either borrowed from the past, collected from hearsay, or created by a vivid imagination." Among Grimmelshausen's other works, are the so-called Simplicianische Schriften (): Die Ertzbetrügerin and Landstörtzerin Courasche (1670) Der seltsame Springinsfeld (1670) Das wunderbarliche Vogelnest (1672) He also published satires, such as Der teutsche Michel (1673), and gallant novels, like Dietwald und Amelinde (1670). Death and legacy He died in Renchen in 1676, where a monument was erected to him in 1879. Grimmelshausen's Landstörtzerin Courasche became an inspiration for Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children. Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus lent its name to Simplicissimus, a satirical German weekly which ran from 1894 to 1944 and 1954 to 1967. Notes References Further reading External links Author page for Grimmelshausen on Projekt Gutenberg-DE 1620s births 1676 deaths People from Gelnhausen German satirists Writers from Hesse German people of the Thirty Years' War 17th-century German writers 17th-century German novelists German male novelists German-language poets German male poets German male non-fiction writers 17th-century German male writers Baroque writers