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Born September 2, 1894 • Brody • Ukraine
Died May 27, 1939 (aged 44) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Die Kapuzinergruft” • “Radetzky March” • “The Silent Prophet”
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
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Arno Schmidt
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Fallada, Hans
Hans Fallada
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Jean Paul
Jean Paul
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Böll, Heinrich
Heinrich Böll
German author
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Uwe Johnson
German author
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
German writer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
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Jünger, Ernst
Ernst Jünger
German writer
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E.T.A. Hoffmann
German writer, composer, and painter
Friedrich Jacobi, engraving by N. Afinger
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
German philosopher