Recs if you like Wilhelm Tell...

Works I would consider german literary classics. "German" in this context means "written in German", not "written by a German author", therefore Swiss, Austrian, and other authors will also be included on this list, provided they wrote their works in German.

popular, semi popular or once popular german language lit that I find interesting. also, schiller >>> goethe, so no faust 😊

We often talk about what Rizal wrote, but what did the National Hero consume to write so well? To think in that way? Rizal was known to be a voracious reader, getting it from his parents ("[My parents] urged me to read and understand them [books]") and then spending hours in libraries overseas. From his letter to Blumentritt (Nov. 8, 1888): "The Indio, in general, is very fond of reading and studying…”