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Why Kafka's appeal is so deep and lasting? Because he is like no-one else, and no-one else can be like him.

Ernst Toller was the president of a short-lived state called the Bavarian Soviet Republic. His presidency lasted for only six days. During his five years in Prison, Toller started writing theater plays and became a highly recognized expressionist playwright. Some of his titles are Transformation and Hoppla - We are Alive. This is redisegned historical photograph of Ernst Toller, property of National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection. The picture is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Toller_-_Schwadron.jpg and it is altered by clors and geometrical shapes and what feels like a folk-pattern. CC BY 3.0 Deed Attribution 3.0 Unported

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith. Note: we redesigned an early nineteenth-century portrait of Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shaped himself in a renaissance way, excelling in various fields: he was a statesman and scientist, a poet, a novelist, a painter! And he was very successful! His most significant contribution to humanity is in literature. At the age of 24, he became a literary celebrity, his autobiographical novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is the world's first best-seller. It also sparked and influenced the Romantic movement in literature. The book had haunted Goethe throughout his life. As great men fight great battles, Goethe later faced the ultimate adversary - the Devil. In his play Faust, Goethe examines the human soul's corruption, gifting us a lasting metaphor.

Thomas Mann was one of the most important writers of his time and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His major works are The Magic Mountain, Boodenbrooks, Lotte i Weimar, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus.

The characters of novelist Hermann Hesse are artists and intellectuals who don't fit into their societies' matrix. They yearn for deeper meaning and are often restless in their never-ending search for their spiritual homeland.

With this image, we celebrate Austrian poet, writer and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

The characters of novelist Hermann Hesse are artists and intellectuals who don't fit into their societies' matrix. They yearn for deeper meaning and are often restless in their never-ending search for their spiritual homeland. This image celebrates his novel Demian.

Thomas Mann was one of the most important writers of his time and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His major works are The Magic Mountain, Boodenbrooks, Lotte i Weimar, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus.

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith. Note: we redesigned an early nineteenth-century portrait of Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shaped himself in a renaissance way, excelling in various fields: he was a statesman and scientist, a poet, a novelist, a painter! And he was very successful! His most significant contribution to humanity is in literature. At the age of 24, he became a celebrity, his autobiographical novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is the world's first best-seller. It also sparked and influenced the Romantic movement in literature. The book had haunted Goethe throughout his life. As great men fight great battles, Goethe later faced the ultimate adversary - the Devil. In his play Faust, Goethe examines the human soul's corruption, gifting us a lasting metaphor.

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith.

Ernst Toller was the president of a short-lived state called the Bavarian Soviet Republic. His presidency lasted for only six days. During his five years in Prison, Toller started writing theater plays and became a highly recognized expressionist playwright. Some of his titles are Transformation and Hoppla - We are Alive. He gave all of his money to refugees of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, Toller killed himself in his hotel room in New York. W. H. Auden dedicated to him a poem, “In Memory of Ernst Toller.”

Hans Arp, better known in English as Jean Arp, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was a dadaist and an abstract artist.

With this image, we celebrate German poet and writer Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich Heine is one of the key figures of German literature. He had trouble with authorities because of his political views and spent the last twenty-five years of his life in Paris. Despite that, Heine was a famous poet of his time. Some of his earlier lyrical works were turned into songs by Schumann and Schubert. He also wrote political poetry and satire.

Nelly Sachs was a German writer with a Jewish background. She almost ended up in a concentration camp but was saved by writer Selma Lagerlöf and the Swedish Government. In 1970, Ms. Sachs won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith. Note: we redesigned an early nineteenth-century portrait of Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen.

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg is better remebered by his pen-name Novalis. He was a popet, philosopher and mystic of the early German romanticism.

A comic version of Franz Kafka's biography!

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith.

The characters of novelist Hermann Hesse are artists and intellectuals who don't fit into their societies' matrix. They yearn for deeper meaning and are often restless in their never-ending search for their spiritual homeland.

With this image, we celebrate writer Franz Kafka.

Why Kafka's appeal is so deep and lasting? Because he is like no-one else, and no-one else can be like him.

The characters of novelist Hermann Hesse are artists and intellectuals who don't fit into their societies' matrix. They yearn for deeper meaning and are often restless in their never-ending search for their spiritual homeland.

The characters of novelist Hermann Hesse are artists and intellectuals who don't fit into their societies' matrix. They yearn for deeper meaning and are often restless in their never-ending search for their spiritual homeland.

ay to Prague With this image, we celebrate German Romantic poet and writer Eduard Mörike.

With this image, we celebrate German playwright Frank Wedekind.

Franz Werfel was an Austrian, Jewish, and Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose work was banned in Nazi Germany. Werfel immigrated to the United States, joining the big community of Austrian artists in Los Angeles.

With this image, we celebrate German romantic writer and baron Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte.

With this image, we celebrate German-Jewish poet and playwright Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945).

With this image, we celebrate German Romantic poet and philosopher Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin. Note: this design is based on the historical pencil portrait of the poet, drawn by I. G. Nast in 1788.

With this image, we celebrate Dutch critic and author Menno ter Braak, known for Man of Integrity, The Absolute Film, Hampton Court, Dr. Dumay Loses, Man to Man.

Robert Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished book “The Man Without Qualities” is considered one of the most important modernist novels.

With this image, we celebrate German expressionist playwright Georg Kaiser.

When the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl brings you to a journey, you find yourself wondering through a labyrinth of blurry themes, exaggerated sensations, and mirages of melancholy and depression. English translations don't always do him justice, but you can still feel all the eerie silence that makes you think of a thunder. Trakl found it hard to deal with World War One. Indirectly, it ended his life.