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Born December 19, 1925 • Germany
Died June 1, 2017 (aged 91) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Gesellschaft im Herbst” • “Toller”
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Christian Morgenstern
German poet
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
Eric Bentley
American critic, translator, and stage director
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Bayard Taylor, engraving by John Chester Buttre after a photograph
Bayard Taylor
American travel writer
Salomon Gessner
Swiss writer and artist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist