Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Some of the major movements or time periods of German literature are: High and late Middle Ages Humanism and Reformation Baroque Enlightenment Sturm und Drang Classicism Romanticism Biedermeier Junges Deutschland Poetic realism Naturalism Fin de siècle German literature of the Classical Moderne (German: Klassische Moderne) Expressionism Dadaism Exile literature Holocaust and survivor literature German literature after World War II For well-known authors who wrote or write literature in the German language see list of German language authors and list of German language poets. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.