German literature

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 poets.