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Born May 6, 1871 • Munich • Germany
Died March 31, 1914 (aged 42) • Merano • Italy
Notable Works “Alle Galgenlieder” • “Einkehr” • “Ich und die Welt” • “Palmstrom” • “Wir fanden einen Pfad”
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
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Tankred Dorst
German author
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
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Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
Garborg, Arne Evensen
Arne Evensen Garborg
Norwegian author
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Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
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Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Platen, August, Graf von
August, Graf von Platen
German writer
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet

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