Mein Leben
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Mein Leben is the title of several German autobiographies, including those of the following people (note that the dates are of publication, not composition, and in some cases might refer to a later or posthumous edition):

  • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
    August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
    ' , who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", its third stanza now being the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.- Biography :Hoffmann was born in Fallersleben , Brunswick-Lüneburg,...

     (1868)
  • Richard Wagner
    Mein Leben (Wagner)
    Mein Leben is the title given by the composer Richard Wagner to his autobiography, covering the years from his birth in 1813 to 1864.-Origins:Wagner began dictating Mein Leben to his wife Cosima on 17 July 1865 in Munich...

     (1880)
  • Franz Nissel (1894)
  • Johann Gottfried Seume
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    Johann Gottfried Seume , German author, was born at Poserna .He was educated, first at Borna, then at the Nikolai school and University of Leipzig. The study of Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke wakened his interest in theology, and, breaking off his studies, he set out for Paris...

     (1899)
  • Leo Königsberger
    Leo Königsberger
    Leo Königsberger was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject.-Biography:...

     (1919)
  • Wilhelm von Bode
    Wilhelm von Bode
    Wilhelm von Bode was a German art historian and curator. Born Arnold William Bode in Calvörde, he was ennobled in 1913...

     (1930)
  • Friedrich Griese
    Friedrich Griese
    Friedrich Griese was a German novelist. He was associated with the nationalist literary movement during the Third Reich.Griese wrote mostly about peasant life in northern Germany. His most important books were written before the advent of the Nazi government in 1933, so he cannot be considered...

     (1934)
  • Hermann Eris Busse
    Hermann Eris Busse
    Hermann Eris Busse was a German novelist and literary critic. He is best known for his Black Forest novels and his biography of the 17th century German writer Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen.- Major works :...

     (1935)
  • Rudolf Huch (1935)
  • Robert Hohlbaum
    Robert Hohlbaum
    Robert Hohlbaum was an Austrian-German librarian, writer, and playwright. He was born as an industrialist Alois Hohlbaum in what is now Krnov in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and known by its German name, Jägerndorf.Hohlbaum studied at Graz and Vienna and received...

     (1936)
  • Simon Dubnow
    Simon Dubnow
    Simon Dubnow was a Jewish historian, writer and activist...

     (1937)
  • Adele Sandrock
    Adele Sandrock
    Adele Sandrock was a German actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German film stars....

     (1940)
  • Albert Pagels (1940)
  • Erich Raeder
    Erich Raeder
    Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank—that of Großadmiral — in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz...

     (1956)
  • Alma Mahler
    Alma Mahler
    Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men...

     (1963)
  • Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...

     (1968)
  • Oskar Kokoschka
    Oskar Kokoschka
    Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.-Biography:...

     (1972)
  • Emil Nolde
    Emil Nolde
    Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors...

     (1976)
  • Heinrich Harrer
    Heinrich Harrer
    Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.He is best known for his books Seven Years in Tibet and The White Spider .-Athletics:...

     (2002) (Published in English under the name Beyond Seven Years in Tibet, My Life Before During and After in October 2006)
  • Marcel Reich-Ranicki
    Marcel Reich-Ranicki
    Marcel Reich-Ranicki is a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47. He is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and therefore was in Germany often called the 'Pope of literature' .-Life:Marcel...

     (2003)
  • Gunter Sachs
    Gunter Sachs
    Fritz Gunter Sachs was a German photographer, author, industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researched claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker and documentary photographer...

    , husband of Brigitte Bardot
    Brigitte Bardot
    Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...

     (2005)
  • Christian "Flake" Lorenz (2011)
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