The Germans.

[Anonymous No.13284556]

Genuinely curious /lit/, what are your favorite works that were written by people in the German (Germany, Austria Swiss) canon.Why is he/she your favorite and what is your favorite work by him/her ?

Here's a poll. https://www.strawpoll.me/18154845
Not everyone is on the list, obviously, if you have someone then comment.

[Anonymous No.13284560]

Walser is great

[Anonymous No.13285269]

Ödön von Horvath

[Anonymous No.13285292]

>>13284556
It's Heine for me, the embodiment of art.

[Anonymous No.13285829]

>>13284556
Nobody has reached Goethe. I also enjoyed Hölderin

[Anonymous No.13285858]

>>13284556
For me its Rilke
t. german

[Anonymous No.13285877]

>>13284556
Was there ever a better /lit/ bromance than Goethe and Schiller?

[Anonymous No.13285949]

Classic: Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Novalis
20th Century: Rilke, Trakl, Hesse, Jünger, Walser

[Anonymous No.13285967]

>>13285949
based selection

[Anonymous No.13286007]

>>13285877
Fun fact, as far as I know (went to a lecture about this), Goethe and Schiller hated each other when they first met. Goethe thought that Schiller was an arrogant young punk while Schiller thought of Goethe was an old prick. After, however, things changed and we got this bromance.

I don't know if there's a better one, other notable ones are Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Kawabata and Mishima, Marx and Engels, Burroughs and Ginsberg, Shakespeare and Marlowe. Another one is Hegel, Fichte, Schlegel living in the same student flat -- one likes to imagine a sitcom with them. The worst bromance though, has to be Beckett and Joyce (if we could even consider that), just horrible.

[Anonymous No.13287568]

>>13285292