十六世纪宗教改革以后,德语地区出现新教和天主教鼎立的局面。从十七世纪巴罗克文学时期到十九世纪末现代文学开始之前的近三百年时间里,德语文学中的主要作家和理论家,诸如歌德、席勒、诺瓦利斯、荷尔德林、霍夫曼和冯塔 After the religious reform in the 16th century, Protestantism and Catholicism emerged in the German-speaking areas. From the Baroque period of the seventeenth century to nearly three hundred years before the beginning of modern literature in the late nineteenth century, major writers and theorists in German literature such as Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin Hoffman and Fung tower