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    Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German language Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler...
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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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    which escaped the attention of [Johann Konrad] Fäsi in his Geography [Erdbeschreibung, 1768], and that of [Gabriel] Walser [1695 –1776] in his map." Willy...
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    Martin Walser alongside Ulrich Tukur and Katja Riemann. He was nominated for the German Film Award 2008 in the category of Best Actor. In 2009, Ulrich Noethen...
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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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    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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  • Arnold Brügger Hans-Ulrich Brunner Emanuel Büchel Franz Bucher Frank Buchser Johann Balthasar Bullinger Jenny Burckhardt Johann Burger Max Buri Joseph...
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  • Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Hendrik van Veldeke Walther von der Vogelweide Johann Heinrich Voß Jan Wagner Robert Walser Peter Waterhouse Erich Weinert Oswald von Wolkenstein...
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    Art in Krakow. er nicht als er (zu, mit Robert Walser) (1998). Her Not All Her: On/With Robert Walser, trans. Damion Searls (Sylph Editions, 2012). Premiered...
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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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  • Mann Marius von Mayenburg (born 1972) Heiner Müller Robert Musil Johann Nestroy Ulrich Plenzdorf Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) Roland Schimmelpfennig...
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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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    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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    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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    Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality...
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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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    Milan in 1425, Johann remained neutral. On 14 February 1395, the three main nobles (the abbot of Disentis, Johannes von Ilanz, Baron Ulrich II von Rhäzüns...
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    Christian Kracht, Kathrin Schmidt, Burkhard Spinnen, Robert Menasse, Martin Walser, Andreas Mand, Zsuzsa Bánk, Marc Degens, Jenny Erpenbeck, Klaus Modick,...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Paul, pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825, f) Erica Pedretti (1930–2022, nf) Annette Pehnt (born 1967, nf) Ulrich Peltzer (born 1956...
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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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    early death, he might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the summit of their profession...
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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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