Editing German language (section)

==Literature==
{{Main|German literature}}

The German language is used in German literature and can be traced back to the [[Middle Ages]], with the most notable authors of the period being [[Walther von der Vogelweide]] and [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]].
The {{lang|de|[[Nibelungenlied]]}}, whose author remains unknown, is also an important work of the epoch. The fairy tales collected and published by [[Brothers Grimm|Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm]] in the 19th century became famous throughout the world.

Reformer and theologian [[Martin Luther]], who translated the Bible into High German (a regional group or German varieties at southern and therefore ''higher'' regions), is widely credited for attributed to the basis for the modern [[Standard German]] language. Among the best-known poets and authors in German are [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing|Lessing]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Friedrich Schiller|Schiller]], [[Heinrich von Kleist|Kleist]], [[E.T.A. Hoffmann|Hoffmann]], [[Bertolt Brecht|Brecht]], [[Heinrich Heine|Heine]] and [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]]. Fourteen German-speaking people have won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Theodor Mommsen]], [[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]], [[Paul von Heyse]], [[Gerhart Hauptmann]], [[Carl Spitteler]], [[Thomas Mann]], [[Nelly Sachs]], [[Hermann Hesse]], [[Heinrich Böll]], [[Elias Canetti]], [[Günter Grass]], [[Elfriede Jelinek]], [[Herta Müller]] and [[Peter Handke]], making it the second most awarded linguistic region (together with French) after English.

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! [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]<br /><small>(1749–1832)</small>
! [[Friedrich Schiller]]<br /><small>(1759–1805)</small>
! [[Brothers Grimm]]<br /><small>(1785–1863)</small>
! [[Thomas Mann]]<br /><small>(1875–1955)</small>
! [[Hermann Hesse]]<br /><small>(1877–1962)</small>
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| [[File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein - Goethe in the Roman Campagna - Google Art Project.jpg|x150px]]
| [[File:Gerhard von Kügelgen 001.jpg|x150px]]
| [[File:Grimm1.jpg|x150px]]
| [[File:Thomas Mann 1929.jpg|x150px]]
| [[File:Hermann Hesse 1927 Photo Gret Widmann.jpg|x150px]]
|}