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Bertolt Brecht
He was a German playwright and poet, one of the most influential of the 20th century, creator of the epic theatre, also called dialectic theatre.
Anna Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was one of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, sadly famous after the discovery of the newspaper he wrote while living in...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dramaturgo, novelist, poet and German naturalist, a fundamental contributor to Romanticism, which he exercised a great influence and was one of the gr...
Jacob Grimm
He was a German linguist and mythologist, considered founder of the historical grammar. His life and work was strongly linked to that of his younger b...
Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe, born Maria Walter, was a Swedish writer of children's and youth literature, awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize and translated into...
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German writer, poet, novelist and painter, naturalized in May 1924.
Thomas Hettche
He studied Germanistics and Philosophy and lives in Frankfurt. So far, he has published, among other works, Ludwig moss sterben (1989), for which he r...
Thomas Mann
Featured German writer born in Lübeck, Germany, and deceased in Zurich, Switzerland. It is known for its deep and complex novels that explore philosop...
David Safier
David Safier is a German writer and novelist. Safier studied journalism and trained professionally on radio and television. From 1996 onwards he began...
