Clemens Brentano

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Born	September 9, 1778 • Germany
Died	July 28, 1842 (aged 63) • Aschaffenburg • Bavaria
Notable Works	“Godwi” • “The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie”
Movement / Style	Heidelberg Romantics
Notable Family Members	sister Bettina von Arnim

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Achim von Arnim, oil painting by an unknown artist

Achim von Arnim

German writer

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Schickele

René Schickele

German writer

Volker Braun

German author

Paul Ernst

Paul Ernst

German writer

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Canetti

Elias Canetti

Bulgarian-born writer

William Carlos Williams

American poet

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Austrian writer

Ilse Aichinger

Austrian author

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

German writer

E.T.A. Hoffmann

German writer, composer, and painter

Weiss, Peter

Peter Weiss

German writer

Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing

Karl Leberecht Immermann

German author

Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag

German writer

Carl Zuckmayer.

Carl Zuckmayer

German playwright

Gutzkow

Karl Gutzkow

German writer

Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Hermann Sudermann

German writer