This course deals with the literature from the age which overlaps Classicism and Romanticism and includes authors, dramatists and poets who do not fit in those categories or certain works by otherwise Classical and Romantic poets that cannot be seen as belonging (completely) to Classicism or Romanticism. The course will study a cross section of plays, novellas and poems by Heinrich von Kleist, Eduard Mörike, Franz Grillparzer, Georg Büchner, Heinrich Heine, Adalbert Stifter.