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1. A N E N G L I S H R E P O R T
GERMAN LITERATURE

2. GERMANY
• A federal parliamentary republic in western-central
Europe
• The most populous member state in the European Union
• The major economic and political power of the
European continent and a historic leader in many
theoretical and technical fields
• Known for its rich cultural and political history, Germany
has been the home of many influential philosophers,
music composers, scientists, and inventors
• German is the official and predominant spoken
language in Germany. It is one of 23 official languages in
the European Union, and one of the three working
languages of the European Commission

3. TIME PERIODS OF GERMAN
LITERATURE
• Medieval German Literature
• The Baroque
• Enlightenment
• Sturm und Drang
• Classicism
• Romanticism
• Young Germany
• Naturalism
• Expressionism
• Dadaism

4. MEDIEVAL GERMAN LITERATURE
• German literature begins in the Carolingian period,
first in Latin and then in Old High German
• Hildebrandslied – (The most famous work in OHG) a
short piece of Germanic alliterative heroic verse
which is the sole survivor of what must have been a
vast oral tradition

5. MEDIEVAL GERMAN LITERATURE
Other important works are:
• The Evangelienbuch (Gospel harmony) of Ottfried
von Weissenburg, the short but splendid Ludwigslied
• In the northern dialect of Old Saxon, a life of Christ
in the style of a heroic epic, known as the Heliand

6. MEDIEVAL GERMAN LITERATURE
Some authors and works of the high Middle Ages
include:
• Herzog Ernst
• Heinrich von Freiberg
• Ulrich von Türheim
• Rudolf von Ems
• Konrad von Würzburg
• Heinrich Frauenlob
• Reinmar der Alte

7. MEDIEVAL GERMAN LITERATURE
The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about
the mid-11th century, though the boundary to Early
Middle High German (second half of the 11th century) is
not clear-cut. The most impressive example of EMHG
literature is the Annolied.

8. THE BAROQUE
• The Baroque period was one of the most fertile
times in German literature
• Many writers reflected the horrible experiences of
the Thirty Years' War, in poetry and prose
• Grimmelshausen's adventures of the young and
naïve Simplicissimus, in the eponymous book,
became the most famous novel of the Baroque
period

9. THE BAROQUE
Some of the writers during this period who wrote
about tragedies:
• Andreas Gryphius
• Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein

10. ENLIGHTENMENT
• The Age of Enlightenment refers to the
18th century in European philosophy, and
is often thought of as part of a larger
period which includes the Age of Reason
• This movement's leaders viewed
themselves as a courageous, elite body of
intellectuals who were leading the world
toward progress, out of a long period of
irrationality, superstition, and tyranny which
began during a historical period they
called the Dark Ages
• It is matched by the high baroque era in
music, and the neo-classical period in the
arts.

11. STURM UND DRANG
“STORM AND STRESS”
• A Germany literary movement that developed
during the latter half of the 18th century
• Most commonly characterized as having lasted
from 1767 – 1785

12. STURM UND DRANG
“STORM AND STRESS”
The writers during this period:
• Goethe – wrote German’s first major drama, Götz
von Berlichingen (1773) and German’s most
sensational and representative novel, Die Leiden
des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young
Werther, 1774)
• Schiller – wrote the play Die Räuber and other early
plays which were preludes to Romanticism
• Klopstock
• J. M. R. Lenz
• Friedrich Müller

13. CLASSICISM
• It refers generally to a
high regard for classical
antiquity as setting
standards for taste
which the classicist seeks
to emulate
• It is usually contrasted
with romanticism; the art
of classicism typically
seeks to be formal and
restrained

14. ROMANTICISM
• It was an artistic and intellectual movement that
originated in late 18th century Western Europe
• It stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom within or
even from classical notions of form in art
• It is also noted for its elevation of the achievements of
what it perceived as heroic individuals and artists

15. YOUNG GERMANY
“JUNGES DEUTSCHLAND”
• A group of German
writers which existed
from about 1830 to
1850
• A youth movement
• The movement
produced
poets, thinkers and
journalists, all of
whom reacted
against of
Romanticism

16. NATURALISM
• A movement in theatre and film
• In theatre, it developed in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries
• It refers to theatre that tries to create a perfect illusion of
reality, a non-poetic literary style that reflects the way
real people speak

17. EXPRESSIONISM
• Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality
for emotional effect
• Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including
painting, literature, film, architecture and music

18. DADAISM
“DADA”
• A post-World War I cultural movement in visual art
as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and
graphic design
• The movement was, among other things, a protest
against the barbarism of the War and what
Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual
rigidity in both art and everyday society; its works
were characterized by a deliberate irrationality and
the rejection of the prevailing standards of art

19. LITERARY WORKS IN GERMANY
• THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (THE DIARY OF A YOUNG
GIRL)