• arachnologist, and spider taxonomist Bettina Bähr-Losse (born 1967), German lawyer and politician Eduardo Bähr (born 1940), Honduran writer and actor Ferdinand...
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    niece of Johann Caspar Goethe. In 1749, Cornelia Goethe married the merchant Ulrich Thomas Streng, when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born. Johann Ludwig...
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    Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born 5 December 1971), known professionally...
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    of the newspaper Neue Freie Presse), Alfred Kerr, Hermann Bahr, Imre Bekessy [de] and Johann Schober. In 1902, Kraus published Sittlichkeit und Kriminalität...
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    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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    when she married Johann Christoph Gok. Two years later, Johann Gok became the burgomaster of Nürtingen, and Hölderlin's half-brother, Karl Christoph Friedrich...
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    one of the main targets of Karl Kraus's satirical journal Die Fackel (The Torch) after Kraus's falling out with the group. Bahr was the first critic to apply...
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  • Daniel Bager (1734–1815) Johann Karl Bähr (1801–1869) Theodor Baierl (1881–1932) Hans Baldung (c. 1484–1545) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Karl Ballenberger (1801–1860)...
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    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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    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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    Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm,...
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    Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist...
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    Abendwind. Ein Dramolett, sehr frei nach Johann Nestroy (1992). President Abendwind. A dramolet, very freely after Johann Nestroy. Premiered at Tyrol Landestheater...
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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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    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)
    company in 1777. The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is associated with Sturm und Drang; other significant figures were Johann Anton Leisewitz, Jakob Michael...
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    (1774). The Sturm und Drang and Weimar Classicism movements were led by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. German Romanticism was the dominant...
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    Theatre. Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to theologe Johann Gottfried Lessing [de] (1693–1770) and his wife Justine Salome Feller (1703–1777)...
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    on 22 September 1826 in nearby Schwetzingen. His grave is there. Johannes Bähr succeeded him as prelate in the regional church of Baden. Apart from a few...
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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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    Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (German: [paʊl ˈhaɪzə] ; 15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a German writer and translator. A member of two important literary...
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    University. ISBN 9780191727412. Gentry, Francis G.; McConnell, Winder; Müller, Ulrich; Wunderlich, Werner, eds. (2011) [2002]. The Nibelungen Tradition. An Encyclopedia...
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    His name appears in several forms, one of the most common being Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso. In 1790, the French Revolution drove his parents out...
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    Konolfingen, canton of Bern, the son of a Protestant pastor. His grandfather, Ulrich Dürrenmatt, was a conservative politician. The family moved to Bern in 1935...
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    Sachs Prize (1975) Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1977) Pour le Mérite (1979) Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis (Baden-Württemberg, 1980) Franz Kafka Prize of the city...
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    artist Johann Georg Danninger, 19th-century bronzesmith Karl Duldig (1902–1986), Austrian-Australian sculptor Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926), painter Karl Ehn...
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    ever been more beautifully documented than in the pages of Repetition." Karl Ove Knausgård described A Sorrow Beyond Dreams as one of the "most important...
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    Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau Johann Michael Moscherosch Martin Opitz Hans Sachs Angelus Silesius Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick Georg Wickram 18th...
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    far behind. Many of these include a continuation written in the 1240s by Ulrich von Türheim under the title Rennewart. The unfinished Titurel was taken...
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    Brecht took a small part in the political cabaret of the Munich comedian Karl Valentin. Brecht's diaries for the next few years record numerous visits...
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