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Born July 13, 1816 • Poland
Died April 30, 1895 (aged 78) • Wiesbaden • Germany
Notable Works “Debit and Credit” • “Die Ahnen” • “Pictures of German Life” • “The Lost Manuscript”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Weiss, Peter
Peter Weiss
German writer
Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing
Karl Leberecht Immermann
German author
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
German writer
Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Hermann Sudermann
German writer
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
German author
Volker Braun
German author
Kästner, 1970
Erich Kästner
German author
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von: Die Zwillinge
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
German writer
Friedrich von Spielhagen.
Friedrich von Spielhagen
German writer
Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt
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portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer