A novelist from this family wrote a letter ending, “as you are, you are highly annoying” to her son, who left her household after she threw him down the stairs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this family of an author who tells a long story about caring for a wounded Prussian soldier in Thomas Mann’s novel Lotte in Weimar. The popular 19th-century novelists Johanna (“yoh-HAH-nah”) and Adele were part of this family.
ANSWER: Schopenhauer family [accept Johanna Schopenhauer, Adele Schopenhauer, or Arthur Schopenhauer]
[10e] Adele Schopenhauer’s friend Annette von Droste-Hülshoff wrote an early true crime novella that ends with a curse in this language being found on a beech tree. This language was revived by authors of the Haskalah era.
ANSWER: Hebrew [or Ivrit; reject “Modern Hebrew” or “Israeli Hebrew”] (The novella is Die Judenbuche or The Jew’s Beech.)
[10m] Arthur Schopenhauer loved this author who coined the term weltschmerz and wrote Shandian (“Shandy-in”) squibs like “The Brewery of My Gastric Juice.” This author of Titan was surnamed Richter, but is best known by the French version of his given names.
ANSWER: Jean Paul [or Jean Paul Richter; or Johann Paul Friedrich Richter]
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