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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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    was from that world that there came Johann Georg Schlosser (who later became Goethe's brother-in-law) and Johann Heinrich Merck. Goethe also pursued literary...
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  • many valuable business contacts. Subsequently Engelmann worked for Johann Georg Heyse in Bremen, where he was also concerned with printing, and later for...
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    Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important...
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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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    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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    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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  • Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the...
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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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    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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    Johann Peter Hebel (10 May 1760 – 22 September 1826) was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, Lutheran theologian and pedagogue, most famous for...
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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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    Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to pastor and theologian Johann Gottfried Lessing [de] (1693–1770) and his wife Justine Salome Feller (1703–1777)...
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    her work, Jelinek has won many distinguished awards; among them are the Georg Büchner Prize in 1998; the Mülheim Dramatists Prize in 2002 and 2004; the...
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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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    Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh (31 May 1817 – 7 April 1875) was a German poet, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was born...
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    Johann Ludwig Tieck (/tiːk/; German: [tiːk]; 31 May 1773 – 28 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the...
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    Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt ˈhaʊ̯ptˌman] ; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted...
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  • botanist, microbiologist Johann Bayer (1572–1625), astronomer Henning Behrens (born 1940), economist and political scientist Georg Bednorz (born 1950), physicist...
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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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    modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Mann...
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    cast-members on films made in Germany (for example, the collaborations of Georg Pabst and Louise Brooks). When sound films started being produced in Germany...
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    Weimar Classicism (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    Romanticism Johann Georg Hamann Johann Gottfried Herder Friedrich Hölderlin A. v. Humboldt W. v. Humboldt C. G. Jung C. G. Körner Johann Heinrich Meyer...
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    Johann Christian Günther (8 April 1695 – 15 March 1723) was a German poet from Striegau in Lower Silesia. After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz...
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    Georg Bötticher (20 May 1849 – 15 January 1918) was a German graphic artist, writer and publisher. Born in Jena, Bötticher was the second son of the pastor...
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    aesthetic movements. The philosopher Johann Georg Hamann is considered to be the ideologue of Sturm und Drang, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a notable...
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    Lasker-Schüler, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Arnold Schoenberg, August Strindberg, Georg Trakl, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Oscar...
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    Elias Canetti (category Georg Büchner Prize winners)
    of the Fine Arts (1969) Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1972) Georg Büchner Prize (German Academy for Language and Literature, 1972) German...
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    Gerhart Hauptmann Christian Friedrich Hebbel Johann Peter Hebel Heinrich Heine Georg Herwegh Paul Heyse E. T. A. Hoffmann Friedrich Hölderlin Gottfried...
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    Kulturmagazin (in German) Guide to the Correspondence of Stefan Zweig and Siegmund Georg Warburg at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York Stefan Zweig at IMDb Zweig...
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