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  Altenberg, Peter
Andres, Stefan
Bachmann, Ingeborg
Böll, Heinrich
Büchner, Georg
Bürger, Gottfried August
Borchert, Wolfgang
Brant, Sebastian
Brecht, Bertolt
Brothers Grimm
Brussig, Thomas
Busch, Wilhelm
Canetti, Elias
Celan, Paul
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Doderer, Heimito von
Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von
Eichendorff, Joseph von
Erb, Elke
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Fontane, Theodor
George, Stefan
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gotthelf, Jeremias
Grass, Günter
  Handke, Peter
Hardenberg, Henriette
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Hebbel, Friedrich
Heine, Heinrich
Hesse, Hermann
Heyse, Paul
Hildegard of Bingen
Hoddis, Jakob van
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Huelsenbeck, Richard
Jandl, Ernst
Jünger, Ernst
Kafka, Franz
Kästner, Erich
Keller, Gottfried
Kleist, Heinrich von
Kraus, Karl
Kyber, Manfred
Lasker-Schüler, Else
Lavant, Christine
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
  Mann, Heinrich
Mann, Thomas
May, Karl
Mayröcker, Friederike
Morgenstern, Christian
Musil, Robert
Novalis
Panizza, Oskar
Pastior, Oskar
Perutz, Leo
Remarque, Erich Maria
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Roth, Joseph
Sachs, Nelly
Schiller, Friedrich
Schmidt, Arno
Storm, Theodor
Tieck, Ludwig
Trakl, Georg
Traven, B.
Wedekind, Frank
Weiss, Peter
Werfel, Franz

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German literature is people literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. A term might as well denote any literature composed primarily within the German language, though in more countries; e.g. Austria, Switzerland, the previous Czechoslovakia, etc.

A few of the major even movements or period of German literature include:

Medieval German literature Baroque Enlightenment Sturm und Drang Classicism Romanticism Young Germany Naturalism Fin de siècle Expressionism Dada

For easily-known authors who wrote or even write literature in the German language see list of German-language authors and list of German language poets.

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19th-century German Stories
Selection of short narrative works in German and English from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries.

German Internet Project
German studies portal.

German Online Resources -- Electronic Text Center
German language texts at the University of Virginia.

New Books In German
Regular reviews of new German titles recommended for translation into English.

Project Wittenberg
Writings of Martin Luther and other Lutherans in English translation.

The Nibelungenlied
The quests of the hero Siegfried, originally written in Middle High German around 1200, e-text at the Online Medieval and Classical Library.

German Literature: The Twentieth Century
Based on German literary critic Reich-Ranicki's recent appeal to a "canon of German literature", this webpage puts together the must-reads of all of 20th-century German literature.

German Studies Web: Literature Resources
Homepages, electronic journals, online text collections, and special catalogs.

The Nibelungenlied
The quests of the hero Siegfried, as translated by Margareth Amour (PDF format).

Dimension2: Authors and Translators
List of German-speaking authors and translators with a short overview for each author.


Regional: Europe: Germany






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