Literatur in German across the centuries

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What have you read, be it in German or translated ...

 

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The Palästinalied ("Palestine Song")[1] is a crusade song written in the early 13th century by Walther von der Vogelweide, the most celebrated lyric poet of Middle High German literature. It is one of the few songs by Walther for which a melody has survived

Palästinalied - Wikipedia

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Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain​

 

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nobody else?

 

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i recommend Walther von der Vogelweide

 

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von det Vogelweide once wrote and sang a song that is fitting for our time:

Palästinalied …. a palestine song

 

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Palästinalied - Wikipedia

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here you can read about that song.

 

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surely somebody knows Kafka and Mann?

 

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2 for kafka now

 

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That's the only one I've read from your list.
But there are more: Kleist, Schiller, Wedekind, Hoffmann, Rilke, Goethe, etc.
Ha, very strange that Goethe is not on your list, given he is probably the most famous German author ...