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I mean, your German abilities aren’t a static thing, and trying to force your way through these texts in German is an excellent way to push your German abilities to a higher level. I got to reading fluency because I refused to use English translations of German texts while in graduate school and one semester I ended up having to read 80 pages of Heidegger a week in German, which is what pushed me to fluency with philosophical reading.
Of the thinkers you mentioned, Marx is certainly the best writer in terms of both clarity and style. Hegel is difficult to understand, but not more difficult to read in German than in English. He tends to write in short choppy sentences or independent clauses separated by a semicolon. I find Kant to be rather difficult for non-native German speakers, just because his sentences are very long and grammatically complex. (I’ve never read Schopenhauer in German, so I can’t say much about him).
I would stay away from trying to read Adorno in German. I can read and speak German fluently and yet Adorno’s prose is largely impenetrable to me in the original. More literary texts like certain works of Nietzsche, Schiller, or Goethe will also be difficult—just like reading Shakespeare is difficult for a fluent English speaker in middle school.
Be aware, you’re going to be picking up and learning 19th century German conventions, which doesn’t always translate well into modern German, as well as doing it within a specific discipline. The other day I picked up a medical journal in English (my native language) and couldn’t understand the words—similarly, you’ll have to continually conquer new “language games” that aren’t necessarily included within philosophical texts.
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