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Born September 4, 1882 • Würzburg • Germany
Died August 18, 1961 (aged 78) • Munich • Germany
Notable Works “A Middle-Class Man” • “Carl and Anna” • “Heart on the Left” • “The Cause of the Crime” • “The Robber Band” • “The Singers”
Movement / Style Expressionism
Else Lasker-Schüler
German author
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Weiss, Peter
Peter Weiss
German writer
Wolf, Christa
Christa Wolf
German author
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann
German author
Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Hermann Sudermann
German writer
Hippel, engraving by J.F. Bolt
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel
German writer
Fanny Lewald
German writer
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
German author
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
German writer and producer
Karl May
German author
Frenssen, 1933
Gustav Frenssen
German novelist
Holtei, Karl von
Karl von Holtei
German author
Karl Philipp Moritz
German novelist
Falke, Gustav
Gustav Falke
German author
Alfred Döblin
German writer