German authors reviewed in this blog

•  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Sorrows of Young Werther: the classic bildungsroman was a huge best-seller and helped kick off the romantic movement
• Thomas Mann
• Death in Venice: a very short novel in which an old man is captured by the beauty of a young boy in plague-ridden Venice
• Timur Vernes
• Look Who's Back: a comic novel about the return of Hitler in modern (reunited) Germany
• Friedrich Schiller
• Don Carlos: a classic play
• Erich Maria Remarque
• All's Quiet on the Western Front: a classic short novel about the First World War
• Hermann Hesse
• Demian: a bildungsroman about an outsider.
• Steppenwolf: a classic novel about an outsider.
• Adelbert von Chamisso
• Peter Schlemihl: a man sells his shadow to the devil; an adult fable
• Heinrich Boll
• The Train Was on Time: a novel about the last day of a soldier in the Second World War
• Bernhard Schlink
• The Reader: a coming-of-age bildungsroman about a young man and a Nazi war criminal
• Peter Schneider
• The Wall Jumper: a collection of anecdotes about people who illegally crossed the Berlin Wall
• E T A Hoffman
• The Sandman: one of the 'Tales from Hoffman' that make up the Offenbach ballet
• The Devil's Elixirs, a Gothic classic of doppelganger fiction
• Gunter Grass
• Cat and Mouse: in which the narrator hero-worships his school-friend ... and then they grow up.