otherwise the post will be over by the time I've explained about Sturm und Drang, Klassik, Vormärz und Biedermeier in addition to Romantik

Ahahaha, aka the bane of my existence during my time at uni. (You could say Romanticism in the German sense was my main fandom at the time. I don't have anything against Goethe at all, but I developed a definite twitch at Goethe being called a Romantic. I think I'm still not over it. *g*)