Johann Michael Moscherosch (7 March 1601 – 4 April 1669), German statesman, satirist, and educator, was born at Willstätt, on the Upper Rhine near Strassburg...

Theatre. Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to theologe Johann Gottfried Lessing [de] (1693–1770) and his wife Justine Salome Feller (1703–1777)...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in...

Grimmelshausen Andreas Gryphius Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau Johann Michael Moscherosch Martin Opitz Hans Sachs Angelus Silesius Anthony Ulrich, Duke...

the publication of a translation of Parzival in 1753 by the Swiss scholar Johann Jakob Bodmer. Parzival was the main source Richard Wagner used when writing...

Mitchell (Schocken Books, 1998), and The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika) by Michael Hofmann (Penguin Books, 1996) and Amerika: The Missing Person by Mark Harman...

closely supervised the English translations (principally by Anthea Bell and Michael Hulse). They include Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz...

modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Mann...

Fiction Prize. In September 2023, the English translation of Kairos by Michael Hofmann was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature...

1996) "gargantuan pest" (M. A. Roberts, 2005) "monstrous cockroach" (Michael Hofmann, 2007) "monstrous verminous bug" (Ian Johnston, 2007) "a vile insect...