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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