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MSN Encarta - German Literature (2394 words) |
 | But the history of GDR literature is in essence that of a process in which the limits of the permissible were continually being challenged and enlarged. |
| Innovative literature continued to be produced, notably Christoph Hein’s laconic chronicles of GDR life, the feminist novels of Irmtraud Morgner, or the vibrant poetry of the anarchic counter-culture centred upon the East Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. |
| In the ensuing debate the process of revision was extended to West German literature, with the suggestion that the works of such as Böll had been revered more for their moral posture than their literary quality, the corollary being that German writers should now concern themselves with aesthetics rather than politics. |
| MSN Encarta - German Literature (1643 words) |
| The increasing Romantic tendency of German literature, as expressed, for example, in some of the later writings of Goethe, became dominant in 1798, with the first issue of the journal Das Athenäum, edited by three friends, the writer Ludwig Tieck and the critics August Wilhelm von Schlegel and Friedrich von Schlegel. |
| Romanticism in the literature of Germany, as in that of other countries, resulted from a fusion of political, philosophical, and artistic elements. |
| And not the least of Romanticism’s contributions to German literature were the translations by Schlegel of 17 of Shakespeare’s plays, in superb renderings that have become part of Germany’s own literary heritage. |
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