Balladenjahr

Balladenjahr refers to the year 1797 in the history of German literature, in which many of the best-known ballads of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller originated within a few months, such as Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling" and Schiller's "Der Ring des Polykrates", "Der Taucher", "Der Handschuh", "Der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer", "Ritter Toggenburg", and "Die Kraniche des Ibykus".
The ballads were first published in Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1798, the so-called Balladenalmanach issued by Schiller.