![]() ![]() The eighteenth century saw publication of Wunderliche Fata einiger Seefahrer (4 parts 1731-1743), usually known as Insel Felsenburg, by Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1692-1752). Considered a masterpiece of its time is the picaresque novel Der abenteuerliche Simplizissimus ( 1669 trans A T S Goodricke as The Adventurous Simplicissimus 1912 retrans H Weissenborn and L Macdonald 1963) by Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622-1676), which contains, inter alia, a journey into a Utopia located in the centre of the Hollow Earth. The roots of German sf can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when the astronomer Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1634 in Latin trans into German as Traum von Mond 1898 trans E Rosen as Kepler's "Somnium" 1967) reflected, in semifictional form, on life on the Moon. There is a separate entry for Austria, with which there is a small and inevitable overlap: many books by Austrian writers were in fact published in Germany, and many Austrians have lived in Germany – some, indeed, working in the German publishing industry. This entry covers the whole of Germany, including the former GDR (East Germany). ![]()
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