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1927
 
    
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality       
1927
 
    
In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme       
1927
 
    
Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico       
1929
 
    
Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army       
1947
 
     
Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead        
1951
 
    
German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism       
1955
 
    
Thomas Mann publishes a longer but still incomplete version of his novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man       
1958
 
    
Nigerian dramatist Wole Soyinka's play The Swamp Dwellers is produced in London       
1959
 
    
German novelist Günter Grass has an immediate success with his first novel, The Tin Drum       
1974
 
    
German-born British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner completes his monumental 46-volume Buildings of England