Christoph Gottsched 1700–1766
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Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen 1730
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Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched 1713–1762
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Christian Dietrich Grabbe 1801–1836
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Oskar Maria Graf 1894–1967
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Günter Grass 1927–
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Die Blechtrommel 1959
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Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg 1633–1694
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Franz Grillparzer 1791–1872
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Der arme Spielmann 1847
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Die Jüdin von Toledo 1872
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Jacob Grimm 1785–1863 and Wilhelm Grimm 1786–1859
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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen 1622–1676
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Der abentheurliche Simplicissimus Teutsch 1668
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Gruppe 47
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Andreas Gryphius 1616–1664
entry |3 pages
Karoline Friederike Louise Maximiliane von Günderrode 1780–1806
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Karl Gutzkow 1811–1878
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Jürgen Habermas 1929–
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Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit 1962
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Ida von Hahn-Hahn 1805–1880
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Albrecht von Haller 1708–1777
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Johann Georg Hamann 1730–1788
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Peter Handke 1942–
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Publikumsbeschimpfung 1966
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Wunschloses Unglück 1972
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Hartmann von Aue 1160–ca. 1210
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Walter Hasenclever 1890–1940
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Wilhelm Hauff 1802–1827
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Gerhart Hauptmann 1862–1946
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Die Weber 1892
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Friedrich Hebbel 1813–1863
entry |2 pages
Johann Peter Hebel 1760–1826
entry |3 pages
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770–1832
entry |3 pages
Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
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Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes 1950
entry |3 pages
Heimatroman
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Christoph Hein 1944–
entry |3 pages
Heinrich Heine 1797–1856
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Buch der Lieder 1827
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Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen 1844
entry |2 pages
Heinrich von Veldeke ca. 1150– ca. 1210
entry |3 pages
Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse 1746–1803
entry |2 pages
Helmut Heißenbüttel 1921–1996
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Heliand ca. 830
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Henschke, Alfred, see Klabund (Alfred Henschke)
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Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit 1784–1791
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Hermeneutics
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Theodor Herzl 1860–1904
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Altneuland 1902
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Hermann Hesse 1877–1962
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Der Steppenwolf 1927
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Stefan Heym 1913–
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Paul Heyse 1830–1914
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Das Hildebrandslied ca. 800–820
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Hildegard von Bingen 1098–1179
entry |3 pages
Wolfgang Hildesheimer 1916–1991
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Edgar Hilsenrath 1926–
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Historians' Debate
entry |4 pages
Historiography
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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann 1776–1822
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Das Fräulein von Scuderi 1819
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Der Sandmann 1817
entry |5 pages
Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1874–1929
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Ein Brief 1902
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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin 1770–1843
entry |2 pages
Hyperion; oder, Der Eremit in Griechenland 1797–1799
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Der Tod des Empedokles 1826
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Holocaust (Shoah) Literature
entry |2 pages
Arno Holz 1863–1929 and Johannes Schlaf 1862–1941
entry |4 pages
Homosexuality and Literature
entry |2 pages
Barbara Honigmann 1949–
entry |3 pages
Die Horen 1795–1797
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Ödön von Horváth 1901–1938
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Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald 1931
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Hrotsvit von Gandersheim ca. 930– ca. 1000
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Peter Huchel 1903–1981
entry |3 pages
Richard Huelsenbeck 1892–1974
entry |4 pages
Humanism
entry |2 pages
Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767–1835
entry |2 pages
Irony, Romantic
entry |2 pages
Urs Jaeggi 1931–
entry |2 pages
Ernst Jandl 1925–
entry |4 pages
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) 1763–1825
entry |2 pages
Vorschule der Ästhetik 1804
entry |5 pages
Elfriede Jelinek 1946–
entry |2 pages
Die Klavierspielerin 1983
entry |2 pages
Totenauberg 1991
entry |3 pages
Jesuit Drama
entry |4 pages
Jewish Culture and Literature
entry |3 pages
Uwe Johnson 1934–1984
entry |2 pages
Jahrestage: Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cresspahl 1970–1983
entry |2 pages
Mutmaßungen über Jakob 1959
entry |4 pages
Journals
entry |4 pages
Jugendstil
entry |3 pages
Das Junge Deutschland
entry |3 pages
Ernst Jünger 1895–1998
entry |2 pages
Jung Wien
entry |4 pages
Franz Kafka 1883–1924
entry |2 pages
Der Prozeß 1925
entry |2 pages
Das Schloß 1926
entry |3 pages
Die Verwandlung 1915
entry |3 pages
Georg Kaiser 1878–1945
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Kaiserchronik ca. 1150
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Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
entry |2 pages
Kritik der Urteilskraft 1790
entry |2 pages
Anna Luise Karsch 1722–1791
entry |4 pages
Marie Luise Kaschnitz 1901–1974
entry |3 pages
Erich Kästner 1899–1974
entry |4 pages
Gottfried Keller 1819–1890
entry |3 pages
Der grüne Heinrich 1853–1855
entry |2 pages
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe 1856
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Irmgard Keun 1910–1982
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Sarah Kirsch 1935–
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Egon Erwin Kisch 1885–1948
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Klabund (Alfred Henschke) 1890–1928
entry |5 pages
Klassik
entry |3 pages
Heinrich von Kleist 1777–1811
entry |3 pages
Michael Kohlhaas 1810
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Penthesilea 1808
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Der zerbrochne Krug 1811
entry |3 pages
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1724–1803
entry |2 pages
Die deutsche Gelehrtenrepublik 1774
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Alexander Kluge 1932–
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Wolfgang Koeppen 1906–1996
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Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
entry |3 pages
Gertrud Kolmar 1894–1943
entry |2 pages
König Rother
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Helga Königsdorf 1938–
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Konkrete Dichtung see Concrete Poetry
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Siegfried Kracauer 1889–1966
entry |4 pages
Karl Kraus 1874–1936
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Die Fackel 1899–1936
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Die letzten Tage der Menschheit 1919
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Franz Xaver Kroetz 1946–
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Alfred Kubin 1877–1959
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Elisabeth Langgässer 1899–1950
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Language see German Language; Middle High German; Old High German
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Else Lasker-Schüler 1869–1945
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Die Wupper 1909
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Johann Caspar Lavater 1741–1801
entry |3 pages
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz 1751–1792
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Siegfried Lenz 1926–
entry |4 pages
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–1781
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Emilia Galotti 1772
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Laokoon; oder, Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie 1766
entry |3 pages
Nathan der Weise 1779
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Levin, Rahel, see Rahel Levin Varnhagen
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742–1799
entry |2 pages
Liedermacher
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Liselotte von der Pfalz (Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans) 1652–1722
entry |3 pages
Oskar Loerke 1884–1941
entry |2 pages
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein 1635–1683
entry |3 pages
Adolf Loos 1870–1933
entry |2 pages
Ludwigslied 881–882
entry |4 pages
Georg Lukács 1885–1971
entry |3 pages
Martin Luther 1483–1546
entry |3 pages
Magdeburg, Mechthild von, see Mechthild von Magdeburg
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Der Untertan 1918
entry |2 pages
Klaus Mann 1906–1949
entry |6 pages
Thomas Mann 1875–1955
entry |2 pages
Doktor Faustus 1947
entry |3 pages
Der Tod in Venedig 1912
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Tonio Kröger 1903
entry |3 pages
Der Zauberberg 1924
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Manuscripts (Medieval)
entry |4 pages
Marx and Marxism
entry |3 pages
Mastersingers
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Karl May 1842–1912
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Mechthild von Magdeburg ca. 1207–ca. 1282
entry |4 pages
Medieval Manuscripts see Manuscripts (Medieval)
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Meistersinger see Mastersingers
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Sophie Mereau 1770–1806
entry |2 pages
Merseburger Zaubersprüche
entry |2 pages
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer 1825–1898
entry |3 pages
Die Hochzeit des Mönchs 1884
entry |2 pages
Gustav Meyrink 1868–1932
entry |2 pages
Middle High German
entry |2 pages
Minnesang
entry |3 pages
Minority Literature
entry |4 pages
Die Moderne
entry |3 pages
Libuše Moníková 1945–1998
entry |2 pages
Christian Morgenstern 1871–1914
entry |3 pages
Irmtraud Morgner 1933–1990
entry |3 pages
Eduard Mörike 1804–1875
entry |2 pages
Karl Philipp Moritz 1756–1793
entry |4 pages
Heiner Müller 1929–1995
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Germania Tod in Berlin 1977
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Die Hamletmaschine 1977
entry |3 pages
Herta Müller 1953–
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Munich
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Robert Musil 1880–1942
entry |2 pages
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften 1930–1943
entry |2 pages
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß 1906
entry |2 pages
Mystery Plays
entry |2 pages
Mysticism
entry |4 pages
Mythology
entry |2 pages
Sten Nadolny 1942–
entry |2 pages
Napoleonic Era
entry |2 pages
Nationalism and Nationhood
entry |2 pages
National Socialism
entry |2 pages
Naturalism
entry |3 pages
Nazi Party see National Socialism
entry |4 pages
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy 1801–1862
entry |2 pages
Neue Sachlichkeit
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Neue Subjektivität
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Das Nibelungenlied ca. 1200
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Friedrich Nicolai 1733–1811
entry |5 pages
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844–1900
entry |2 pages
Also sprach Zarathustra 1883–1892
entry |5 pages
1950s
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Novalis 1772–1801
entry |3 pages
Novel see Bildungsroman; Epistolary Novel; Novella; War Novels
entry |2 pages
Old High German
entry |2 pages
Martin Opitz 1597–1639
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Aras Ören 1939–
entry |3 pages
Orléans, Elisabeth Charlotte d', see Liselotte von der Pfalz
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Otfrid von Weißenburg ca. 800–ca. 871
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Aysel Özakin 1942–
entry |2 pages
Emine Sevgi Özdamar 1946–
entry |4 pages
Pfalz, Liselotte von der, see Liselotte von der Pfalz
entry |3 pages
Popular Literature
entry |3 pages
Postmodernism
entry |4 pages
Prague
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Wilhelm Raabe 1831–1910
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Doron Rabinovici 1961–
entry |2 pages
Christoph Ransmayr 1954–
entry |4 pages
Realism
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Regensburg, Konrad von, see Konrad von Regensburg
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Reiseliteratur see Travel Literature
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Erich Maria Remarque 1898–1970
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Restoration
entry |5 pages
Reuental, Neidhart von, see Neidhart von Reuental
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Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge 1910
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Duineser Elegien 1923
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Die Sonette an Orpheus 1923
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Johann Rist 1607–1667
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Romance, Arthurian, see Arthurian Romance
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Gerhard Roth 1942–
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Joseph Roth 1894–1939
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Radetzkymarsch 1932
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Rudolf von Ems ca. late 12th Century–ca. 1254
entry |2 pages
Der Ruf
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Hans Sachs 1494–1576
entry |3 pages
Nelly Sachs 1891–1970
entry |3 pages
Salons
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Sangspruchdichtung
entry |4 pages
Satire
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Rafik Schami 1946–
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Scheffler, Johannes, see Angelus Silesius (Johannes Scheffler)
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Friedrich von Schiller 1759–1805
entry |2 pages
Kabale und Liebe 1784
entry |2 pages
Die Räuber 1781
entry |3 pages
Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen 1795
entry |2 pages
Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung 1795–1796
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Robert Schindel 1944–
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Schlaf, Johannes, see Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf August Wilhelm Schlegel 1767–1845
entry |2 pages
Caroline Schlegel 1763–1809
entry |2 pages
Dorothea Schlegel 1764–1839
entry |2 pages
Friedrich Schlegel 1772–1829
entry |2 pages
Gespräch über die Poesie 1800
entry |2 pages
Kritische Fragmente 1797
entry |2 pages
Lucinde 1799
entry |3 pages
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher 1768–1834
entry |2 pages
Arno Schmidt 1914–1979
entry |2 pages
Peter Schneider 1940–
entry |4 pages
Arthur Schnitzler 1862–1931
entry |2 pages
Fräulein Else 1924
entry |2 pages
Professor Bernhardi 1912
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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg 1874–1951
entry |3 pages
Kurt Schwitters 1887–1948
entry |2 pages
Charles Sealsfield 1793–1864
entry |2 pages
W.G. Sebald 1944–
entry |3 pages
Anna Seghers 1900–1983
entry |3 pages
Das siebte Kreuz 1942
entry |3 pages
Zafer Șenocak 1961–
entry |2 pages
Shoah Literature see Holocaust (Shoah) Literature
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Socialist Realism
entry |2 pages
Song of the Nibelungs see Nibelungenlied Martin Sperr 1944–
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Spruchdichtung see Sangspruchdichtung
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Carl Sternheim 1878–1942
entry |4 pages
Adalbert Stifter 1805–1868
entry |2 pages
Der Nachsommer 1857
entry |2 pages
Theodor Storm 1817–1888
entry |3 pages
Der Schimmelreiter 1888
entry |4 pages
Storm and Stress see Sturm und Drang
entry |3 pages
Dramas
entry |2 pages
Anschwellender Bocksgesang 1993
entry |2 pages
Marlene Streeruwitz 1950–
entry |2 pages
Stunde Null
entry |3 pages
Sturm und Drang
entry |2 pages
Patrick Süskind 1949–
entry |6 pages
Switzerland
entry |2 pages
George Tabori 1914–
entry |2 pages
Yoko Tawada 1960–
entry |3 pages
Ludwig Tieck 1773–1853
entry |2 pages
Der blonde Eckbert 1797
entry |3 pages
Ernst Toller 1893–1939
entry |2 pages
Masse-Mensch 1922
entry |3 pages
Friedrich Torberg 1908–1979
entry |2 pages
Georg Trakl 1887–1914
entry |3 pages
Travel Literature
entry |3 pages
Kurt Tucholsky 1890–1935
entry |2 pages
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles 1929
entry |3 pages
Universities
entry |2 pages
Utopianism
entry |2 pages
Karl Valentin 1882–1948
entry |2 pages
Rahel Levin Varnhagen 1771–1833
entry |5 pages
Veldeke, Heinrich von, see Heinrich von Veldeke
entry |3 pages
Vogelweide, Walther von der, see Walther von der Vogelweide
entry |2 pages
Johann Heinrich Voß 1751–1826
entry |2 pages
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder 1773–1798
entry |4 pages
Richard Wagner 1813–1883
entry |2 pages
Parsifal: Wagner/Nietzsche Debate
entry |4 pages
Martin Walser 1927–
entry |2 pages
Robert Walser 1878–1956
entry |3 pages
Walther von der Vogelweide ca. 1170–ca. 1230
entry |3 pages
War Novels
entry |3 pages
Jakob Wassermann 1873–1934
entry |3 pages
Frank Wedekind 1864–1918
entry |2 pages
Frühlings Erwachen 1891
entry |4 pages
Weimar
entry |5 pages
Weimar Republic
entry |3 pages
Otto Weininger 1880–1903
entry |3 pages
Peter Weiss 1916–1982
entry |2 pages
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands 1975–1981
entry |2 pages
Die Ermittlung 1965
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Weissenburg, Otfrid von, see Otfrid von Weissenburg
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Georg (Jörg) Wickram ca. 1500–ca. 1562
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Christoph Martin Wieland 1733–1813
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Geschichte des Agathon 1766–1767
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717–1768
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Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst 1755
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Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
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Christa Wolf 1929-
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Kindheitsmuster 1976
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Nachdenken über Christa T. 1968
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Was bleibt: Debate 1990
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Wolfram von Eschenbach fl. 1195–1220
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Wolkenstein, Oswald von, see Oswald von Wolkenstein
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Zauberstücke
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Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann 1714–1740
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Zero Hour see Stunde Null
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Zionism
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Zurich
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Arnold Zweig 1887–1968
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Stefan Zweig 1881–1942
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Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers 1941