Georg Büchner is associated with Young Germany, a movement of young German writers who published works in the first half of the nineteenth century, roughly between 1830 and 1850. Young Germany writers wrote works that espoused principles of democracy, rationality, and equality. Heinrich Heine is one of the movement’s writers; he is best known for his lyric poetry, which was set to music by composers Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Another writer associated with the movement is the satirist Ludwig Börne, whose most famous works include
Denkrede auf Jean Paul (1826) and
Menzel der Franzosenfresser (1837). Büchner’s work influenced writers of the naturalist and expressionist literary movements of late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some notable works of naturalist theater include
The Father by August Strindberg,
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, and
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Some notable works of expressionist theater include
The Beggar by Reinhard Sorge and
Parricide by Arnolt Bronnen. Finally, the Georg Büchner Prize was created in 1923 and is one of the most prestigious awards for German literature. Some of its notable winners include Heinrich Böll, whose best known works include
Billard um halb zehn (
Billiards at Half-past Nine) and
Ansichten eines Clowns (
The Clown); Günter Grass, known for his first novel,
Die Blechtrommel (
The Tin Drum); and the playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek, whose notable works include
Die Klavierspielerin (
The Piano Teacher) and
Die Kinder der Toten (
The Children of the Dead).