After looking at the question What's the “The Anatomy of Melancholy” of German literature?, which currently has 4 close votes, I noticed that the meta question Are questions about German literature on-topic? still doesn't have an answer.

Are the works of Kafka considered German literature? has 16 upvotes and no downvotes. I thought it was off-topic but the community decided otherwise. So are we really "German Language and Literature Stack Exchange"?

Being able to read German literature is a reason that makes people want to learn German.