Town of Literature
Introduces the important writers and publishers, as well as libraries in Leipzig to you. 1481 the first letterpress printing, 1650 the first daily newspaper, 1682 the first scholarly magazine. In 1688 Christian Thomasius held the first lecture in German and in 1737 the “ Neuberin” (a theatre manager) bans “Hans-Wurst”(the fool) from the stage. Such sonorous names as Johann Christoph Gottsched, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich von Schiller, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Friedrich Nietzsche and Erich Loest are connected with Leipzig.