Arts & Letters Flashcards
What is the name given to the German poet knights of the 12th and 13th centuries?
Minnesaenger
Faust’s antagonist
Mephisto
What language predominated the German people from 800-1050, the precursor to modern day German?
Old High German
Which German artist painted the original Washington crossing the Delaware?
Emauel Leutze
What was the official language used by officials and churches from 800-1050?
Latin
What period of German literature followed the Aufklaerung was was characterized by a love sentimentality, nature, and liberty? and who were its two most famous authors?
Sturm und Drang
Goethe and Schiller
During the epoch from 1050-1300, what was the predominant language among Germans?
Middle High German
Who developed the Volkswagen?
Ferdinand Porsche
What are the two most famous pieces of literature from the Middle High German epoch, preceding more modern German literature?
Das Nibelunglied and das Gudrunlied
What type of ideals first appeared in German literature in the peak of the Middle High German epoch, around the 12th and 13th century?
Knightly ideals/Chivalry
What major piece of literature came about during the Old High German period?
Hildebrandslied
Who wrote “Tristan und Isolde”?
Gottfried von Straßburgs
Who wrote “Parzifal”?
Wolfram von Eschenbachs
Who is the most famous poet of love songs, Minnelieder, in the Middle High German epoch?
Walthers von der Vogelweide
Which two famous authors belonged to the representatives of German mysticism?
Meister Eckhart and Thomas a Kempis
Who is famous for his collection of fables, one of which, Reineke Fuchs, set in the 15th century set the precedent for a more modern piece of literature by the same name?
Aesop
Who wrote about society being fools in a fool ship headed to Narragonien, the fool’s land, in his 1494 work, “Das Narrenschiff”?
Sebastian Brants
Who was a most famous poet of his time, also the protagonist of Richard Wagner’s opera, Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg?
Hans Sachs
Who wrote the poem Die Lorelei?
Heinrich Heine
Name the drama by Lessing that preaches tolerance
Nathan der Weise
in which of Wagner’s operas is the famous “Wedding March”?
Lohengrin
Which German hero is the subject of the Nibelungenlied?
Siegfried
Which German author wrote Don Carlos?
Friedrich Schiller
Name the brothers who wrote down many famous fairy tales.
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
In which play by Goethe are the characters Margarete and Mephistopheles?
Faust
Who composed the music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Felix Mendelssohn
In which German city is the famous operetta The Student Prince set?
Heidelberg
Who composed the opera Hansel und Gretel?
Engelbert Humperdinck
Who wrote Goetz von Berlichingen?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who wrote Die Leiden des jungen Werthers?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who wrote the poem “Erlkoenig”?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who wrote Faust?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who wrote Wilhelm Tell?
Friedrich Schiller
What German author won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1912?
Gerhart Hauptmann
What German author won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1929?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote Die Buddenbrooks?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote Der Zauberberg?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote Dr.Faustus?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote Dreigroschenoper (The Three Penny Opera)
Text: Bertolt Brecht, Music: Kurt Weill
Who wrote Mutter Courage?
Bertolt Brecht
Who wrote Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (The Caucasian Chalk Circle)?
Bertolt Brecht
Which German author wrote Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)?
Erich Maria Remarque
What German artist of the Renaissance was born in Nuremburg?
Albrecht Durer
What German artist pained Venus und Amor?
Lucas Cranach der Altere (The Older)
Which German artist served as court painter to Henry VIII of England?
Hans Holbein der Jungere (The Younger)
Which German artist painted Erasmus von Rotterdam?
Hans Holbein der Jungere (The Younger)
Which German philosopher wrote A Critique of Pure Reason?
Immanuel Kant
Which German philosopher wrote of a “will to power’ and of “supermen” (Ubermenschen)?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Which German scientist discovered electric waves and the photoelectric effect?
Heinrich Hertz
Which German scientist discovered X-rays?
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
Which German scientist discovered the basic laws of electrical current?
Georg Ohm
Which German composer was born in Halle?
Georg Friedrich Handel
Which German composer wrote the oratorio Messiah?
Georg Friedrich Handel
Which German composer wrote the Water Music?
Georg Friedrich Handel
Which German composer spent most of his creative life in London?
Georg Friedrich Handel
Which German composer wrote the Brandenburg Concertos?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Which German composer wrote the many cantatas for performance in religious services?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Which German composer wrote the Goldberg Variations?
Johann Sebastian Bach
How many Symphonies did Beethoven compose?
9
In what city was Beethoven born?
Bonn
In what city was J.S. Bach born?
Eisenach
What German composer was choirmaster in the Thomaskirche of Leipzig for many years?
Johann Sebastian Bach
What German composer wrote The Flying Dutchman?
Richard Wagner
What German composer wrote Tannhauser?
Richard Wagner
What German composer wrote Lohengrin?
Richard Wagner
What German composer wrote The Ring of the Nibelungen?
Richard Wagner
What German composer wrote Die Meistersinger?
Richard Wagner
What German composer wrote Tristan und Isolde?
Richard Wagner
What German composer wrote four symphonies and A German Requiem?
Johannes Brahms
How many symphonies did Brahms compose?
4
In what city was Brahms born?
Hamburg
Who was the most famous German composer of operas at the end of the 19th century?
Richard Wagner
What famous girl kept a diary in her Dutch hiding place during World War II?
Anne Frank
For what is Johanna Spyri famous for?
She wrote “Heidi”.
What Swiss playwright wrote “Besuch Der Alten Dame” and “Die Physiker”?
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Who is the most famous Swiss folk figure?
William Tell
What famous operetta did Franz Lehar compose?
The Merry Widow
Who composed the world-famous waltz, The Beautiful Blue Danube? (give FULL name)
Johann Strauss the Younger
In what part of Austria was the German literary epic, “Das Nibelungenlied”, collected?
The Danube Valley
What famous Austrian author wrote “Song of Bernadette” and “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh”?
Franz Werfel
Name the popular novel about Texas which had great influence on the immigration of German-speaking Europeans to Texas. It was written by Charles Sealsfield.
The Cabin Book
Who composed the world famous waltz, “The Beautiful Blue Danube”? (Give the Full Name)
Johann Strauss the Younger
`In what part of Austria was the German literary epic Das Nibelungenlied collected?
The Danube River
Who was the first Austrian woman to receive a Nobel Prize for Peace who was a pacifist and wrote the 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
Who lived from 1749 to 1832 and is considered the greatest figure in German literature?
Goethe
What German movie won the Oscar for the best foreign film in 1980?
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
Who wrote The Messiah?
Georg Friedrich Handel
This author achieved world fame by writing Im Western Nichts Neues. His novels attempted to mirror the economic and political problems of the world. Who is he?
Erich Maria Remarque
Name two heroic sagas that originated in the Old High German period?
Niebelungenlied, Gundrunslied, Beowulf, Song of Rowland
Prior to World War I, group of artists gathered in two German cities. Name the groups and their respective cities.
Die Brücke- Dresden
Der blaue Reiter- München
What artist, considered the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance was famous for the “praying hands”?
Albrecht Dürer
Who was the German philosopher who believed the world was strife and wrote The World as Will and Idea?l
Schopenhauer
What famous German novelist moved to the US and wrote The Magic Mountain?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote one of the most famous children’s books, Heidi?
Johann Spyri
What did Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr contribute to the world?
“Stille Nacht” (The Christmas song, Silent Night)
Who founded the German university that became a model for American universities. Where is it located?
Wilhelm von Humboldt; Berlin
What school was founded in München by Marc and Kandinsky in 1911?
Der blaue Reiter
Which Nobel Prize winning author wrote the famous book, Dr.Faustus?
Thomas Mann
Which German philosopher said that all culture go through up and down phases and that the cultures in the West are in the down phase?
Oswald Spengler
Which three musical greats from Germany fled to the United States because they were Jewish?
Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Bruno Walter
Name three classic German authors
Goethe, Lessing, Schiller
“The Dream” (1921) and “Departure” (1932) were painted by who?
Max Beckmann
What Swiss novelist wrote the classic books Der grüne Heinrich and Die Leute von Seldwyla?
Gottfried Keller
Who was the director and what is the name of the film that was nominated for 11 Academy Awards although it was made in West Germany?
Wolfgang Peterson; Das Boot
Who was the founder of the Bauhaus School in Dessau who had to flee tot America with his disciple in the Nazi period?
Walter Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe
What composer wrote Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring?
Bach
Which German-American built the Brooklyn Bridge?
Johann August Röbling
What did Marx and Engels publish in 1848?
The Communist Manifesto
Often dealing with the problems of one against the masses, which Swiss dramatist is famous for his Der Besuch der alten Dame and Die Physiker?
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Which scientist established the first chemical teaching labratory in Gießen , germany in 1824?
Justis von Liebig
Who wrote the words and who wrote the music for the German National Anthem?
Words- von Fallersleben; Music- Joseph Haydn
Modeled after the marble gateway of the ancient Athenian Acropolis, which landmark was typical of the classical influence on German art during the Enlightenment? Name the landmark, the architect, and the city where it stands.
Brandenburg Gate, Karl Langhans, Berlin
Who wrote Wilhelm Tell?
Schiller
Who wrote the classic The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Which painter of religious subjects lived from 1480-1528. His masterpiece was the “Isenheim Altar”
Matthias Grünewald
Who composed music in twelve-tone scale and whose art was classified as degenerate during Hitler’s regime?
Arnold Schönberg
What was Goethe’s first drama?
Götz Von Berlichingen
Who wrote Emil und die Detektive?
Erich Kästner
Who perfect the classical form of the novella?
Heinrich von Kleist
Who wrote Tristan and Isolde (the story)?
Gottfried von Strassburg
Who was the best-known lyric poet during the Age of the Popular Minnesänger?
Walther von der Vodelweide
Who designed the Brandenburg Gate, adn where is it located?
Karl Langhans; Berlin
What German became the head of the music department at Yale University?
Paul hindemith
Who wrote Die Lorelei?
Heinrich Heine
Who were the authors of Das Narrenschiff?
Sebastian Brant and Katherine Ann Porter
Name the works of the authors that won them a Nobel Prize for Literature: Thomas Mann, Gerhard Hauptmann, Herman Hesse
Der Zauberberg
Die Weber
Magister Ludi
Who is known as the Father of Gymnastics?
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
Who founded the Kindergarten in Germany?
Friedrich Fröbel (about 1840)
Who is known as the Meistersänger of Nürnberg?
Hans Sachs
Who wrote the controversial play about the Pope’s role in WWII?
Rolf Hochhuth
What two German philosophers founded the Existentialist School of Thought?
Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers
Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972?
Heinrich Böll
Who designed the Bauhaus and where is it located?
Walter Gropius; Dressau
Which musician was most honored by Hitler
Richard Wagner
Who wrote Die Blechtrommel
Günter Grass
What is the name of the group formed by several expressionistic painters in 1905 in Dresden?
Die Brücke
Which artist’s works is based on the theme of the protection of children by their mother?
Käthe Kolwitz
What famous German designed the United Nations building in New York?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Name two of Mozart’s operas
Figares Hochzeit
Don Giovanni
Die Zauberflöte
Which famous German composer received the Honorary Doctorate in Music from Oxford University?
Joseph Haydn
What famous German cabaret poet and write committed suicide in Sweden because he was Jewish in Hitler’s world?
Kurt Tucholsky
Who directed the German film Die Ehe von Maria Braun?
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
What was Goethe’s first novel and his first drama?
Novel- Leiden des jungen Werthers
Drama- Götz von Berlichingen
What Swiss novelist and playwright whose major works deal with the problems of identity crises and of collective guilt?
Max Frisch
What 16th century German artist was a powerful genius whose works have great tragic intensity? Two of his works were “Crucifixion” and “Virgin and Child”
Matthias Grünewald
What title was given by a philosopher to his major work and by a musician to a tone poem? Give the title and the names of the philosopher and musician.
Also sprach Zarathustra; Nietzsche and Richard Strauss
Who composed the “Wedding March” for A Midsummer’s Night Dream?
Mendelssohn
Which musician set many verses to music? His “Traumerei” is a standard piano selection?
Robert Schumann
This collection of four operas is considered’s Wagner’s greatest masterpiece. Based on an ancient german epic, name the collection of the opera and the individual names of the operas themselves.
Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung
What are the dates for the Old High German period?
800-1050 A.D.
What are the three periods of the Early Period in German litertature?
Old High German
Middle High German
Age of the Minnesänger
What was the Old High German period famous for?
Church literature
What are four famous heroic sagas that emerged in the Old High German period?
Das Nibelungenlied
Beowulf
Das Gudrunlied
Song of Roland
What are the dates for the Middle High German period?
1050-1300
During the MIddle High German period, the ideas of chivalry and courtly loved were introduced. These then were reflected in what two tales?
Gottfried von Straussburg’s Tristan and Isolde
Wolfram von Eschenbach ‘s Parzifal
During the Age of the Minnesänger. who composed love songs and performed them in courts of the nobility?
German minstrels
Who was the best-known lyric poet of the age?
Walther von der Vogelweide
Whose cantatas, passion, and compositions had a great influence in music later on? He was born into a famous music family and lived from 1685-1750.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Which composer spent most of his life in England and is buried in Westminster Abbey?
Georg Friedrich Händel
Whose work in Baroque-style music was distinguishable by its melody and harmonic shaping?
Georg Friedrich Händel
Who is known for his oratory “Messiah” and for his “Water Music” and “Firework Music”?
Georg Friedrich Händel
Which composer’s style caused music to shift from Baroque-style to Classical?
Franz Josef Haydn
Who received the title of Honorary Doctor of music from Oxford University?
Franz Josef Haydn
Who traveled throughout Europe with his older sister and became known as a child prodigy?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who is the composer of Eine kleine Nachtmusik?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who was the composer of “Die Hochzeit des Figaro”, “Don Giovannni”, and “Die Zauberflöte”?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who is the composer of the opera “Fidelio”?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Which composer lost his hearing, but continued to compose?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Who is the composer of “An die Freude”?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Who was a famous composer in the period of transition from Classical to Romantic?
Carl Maria von Weber
Whose work “Der Freisch(ue)tz” laid the groundwork for romantic music and greatly influenced the work of Richard Wagner?
Carl Maria von Weber
Which composer made the best poems of his time more famous?
Franz Schubert
Who composed “Forellenquintett”?
Franz Schubert
Who displayed his talent in Shakespeare’s a Midsummer’s Night Dream?
Felix Mendelssohn
Who is famous for composing “Hochzeitsmarsch”?
Felix Mendelssohn
Who composed music with his wife Clara?
Robert Schumann
Who composed lots of songs to poems by Heine and Eichendorff?
Robert Schumann
Who became famous because of his waltzes, and thus was dubbed King of the Waltz?
Johann Strauß
Who made Beethoven’s style popular again?
Johannes Brahms
Who increased the amount of chamber music performed by the piano and violin?
Johannes Brahms
Whose compositions were divided into two main categories: Operas and music for poems?
Richard Strauß
Who coined the twelve-tone technique? (Zwölftonleiter)
Arnold Schönberg
Which composer was extremely influential in California from 1935-1944?
Arnold Schönberg
Who wrote the opera “Moses und Aron”, and “Verklaerte Nacht” and “gurrelieder”?
Arnold Schönberg
Who was a student of Schoenberg’s and developed a style called atonality?
Alban Berg
Who founded an art school with Schoenberg and Anton von Webern in the 20th century in Wien?
Alban Berg
Who is known for the operas “Wozzek” and “LuLu”?
Alban Berg
Which composer was influential in Berlin, New Haven, and Zuerich?
Paul Hindemith
In contrast to Schoenberg, who was eager for traditional music styles would be restored?
Paul Hindemith
Who is known for the opera “Mathis der Maler”?
Paul Hindemith
Who was a famous Renaissance artist that is known for the works “Die vier apokalyptischen Reiter” and “Ritter, Tod, und Teufel”?
Albrecht Duerer
Who is famous for painting Martin Luther and other leaders during the period of Reformation?
Lucas Cranach
Whose paintings were anachronistic and often contained mythological themes?
Lucas Cranach
Who found inspiration for art in biblical themes and is known for “Isenheimer Altar”?
Matthias Gruenewald
Which famous portrait artist spent most of his time in Switzerland and England where he painted Koenig Heinrich VIII?
Hans Holbein der Juengere
Where was the group Die Bruecke founded in 1905?
Dresden
Who did die Bruecke consist of?
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Emil Nolde
Max Beckmann
Which group’s abstract paintaings were abruptly different from those of its predecessors?
Die Blaue Reiter
Die Blaue Reiter is named for which Russian artist’s painting? Also give the name of the Swiss artist that helped start the group.
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Which artist and poet devoted utilized works for humanitarian purposes and, as a result, lived most of his life in exile?
Oskar Kokoschka
Whose paintings are characterized as having striking colors?
Oskar Kokoschka
Who was a satirical artist in WWI that made fun of the Prussians and contrasted the comfortable citizens and those who had suffered in the war?
Georg Grosz
Which artist emigrated to America in 1932 because his works openly attacked the Nazis?
Georg Grosz
Who founded Die Bauhaus-Schule?
Walter Gropius
Who believed that there was no separation between free and applied art?
Walter Gropius
The use of which two materials characterized the Bauhaus?
Steel and Glass
At which school did Walter Gropius teach at in America?
Harvard
Which famous artist from the Bauhaus built the main building of the United Nations and the highly admired Seagram building?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Which artist focused on graphics and created many of his/her greatest works this way?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Who devoted artistic work to representing the dignity and suffering of the victims in society?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Whose loss of a son in WWI and a grandson in WWII inspired his/her work?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Who is known for the works “Der Weberaufstand” and “Bauernkrieg”?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Who developed a new form of opera that shows up in the text, action, and music?
Richard Wagner
Who received the title of Honorary Doctor of music from Oxford University?
Franz Josef Haydn
Who traveled throughout Europe with his older sister and became known as a child prodigy?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who is the composer of Eine kleine Nachtmusik?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who was the composer of “Die Hochzeit des Figaro”, “Don Giovannni”, and “Die Zauberflöte”?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who is the composer of the opera “Fidelio”?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Which composer lost his hearing, but continued to compose?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Who is the composer of “An die Freude”?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Who was a famous composer in the period of transition from Classical to Romantic?
Carl Maria von Weber
Whose work “Der Freisch(ue)tz” laid the groundwork for romantic music and greatly influenced the work of Richard Wagner?
Carl Maria von Weber
Which composer made the best poems of his time more famous?
Franz Schubert
Who composed “Forellenquintett”?
Franz Schubert
Who displayed his talent in Shakespeare’s a Midsummer’s Night Dream?
Felix Mendelssohn
Who is famous for composing “Hochzeitsmarsch”?
Felix Mendelssohn
Who composed music with his wife Clara?
Robert Schumann
Who composed lots of songs to poems by Heine and Eichendorff?
Robert Schumann
Who became famous because of his waltzes, and thus was dubbed King of the Waltz?
Johann Strauß
Who made Beethoven’s style popular again?
Johannes Brahms
Who increased the amount of chamber music performed by the piano and violin?
Johannes Brahms
Whose compositions were divided into two main categories: Operas and music for poems?
Richard Strauß
Who coined the twelve-tone technique? (Zwölftonleiter)
Arnold Schönberg
Which composer was extremely influential in California from 1935-1944?
Arnold Schönberg
Who wrote the opera “Moses und Aron”, and “Verklaerte Nacht” and “gurrelieder”?
Arnold Schönberg
Who was a student of Schoenberg’s and developed a style called atonality?
Alban Berg
Who founded an art school with Schoenberg and Anton von Webern in the 20th century in Wien?
Alban Berg
Who is known for the operas “Wozzek” and “LuLu”?
Alban Berg
Which composer was influential in Berlin, New Haven, and Zuerich?
Paul Hindemith
In constrat to Schoenberg, who was worried that traditional music styles would be restored?
Paul Hindemith
Who is known for the opera “Mathis der Maler”?
Paul Hindemith
Who was a famous Renaissance artist that is known for the works “Die vier apokalyptischen Reiter” and “Ritter, Tod, und Teufel”?
Albrecht Duerer
Who is famous for painting Martin Luther and other leaders during the period of Reformation?
Lucas Cranach
What did Franz Werfel write?
Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh
Das Lied von Bernadette
Who was Bertolt Brecht?
a playwright noted for his radical innovations on theater arts
Who wrote Im Westen nichts Meues?
Erich Maria remarque
Who wrote Emil und die Detektive?
Erich Kästner
Which two authors received recognition following the collapse of the Nazi regime?
Wolfgang Borchert and Heinrich Böll
What novel by Rolf Hochhuth stirred up international turmoil?
Der Stellvertreter
What was one of the first “talkies” during the silent film era in Germany?
Die Dreigroschenoper
The Nürnberg Parteitag was part of what film under the Nazi Regime?
triumph des Willen
How many films were made in 1946 Germany?
Four
What German composer is one of the great innovators in Western music?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Which composer spent much of his life in England and is buried in Westminster Abbey?
Georg Friedrich Händel
Who established the form of a symphony?
Franz Josef Haydn
What is Mozart’s full name?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
How many symphonies did Beethoven write?
Nine
Before turning completely deaf, Beethoven wrote his Ninth Symphony which concludes with what?
Schiller’s Ode an die Freude
What is Franz Schubert best remembered for?
a composer of Lieder
Who composed the famous “Wedding March” that was featured in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
What did Robert Schumann compose?
chamber music
symphonies
a number of pieces for piano
Which composer was greatly admired by Hitler?
Richard Wagner
Why was Wagner’s music admired by Hitler?
Due to Wagner’s glorification of the Teutonic past
Who earned the title of “Waltz King”?
Johann Strauss the Younger
Which composer composed the Lullaby that is familiar today?
Johannes Brahms
Who writes tone poems based on figures from Germany’s past?
Richard Strauss
Who composed the twelve-tone scale in music?
Arnold Schönberg
Mathis der Maler is composed by who?
Paul Hindemith
Which Northern Renaissance artist was an engraver and painter, best known for his woodcuts?
Albrecht Dürer
Which German artist painted religious subjects?
Matthias Grünewald
Who painted several portraits of martin Luther and other leaders of the Reformation?
Lucas Cranach
Who was a court painter to Henry VII?
Hans Holbein
Name two members of Die Brücke
Emil Nolde
Max Backmann
Name two notable members of Der Blaue Reiter
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Who painted bitter satires of German society after WWI?
Georg Grosz
Whose paintings were anachronistic and often contained mythological themes?
Lucas Cranach
Which famous portrait artist spent most of his time in Switzerland and England where he painted Koenig Heinrich VIII?
Hans Holbein der Juengere
Where was the group Die Bruecke founded in 1905?
Dresden
Who did die Bruecke consist of?
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Emil Nolde
Max Beckmann
Which group’s abstract paintaings were abruptly different from those of its predecessors?
Die Blaue Reiter
Die Blaue Reiter is named for which Russian artist’s painting?
Wassily Kandinsky
Which artist and poet devoted utilized works for humanitarian purposes?
Oskar Kokoschka
Whose paintings are characterized as having striking colors?
Oskar Kokoschka
Who was a satirical artist in WWI that made fun of the Prussians and contrasted the comfortable citizens and those who had suffered in the war?
Georg Grosz
Which artist emigrated to America in 1932 because his works openly attacked the Nazis?
Georg Grosz
Who founded Die Bauhaus-Schule?
Walter Gropius
Who believed that there was no separation between free and applied art?
Walter Gropius
The use of which two materials characterized the Bauhaus?
Steel and Glass
At which school did Walter Gropius teach at in America?
Harvard
Which famous artist from the Bauhaus built the main building of the United Nations and the highly admired Seagram building?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Which artist focused on graphics and created many of his/her greatest works this way?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Who devoted artistic work to representing the dignity and suffering of the victims in society?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Whose loss of a son in WWI and a grandson in WWII inspired his/her work?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Who is known for the works “Der Weberaufstand” and “Bauernkrieg”?
Kaethe Kollwitz
Who developed a new form of opera that shows up in the text, action, and music?
Richard Wagner
Who is known as Germany’s greatest baritone?
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Which two baroque composers were both born in 1685?
Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel
Who was Germany’s most famous 16th-century artist whose home was in Nuremburg. He painted “The Four Apostles.”
Albrecht Durer
Who was Wilhelm Busch’s most famous literary characters?
Max und Moritz
Who took subjects from German heroes?
Richard Wagner
Who composed the famouse lullaby?
Johannes Brahms
Who pioneered the High German language with his 1522-1534 translation of the bible?
Martin Luther
What is the English translation of the Renaissance and what did it mark the beginning of?
“Aufklärung” & Modern German Literature
Who was a famous poet and writer of the Renaissance? He encouraged the development of the “Bildungromans” and and his poem Oberon was the basis for Karl Maria’s opera.
Christoph Martin Wieland
Who opened the way for classic literature and wrote a play, Nathan der Weise, which called upon religious tolerance and the brotherhood of man?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Who laid the groundwork for the poets of Sturm und Drang and the following Romantic writers? He was a critic, philosopher, theologist, linguist, and poet.
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Who wrote Die Leiden des jungen Werthers in the Sturm and Drang period?
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
Whose first drama was Götz von Berlichingen?
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
Who wrote Iphigenie auf Tauris?
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
Who wrote Torquato Tasso?
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
Who wrote Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre?
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
Who wrote Faust?
Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
Which poet, dramatist, and professor wrote Die Räuber?
Friedrich Schiller
Who wrote Don Carlos?
Friedrich Schiller
Who wrote Wallenstein?
Friedrich Schiller
Who wrote Maria Stuart?
Friedrich Schiller
Who wrote Die Jungfrau von Orleans?
Friedrich Schiller
Who wrote Wilhelm Tell?
Friedrich Schiller
Who wrote an die Freude?
Friedrich Schiller
What era began around the year 1800 and lasted for a half century?
Romantic
Which critic, poet, and linguist translated 17 Shakespearean Dramas to German?
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Who was the younger brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel that developed many philosophical ideas which the Romantics of his time adopted?
Friedrich von Schlegel
Which critic and author was known for his lively imagination and for being an excellent researcher and translator of Shakespeare?
Ludwig Tieck
Which two brother-in-laws published from 1805-1808 Des Knaben Wunderhorn?
Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim
Who inspired the composers Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Richard Strauß with his affinity for nature and wrote Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts?
Joseph von Eichendorff
Whose collection of poems, Buch der Lieder, was published in 1827 and songs were the inspiration for Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and other composers?
Heinrich Heine
Who wrote Du bist wie eine Blume and Die Lorelei?
Heinrich Heine
Who published from 1812 to 1815 Kinder- und Hausmärchen in addition to Deutschen Grammatik and Deutschen Wörterbuches?
Brüder Grimm (Jakob und Wilhelm)
Who was famous for his characteristic mix of cheer and mystery and his famous Erzählungen that were the basis for Hoffmans Erzählungen by Jacques?
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Who showed the fight between Idealism and Realism, Romantic and Classic nature in his works? He wrote the play “Ahnfrau.”
Franz Grillparzer
Which Austrian novelist described the ideal unity in nature and subjectivity of man in Der Nachsommer?
Adalbert Stifter
Which poet and novelist created some of the best pieces of the 18th century including Der Schimmelreiter?
Theodor Storm
Which Swiss author wrote the autobiography, Der grüne Heinrich?
Gottfried Keller
Who is seen as the master of modern realistic novels in the German language and wrote Effi Briest which was later made into a movie?
Theodor Fontane
Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1912 and wrote the drama, Die Weber?
Gerhart Hauptmann
Which Austrian poet and dramatist was the librettist for Richard Strauß’s operas Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Ariadne auf Naxos, Arabella?
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Which Austrian writer wrote Duineser Elegien?
Rainer Maria Rilke
Who wrote Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, Der Tod in Venedig, und Tonio Kröger?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote Doctor Faustus and won the 1929 Nobel Prize for literature?
Thomas Mann
Which author moved to the US in 1938 during Hitler’s reign and then moved to Switzerland after World War II?
Thomas Mann
Who wrote Demian, Siddharta, Der Steppenwolf, and Das Glasperlenspiel and won the 1946 Nobel Prize in literature?
Herman Hesse
Which Austrian wrote Der Prozess, Das Schloss, and Die Verwandlung?
Franz Kafka
Which Austrian who later moved to America wrote Das Lied von Bernadette, which was later made into a Hollywood movie, and Jakobowsky und der Oberst?
Franz Werfel
Which author escaped Hitler-ruled Germany in 1940 by flying to Switzerland and wrote die Tragödie des jüdischen Volkes and O die Schornsteine, winning the 1965 Peace Prize from German booksellers and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966?
Nelly Sachs
Who wrote Leben des Galilei, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, and Die Dreigroschenoper while being a Marxist and was the composer of the Berlin Ensemble in East Berlin?
Bertolt Brecht
Who wrote Im Westen nichts Neues, Drei Kameraden, Der Triumpfbogen, and Zeit zu leben und Seit zu sterben?
Erich Maria Remarque
Who wrote many short stories and the novel Emil und die Detektive?
Erich Kästner
Who was exiled to Mexico in 1933 under Hitler’s rule and wrote Das siebte Kreuz?
Anna Seghers
Which group joined many democratic writers and helped the revival of German literature in 1947?
Gruppe 47
Who wrote Wo warst du Adam?, Billard um halb zehn, Ansichten eines Clowns, and Gruppenbild mit Dame and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1972?
Heinrich Böll
Who had justice, revenge, and death among his major themes and wrote Der Besuch der alten Dame and Die Physiker?
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Which group joined many democratic writers and helped the revival of German literature in 1947?
Gruppe 47
Who wrote Wo warst du Adam?, Billard um halb zehn, Ansichten eines Clowns, and Gruppenbild mit Dame and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1972?
Heinrich Böll
Who had justice, revenge, and death among his major themes and wrote Der Besuch der alten Dame and Die Physiker?
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Who wrote the novels Stiller and Homo Faber and the plays Biedermann und die Brandstifter and Andorra?
Max Frisch
Who wrote Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Maus, and Hundejahre?
Günter Grass
Who was Maria Ludwig?
Molly Pitcher of the Revolutionary War
What German craftsman combined the printing press and moveable type to produce the first printed copies of the Bible?
Johannes Gutenberg
Name the German scientist whose discovery of the electromagnetic waves led to the development of radio, TV, and radar.
Heinrich Hertz
this child prodigy died penniless at the age of 35. His operas include Die Zauberflote and Figaros Hochzeit. Name him.
(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart
Who composed the famous lullaby?
Johannes Brahms
Who proposed the Quantum Theory?
Max Plank
Who is the father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
What famous German-American became one of America’s first self-made men and was the richest man in America and his death?
John Jacob Astor
This celebrated portrait painter is best known for his portraits of Erasmus of Rotterdam and Henry VIII. Give his name.
Hans Holbein the Younger
Which German composer established the form of the symphony? His Emperor Quartet became the tune for both the German and Imperial Austrian national anthems.
Franz Josef Haydn
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 Dürrenmatt
Which German author is best known for Emil und die Detektive?
Erich Kästner
Name the German scientist who developed the thermometer.
(Gabriel Daniel) Fahrenheit
Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1905, and created a synthesis of indigo dye?
Adolf von Bayer
Who was the first United States President to understand German?
George Washington
During the 16th centruy, a series of comical satires was told about a group of incredible dull-witted townpeople. Name them
(Die) Schildbürger
Which Swiss artist whose drawings are noted for their fine, detailed lines and delicate figures, was associated with Der Blaue Reiter school?
Paul Klee
Recognized as the work of German Classicism, this play is the story of a man who made a pact with the devil. Name the author and his work.
Faust (Urfaust l, ll), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Name the Austrian monk whose classical experiments in genetics led to the genetic laws of segregation and independent assortment.
Gregor Mendel
Which period of German literature featured such authors as Gottfried von Strassburg. Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Walther von der Vogelweide?
Middle High German (Mittelhochdeutsch)
Who saw history as a reflection of God’s will?
Georg Freidrich Hegel
Which Middle High German epic told a story of a young knight’s quest for the Holy Grail?
Parzifal
Who wrote the words and who wrote the music of the German National Anthem?
Words-von Fallersleben; music-Joseph Haydn
What German-American general saved america from becoming a monarchy?
General Muhlenberg
Which Austrian composer merged popular musical expression into complicated symphonic modes of expression, creating the symphonic Lied?
Gustav Mahler
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
Who was Germany’s most famous 16th century artist, whose home was in Nuremburg?
Albrecht Dürer
What typically American institution of the 18th and 19th centuries did German- Americans oppose?
slavery
Which German cartographer christened the nowly-discovered continent “America” in 1507, mistakenly crediting Amerigo Vespuccie instead of Columbus?
Martin Waldseemüller
Who was the German-American theologian who was leader among those who wanted to reconsider the meaning of Christian faith in the light of the challange presented by Existential philosophy, psychoanalysis, and especially socialism? He left Germany in 1933 and became a professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary?
Paul Tillich
This Romanticortist is best known for his paintings of Germany’s Baltic coast and seascapes. The Chalk cliffs of Rügen were one of his favorite subjects. Name him.
Caspr David Friedrich
Set in Lübeck in the 19th century, this novel by Thommas Mann deals with the economic and moral decline of a wealthy merchant family. Name it.
Buddenbrooks
Name the author and his poem, which is the text to Beethoven’s ninth symphony.
Schiller “Ode to Joy” (An die Freude)
Which German author, exiled to Mexico in `933, became famous for her anti-fascist novel, Das siebte Kreuz?
Anna Seghers
