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Born May 2, 1886 • Germany
Died July 7, 1956 (aged 70) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Doppelleben”
Movement / Style Expressionism
Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
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Else Lasker-Schüler
German author
Fritz von Unruh.
Fritz von Unruh
German author
Becher, Johannes Robert
Johannes Robert Becher
German writer and government official
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
Däubler
Theodor Däubler
German-language poet
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
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Georg Trakl
Austrian poet
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Anton Wildgans
Austrian dramatist and poet
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
Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt.
Heinrich Heine
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
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Uwe Johnson
German author
Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide
German lyric poet

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