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Born May 3, 1761 • Weimar • Germany
Died March 23, 1819 (aged 57) • Mannheim • Germany
Notable Works “Der Wildfang” • “Die deutschen Kleinstädter” • “Spanier in Peru”

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Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Platen, August, Graf von
August, Graf von Platen
German writer
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Heinrich Julius
duke of Brunswick
Sachs, Hans
Hans Sachs
German poet and composer
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
Jakob Ayrer
German dramatist
Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic
Molière
Molière
French dramatist
Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Nestroy, Johann
Johann Nestroy
Austrian dramatist
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer
Anzengruber, Ludwig
Ludwig Anzengruber
Austrian author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist