German-language literary works and their authors

Can you name the author of each work? Note not all of them come from Germany but their works' original language is German. The year next to the original title does not always correspond to the first publication date, especially for earlier works.

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Hint	Answer
Emilia Galotti (1772)	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Hermann and Dorothea (Hermann und Dorothea, 1797)	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht, 1800)	Novalis
William Tell (Wilhelm Tell, 1804)	Friedrich von Schiller
Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story (Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814)	Adalbert von Chamisso
The Sandman (Der Sandmann, 1816)	E.T.A. Hoffmann
Book of Songs (Buch der Lieder, 1827)	Heinrich Heine
Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, 1835)	Georg Büchner
Effi Briest (1896)	Theodor Fontane
Two Planets (Auf zwei Planeten, 1897)	Kurd Laßwitz
La Ronde (Reigen - 1900)	Arthur Schnitzler
Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912)	Thomas Mann
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung, 1915)	Franz Kafka
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten, 1922)	Stefan Zweig
The Artificial Silk Girl (Das kunstseidene Mädchen, 1932)	Irmgard Keun
Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung, 1935)	Elias Canetti
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker, 1939)	Joseph Roth
The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, 1930 - 1943)	Robert Musil
Billiards at Half-past Nine (Billard um halb zehn, 1959)	Heinrich Böll
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel, 1959)	Günter Grass
The Physicists (Die Physiker, 1962)	Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel, 1963)	Christa Wolf
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, 1970)	Peter Handke
Malina (1971)	Ingeborg Bachmann
Germania Death in Berlin (Germania Tod in Berlin, 1978)	Heiner Müller
Extinction (Auslöschung, 1986)	Thomas Bernhard
The Karnau Tapes (Flughunde, 1995)	Marcel Beyer
Austerlitz (2001)	W.G. Sebald

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