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Name the Author (German Literature) 🇩🇪

Based on the work, please try to name the author
It is worth noting that, although some of the authors featured in this quiz might not be considered strictly "German", most of them were born, spent a significant portion of their lives, and/or had a strong multifaceted connection with the territory corresponding to modern-day Germany and other German-speaking nations. Additionally, in terms of vernacular affinity, it could be reasonably assumed that they wrote primarily (more often than not exclusively) in the German language (including archaic variations of it). All things considered, while their mentioning could be understandably debatable, it would also be justified to a certain degree.
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Work
Author
Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann
Barbarossa and Other Tales
Paul Heyse
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
Joseph von Eichendorff
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rheinsberg
Kurt Tucholsky
The Robbers
Friedrich Schiller
Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
Little Man, What Now?
Hans Fallada
The Clown
Heinrich Böll
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Effi Briest
Theodor Fontane
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek
Stiller, Roman
Max Frisch
The Soldiers
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
The Rider on the White Horse
Theodor Storm
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Treasure of Silver Lake
Karl May
The Weavers
Gerhart Hauptmann
Rhapsody: A Dream Novel
Arthur Schnitzler
The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
Olympian Spring (poem)
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
The Artificial Silk Girl
Irmgard Keun
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Children's and Household Tales
Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm | Brothers Grimm
Work
Author
Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Green Henry
Gottfried Keller
Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel
Nelly Sachs
Der Messias (poem)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Hyperion
Friedrich Hölderlin
The Physicists
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Arch of Triumph
Erich Maria Remarque
Styx
Else Lasker-Schüler
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner
Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke
Woyzeck
Georg Büchner
Hymns to the Night
Novalis | Georg Philipp Friedrich
Die Judenbuche
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Book of Songs
Heinrich Heine
Ship of Fools (Satire)
Sebastian Brant
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Mozart's Journey to Prague
Eduard Mörike
Emilia Galotti
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The Land of Green Plums
Herta Müller
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist
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4 Comments
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Level 88
Jun 6, 2016
How come "Hesse" works for Siddhartha but not for Steppenwolf?
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Level 83
Jun 10, 2025
Thank you very much for the feedback. The necessary corrections have been applied.
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Level 20
Jan 18, 2025
Nathan the Wise is a duplicate

... and not sure whether C. Funke really belongs in this list.

Suggestion:

Replace them by sth. from Eichendorff, Fallada, Herder, Keller, Kästner, Keun, Lasker-Schüler, Droste-Hülshoff, Mörike, Storm or Tucholsky

... and replace Canetti by Schnitzler, Dürrenmatt or Frisch

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Level 83
Jun 10, 2025
Thank you very much for the feedback. The necessary corrections have been applied. Furthermore, I have tried, to the best of my efforts, to incorporate the relevant suggestions made.

I do believe, however, that Cornelia Funke has a well-earned place in the quiz. An award-winning writer whose books have been translated into various languages, sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and been adapted to film, Funke's writing and illustrations do not merely amount to commercial success, having also been met with praise by critics. All things considered, I am of the opinion that she has cemented her position as an important figure in German contemporary literature.