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The 19th century
 📌 You can read non-fiction or historical fiction for this prompt! 📌  

This is a very interesting time in German history, and a very productive one in German literature.

The 19th century includes the following literary periods in the German-speaking world:

  •  💡 Weimarer Klassik (Weimar Classicism) (not to be confused with the Weimar Republic)
  •  💡 Romantik (German Romanticism) 
  •  💡 Biedermeier 
  •  💡 Vormärz 
  •  💡 Realismus (Realism) & 💡 Naturalismus (Naturalism) 

 
If you want to read a book written during this period, here are some
notable works:
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 🔹 Faust
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann (🔹 The Sandman)
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche (🔹 The Jews' Beech Tree: A Moral Portrait)
  • Friedrich Schiller: 🔹 Maria Stuart // 🔹 Wilhelm Tell
  • Georg Büchner: 🔹 Woyzeck
  • Bettina von Arnim: 🔹 Dies Buch gehört dem König
  • Hedwig Dohm: "Werde, wie du bist!" Wie Frauen werden (🔹 Become Who You Are)
  • Theodor Fontane: 🔹 Effi Briest // 🔹 Frau Jenny Treibel
  • Theodor Storm: 🔹 Immensee // Der Schimmelreiter (🔹 The Rider of the White Horse)
  • Gerhart Hauptmann: 🔹 Bahnwärter Thiel
  • poetry by Heinrich Heine or Novalis
All books added
Aufsätze aus der Frauen-Zeitung by Louise Otto-Peters

Aufsätze aus der Frauen-Zeitung

Louise Otto-Peters

98 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics essays literary
A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848 by

A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

176 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history medium-paced
Werde, die Du bist by Hedwig Dohm

Werde, die Du bist

Hedwig Dohm

73 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction feminism challenging reflective slow-paced
Become Who You Are by Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, Hedwig Dohm

Become Who You Are

Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler, Hedwig Dohm

122 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction feminism reflective slow-paced
Dies Buch Gehort Dem Konig. T. 1 by Bettina Von Arnim

Dies Buch Gehort Dem Konig. T. 1

Bettina Von Arnim

610 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ literary religion informative reflective medium-paced
Hymnen an Die Nacht: Die Christenheit Oder Europa (Classic Reprint) by Novalis

Hymnen an Die Nacht: Die Christenheit Oder Europa (Classic Reprint)

Novalis

70 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction classics poetry reflective medium-paced
Hymns to the Night & Spiritual Songs: (German and English Edition) by Novalis, Friedrich Von Hardenberg

Hymns to the Night & Spiritual Songs: (German and English Edition)

Novalis, Friedrich Von Hardenberg

72 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective relaxing slow-paced
Hymns to the Night by Novalis, Dick Higgins

Hymns to the Night

Novalis, Dick Higgins

55 pages • first pub 1800 (editions)

fiction classics poetry reflective medium-paced
Poems of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine, Louis Untermeyer

Poems of Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine, Louis Untermeyer

348 pages • first pub 1906 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hauptmann: Bahnwärter Thiel by Gerhart Hauptmann

Hauptmann: Bahnwärter Thiel

Gerhart Hauptmann

96 pages • first pub 1888 (editions)

fiction classics dark reflective slow-paced