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Also Known As Paul Antschel
Born November 23, 1920
Died April 20, 1970? • Paris • France
Notable Works “Der Sand aus den Urnen” • “Mohn und Gedächtnis”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
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
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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary 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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Stefan George
German author
Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss
Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, etching by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1887
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Swiss writer
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
Novalis, detail of an engraving by Edouard Eichens, 1845
Novalis
German poet

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