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Jakob Grimm wurde 1785, Wilhelm - 1786 in Hanau geboren. Der Vater war Jurist. Die Kinder lebten die ersten Jahre ihrer Jugend in Steinau und sie besuchten das Lyzeum im Kassel. Seit 1829 bzw. 1839 waren sie Professoren in Kassel. Die Brüder gelten gemeinsam mit Karl Lachmann und Georg Friedrich...

Hans Christian Andersen ist der berühmteste Dichter und Schriftsteller Dänemarks. Bekannt wurde er durch seine zahlreichen Märchen. Wissen Sie wie  Märchen  entstanden sind? Welche Bedeutung haben Märchen in unserer Gesellschaft  und Kultur?  «Tölpel-Hans»...

Brüder Grimm waren die bekannte deutsche Autoren. Die Brüder gelten gemeinsam mit Karl Lachmann und Georg Friedrich Benecke als „Gründungsväter“ der Germanistik. Ebenfalls verbreitet ist die Bezeichnung Gebrüder Grimm. Unter der Bezeichnung als Gebrüder haben sie...

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer. He was the first Norwegian Nobel laureate. He matriculated at the University of Christiania in 1852, and soon began to work as a journalist, especially as a dramatic critic. His works made a profound impression in his own country,...

Guy de Maupassant (nom complet Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant) est un écrivain français qui est né le 5 août de 1850 au château de Miromesnil à Tourville-sur-Arques. Il est mort le 6 juillet de 1893 à Paris. Cet écrivain a enrichi la...

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was a prolific English writer, who is mostly known for the adventure novel 'The adventures Of Robinson Crusoe'. Defoe was a tradesman but many trading campaigns he took part in went bankrupt. Daniel Defoe now is considered one of those writers who influenced the development...

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James Augustine Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. “After the Race” explores the potentially destructive desire for money and status. After an automobile race outside Dublin, a 26-year-old...

Sir Walter Scott was a poet, novelist, critic and man of letters, who is recognized as the master of the historical novel. “St. Ronan's Well” is a novel published in 1823. This is the only one of Scott's novels with a nineteenth-century setting. Saint Ronan’s Well is a spa at Innerleithen, a...

Hector Hugh Munro (1870 – 1916) was a British writer better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro. The biggest population acquired by means of his witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirizing Edwardian society and culture. He is often considered a master of...

.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era. “Gabriel-Ernest” starts with a warning: "There is a wild beast in your woods”. In the village, where lives the main protagonist Van Cheele strange things happen - poultry had been missing...

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) — a British writer who began his liteary career working as a journalist. Eventually he used this experience to write short-stories, which often satirised the life during the Edwardian Era. He also wrote a romantic comedy play 'The Watched Pot'...

H.H. Munro, better known by the pen name Saki, was a prolific Scottish author of the Edwardian era, considered as the master of short stories and compared to O Henry and Dorothy Parker. He is best known for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre short stories – his works is the...