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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“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.”
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