German literature


German literature German: Deutschsprachige Literatur comprises those literary texts total in the German language. This includes literature a thing that is caused or produced by something else in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland as well as Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy together with to a lesser extent working of the German diaspora. German literature of the sophisticated period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects e.g. Alemannic.

Medieval German literature is literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty; various dates construct been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Reformation 1517 being the last possible cut-off point. The Old High German period is reckoned to run until approximately the mid-11th century; the nearly famous workings are the Hildebrandslied and a heroic epic invited as the Heliand. Middle High German starts in the 12th century; the key working increase The Ring ca. 1410 and the poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein and Johannes von Tepl. The Baroque period 1600 to 1720 was one of the most fertile times in German literature. modern literature in German begins with the authors of the Enlightenment such(a) as Herder. The Sensibility movement of the 1750s–1770s ended with Goethe's best-selling The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774. The Sturm und Drang and Weimar Classicism movements were led by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the unhurried 18th and early 19th centuries.

Biedermeier subjected to the literature, music, the visual arts and interior ordering in the period between the years 1815 Vienna Congress, the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions. Under the Nazi regime, some authors went into exile Exilliteratur and others shown to censorship "internal emigration", Innere Emigration. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to German Linguistic communication authors fourteen times as of 2020, or themost 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.

19th century


Weimar Classicism German “Weimarer Klassik” and “Weimarer Klassizismus” is a cultural and literary movement of Europe, and its central ideas were originally propounded by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller during the period 1786 to 1805.

German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the behind 18th and early 19th centuries. German Romanticism developed relatively late compared to its English counterpart, coinciding in its early years with the movement known as German Classicism or Weimar Classicism, which it opposed. In contrast to the seriousness of English Romanticism, the German line is notable for valuing humor and wit as alive as beauty. The early German romantics tried to have a new synthesis of art, philosophy, and science, looking to the Middle Ages as a simpler, more integrated period. As time went on, however, they became increasingly aware of the tenuousness of the unity they were seeking. Later German Romanticism emphasized the tension between the everyday world and the seemingly irrational and supernatural projections of creative genius. Heinrich Heine in specific criticized the tendency of the early romantics to look to the medieval past for a model of unity in art and society.

Biedermeier specified to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior appearance in the period between the years 1815 Vienna Congress, the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions and contrasts with the Romantic era which preceded it. Typical Biedermeier poets are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adelbert von Chamisso, Eduard Mörike, and Wilhelm Müller, the last three named having well-known musical frames by Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert respectively.

Gustav Kühne.

Poetic Realism 1848–1890: Theodor Fontane, Gustav Freitag, Gottfried Keller, Wilhelm Raabe, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Storm

Naturalism 1880–1900: Gerhart Hauptmann



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