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What is the name of the German National Epic

Song of the Niebelungs

This German Composer is famous for his unfinished Symphony and Leider

Franz Schubert

This German Composer spent much of his life in England and is best known for the Messiah

Georg Haendel

He died penniless at age of 35. His operas include die Zauberfloete and Figaros Hochzeit.

Mozart

In German name the piece composed by Richard Straus that is played in the film 2001: Space Oddessy

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Who are Wilhelm Busch's most famous literary characters

Max and Moritz

Who wrote the Three Penny Opera

Bertolt Brecht

Who is known as the Father of the German Language for translating the Bible into German

Martin Luther

Who composed the famous lullaby

Johannes Brahms

When did Johannes Gutenberg print the Bible with his moveable type

1450

Immanuel Kant identified the limits of human knowledge and wrote what

Die Kritid der reinen Vernunft

Who was a pessimist who saw life as strife and a tragic drama

Arthur Shopenhauer

Who saw history as a reflection of God's will?

Georg Friedrich Hegel

Karl Marx applied Hegel's concept of history to economics and wrote what?

Das Kapital

What man attacked Christianity as decadent and wrote Also SPrach Zarathustra, and Jenseits von und Boese

Friedrich Nietzsche

What male novelist and poet created the following: Siddhartha, Demian, and Der Steppenwolf

Herman Hesse

Author based works on the social issues Nobel prize for lit. for Die Weber

Gerhart Hauptman

Which Czech writer, often refered to as the novelist of the absurd wrote the trial, the castle, metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Which German composer established the form of the symphony

Haydn

Modern german literature begins with what period of cultural development in the 18th century

Die Aufklaerung (the enlightenment)

Which German author is best known for Emil und die Detective

Erich Kaestner

This celebrated portrait painter is best known for his portraits of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Henry VIII

Hans Holbein the Younger

Which Swiss dramatist often wrote about the problems of one against the masses? He is most famous for his Die Physiker and Der Besuch der Alten Dame.

Friedrich Duerrenmatt

Who wrote the Childrens Classic Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

Who wrote Magic Mountain and Death in Venice

Thomas Mann

Who won the Nobel Prize for Lit. in 1929

Thomas Mann

Which German Composer wrote the opera Hansel und Gretel

Englebert Humperdink

Swiss artist, drawings are noted for fine, detailed lines, and delicate figures, associated w/ Der Blaue Reiter school?

Paul Klee

Which German was the star of Der Blaue Engel

Marlene Dietrich

16th century, a series of comical satires was told about a group of incredibly dull-witted townspeople

Die Shildbuerger

Although he actually lived from 1720 to 1797, tales of his fantastic adventures including journeys to the moon and to the center of the Earth

Muenchhausen

Which period of German Literature featured such authors as Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfgang von Eschenbach and Walther von der Volgelweide

Middle High German

The Work of German Classicism, man who made a pact with the devil. Name the play and writer

Faust; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Which group of Expressionist painters gathered in Dresden in 1905. Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann are members.

Die Bruecke

16th century satirical tales were told of a peasant who consistently outwitted the sophisticated city dwellers

Till Eulenspiegel

What german movie won an Oscar for best foreign film in 1980

Die Blecktrommel

Which 17th century family of engravers specialized in depicting German Towns and cities

Ther Merians

This Austrian Poet and dramatist is also known for his work with Richard Strauss on Arabelle

Hugo Von Hofmannstahl

Which German romantic author utilized the form of the Novelle as medium exploring the supernatural in his tales

E.T.A Hoffmann

Which German epic told of a young Knight's quest for the Holy Grail

Parzifal

Who wrote the words and who wrote the music for the german national anthem

Words: von Fallersleben Music: Joseph Haydn

Name the author, considered Austria's finest dramatist, who combined the formal elements of Austrian Baroque drama and Vienna's popular theater traditions

Franz Grillparzer

Which Austrian composer merged popular musical expression into complicated symphonic modes of expression creating the symphonic Leid

Gustav Mahler

The most Famous humorist in German literature, this author wrote about Die Fromme Helena & Max und Moritz

Wilhelm Busch

Most popular character of fables in 15th century was a fox

Reineke Fuchs

This romantic author is best known for his paintings of Germany's Baltic Coast and seascapes. The chalk cliffs of Ruegen were one of his favorite subjects

Caspar David friedrich

Set in Luebeck in the 19th Century this novel by thomas mann deals with the economic growth of a wealthy merchant family

Buddenbrooks

Which German author became popular for his stories about American settlers and indians, making him one of the most widely read authors in Germany

Karl May

With German author, exiled to Mexico in 1933, became famous for her anti-fascist novel, das Seibte Kreuz?

Anna Seghers

Considered by some to be Wagners Greatest masterpiece, collection of four operas based on an ancient German epic name of collection and the names of each of the individual opera

Ring des Nibelungen, Rheingold, Die Walkuere, Goetterdaemmerung, Siegfried

Romantic and political writer of Jewish extraction from the school of "young Germany", famous for his poem and song played on Rhein cruise ships

Heinrich Heine

Born in Salzburg; composed the Magic Flute; said to be buried in an unmarked grave

Mozart

Painter famous for the Four Apostles painting

Albrecht Duerer

Gruenewald

Famous painter of the Isenheim Altar

Who composed the world famous waltz, the Beautiful Flue Danube?

Johann Strauss the Younger

In what part of Austria was the German literary epic, das Nibelungenlied collected?

The Danube River

An Austrian was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. She was a pacifist and wrote a book: Lay Down Your Arms

Bertha von Suttner

What famous Austrian Author wrote "Song of Bernadette" and "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"

Franz Werfel

This man lived from 1749-1832 and is considered the greatest figure in German literature

Goethe

The oldest known record of written German dates from about 770. A small Latin German dictionary called what?

Abrogans

Name two heroic sagas that originated in the old high period?

Niebelungenlied, Gundrunslied, Beowulf, Song of Rowland

Prior to WWI, groups of artists gathered in two German cities. Name Groups and respective cities.

Die Bruecke, Dresden; Der Blaue Reiter, Muenchen

Who was the printer and engraver famous for the praying hands

Albrecht Duerer

What did Frans Gruber and Joseph Mohr contribute to the world?

Stille Nacht

What Nobel Prize winning author wrote the famous book, Dr. Faustus

Thomas Mann

Which German philosopher said all cultures go through up and down phases and culture in west is in down phase

Oswald Spengler

Who, the wife of Emperor Frans Josef, is depicted in an Austrian musical

Elisabeth

Baron Von Trapp, in the Sound of Music, was a decorated hero of World War I from which branch of the Austrian miilitary

Navy (Submarines)

Identify the German composer of the Symphonie and Lieder

Schubert

Which song from the United States of America is the melody for the national anthem for Imperial Germany, Austria, and Great Britain

My Country tis of thee

Identify the German Composer of Der Freischuets in 1821, the first romantic opera in German

Carl Maria von Weber

Which Austrian is known as the father of psychoanalysis?

Sigmund Freud

Which two Germans combined their talents to produce Die Dreigroschenoper?

Bertolt Brecht; Kurt Weil

Give the full name of the German American architect who built the brooklyn bridge.

Johann August Roebling

Which German composer, recognized as one of the world's greatest musicians, wrote the opera Fidelio and the Mondscheinsonata?

Ludwig van Beethoven