German literature
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German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxem
Sculpture in Berlin depicting the names of Grass, Arendt, Heine, Luther, Kant, Seghers, Hegel, Brothers Grimm, Marx, Böll, Schiller, Lessing, Hesse, Fontane, Mann, Brecht and Goethe.
The first page of the Hildebrandslied manuscript
Portrait of Walther von der Vogelweide from the Codex Manesse (Folio 124r)
The opening page of the Book of Genesis in Martin Luther's Bible translation of 1534, published by Hans Luft
Thomas Mann
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Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and nov
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…the third most often, behind only French language authors (with 16 laureates) and English language authors (with 32 laureates) with winners including Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Günter Grass, and Peter Handke. Periodization is not an exact science but the following list contains movements or time periods typically…
Mann in 1929
House of the Mann family in Lübeck (Buddenbrookhaus), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum
The family lived in this villa in Munich from 1914 to 1933. Partially destroyed in World War II, it was later reconstructed.
The family country house in Bad Tölz, Bavaria