Germany

16C: Northern Renaissance

• DÜRER Albrecht
  • Self-Portrait at Twenty-Eight (1500)
  • Adam and Eve (1504)
  • Melencolia I (1514)
  • Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513)
• GRÜNEWALD Matthias
  • Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16)

18C-19C: Romanticism

• FRIEDRICH Caspar David
  • Monk by the Sea (1808-10)
  • Abbey in the Oakwood (1809-10)
  • Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
  • The Sea of Ice (1823-24)
• RUNGE Philipp Otto
  • The Morning (1808)

20C: Expressionism, Bauhaus, New Objectivity

• KIRCHNER Ernst Ludwig
  • Street, Dresden (1908)
  • Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915)
• KANDINSKY Wassily
  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911)
  • Composition VII (1913)
  • Yellow-Red-Blue (1925)
• KLEE Paul
  • Twittering Machine (1922)
  • Ad Parnassum (1932)
• GROSZ George
  • Pillars of Society (1926)

18C: Baroque, Classical

• BACH Johann Sebastian
  • Brandenburg Concertos (1721)
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier (1722)
  • St Matthew Passion (1727)
  • Mass in B Minor (1749)
• HANDEL George Frideric
  • Water Music (1717)
  • Messiah (1742)
  • Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749)

18C-19C: Classical, Romantic

• BEETHOVEN Ludwig van
  • Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” (1804)
  • Symphony No. 5 (1808)
  • Symphony No. 9 (1824)
  • Moonlight Sonata (1801)
• SCHUBERT Franz
  • Erlkönig (1815)
  • Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished” (1822)
  • Winterreise (1827)

19C: Romanticism

• WAGNER Richard
  • The Flying Dutchman (1843)
  • Tristan und Isolde (1865)
  • Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876)
• BRAHMS Johannes
  • A German Requiem (1868)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1876)
  • Hungarian Dances (1869)

20C: Modernism

• SCHOENBERG Arnold
  • Verklärte Nacht (1899)
  • Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
• STRAUSS Richard
  • Also sprach Zarathustra (1896)
  • Salome (1905)
  • Der Rosenkavalier (1911)

18C: Enlightenment

• KANT Immanuel
  • Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
  • Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)
  • Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
  • Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790)
• LESSING Gotthold Ephraim
  • Laocoön (1766)
  • Nathan the Wise (1779)

18C-19C: Sturm und Drang

• VON GOETHE Johann Wolfgang
  • Götz von Berlichingen (1773)
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
  • Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795-96)
  • Faust Part I (1808)
  • Italian Journey (1816-17)
  • Faust Part II (1832)
• SCHILLER Friedrich
  • The Robbers (1781)
  • Don Carlos (1787)
  • On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795)
  • William Tell (1804)

19C: Romanticism

• DÖBLIN Alfred
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)
• FONTANE Theodor
  • Effi Briest (1895)
  • Der Stechlin (1899)
• HEINE Heinrich
  • Book of Songs (1827)
  • Germany: A Winter’s Tale (1844)
• HOFFMANN E.T.A.
  • The Sandman (1816)
  • The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816)
  • The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1819-21)

19C-20C: Modernism

• ADORNO Theodor W.
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944, with Horkheimer)
  • Minima Moralia (1951)
  • Negative Dialectics (1966)
• ENGELS Friedrich
  • The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
  • Anti-Dühring (1878)
• FREUD Sigmund
  • The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
  • Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
  • Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
• FROMM Erich
  • Escape from Freedom (1941)
  • Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (1947)
  • The Sane Society (1955)
  • The Art of Loving (1956)
  • You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition (1966)
  • The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973)
  • To Have or To Be? (1976)
• HEIDEGGER Martin | philosophy
  • Being and Time (1927)
• HORKHEIMER Max
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944, with Adorno)
• WEBER Max
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
  • Economy and Society (1922, posthumous)

20C: Postwar Literature

• BÖLL Heinrich
  • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974)
• BRECHT Bertolt
  • The Threepenny Opera (1928)
• GRASS Günter
  • The Tin Drum (1959)
  • Cat and Mouse (1961)
  • The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974)
• HESSE Hermann
  • Beneath the Wheel (1906)
  • Youth, Beautiful Youth (1916)
  • Demian (1919)
  • Märchen (1919)
  • Klingsor’s Last Summer (1920)
  • Siddhartha (1922)
  • Steppenwolf (1927)
  • Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
  • The Glass Bead Game (1943)
• JOHNSON Uwe
  • Speculations about Jakob (1959)
• KAFKA Franz
  • The Metamorphosis (1915)
  • The Castle (1926)
  • Amerika (1927)
• LENZ Siegfried
  • The German Lesson (1968)
• MANN Thomas
  • Buddenbrooks (1901)
  • Tonio Kröger (1903)
  • Tristan (1903)
  • Death in Venice (1912)
  • Doctor Faustus (1947)
• NOOTEBOOM Cees
  • Philip and the Others (1954)
• REMARQUE Erich Maria | war literature
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)
  • Arc de Triomphe (1945)
  • A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1954)
• WOLF Christa
  • Divided Heaven (1963)

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