Editing German literature (section)

==18th century==

===The Enlightenment===
{{further|The Enlightenment}}

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* [[August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome]]
* [[Johann Gottfried Herder]]
* [[Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach]]
* [[Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi]]
* [[Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder|Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel]]
* [[Immanuel Kant]]
* [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]]
* [[Moses Mendelssohn]]
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* [[Carl Leonhard Reinhold]]
* [[Christian Thomasius]]
* [[Christian Jacob Wagenseil]]
* [[Christian Felix Weiße]]
* [[Christoph Martin Wieland]]
* [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]]
* [[Friedrich Nicolai]]
* [[Christian Garve]]
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===Sensibility===
''Empfindsamkeit'' / Sensibility  (1750s–1770s)
[[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]] (1724–1803), [[Christian Fürchtegott Gellert]] (1715–1769), [[Sophie de La Roche]] (1730–1807). The period culminates and ends in [[Goethe]]'s best-selling ''[[Die Leiden des jungen Werthers]]'' (1774).

===Sturm und Drang===
{{main|Sturm und Drang}}
[[File:goethe.png|thumb|upright|[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] {{Circa|1775}}]]

''Sturm und Drang''  (the conventional translation is "Storm and Stress"; a more literal translation, however, might be ''storm and urge'', ''storm and longing'', or ''storm and impulse'') is the name of a movement in German literature and [[music]] taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s in which individual [[subjectivity]] and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in response to the confines of rationalism imposed by [[the Enlightenment]] and associated [[aesthetic]] movements. The philosopher [[Johann Georg Hamann]] is considered to be the ideologue of ''Sturm und Drang'', and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] was a notable proponent of the movement, though he and [[Friedrich Schiller]] ended their period of association with it, initiating what would become [[Weimar Classicism]].