The Baroque period (1600 to 1720) was one of the most fertile times in German literature.
The Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition which would flourish in the 16th century also finds its origin in the second half of the 15th century. ==Early Modern period== ===German Renaissance and Reformation=== Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) Thomas Murner (1475–1537) Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) Sebastian Franck (1500–1543) ===Baroque period=== The Baroque period (1600 to 1720) was one of the most fertile times in German literature.
The Sensibility movement of the 1750s–1770s ended with Goethe's best-selling Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774).
Für eine Poetik des zeitgenössischen Gedichts, Cologne : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1999 Anthologies German poetry from 1750 to 1900, ed.
German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Biedermeier refers to the literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 (Vienna Congress), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions.
Typical Biedermeier poets are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adelbert von Chamisso, Eduard Mörike, and Wilhelm Müller, the last three named having well-known musical settings by Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert respectively. Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) was a loose group of Vormärz writers which existed from about 1830 to 1850.
German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Biedermeier refers to the literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 (Vienna Congress), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions.
Typical Biedermeier poets are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adelbert von Chamisso, Eduard Mörike, and Wilhelm Müller, the last three named having well-known musical settings by Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert respectively. Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) was a loose group of Vormärz writers which existed from about 1830 to 1850.
Für eine Poetik des zeitgenössischen Gedichts, Cologne : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1999 Anthologies German poetry from 1750 to 1900, ed.
The wider circle included Willibald Alexis, Adolf Glassbrenner and Gustav Kühne. ===Realism and Naturalism=== Poetic Realism (1848–1890): Theodor Fontane, Gustav Freitag, Gottfried Keller, Wilhelm Raabe, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Storm Naturalism (1880–1900): Gerhart Hauptmann ==20th century== ===1900 to 1933=== Fin de siècle (c.
Historical dictionary of German literature to 1945 (2011) online German Bernd Lutz, Benedikt Jeßing (eds.): Metzler Lexikon Autoren: Deutschsprachige Dichter und Schriftsteller vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Stuttgart und Weimar: 4., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage 2010 Theo Breuer, Aus dem Hinterland.
Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (2008). Hugo von Hofmannsthal (ed.), Deutsche Erzähler I (1912, 1979) Marie Luise Kaschnitz (ed.), Deutsche Erzähler II (1971, 1979) Boris Kerenski & Sergiu Stefanescu, Kaltland Beat.
Foreword by Michael Hamburger, New York : Continuum, 1984, 281 pp.
Traven, Bodo Uhse, Franz Werfel, Arnold Zweig, Stefan Zweig. ===1945 to 1989=== Post-war literature of West Germany (1945–1967): Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Group 47; Holocaust literature (Paul Celan, Edgar Hilsenrath) GDR Literature in East Germany: Johannes R.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Konzett, Matthias Piccolruaz.
by Mary Garland and Henry Garland, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 1997 Grange, William, ed.
Über Dichter und Gedichte, Munich [etc.] : Hanser, 1998 Joachim Sartorius (ed.), Mimima Poetica.
Für eine Poetik des zeitgenössischen Gedichts, Cologne : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1999 Anthologies German poetry from 1750 to 1900, ed.
Routledge, 2000. The Oxford Companion to German Literature, ed.
Lyrik nach 2000, Sistig/Eifel : Edition YE, 2005, Theo Breuer, Kiesel & Kastanie (ed.): Von neuen Gedichten und Geschichten, Sistig/Eifel : Edition YE, 2008, Jürgen Brocan, Jan Kuhlbrodt (eds.), Umkreisungen.
Lyrik nach 2000, Sistig/Eifel : Edition YE, 2005, Theo Breuer, Kiesel & Kastanie (ed.): Von neuen Gedichten und Geschichten, Sistig/Eifel : Edition YE, 2008, Jürgen Brocan, Jan Kuhlbrodt (eds.), Umkreisungen.
25 Auskünfte zum Gedicht, Leipzig: Poetenladen Literaturverlag, 2010 Manfred Enzensperger (ed.), Die Hölderlin-Ameisen: Vom Finden und Erfinden der Poesie, Cologne: Dumont, 2005 Peter von Matt, Die verdächtige Pracht.
Lyrik nach 2000, Sistig/Eifel : Edition YE, 2005, Theo Breuer, Kiesel & Kastanie (ed.): Von neuen Gedichten und Geschichten, Sistig/Eifel : Edition YE, 2008, Jürgen Brocan, Jan Kuhlbrodt (eds.), Umkreisungen.
(German Library), Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Michael Hofmann, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008 (Paperback Edition), 544 pp., Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.), TEXT+KRITIK: Lyrik des 20.
Deutschsprachige Gedichte der achtziger Jahre (1988) Christoph Buchwald, Uljana Wolf (ed.), Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2009 (2009) Karl Otto Conrady (ed.), Der Große Conrady.
Historical dictionary of German literature to 1945 (2011) online German Bernd Lutz, Benedikt Jeßing (eds.): Metzler Lexikon Autoren: Deutschsprachige Dichter und Schriftsteller vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Stuttgart und Weimar: 4., aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage 2010 Theo Breuer, Aus dem Hinterland.
25 Auskünfte zum Gedicht, Leipzig: Poetenladen Literaturverlag, 2010 Manfred Enzensperger (ed.), Die Hölderlin-Ameisen: Vom Finden und Erfinden der Poesie, Cologne: Dumont, 2005 Peter von Matt, Die verdächtige Pracht.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to German language authors fourteen times (as of 2020), or the second most often, tying with French language authors, after English language authors (with 32 laureates) with winners including Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Günter Grass, and Peter Handke. ==Periodization== Periodization is not an exact science but the following list contains movements or time periods typically used in discussing German literature.
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