Statistics for German-language literary works and their authors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Hermann and Dorothea (Hermann und Dorothea, 1797)	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	82%
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung, 1915)	Franz Kafka	80%
William Tell (Wilhelm Tell, 1804)	Friedrich von Schiller	75%
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel, 1959)	Günter Grass	75%
Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig, 1912)	Thomas Mann	73%
Emilia Galotti (1772)	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	51%
Effi Briest (1896)	Theodor Fontane	51%
The Sandman (Der Sandmann, 1816)	E.T.A. Hoffmann	45%
Book of Songs (Buch der Lieder, 1827)	Heinrich Heine	45%
The Physicists (Die Physiker, 1962)	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	39%
Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, 1835)	Georg Büchner	38%
Billiards at Half-past Nine (Billard um halb zehn, 1959)	Heinrich Böll	38%
The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, 1930 - 1943)	Robert Musil	36%
Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht, 1800)	Novalis	28%
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten, 1922)	Stefan Zweig	19%
La Ronde (Reigen - 1900)	Arthur Schnitzler	18%
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, 1970)	Peter Handke	17%
Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel, 1963)	Christa Wolf	16%
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker, 1939)	Joseph Roth	15%
Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung, 1935)	Elias Canetti	14%
Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story (Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, 1814)	Adalbert von Chamisso	13%
Austerlitz (2001)	W.G. Sebald	13%
Germania Death in Berlin (Germania Tod in Berlin, 1978)	Heiner Müller	12%
Malina (1971)	Ingeborg Bachmann	12%
The Artificial Silk Girl (Das kunstseidene Mädchen, 1932)	Irmgard Keun	8%
Extinction (Auslöschung, 1986)	Thomas Bernhard	7%
The Karnau Tapes (Flughunde, 1995)	Marcel Beyer	4%
Two Planets (Auf zwei Planeten, 1897)	Kurd Laßwitz	3%