Literature
- Heinrich Böll, Das Boot, Bertolt Brecht, Brockhaus, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Buddenbrooks
- Paul Celan
- Dreigroschenoper
- Günter Eich, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- Theodor Fontane
- Gottfried von Straßburg, Günter Grass, Brothers Grimm (Wilhelm Grimm), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Andreas Gryphius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hartmann von Aue, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Heine Prize, Friedrich Hölderlin
- Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Immanuel Kant
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann
- Novalis
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Erich Maria Remarque
- Hans Sachs, Friedrich Schiller, Theodor Storm
- Walther von der Vogelweide, Wolfram von Eschenbach
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“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
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“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
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