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  2. Song of the Bell - Wikipedia

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    The "Song of the Bell" (German: "Das Lied von der Glocke", also translated as "The Lay of the Bell") is a poem that the German poet Friedrich Schiller published in 1798. It is one of the most famous poems of German literature and with 430 lines one of Schiller's longest.

  3. Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press.Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing.

  4. Erich Mühsam - Wikipedia

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    The Erich Mühsam Site) — a selection of poems by Mühsam; Erich Mühsam Page at Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia; Complete German texts of selected works by Mühsam; Erich Mühsam – Judas (complete German text) Guide to the Erich Muehsam Collection Archival materials by and about Mühsam at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York; Mühsam ...

  5. Goethe's Faust - Wikipedia

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    Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature. [1]

  6. Matthias Claudius - Wikipedia

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    Claudius's poem Death and the Maiden was used by composer Franz Schubert in 1817 for one of his most celebrated songs, which in turn became the basis for the 1824 string quartet of the same name. Claudius's collected works were published under the title of Asmus omnia sua secum portans, oder Sämtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Boten (8 vols., 1775 ...

  7. Todesfuge - Wikipedia

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    The "we" of the poem describes drinking the black milk of dawn at evening, noon, daybreak and night, and shovelling "a grave in the skies". They introduce a "he", who writes letters to Germany, plays with snakes, whistles orders to his dogs and to his Jews to dig a grave in the earth (the words "Rüden" (male dogs) and "Juden" (Jews) are assonant in German), [9] and commands "us" to play music ...

  8. Martin Opitz - Wikipedia

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    In 1624 Opitz published a collected edition of his poetry under the title Acht Bücher deutscher Poematum (though, owing to a mistake on the part of the printer, there are only five books); his Dafne (1627), to which Heinrich Schütz composed the music, is the earliest German opera. [1]

  9. Friedrich Hölderlin - Wikipedia

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    The poetry of Hölderlin, widely recognized today as one of the highest points of German literature, was little known or understood during his lifetime, and slipped into obscurity shortly after his death; his illness and reclusion made him fade from his contemporaries' consciousness—and, even though selections of his work were published by ...