Germany
See also: German literature- Heinrich Böll (1917–1985)
- Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Hans Fallada (1893–1947)
- Theodor Fontane (1819–1898)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), polymath.
- Günter Grass (born 1927), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991)
- Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
- Uwe Johnson (1934–1984)
- Ernst Jünger (1895–1998)
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–974)
- Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975)
- Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811)
- Siegfried Lenz (born 1926)
- Andreas Mand (born 1959)
- Heinrich Mann (1871–1950)
- Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Nobel Prize for Literature (1929)
- Sten Nadolny, (born 1942), author of The Discovery of Slowness
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Bernhard Schlink (born 1944)
- W. G. Sebald (1944–2001)
- Anna Seghers (1900–1983)
- Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author of Perfume
- Martin Walser (born 1927)
- Peter Weiss (1916–1982)
- Christa Wolf (1929–2011)
- Arnold Zweig (1887–1968)
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Famous quotes containing the word germany:
“If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)