List of literary works relating to the First World War
The list of literary works on the First World War shows works of literature in the narrower sense (i.e. no specialist literature ) that have the First World War as their theme or are significantly influenced by it.
Novels, short stories, essays
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Henri Barbusse
- Le Feu (German: Das Feuer ), 1916.
- Philippe Barrès
- La Guerre à vingt ans , 1924
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Louis Barthas
- Les carnets de guerre de Louis Barthas, tonnelier, 1914–1918 , published posthumously 1977
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Edmund Blunden
- The Shepherd and Other Poems of Peace and War , 1922
- Undertones of War , 1928
- Was Poets 1914-1918 , 1958
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Vera Brittain
- Testament of Youth , Victor Gollancz, London 1933.
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William Boyd
- For dessert war , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1986 (English original title: An Ice-Cream War , Hamish Hamilton, London 1982).
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Hermann Broch
- The sleepwalker . 1931/32.
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Rupert Brooke
- War sonette
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Hans Carossa
- Romanian diary . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1924.
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Voyage au bout de la nuit , 1932, German under the title Journey to the End of the Night , 1932.
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Blaise Cendrars
- J'ai tué, 1918.
- J'ai saigné
- La main coupée , 1946, German The red lily , 2002.
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Gabriel Chevallier
- La Peur (French EA 1930, German fear of heroes , 2010).
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Franz Theodor Csokor
- November 3, 1918 . 1936.
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EE Cummings
- The Enormous Room (English EA 1922, Ger. The Unbelievable Room ).
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Roland Dorgelès
- Les Croix de bois (French EA 1919, German the wooden crosses ).
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John Dos Passos
- Three Soldiers (English EA 1921, German 1922: three soldiers ).
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Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
- La Comédie de Charleroi , 1934
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Georges Duhamel
- Vie des martyrs (1917) et Civilization (1918), Les Sept Dernières Plaies (1928)
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Erik Durschmied
- Dance of Death at Col di Lana (German 2017)
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- Ilya Ehrenburg
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Paul Coelestin Ettighoffer
- The Train of the Last , ca.1930
- Ghosts on the Dead Man , 1931
- Verdun. The great judgment , 1936
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Sebastian Faulks
- Birdsong , 1993 (German song from the great fire, 1997)
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Timothy Findley
- The Wars (English EA 1977, Ger. The War and the Toad ).
- Walter Flex
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Ken Follett
- Fall of the Titans (Original: Fall of Giants ), 2010.
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Ford Madox Ford
- Parade's End , Roman Tetralogy, 1924–1928.
- The Good Soldier (1915), German 1962: The very saddest story
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Cecil Scott Forester
- Ein General ( The General ), 1936
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Leonhard Frank
- Man is good . 1919.
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Rudolf Frank
- The boy who forgot his birthday , a novel against the war (EA 1931 as The skull of the negro chief Makau ).
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Ernst Friedrich
- War after war , 1924.
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Marianne Fritz
- Whose language you do not understand , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1985.
- Naturally I. Either sweaty sweat / without / or plural , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1996.
- Naturally II. A rose has sprung from / Wedernoch / it's called , Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 1998.
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Rudolf Geist
- The anonymous war . Verlag Internationale Buchpresse, Heilbronn aN 1929.
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Maurice Genevoix
- Sous Verdun (1916), Nuits de guerre (1916), Au seuil des guitounes (1918), La Boue, Les Éparges (1921)
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Jean Giono
- Le Grand Troupeau , 1931 (German: The large herd . German by Ferdinand Hardenkopf. S. Fischer, Berlin 1932).
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Ernst Glaeser
- Born in 1902 , Berlin 1928.
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Joachim von der Goltz
- Cléry's Tree , 1934.
- Once on the Lorettohöhe , 1937.
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Robert Graves
- Line underneath ! ( Good-bye to All That ), Jonathan Cape, Second Impression, 1929; German Berlin 1930.
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Hans Herbert Grimm
- Schlump , Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2014; First publication under the pseudonym Emil Schulz: Schlump. Stories and adventures from the life of the unknown musketeer Emil Schulz, known as 'Schlump', told by himself . Kurt Wolff Verlag , Berlin 1928.
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Jaroslav Hašek
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války (Czech EA 1923, German: The good soldier Schwejk ).
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Mark Helprin
- A Soldier of the Great War 1991 (Eng. A soldier from the Great War 1991)
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Ernest Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms (English EA 1929, Ger. In another country ).
- In Another Country . Short story first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1927.
- Now I Lay Me . 1927.
- Hermann Hesse
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Ernst Jünger
- In steel storms . Stuttgart 2001 (first time 1920).
- Fire and Blood , 1922.
- The fight as an inner experience . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1922.
- Storm . 1923.
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Edlef Köppen
- Army report , Horen-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1930.
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Karl Kraus
- The last days of mankind , Vienna 1919.
- Josef Küper
- Advance 1914. An anti-war novel. Edited by Manfred legs (publications of the literature commission for Westphalia vol. 77), Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2018. ISBN 978-3-8498-1322-2
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Elfriede Kuhr
- ... there’s a reunion! A Girl's Diary 1914–1918. Kerle, Freiburg 1982; Bertelsmann Lesering u. a. Book Clubs, 1984; again dtv 1986
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Horst Lange
- Uhlan patrol , 1940.
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Thomas Edward Lawrence
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) , 1926th
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia
- The Baron Bagge , 1936.
- The standard, 1934.
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Cecil Lewis
- Sagittarius Rising , 1936.
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- Thomas Mann
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William Somerset Maugham
- A trip to Paris . Scherz Verlag, Bern 1967 (English: Ashenden. Or the British Agent , Heinemann, London 1928; Doubleday Doran in New York 1928)
- Jo Mihaly , see Elfriede Kuhr
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rilla Of Ingleside (German: Anne and Rilla ). 1921.
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Ralph Hale Mottram
- The Spanish Farm . Romantic trilogy (German: The Spanish Pachthof ). 1924-1926.
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Robert Musil
- The Blackbird
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Carl August Gottlob Otto
- Nothing new in the east , Sanitas publishing house, Zirndorf 1929.
- Wilfred Owen: Poems
- Poems (1920), 23 poems
- The Poems of Wilfred Owen (1931), 42 poems
- The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (1963)
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Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak
- Doctor Zhivago , Milan 1957.
- Jean Paulhan
- Le Guerrier appliqué , 1917.
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Pat Barker
- No man's land . Hanser 1997, (American original: Regeneration ), Penguin 1992
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Richard Powers
- Three farmers on their way to the dance . (in the American original Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance , Beech Tree / Morrow, New York 1985; German first edition: S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011.)
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Marcel Proust
- Time Recovered , Volume 7 of In Search of Lost Time , 1927.
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Robert von Ranke-Graves
- Goodbye to all that 1926 (German line underneath !, 1929)
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Erich Maria Remarque
- Nothing new in the West , 1929.
- The way back. 1931.
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Ludwig Renn
- War , 1928.
- Dominik Richert
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Manfred von Richthofen
- The red fighter , 1917.
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Joseph Roth
- Radetzky March , 1932.
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Siegfried Sassoon
- The Old Huntsman (1917)
- Counter-Attack (1918)
- Satirical Poems (1926)
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Adam Scharrer
- Patriotic fellows . The first war book by a worker , Agis-Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 1930.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- unfinished novel cycle The Red Wheel , consisting of the novels August Fourteen (1971), November Sixteen (1985), March Seventeen (1987) and April Seventeen (1991).
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Adrienne Thomas ( pseudonym of Hertha Strauch)
- Katrin becomes a soldier (EA 1930).
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Fritz von Unruh
- Sacrificial passage . 1919.
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Georg von der Vring
- Soldier Suhren , Berlin, JMSpäth, 1927.
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HG Wells
- The War that will end War, London, F. & C. Palmer, 1914
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Philipp Witkop
- War letters from German students , 1915.
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Arnold Zweig
- Roman cycle The Great War of the White Men , consisting of the novels (not published in the chronological order of the cycle) The time is ripe (1957), Young woman from 1914 (1931), Education before Verdun (1935), The dispute over the sergeant Grischa (1927), The Break of Fire (1954), Appointment of a King (1937). (A final novel planned by Zweig has not been published.)
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Stefan Zweig
- The compulsion , Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1920.
- Buchmendel . In: Four stories. ( The Invisible Collection . Episode on Lake Geneva . Leporella . Buchmendel). Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1929.
Poetry
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Richard Aldington
- Trench idyll
- In the trenches
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Guillaume Apollinaire
- Les calligrammes. Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre (1913–1917) , 1918.
- René Arcos
- Le sang des autres , Genève: Kundig, 1918
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Johannes R. Becher
- To Europe . New poems. Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig 1916
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Rudolf G. Binding
- Outbreak . 1922.
- Laurence Binyon
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Edmund Blunden
- Third Ypres
- Preparation for Victory
- Illusions
- Trench Raid near Hooge
- The Welcome
- Reunion in War
- The Watchers
- Report on Experience
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Bertolt Brecht
- Legend of the dead soldier , 1917/18.
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Karl Bröger
- Comrade when we marched . 1916.
- Soldiers of the earth . 1918.
- Flame . 1920.
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Rupert Brooke
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1914
- I peace
- II Safety
- III The Dead
- IV The Dead
- V The Soldier
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1914
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May Wedderburn Cannan
- Lamplight
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Blaise Cendrars
- La Guerre au Luxembourg . Avec 6 dessins de Moïse Kisling, 1916.
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Margaret Cole
- The Falling Leaves
- Afterwards
- Præmaturi
- The veteran
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Richard Dehmel
- War Breviary , 1917.
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Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
- Interrogation , 1917
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Heinz Elmann
- The corpse field . War verses 1915-1918. Steinklopfer-Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1957.
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Gerrit Engelke
- Rhythm of the new Europe . 1921.
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Lion Feuchtwanger
- Song of the Fallen
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Walter Flex
- In the field between night and day . CH Beck, Munich 1917.
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FS Flint
- Lament
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Ford Madox Ford
- That Exploit of Yours
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Johannes CS Frank (Ed.):
- “The wretchedness of war. Collected poems by Wilfred Owen. ”Verlagshaus J. Frank, Berlin 2014.
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Stefan George
- The war . 1917.
- A young leader in the First World War . 1921.
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Ivan Goll
- Requiem . For the fallen of Europe. 1917.
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Robert Graves
- Recalling War
- Over the Brazier (poetry book)
- Fairies and Fusiliers (poetry book)
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Ivor Gurney
- Severn and Somme (poetry collection, 1917)
- War's Embers (collection of poems, 1919)
- Strange Hells
- To His Love
- The Silent One
- Butchers and Tombs
- Strange service
- Bach and Sentry
- Pain
- De Profundis
- Photographs
- To the Prussians of England
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Thomas Hardy
- Channel firing
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Max Jacob
- Le Cornet à dés , 1917
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Pierre Jean Jouve
- Vous êtes des hommes
- Poeme against the grand crime
- Danse des morts 1917
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Erich Kaestner
- Primans in uniform . 1929.
- Fantasy of the day after tomorrow . 1929.
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Rudyard Kipling
- My boy jack . 1915.
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Theodor Kramer
- The tenth . 1929.
- The homecoming. 1929.
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Karl Kraus
- With the watch in hand
- The witness
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Else Lasker-Schüler
- Georg Trakl
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Heinrich Lersch
- Heart, light up your blood - a worker's war poems . 1916.
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Ernst Lissauer
- Hate song against England
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Frederic Manning
- Grotesque
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John McCrae
- In Flanders Fields , written May 3, 1915.
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Charlotte Mew
- The Cenotaph
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Alice Meynell
- Summer in England, 1914
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Otto Nebel
- Zuginsfeld , 1918 (published in sequelsbetween 1920 and 1923 in Der Sturm magazine).
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Wilfred Owen
- Dulce et Decorum est , written in 1917, first published in 1920.
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Smile, smile, smile
- Insensibility
- The dead beat
- Greater love
- Futility
- Disabled
- The show
- Arms and the Boy
- The send-off
- The Sentry
- Strange meeting
- Exposure
- Spring offensive
- Conscious
- Apologia per Poemate Meo
- Wild with all Regrets
- the end
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Kurt Pinthus
- (Ed. :) Menschheitsdämmerung, symphony of recent poetry . 1920.
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Herbert Read
- A short poem for Armistice Day
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Edgell Rickword
- The Soldier Address his Body
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Rainer Maria Rilke
- Five chants , composed at the beginning of August 1914.
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Isaac Rosenberg
- August 1914
- Break of the Day in the Trenches
- Dead Man's Dump
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Siegfried Sassoon
- Died of Wounds
- The Hero
- Counter attack
- Attack
- How to Die
- Lamentations
- Does it matter?
- Suicide in the Trenches
- Glory of Women
- Banishment
- The Death Bed
- Enemies
- The Redeemer
- Repression of War Experience
- Stretcher case
- Trench Duty
- A working party
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René Schickele
- First August 1914
- solution
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Charles Sorley
- When you see millions of mouthless dead
- Two Sonnets
- Jon Stallworthy (Ed.)
- The war poems of Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, London 1994.
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Ernst Stadler
- The departure , 1914 (collection of poems).
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August Stramm 1915 (published posthumously in 1919).
- Wake up
- Battlefield
- wound
- destruction
- The heavens are blowing
- Death of value
- signal
- Assault
- Eve
- Like
- Frostfire
- Watch
- war
- shrapnel
- Baptism of fire
- attack
- Engine war
- Eve
- patrol
- Utter death
- Scream
- Haidekampf
- question
- Dreamy
- Grenades
- Hesitation
- War grave
- Battle hall
- guard
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Edward Thomas
- Rain
- In memorian
- There is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
- Tears
- The cherry trees
- The Owl
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Kurt Tucholsky
- Three minutes of listening! 1922.
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Georg Trakl
- Grodek . 1914.
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- Death rides in Flanders . 1917.
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Emile Verhaeren
- Les Ailes rouges de la guerre , 1919
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Josef Winckler
- In the middle of the world war . 1915.
- Ocean . 1917.
- God's maze. 1922.
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Paul Zech :
- The trio of stars . 1920.
Dramas
- Bertolt Brecht : Drumming in the Night . 1922.
- Reinhard Goering : Sea battle . Tragedy. 1917.
- Sigmund Graff : Carl Ernst Hintze: the endless road . 1930.
- David Haig : My Boy Jack . 1997.
- Walter Hasenclever : Antigone . Tragedy. 1917.
- Karl Kraus : The last days of mankind . Drama. 1918/19.
- Ernst Toller : The change . 1919.
- Ernst Toller: Hinkemann . 1923.
- Fritz von Unruh : One gender . Tragedy. 1917.
- Friedrich Wolf : The sailors from Cattaro . 1930.
comics
The French comic artist Jacques Tardi deals with the First World War in several of his works. He focuses on the horrors and experiences of the common soldiers in the trenches.
- Jacques Tardi: Trench Warfare . Edition Moderne, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-907055-59-4 .
- Didier Daeninckx , Jacques Tardi: Soldier Varlot . Edition Moderne, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-907055-45-4 .
Memories, memoirs, autobiographies
- Erich Ludendorff , My War Memories 1914–1918 , 1919
- Michael von Taube , Towards the Great Disaster, Memories , 1929.
- Marina Yurlova , Cossack Maria. Memories of a frontline fighter from war and revolution. ( Cossack Girl Macaulay, New York 1934, OCLC 1198632 ).
Web links
- Poets of the Great War .
- First World War Poetry Digital Archive
- David Budgen: Literature (Version 1.1), in: 1914-1918-online . International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. By Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2018. doi : 10.15463 / ie1418.10329 / 1.1 .
Literature (sources)
- Thomas Anz , Joseph Vogl (ed.): The poets and the war. German poetry 1914–1918 . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-15-019255-9 .
- Geert Buelens: Europe's poet and the First World War . From the Dutch by Waltraud Hüsmert. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-42432-2 .
- Antoine Compagnon (éd.): La Grande Guerre des écrivains. D'Apollinaire à branch. , Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-045457-0 .
- Rachel Dicksen: Whitechapel at was: Isaac Rosenberg & his circle. Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-900157-09-7 .
- Jörg Drews (Ed.): August Stramm. Poems, dramas, prose, letters . Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-009929-3 .
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Elisabeth Frenzel : dates of German poetry. Volume 2: From Realism to the Present . Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-423-03004-6 , (longstanding, albeit problematic standard work).
- Günter Helmes : The First World War in Film and Literature. Developments, tendencies and examples . In: Waltraud Wende (ed.): War and memory - a state of emergency in the field of tension between cultural constructions of meaning . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, pp. 121–149. ISBN 3-8260-3142-3 .
- Alexander Honold : Use of the seal. Literature under the sign of the First World War . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-940384-65-2 .
- Kindler's Literature Lexicon , 8 volumes, Zweiburgen Verlag, Weinheim 1981.
- Helmut Kreuzer , Ingrid Kreuzer (Ed.): German poems between 1918 and 1933 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-009711-8 .
- Penguin Books (Ed.): Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 . Penguin Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-14-118103-5 .
- Guillaume Picon (éd.): Poèmes de poilus. Anthologie de poèmes français, anglais, allemands, italiens, russes 1914–1918 . Points, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-7578-4164-8 .
- Harry Rickets: Strange Meetings - The Poets of the Great War . Chatto & Windus, London, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7011-7271-8 .
- Kurt Rothmann: Small history of German literature . Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-010707-2 .
- Thomas F. Schneider, Hans Wagener (Ed.): From Richthofen to Remarque. German-language prose on World War I (= Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies, Volume 53). Rodopi, Amsterdam 2003.
- Ralf Schnell : History of German Poetry. Volume 5: From the turn of the century to the end of World War II . Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-018892-7 .
- Matthias Steinbach (Ed.): Mobilization 1914. A literary echo sounder . Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-020287-6 .
- Bernhard Wenzl: idealists and pacifists. , Wiener Zeitung November 1, 2014.
- Jean Moorcroft Wilson: Isaac Rosenberg: A New Life: The Making of a Great War Poet. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008, ISBN 978-0-297-85145-5 .
- Isaac Rosenberg, Jean Liddiard: Selected Poems and Letters. Enitharmon Press, 2004, ISBN 1-900564-89-0 .
- Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen: Poets of World War I: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide. Chelsea House Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0-7910-5932-4 .