German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects.
Ricarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as an historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
Weimar Classicism was a German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment. It was named after the city of Weimar, Germany, because the leading authors of Weimar Classicism lived there.
Else Ury was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series. The books, the six-part TV series Nesthäkchen (1983), based on the first three volumes, as well as the new DVD edition (2005) caught the attention of millions of readers and viewers. During Ury's lifetime Nesthäkchen und der Weltkrieg, the fourth volume, was the most popular. Else Ury was a member of the German Bürgertum. She was pulled between patriotic German citizenship and Jewish cultural heritage. This situation is reflected in her writings, although the Nesthäkchen books make no references to Judaism. In 1943, Else Ury was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was murdered upon her arrival.
Gabriele Reuter was a German writer.
Steven Lehrer is a physician and writer, known for medical research and for his English translation of Else Ury.
Nesthäkchen is a German television series directed by Gero Erhardt, which was broadcast as the fifth Christmas series of the ZDF 1983. It is based on Else Ury's novels Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls (1913), Nesthäkchen's First School Year (1915), and Nesthäkchen in the Children's Sanitorium (1915/1921). The story revolves around Annemarie Braun, who is called Nesthäkchen, the youngest child of a doctor's family. Annemarie grows up with her brothers Hans and Klaus in Berlin during the imperial era shortly before the First World War.
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. This third volume of the series, published 1915/1921, tells the story of ten-year-old Annemarie's bout of scarlet fever, her recovery in a North Sea children's sanitorium, and her desperate struggle to return home at the outbreak of World War I.
Nesthäkchen's First School Year is the second book in the Nesthäkchen series, written by Else Ury. Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Anne Marie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren.
A Nesthäkchen is the youngest child in a family. Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. The first volume of the series, originally published by Meidingers Jugendschriften Verlag Berlin 1913, tells the story of Annemarie's early life.
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren . Volume 5, Nesthäkchens Backfischzeit, describes Annemarie's teenage years.
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Anne Marie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten-book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. Volume 4 describes Anne Marie's experiences in World War I from 1914 to 1916.
Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest is a 1921 German-language novel written by Else Ury. It is the sixth book in Ury's ten-book Nesthäkchen series, which follows protagonist Annemarie from infancy through old age. Nesthäkchen Flies From the Nest covers Annemarie's college days, courtship, and marriage.
Nesthäkchen und ihre Küken is the seventh volume of the ten-book Nesthäkchen series by Else Ury. This volume was published in 1923. Nesthäkchen is Annemarie Braun, a Berlin doctor's daughter, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesthäkchen with White Hair). Nesthäkchen und ihre Küken describes Anne Marie's early years of motherhood.
Nesthäkchens Jüngste is the eighth volume of the ten-book Nesthäkchen series by Else Ury. This volume was published in 1924. Nesthäkchen is Annemarie Braun, a Berlin doctor's daughter, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesthäkchen with White Hair). Nesthäkchens Jüngste describes Anne Marie's life as her youngest child, Ursel, grows up and marries.
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. Volume 9 (1924) describes Anne Marie's life as her youngest child, Ursel, Ursel's husband and children, return to Germany after 16 years in Brazil.
Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesthäkchen series follows Annemarie from infancy to old age and grandchildren. Volume 10 (1925) describes the education, courtship and marriage of Annemarie’s granddaughter, Marietta, and Annemarie’s first great grandchild.
Karen Köhler is a German writer, playwright and actor.
Rudolf Johannes Dührkoop was a German portrait photographer; one of the leading early representatives of pictorialism.
Else Wildhagen was a German writer. She was the daughter of the author of Der Trotzkopf, Emmy von Rhoden, and the writer, Hermann Friedrich Friedrich. She was married to the German jurist, Georg Wildhagen, since 1885.
