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Born January 12, 1751 • Latvia
Found Dead May 24, 1792 • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works “Der Hofmeister oder Vortheile der Privaterziehung” • “Die Soldaten”
Movement / Style Sturm und Drang
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Gerstenberg, engraving
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German writer
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von: Die Zwillinge
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
German writer
Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf
Johann Anton Leisewitz
German dramatist
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Friedrich Müller
German writer and painter
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist
Weiss, Peter
Peter Weiss
German writer
Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Leberecht Immermann
German author
Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag
German writer
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
Frank Wedekind, 1918.
Frank Wedekind
German actor and dramatist
German dramatist August von Kotzebue
August von Kotzebue
German playwright
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Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Georg Büchner, engraving by Aimbach after a portrait by A. Hoffman
Georg Büchner
German dramatist