German Literature

German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects (e.g. Alemannic).
An early flowering of German literature is the Middle High German period of the High Middle Ages. Modern literature in German begins with the authors of the Enlightenment (such as Herder) and reaches
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Family of Spies
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Mimik
Death and the Gardener
Eurotrash
Das Kalendermädchen
Die schönste Version
The Director
Under the Mistletoe (Under the Mistletoe Collection, #1-5)
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Kairos
Die Wut, die bleibt
Hard Land
Nemesis' Töchter: 3000 Jahre zwischen Female Rage und Zusammenhalt
The Metamorphosis
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Siddhartha
The Sorrows of Young Werther
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Trial
Steppenwolf
The Reader
The Magic Mountain
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Sturm und Drang
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Christoph Marzi
Die meisten Lügen sind wahr und spinnen sich von ganz allein, kaum jemand kannte diese Wahrheit besser als Colin Darcy. Wenn man erst einmal der Melodie der Worte zu lauschen beginnt, dann pfeift man sie bald selbst. Und wenn Lügen wie kunstvolle Lieder sind, dann gehörte Helen Darcy, Colins Mutter, zu jenem seltenen Menschenschlag, der allzeit eine beschwingte Melodie auf den Lippen trägt.
Christoph Marzi, Fabula

Alexander McCall Smith
He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands.
Alexander McCall Smith, Portuguese Irregular Verbs

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