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Born April 10, 1883 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died September 18, 1972 (aged 89) • Switzerland
Notable Works “Die Stadt der Väter, Stadt der Freiheit, Stadt des Friedens” • “Die schwarze Spinne” • “Füsilier Wipf” • “Zürcher Idylle”
Subjects Of Study German literature
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
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Robert Walser
Swiss writer
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Jakob Schaffner
Swiss writer
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Albin Zollinger
Swiss writer
Bodmer, engraving by H. Pfenninger after a portrait by F. Tischbein
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Swiss historian and writer
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Alfred Andersch
German-Swiss writer
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Adolf Frey
Swiss writer and historian
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author

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