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The Criminal of Lost Honour (Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre) is a crime report by Friedrich Schiller, first published in 1786 under the title Verbrecher aus Infamie (Criminal of Infamy).
Hermann Sudermann was a German dramatist and novelist.
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.
Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Müller was a German lyric poet, best known as the author of Die schöne Müllerin (1823) and Winterreise (1828), which Franz Schubert later set to music as song cycles.
Gustav Benjamin Schwab was a German writer, pastor and publisher.
Karl Viktor Müllenhoff was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Luther's Small Catechism is a catechism written by Martin Luther and published in 1529 for the training of children. Luther's Small Catechism reviews the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, the Office of the Keys and Confession and the Sacrament of the Eucharist. It is included in the Book of Concord as an authoritative statement of what Lutherans believe.
Wilhelm Raabe was a German novelist. His early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus.
Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist.
Hans Prutz was a German historian.
Karl Julius Ploetz was a German author of scholarly works, most notably his Epitome of History published in the English language in 1883.
Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle was an Austrian poet and scholar.
GeorgWickram was a German poet and novelist.
Hermann Leberecht Strack was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin.
LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts, creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. It was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire to provide "Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain" and the LibriVox objective is "To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet".
Otto Julius Bierbaum was a German writer.
Wilhelm Ritter von Hertz was a German writer. He was born in Stuttgart.
Aloisia Kirschner was an Austrian novelist, born in Prague and favorably known under her pseudonym Ossip Schubin, which she borrowed from the novel Helena by Ivan Turgenev.
A magnanimous act. From recent history is a prose work by Friedrich Schiller, published in his Kleinere prosaische Schriften. It first appeared in 1782.
Alfred Meissner was an Austrian poet.
"The Panther" is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written between 1902 and 1903. It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times, including by many distinguished translators of Rilke, like Stephen Mitchell, C. F. MacIntyre, J. B. Leishman and Walter Arndt, Jessie Lamont and poets like Robert Bly. It is used in the film Awakenings (1990) by the protagonist Leonard Lowe as a metaphor for his physical disability.