The 50 most beautiful and famous love poems of German literature: from the "Falkenlied" by the Kürenberger from the 12th century, through poems from the Baroque, Classicism (Goethe), and Romanticism (Brentano, later Heine and Mörike), to the classical modern era (Hofmannsthal, Rilke, and Benn) and into the present, where fortunately as many women as men write love poems, such as Sarah Kirsch, Ursula Krechel, Friederike Roth, and Ulla Hahn.