Packet 5: Tossup 14

A poet with this surname wrote the poem Ode to the Prussian Army before dying in the Seven Years’ War. Michael Hofmann translated a book by an author with this surname in which a nobleman imprisons the title character in a dungeon despite intervention from Martin Luther. In a story by an author with this surname, (10[1])the music of nuns stops (10[1])four (10[2])brothers (10[1])from attacking a convent; (10[1])those brothers end up prostrating toward a crucifix in a madhouse. An author with this (10[1])surname, who died in a suicide pact (10[1])with Henriette Vogel, wrote a story in which the title noblewoman (10[1])uses a newspaper (10[1])ad (10[1])to address (10[1])her rapist. (10[2])In a book by an author with this surname, a horse dealer leads a revolt (10[1])after he is detained for lacking transit papers. For 10 points, give this surname of the author of the novellas The Marquise of (10[1])O (10[2])and Michael (10[1])Kohlhaas. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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