German Literature

This is the homepage for German Literature, a subcategory of European Literature.

Authors:

• Heinrich Boll
• Bertolt Brecht
• Wolfram von Eschenbach
• Johann von Goethe
• Gunter Grass
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• Gerhart Hauptmann
• Johann Gottfried von Herder
• Heinrich Heine
• Thomas a Kempis
• Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
• Thomas Mann
• Theodor Mommsen
• Erich Maria Remarque
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Hans Sachs
• Friedrich von Schiller

Unknown authorship

Lay of Hildebrand epic

Hildebrand, follower of Theodoric the Great, tries to stop combat with son Hadubrand

King Rother epic

Gudrun

Hetel courts Irish King Hagen’s daughter Hilde

The Nibelungenlied

Hagen tells Burgundian kings about Siegfried, who helps Gunther court Iceland Queen Brunhild in exchange for marrying his sister Kriemhild.