* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

* Adrian Geiges, German writer and journalist

* 1637 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen, German hymn writer ( d. 1706 )

* 1858 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer ( d. 1927 )

* 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer ( d. 1719 )

* 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer ( d. 1803 )

* 1973 – Tine Wittler, German actress and writer

* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist ( d. 1832 )

* 1878 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( d. 1957 )

The German physician and medical writer Justus Hecker suggested that a mistranslation of the Latin atra mors ( terrible, or black, death ) had occurred in Scandinavia when he described the catastrophe in 1832 in his publication " Der schwarze Tod im vierzehnten Jahrhundert ".

" The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: " With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.

The tragic tale of the Mexican colony on Clipperton Island has been the subject of several novels, including Ivo Mansmann's Clipperton, Schicksale auf einer vergessenen Insel (" Clipperton, Destinies on a Forgotten Island "); ISBN 3-354-00709-5 ( in German, no English translation available ) and Colombian writer Laura Restrepo's La Isla de la Pasión in the Spanish language.

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )

* 1878 – Hans Carossa, German writer ( d. 1956 )

* 1890 – Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer ( b. 1929 )

* 1475 – Thomas Murner, German writer ( d. c. 1537 )

* 1914 – Herbert Reinecker, German writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer ( d. 1807 )

* 1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer ( d. 1836 )

* 1907 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer ( d. 1999 )

* 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German writer ( d. 1898 )

* 1694 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer ( d. 1768 )

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany | German artist known for his works of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, visual arts, and science.

The legend of Der Erlkönig appears to have originated in fairly recent times in Denmark and Goethe based his poem on " Erlkönigs Tochter " (" Erlkönig's Daughter "), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder.

Modern literature in German begins with the authors of the Enlightenment ( such as Herder ) and reaches its classical form at the turn of the 18th century with Weimar Classicism ( Goethe and Schiller ).

Weimar ’ s Courtyard of the Muses, a tribute to The Enlightenment and the Weimar Classicism depicting German poets Friedrich Schiller | Schiller, Christoph Martin Wieland | Wieland, Johann Gottfried Herder | Herder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Goethe.

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

Fingal written in 1762 was speedily translated into many European languages, and its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature, influencing Herder and Goethe.

Famous visitors to Luxembourg in the 18th and 19th centuries included the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writers Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, the composer Franz Liszt, and the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner.

* 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer ( b. 1749 )

His father insisted he go abroad for graduate studies, and had Atta enroll in a German language program at the Goethe Institute in Cairo.

A similar phenomenon, though not under the same name, occurred during the German Sturm und Drang movement, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats.

In the German-speaking states Michael Denis made the first full translation in 1768, inspiring the proto-nationalist poets Klopstock and Goethe, whose own German translation of a portion of Macpherson's work figures prominently in a climactic scene of The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ).

He gave the keynote address at the 1932 German national celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a contemporary German poet of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer

* March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer ( b. 1749 )

:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.

Only Goethe and Schiller are quoted more frequently in German than Busch.

Although his inspiration came from Germany, he is not much like a German poet, except when he is consciously following Goethe ; his analogy is rather to be found among English poets than his contemporaries.

The reason she chose that city, then the centre of German literary life, as her new residence — a city where she had no relatives or close acquaintances — is rumoured to have been the desire of meeting Goethe.

German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe declared Pentecost " das liebliche Fest " – the lovely Feast, in a selection by the same name in his Reineke Fuchs.