What is German literature?
'''German literature''' ({{Lang-de|Deutschsprachige Literatur}}) 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 in Germany|Humanism]] and [[Protestant Reformation]] (1500–1650) ** [[German literature of the Baroque period|Baroque]] (1600–1720) ** [[The Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] (1680–1789) * Modern German literature ** 18th- and 19th-century German literature *** [[Sensibility|''Empfindsamkeit'' / Sensibility]] (1750s–1770s) *** [[Sturm und Drang|''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 (arts)|Realism]] (1848–1890) *** [[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalism]] (1880–1900) ** 20th-century German literature *** 1900–1933 **** [[Fin de siècle]] (c. 1900) **** [[Symbolism (arts)|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 o