German literature

German literature () is the 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 also books written by the German diaspora.

 Periods 
 Medieval German literature
 Old High German literature (750–1050)
 Middle High German literature (1050–1350)
 Late medieval / Renaissance (1350–1500)
 Early Modern German literature (see Early Modern literature)
 Humanism and Protestant Reformation (1500–1650)
 Baroque (1600–1720)
 Enlightenment (1680–1789)
 Modern German literature
 18th- and 19th-century German literature
 Empfindsamkeit / Sensibility (1750s–1770s)
 Sturm und Drang / Storm and Stress (1760s–1780s)
 German Classicism (1729–1832)
 Weimar Classicism (1788–1805) or (1788–1832), depending on Schiller's (1805) or Goethe's (1832) death
 German Romanticism (1790s–1880s)
 Biedermeier (1815–1848)
 Young Germany (1830–1850)
 Poetic Realism (1848–1890)
 Naturalism (1880–1900)
 20th-century German literature
 1900–1933
 Fin de siècle (c. 1900)
 Symbolism
 Expressionism (1910–1920)
 Dada (1914–1924)
 New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
 Well Known Writers of the 20th Century
 1933–1945
 National Socialist literature
 Exile literature
 1945–1989
 By country
 Federal Republic of Germany
 German Democratic Republic
 Austria
 Switzerland
 Other
 By thematic or group
 Post-war literature (1945–1967)
 Group 47
 Holocaust literature
 Contemporary German literature (1989–)

 Writings on the subject 
Cambridge History of German Literature. Watanabe-O’Kelly, Helen, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Konzett, Matthias Piccolruaz. Encyclopedia of German Literature. Routledge, 2000.
The Oxford Companion to German Literature, ed. by Mary Garland and Henry Garland, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 1997
 Grange, William, ed. Historical dictionary of German literature to 1945 (2011) online



 Other websites 
 Sophie – A digital library of works by German-speaking women

Category:German literature