German literature

Table of Contents

Introduction
Origins and Middle Ages
- Pre-Christian and early Christian periods
- High courtly literature: Middle High German Classicism
  - The lyric poetry of courtly love
  - Courtly romance
    - Hartmann von Aue
    - Wolfram von Eschenbach
    - Gottfried von Strassburg
    - Nibelungenlied
- Post-Classical Middle High German literature
Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance
- Reformation
- The Baroque
The 18th century
- Age of Enlightenment
  - Rationalism
  - Early Enlightenment
  - Enlightenment
    - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
    - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Christoph Martin Wieland
    - Johann Gottfried von Herder
  - Late Enlightenment (Sturm und Drang)
- Weimar Classicism: Goethe and Schiller
- Post-Classicism
  - Goethe and the Romantics
  - Jean Paul, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Heinrich von Kleist
The 19th century
- The Romantic Movement
- Realist modes
  - Bourgeois Realism
  - Theodor Fontane
  - 19th-century drama
  - Naturalism
- Fin de siècle movements
  - Friedrich Nietzsche
  - Aestheticism
The 20th century
- German Modernism
  - Expressionism
  - Franz Kafka
  - Other works of German Modernism
- The post-1945 period: “Stunde Null”
- The late 1950s and the ’60s
- The 1970s and ’80s
- Postmodernism
- After reunification
- The turn of the 21st century

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