Oxford Companion to German Literature
A reliable source of information on the whole sweep of German literature that covers authors and their major works, as well as historical, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds.
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Ugolino
a tragedy (Eine Tragödie ) by H. W. von Gerstenberg , published in 1768 .
Ludwig Uhland
(Tübingen, 1787 -- 1862 , Tübingen), was the grandson of a professor of Tübingen University and a son of the University Secretary.
Walter Ulbricht
(Leipzig, 1893 -- 1973 , Berlin), was a Socialist from boyhood and a Communist from the inception of the KPD (see Spartakusbund ) in 1919 .
Regina Ullmann
(St Gall, Switzerland, 1884 -- 1961 , Munich), daughter of a well-to-do businessman, moved to Bavaria after her father's death, and in 1911 became a Roman Catholic.
Ulrich von Lichtenstein
( c. 1200 /10 -- c. 1275 ), a Middle High German Minnesänger, belonged to an important Austrian noble family and was himself a man
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Ulrich von Türheim
a Middle High German poet of the 13th c., belonged to the minor nobility, and was attached to the circle round the Staufen King Heinrich . Konrad
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Undine
a Romantic fairy-tale (Kunstmärchen, described as Erzählung) by F. de la Motte Fouqué , published in 1811 .
Universities
German universities existing before 1960 are listed in chronological order with their foundation dates: the principal universities founded since 1960 (or refounded, in which
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Untertan, Der
a satirical novel by H. Mann , dealing with the Bürgertum and forming the first part of his Kaiserreich-Trilogie .
Unwiederbringlich
a novel by Th. Fontane , written 1887 -- 1890 and published in 1891 in book form, after having appeared between January and June of that year in the
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‘Über allen Gipfeln’
first line of a poem by Goethe , written on 6 September 1780 in a hut on the Gickelhahn near Ilmenau, but not published until 1815 .
Über Anmut und Würde
a long philosophical essay written by Schiller in 1793 and published in the periodical Die neue Thalia (1793 ).
Über das Erhabene
an essay on tragedy and the sublime published by Schiller in his Kleinere prosaische Schriften (vol.
Über das Marionettentheater
a short essay by H. von Kleist , published in December 1810 in the Berliner Abendblätter .
Über das Pathetische
an essay on tragedy by Schiller , published in Die neue Thalia in 1793 . The title refers to suffering (ράθος) in tragedy.
Über den Gebrauch des Chors in der Tragödie
an essay by Schiller printed as a preface to Die Braut von Messina in 1803 .
Über den Umgang mit Menschen
a didactic work by Adolf , Freiherr von Knigge , was first published in 1788 .
