German Literature

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects (e.g. Alemannic).
An early flowering of German literature is the Middle High German period of the High Middle Ages. Modern literature in German begins with the authors of the Enlightenment (such as Herder) and reaches
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Logan & Rose (The Darlington, #3)
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Die Känguru-Rebellion (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #5)
‎22 Bahnen
Windstärke 17
The Director
»Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Mimik
Death and the Gardener
If You Stayed
Die schönste Version
Eurotrash
Das Kalendermädchen
Die Wut, die bleibt
Hard Land
Lázár
Anywhere (Dunbridge Academy, #1)
The Metamorphosis
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Siddhartha
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Trial
All Quiet on the Western Front
Steppenwolf
The Reader
The Magic Mountain
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Faust, First Part
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Deutsche E-Books
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Friedrich Nietzsche
they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the very centre of German hopes. But perhaps those same people will find it distasteful to see an aesthetic problem taken so seriously, if they can see art as nothing more than an entertaining irrelevance, an easily dispensable tinkle of bells next to the 'seriousness of life': as if no one was aware what this contrast with the 'seriousness of life' amounted to. Let these s ...more
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Heinrich Heine
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
Heinrich Heine

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