The lithographic process was invented in the late eighteenth century by the German writer Aloys Senefelder.
VOA: special.2009.09.02
It is based on a book by German writer Bernhard Schlink.
VOA: special.2009.02.20
In 1990, he wrote the music and lyrics for "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, " a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.
It is illegal in Germany though and so if someone in Germany reads a piece which denies the Holocaust then the writer of that piece can be hauled up in front of a German court and tried and then punished.