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    German literature. Ernst Jünger was born in Heidelberg as the eldest of six children of the chemical engineer Ernst Georg Jünger (1868–1943) and of Karoline...
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    adapted from a play by Philippe Poisson which had been translated by Johann Friedrich Jünger [de]. The premiere was on 20 January 1851 at the Oper Frankfurt...
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    Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (UK: /ˈhɜːldərliːn/, US: /ˈhʌl-/; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn] ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet...
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    Jean Paul (German: [ʒɑ̃ paʊl] ; born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romantic writer, best known for his...
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    with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come...
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    University, but subsequently returned to music to become a pupil of the composer Johann Adam Hiller under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas. In 1776...
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    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was...
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  • Sturm und Drang (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    Michael Reinhold Lenz, H. L. Wagner, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller were notable proponents of the...
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  • Immermann Hans Irrigmann Johann Georg Jacobi Ernst Jandl Elfriede Jelinek Albrecht von Johansdorf Ernst Jünger Friedrich Georg Jünger Georg Kaiser Franz Xaver...
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    Friedrich Dürrenmatt (German: [ˈfriːdrɪç ˈdʏrənˌmat] ; 5 January 1921 – 14 December 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic...
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  • (1895–1973) Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) Julius Evola (1898–1974) Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966) Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992)...
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    Karl Friedrich Krüger (18 December 1765 – 21 April 1828) was a German actor and the brother of actress Caroline Demmer. Krüger was born in Berlin. His...
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    Fussenegger, Ricarda Huch, Ernst Jünger, Erich Kästner, Volker Lachmann, Oskar Loerke, Erika Mitterer, Walter von Molo, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Richard Riemerschmid...
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    Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (German: [ˈnɛstrɔɪ̯]; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian...
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    Germany's first permanent national theatre in Hamburg, established by Johann Friedrich Löwen [de]. The owners of the new Hamburg National Theatre hired Lessing...
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    Weimar Classicism (category Friedrich Schiller)
    followed by Christoph Martin Wieland, then Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder and finally Friedrich Schiller. The movement was eventually...
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  • Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect and painter Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773), architect Gottfried...
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  • Emma Goldman Eric Voegelin Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Ernst Bloch Ernst Jünger Étienne de La Boétie Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Félix Guattari Felix Kaufmann...
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    Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (German: [ˈklɔpʃtɔk]; 2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. His best known works are the epic poem Der Messias...
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    Functions related to the university took place at the Paulinerkirche. Johann Sebastian Bach was the most famous Thomaskantor, from 1723 to 1750. Leipzig...
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    might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the summit of their profession.[citation needed]...
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    Karl May (redirect from Karl Friedrich May)
    Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels...
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    Benjamin Lewis White Beck Leo Strauss Louis de Bonald Carl Schmitt Ernst Jünger Natural philosophy Norbert Elias Novalis Juan Donoso Cortés Søren Kierkegaard...
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    the end of the Prussian monarchy in November 1918. German author Ernst Jünger, who died in 1998, was the last living recipient of the military class award...
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    the daughter of Olga Ilona (née Buchner), a personnel director, and Friedrich Jelinek. She was raised in Vienna by her Romanian-German Catholic mother...
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    René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was an...
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    Grimmelshausenfreunde Renchen e.V. Retrieved 17 November 2019. Arthur F. J. Remy (1913). "Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic...
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    Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist. Hebbel was born at Wesselburen in Dithmarschen, Holstein...
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    Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright...
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    spirit (Volksgeist)". In 1815 Savigny, together with Eichhorn and Johann Friedrich Ludwig Göschen [de; hu; it; ru; sv], founded the Zeitschrift für geschichtliche...
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