GERMAN LITERATURE (Study Guide - Articles - Literary Works)
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German Literature
Articles
GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography - Essay )
PERIODS (Postclassical - E Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century)
Literary Works
Medieval German Literature
Minnesingers
Meistersingers
Niebelungenlied
Hartmann von Aue (1160-1210) ARME HEINRICH, DER(1195)
Strassburg, Gottfried von (1165-1215) TRISTAN AND ISOLDE(1210)
Wolfram von Eschenbach(1170-1220) PARZIVAL(1200-1210)
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Thomas â Kempis (1380-1471) IMITATION OF CHRIST(1427)
Erasmus, Desiderius
Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
Sachs, Hans (1494-1576) WANDERING SCHOLAR FROM PARADISE(1550)
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von (1621-1676) ADVENTUROUS SIMPLICISSIMUS(1669)
Silesius, Angelus (1624-1677) THE CHERUBIC PILGRIM, THE SOUL'S SPIRITUAL DELIGHT (1657) Boehme, Jakob (1624-1677)
Winckelmann, Johann (1717-1768)
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (1723-1803)
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON(1781)-CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON(1788)-CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT(1790)
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781) EMILIA GALOTTI(1772)-NATHAN THE WISE(1779)
Raspe, Rudolf Erich(1736-1794) BARON MUNCHAUSEN’S NARRATIVE OF HIS MARVELLOUS TRAVELS AND CAMPAIGNS IN RUSSIA(1785)
Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744-1803)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von(1749-1832) SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER(1774)-EGMONT(1788)- FAUST(1790-1833)- WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP(1795-1796)-FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH-ELECTIVE AFFINITIES(1809)-WILHELM MEISTER’S TRAVELS(1821) Moritz, Karl Phillip (1756-1793)
Schiller, Friedrich(1759-1805) DON CARLOS, INFANTE OF SPAIN(1787)-WALLENSTEIN(1798-1799)-WILLIAM TELL(1804) Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814)
Paul, Jean (1763-1825)
Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich(1770-1831) PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT(1807)
Hölderlin, Friedrich(1770-1843) DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES(1826) Schlegel. Frriedrich (1772-1829)
Novalis (1772-1801) Hoffmann, E. T. A(1776-1822) DEVIL’S ELIXIRS, THE(1815-1816)
Kleist, Heinrich von(1777-1811) BROKEN JUG(1808)-MARQUISE OF O—(1808)-MICHAEL KOHLHAAS(1810)-PRINCE OF HOMBURG(1821)
La Motte-Fouque, Friedrich de(1777-1843) UNDINE(1811) Hoelderlin, Friedrich (1778-1843)
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm(1785-1863) and (1786-1859) GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES(1812)
Schopenhauer, Arthur(1788-1860) WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA(1819)
Grillparzer, Franz (1791-1872)
Heine, Heinrich(1797-1856) BOOK OF SONGS(1827)
Mörike, Eduard(1804-1875) POETRY OF MÖRIKE(1838-1846)
Büchner, Georg(1813-1837) DANTON’S DEATH(1835)-WOYZECK(1836)
Hebbel, Friedrich(1813-1863) MARIA MAGDALENA(1844)
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898)
Storm, Theodor(1817-1888) IMMENSEE(1850)
Marx, Karl(1818-1883) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO(1848)-DAS KAPITAL(1867)
Fontane, Theodor(1819-1898) EFFI BRIEST(1895)
Engels, Friedrich(1820-1895) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO(1848)
Nietzsche, Friedrich(1844-1900) BIRTH OF TRAGEDY OUT OF THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC (1872)-THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA(1883-1885)- BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL(1886)-ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS(1887)
Sudermann, Hermann(1857-1928) DAME CARE(1887)
Hauptmann, Gerhart(1862-1946) BEAVER COAT(1893)-SUNKEN BELL(1896)
Wedekind, Frank(1864-1918) SPRING AWAKENING(1891)
George, Stefan(1868-1933) POETRY OF GEORGE(1890-1928)
Mann, Thomas(1875-1955) BUDDENBROOKS(1901)-TONIO KROEGER (1903)-DEATH IN VENICE(1912)-MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1924)- DOCTOR FAUSTUS(1947)-BLACK SWAN (1953)-CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN(1954)
Hofmanstahl, Hugo Von (1874-1929)
Rilke, Rainer Maria(1875-1926) DUINO ELEGIES(1923)-SONNETS TO ORPHEUS(1923) Hesse, Herman (1877-1962)
Döblin, Alfred(1878-1957) BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ(1929)
Einstein, Albert(1879-1955) RELATIVITY(1917)
Spengler, Oswald(1880-1936) DECLINE OF THE WEST (1918)
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951) Feuchtwanger, Lion(1884-1958) POWER(1925)
Heidegger, Martin(1889-1976) BEING AND TIME(1927)
Hitler, Adolf(1889-1945) MEIN KAMPF(1925-1926)
Brecht, Bertolt(1898-1956) .. BAAL(1922)-THREEPENNY OPERA(1928)-PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MASTER RACE(1938)- MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN(1941)-GALILEO(1943)
Remarque, Erich Maria(1898-1970) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT(1928)
Arendt, Hannah(1906-1975) HUMAN CONDITION(1958) Frisch, Max (1911-1991)
Weiss, Peter(1916-1982) MARAT/SADE(1964)
Böll, Heinrich(1917-1985) CLOWN (1963)-GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY(1971)
Grass, Günter(1927-2015) TIN DRUM (1959)-CAT AND MOUSE(1961)-DOG YEARS(1963)-CRABWALK(2002)
Frank, Anne(1929-1945) DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (1947)
Wolf, Christa(1929-2011) QUEST FOR CHRISTA T(1968)
Johnson, Uwe(1934-1984) SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB(1959)
Sebald, W. G.(1944-2001) EMIGRANTS(1992)
Literary Works
Medieval German Literature
Minnesingers
Meistersingers
Niebelungenlied
Hartmann von Aue (1160-1210) ARME HEINRICH, DER(1195)
Strassburg, Gottfried von (1165-1215) TRISTAN AND ISOLDE(1210)
Wolfram von Eschenbach(1170-1220) PARZIVAL(1200-1210)
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Thomas â Kempis (1380-1471) IMITATION OF CHRIST(1427)
Erasmus, Desiderius
Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
Sachs, Hans (1494-1576) WANDERING SCHOLAR FROM PARADISE(1550)
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von (1621-1676) ADVENTUROUS SIMPLICISSIMUS(1669)
Silesius, Angelus (1624-1677) THE CHERUBIC PILGRIM, THE SOUL'S SPIRITUAL DELIGHT (1657) Boehme, Jakob (1624-1677)
Winckelmann, Johann (1717-1768)
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb (1723-1803)
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON(1781)-CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON(1788)-CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT(1790)
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781) EMILIA GALOTTI(1772)-NATHAN THE WISE(1779)
Raspe, Rudolf Erich(1736-1794) BARON MUNCHAUSEN’S NARRATIVE OF HIS MARVELLOUS TRAVELS AND CAMPAIGNS IN RUSSIA(1785)
Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744-1803)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von(1749-1832) SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER(1774)-EGMONT(1788)- FAUST(1790-1833)- WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP(1795-1796)-FROM MY LIFE: POETRY AND TRUTH-ELECTIVE AFFINITIES(1809)-WILHELM MEISTER’S TRAVELS(1821) Moritz, Karl Phillip (1756-1793)
Schiller, Friedrich(1759-1805) DON CARLOS, INFANTE OF SPAIN(1787)-WALLENSTEIN(1798-1799)-WILLIAM TELL(1804) Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814)
Paul, Jean (1763-1825)
Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich(1770-1831) PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT(1807)
Hölderlin, Friedrich(1770-1843) DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES(1826) Schlegel. Frriedrich (1772-1829)
Novalis (1772-1801) Hoffmann, E. T. A(1776-1822) DEVIL’S ELIXIRS, THE(1815-1816)
Kleist, Heinrich von(1777-1811) BROKEN JUG(1808)-MARQUISE OF O—(1808)-MICHAEL KOHLHAAS(1810)-PRINCE OF HOMBURG(1821)
La Motte-Fouque, Friedrich de(1777-1843) UNDINE(1811) Hoelderlin, Friedrich (1778-1843)
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm(1785-1863) and (1786-1859) GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES(1812)
Schopenhauer, Arthur(1788-1860) WORLD AS WILL AND IDEA(1819)
Grillparzer, Franz (1791-1872)
Heine, Heinrich(1797-1856) BOOK OF SONGS(1827)
Mörike, Eduard(1804-1875) POETRY OF MÖRIKE(1838-1846)
Büchner, Georg(1813-1837) DANTON’S DEATH(1835)-WOYZECK(1836)
Hebbel, Friedrich(1813-1863) MARIA MAGDALENA(1844)
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898)
Storm, Theodor(1817-1888) IMMENSEE(1850)
Marx, Karl(1818-1883) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO(1848)-DAS KAPITAL(1867)
Fontane, Theodor(1819-1898) EFFI BRIEST(1895)
Engels, Friedrich(1820-1895) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO(1848)
Nietzsche, Friedrich(1844-1900) BIRTH OF TRAGEDY OUT OF THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC (1872)-THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA(1883-1885)- BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL(1886)-ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS(1887)
Sudermann, Hermann(1857-1928) DAME CARE(1887)
Hauptmann, Gerhart(1862-1946) BEAVER COAT(1893)-SUNKEN BELL(1896)
Wedekind, Frank(1864-1918) SPRING AWAKENING(1891)
George, Stefan(1868-1933) POETRY OF GEORGE(1890-1928)
Mann, Thomas(1875-1955) BUDDENBROOKS(1901)-TONIO KROEGER (1903)-DEATH IN VENICE(1912)-MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1924)- DOCTOR FAUSTUS(1947)-BLACK SWAN (1953)-CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN(1954)
Hofmanstahl, Hugo Von (1874-1929)
Rilke, Rainer Maria(1875-1926) DUINO ELEGIES(1923)-SONNETS TO ORPHEUS(1923) Hesse, Herman (1877-1962)
Döblin, Alfred(1878-1957) BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ(1929)
Einstein, Albert(1879-1955) RELATIVITY(1917)
Spengler, Oswald(1880-1936) DECLINE OF THE WEST (1918)
Kafka, Franz (1883-1924)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951) Feuchtwanger, Lion(1884-1958) POWER(1925)
Heidegger, Martin(1889-1976) BEING AND TIME(1927)
Hitler, Adolf(1889-1945) MEIN KAMPF(1925-1926)
Brecht, Bertolt(1898-1956) .. BAAL(1922)-THREEPENNY OPERA(1928)-PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MASTER RACE(1938)- MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN(1941)-GALILEO(1943)
Remarque, Erich Maria(1898-1970) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT(1928)
Arendt, Hannah(1906-1975) HUMAN CONDITION(1958) Frisch, Max (1911-1991)
Weiss, Peter(1916-1982) MARAT/SADE(1964)
Böll, Heinrich(1917-1985) CLOWN (1963)-GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY(1971)
Grass, Günter(1927-2015) TIN DRUM (1959)-CAT AND MOUSE(1961)-DOG YEARS(1963)-CRABWALK(2002)
Frank, Anne(1929-1945) DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (1947)
Wolf, Christa(1929-2011) QUEST FOR CHRISTA T(1968)
Johnson, Uwe(1934-1984) SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB(1959)
Sebald, W. G.(1944-2001) EMIGRANTS(1992)