Die Lesewut (German for the reading craze) or Die Lesesucht (reading mania), are terms that describe a period in German history beginning in the eighteenth century.^[1] Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther^[2] and the Sturm und Drang movement are considered to have been the catalyst for this event.^{[citation needed]}

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