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

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

National Theatre. Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to Johann Gottfried Lessing (1693–1770) and Justine Salome Feller (1703–1777). His...

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...

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

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

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

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

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (UK: /ˈhɜːldərliːn/, US: /ˈhʌl-/; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn] ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet...