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Some of the major movements or time periods of German literature are:

• High and late medieval German literature
• Baroque
• Enlightenment
• Sturm und Drang
• Classicism
• Romanticism
• Young Germany
• Naturalism
• Fin de siècle
• ExpressionismExpressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for emotional effect. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, and architecture. Additionally, the term often implies emotional angst the number of ch
• DadaismDadaism or Dada is a post- World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an op

For well-known authorThe word author has several meanings: # The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it iss who wrote or write literature in the German language see list of German-language authorsThis is a list of German-language authors organized by country. Austria : Ingeborg Bachmann : Thomas Bernhard : Erich Fried : Peter Handke : Marlene Haushofer : Elfriede Jelinek : Robert Menasse : Robert Musil : Peter Rosegger : Joseph Roth : Arthur Schni and list of German language poetsPoets whose primary work was in the German language: See also poetry, German literature, List of German-language authors A : Achim von Arnim : Bettina von Arnim : Rose Auslander B : Ingeborg Bachmann : Gottfried Benn : Heinrich Boll : Nicolas Born : Berto.