List of German-language authors
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This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality
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) who wrote fiction
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, essay
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s, or play
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s in the German language
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. It includes both living and deceased writers.

Most of the medieval
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 authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet
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.

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See also
List of German-language philosophers
List of German-language playwrights
List of German-language poets

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Thomas Abbt
Thomas Abbt
Thomas Abbt was a German mathematician and writer.Born in Ulm, Abbt visited a secondary school in Ulm, then moved in 1756 to study theology, philosophy and mathematics at the University of Halle, receiving a Magister degree in 1758...

 (1738–1766)
Johann Christoph Adelung
Johann Christoph Adelung
Johann Christoph Adelung was a German grammarian and philologist.He was born at Spantekow, in Western Pomerania, and educated at schools in Anklam and Berge Monastery, Magdeburg, and the University of Halle...

 (1732–1806)
Rudolf Agricola (1494–1566)
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...

 (born 1921)
Hermann Allmers
Hermann Allmers
Hermann Allmers was a German poet.He was an only child, and was privately tutored. He began his career in public education, but took over the family farm after the death of his father in 1849....

 (1821–1902)
Peter Altenberg
Peter Altenberg
Peter Altenberg was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He was key to the genesis of early modernism in the city.-Biography:...

 (1859–1919)
Jean Améry
Jean Améry
Jean Améry , born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II...

 (1912–1978)
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland...

 (1914–1980)
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé
Lou Andreas-Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and author. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western luminaries, including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Rilke.- Early years :Lou Salomé was born in St...

 (1861–1937)
Stefan Andres
Stefan Andres
Stefan Paul Andres was a German novelist.He was a widely-read German writer in the post-World War II period.-Works:* Bruder Lucifer...

 (1906–1970)
Ernst Angel
Ernst Angel
Ernst Angel was an Austrian born poet, theatre and film critic, screen play author, film director and publisher who later became a psychologist....

 (1895–1986)
Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius was a German Catholic mystic and poet.-Life:Silesius was born in Breslau , Silesia as son of Polish noble and German mother...

, actually Johann Scheffler (1624–1677)
Ludwig Anzengruber
Ludwig Anzengruber
Ludwig Anzengruber was an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet. He was born and died in Vienna.- Origins:...

 (1839–1889)
Johann August Apel
Johann August Apel
Johann August Apel was a German writer and jurist.Apel was born in Leipzig. His tale Die Jägerbraut formed the basis for the libretto of Der Freischütz.- Works :* Die Aitolier...

 (1771–1816)
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Ernst Moritz Arndt was a German nationalistic and antisemitic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions...

 (1769–1860)
Achim von Arnim (1781–1831)
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim , born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist....

 (1785–1859)
Gottfried Arnold
Gottfried Arnold
Gottfried Arnold was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.Arnold was born at Annaberg, in Saxony , where his father was schoolmaster. In 1682 he went to the Gymnasium at Gera, and three years later to the University of Wittenberg...

 (1666–1714)
Hans Arp (1887–1966)
Hans Carl Artmann (1921–2000)
Raoul Auernheimer
Raoul Auernheimer
Raoul Auernheimer was an Austrian jurist and writer.Auernheimer was the son of German businessman Johann Wilhelm Auernheimer and his Hungarian wife Charlotte "Jenny" Büchler. After receiving his Abitur, Auernheimer began to study law at the university in his hometown...

 (1876–1948)
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer , maiden name Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, was a Jewish German- and English language poet. She was born in Bucovina, and lived in U.S.A, Romania, and Germany....

 (1901–1988)

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Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna...

 (1926–1973)
Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists.Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany and was raised in a middle-class Catholic family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg...

 (1886–1927)
Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the war made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against the war...

 (1870–1938)
Adolf Bartels
Adolf Bartels
Adolf Bartels was a German journalist and poet. Known for his völkisch worldview, he has been seen as a harbinger of National Socialist anti-Semitism....

 (1862–1945)
Johann Bernhard Basedow
Johann Bernhard Basedow
Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular illustrated textbook for children.-Early years:Basedow was born in Hamburg,...

 (1723–1790)
Vicki Baum
Vicki Baum
Hedwig Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel , one of her first international successes....

 (1888–1960)
Johannes R. Becher
Johannes R. Becher
Johannes Robert Becher was a German politician, novelist, and poet.-Early life:Johannes R. Becher was the son of Judge Heinrich Becher. In 1910 he tried to commit suicide with a friend; only Becher survived. From 1911 he studied medicine and philosophy in Munich and Jena...

 (1891–1958)
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.-Childhood:Jurek Becker was born in 1937 and lived in the...

 (1937–1997)
Michael Beheim
Michael Beheim
Michael Beheim was a wandering singer from the modern-day German state Baden-Württemberg. He is an author of a number of songs and two versed chronicles, Buch von den Wienern, Das Leben Friedrichs I von der Pfalz. -References:...

 (1416 – c. 1474)
Hans Bender
Hans Bender
Hans Bender was a German lecturer on the subject of parapsychology, who was also responsible for establishing the parapsychological institute Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg. For many years his pipe smoking, contemplative figure was synonymous with German...

 (born 1919)
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...

 (1892–1940)
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn was a German essayist, novelist, and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution...

 (1886–1956)
Werner Bergengruen
Werner Bergengruen
Werner Bergengruen was a Baltic German novelist.Bergengruen was born in Riga, Livonia. After growing up in Lübeck and attending the Katharineum, he started studying theology in Marburg in 1911. He later changed to studying Germanistics and art history, but failed to graduate; he then moved to Munich...

 (1892–1964)
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.- Life :Thomas Bernhard was...

 (1931–1989)
August Ferdinand Bernhardi
August Ferdinand Bernhardi
August Ferdinand Bernhardi was a German linguist and writer.After studying philosophy in Halle an der Saale, in 1791 Bernhardi became a teacher at the Friedrichwerderschen Gymnasium in Berlin and in 1808 became the institution's headmaster. In 1815 he joined the Consistory and the Academic...

 (1769–1820)
Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel
Peter Bichsel is a popular Swiss-German writer and journalist representing modern German literature. He was a member of the Gruppe Olten....

 (born 1935)
Jakob Bidermann (1578–1639)
Wolf Biermann
Wolf Biermann
Karl Wolf Biermann is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident.-Early life:Biermann's father, who worked on the Hamburg docks, was a German Jew and a member of the German Resistance....

 (born 1936)
Johannes Bobrowski
Johannes Bobrowski
Johannes Bobrowski was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist.-Life:Bobrowski was born in Tilsit in East Prussia. In 1925, he moved first to Rastenburg, then in 1928 on to Königsberg, where he attended the humanist Gymnasium. One of his teachers was Ernst Wiechert. In 1937, he...

 (1917–1965)
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Johann Jakob Bodmer
Johann Jakob Bodmer was a Swiss-German author, academic, critic and poet.-Life:Born at Greifensee, near Zürich, and first studying theology and then trying a commercial career, he finally found his vocation in letters...

 (1698–1783)
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition...

 (1575–1624)
Margarete Böhme
Margarete Böhme
Margarete Böhme was, arguably, one of the most widely read German writers of the early 20th century. Böhme authored 40 novels – as well as short stories, autobiographical sketches, and articles. The Diary of a Lost Girl, first published in 1905 as Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, is her best known and...

 (1867-1939)
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :...

 (1917–1985)
Wolfgang Borchert
Wolfgang Borchert
Wolfgang Borchert was a German author and playwright whose work was affected by his experience of dictatorship and his service in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. His work is among the best examples of the Trümmerliteratur movement in post-World War II Germany...

 (1921–1947)
Nicolas Born
Nicolas Born
Nicolas Born was a German writer.Nicolas Born was - together with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - one of the most important and most innovative German poets of his generation...

 (1937–1979)
Ludwig Börne
Ludwig Börne
Karl Ludwig Börne was a German political writer and satirist.-Early life:Karl Ludwig Börne was born Loeb Baruch on May 6, 1786, at Frankfurt am Main, son of Jakob Baruch, a banker. His grandfather had been a government bureaucrat.-Education:Börne and his brothers were privately tutored by Jacob...

 (1786–1837)
Bas Böttcher (born 1974)
Mark Brandis
Mark Brandis
Nikolai von Michalewsky was a German writer and journalist best known for a series of science fiction novels published between 1970 and 1987.-Biography:...

 (1931–2000)
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...

 (1457–1521)
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

 (1898–1956)
Willi Bredel
Willi Bredel
Willi Bredel was a German writer and president of the Akademie der Künste. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature....

 (1901–1964)
Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano was a German poet and novelist.-Overview:He was born in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz, Germany. His sister was Bettina von Arnim, Goethe's correspondent. His father's family was of Italian descent. He studied in Halle and Jena, afterwards residing at...

 (1778–1842)
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...

 (1940–1975)
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch was a 20th century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists.-Life:Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory, though he maintained his literary interests privately...

 (1886–1951)
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
Barthold Heinrich Brockes was a German poet.He was born at Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He studied jurisprudence at Halle, and after extensive travels in Italy, France and the Netherlands, settled in Hamburg in 1704...

 (1680–1747)
Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...

 (1813–1837)
Hermann Burger
Hermann Burger
Hermann Burger , was a Swiss poet, novelist and essayist. In his creative works Burger often focused on society's lonely outsiders and, increasingly, the inevitability of death...

 (1942–1989)
Gottfried August Bürger
Gottfried August Bürger
Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English adaptation and a French translation.-Biography:He was born in Molmerswende , Principality of Halberstadt, where...

 (1747–1794)
Christine Busta
Christine Busta
Christine Busta was an Austrian poet.She received several awards, e.g. the Georg-Trakl-Preis in 1954.In her work she stood for an undogmatic Catholicism....

, actually Christine Dimt (1915–1987)

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Joachim Heinrich Campe
Joachim Heinrich Campe
Joachim Heinrich Campe was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher.- Life :...

 (1746–1818)
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".-Life:...

 (1905–1994)
Hans Carossa
Hans Carossa
Hans Carossa was a German novelist and poet, known mostly for his autobiographical novels, and his innere Emigration during the Nazi era....

 (1878–1956)
Ignaz Franz Castelli
Ignaz Franz Castelli
Ignaz Franz Castelli was an Austrian dramatist born in Vienna. He studied law at the university, and then entered the government service....

, pseudonym Bruder Fatalis (1781–1862)
Elisabeth Castonier
Elisabeth Castonier
Elisabeth Castonier was a German writer.Castonier was the daughter of the painter Felix Borchardt and spent her early childhood in Dresden until her family moved to Paris. Her grandfather was Jewish. In 1912 she moved to Berlin, and in 1923 married the Danish singer Paul Castonier, from whom she...

 (1894–1975)
Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a poet and translator...

, actually Paul Antschel (1920–1970)
Conrad Celtis (1459–1508)
C. W. Ceram
C. W. Ceram
C. W. Ceram was the pseudonym of German journalist and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek, known for his popular works about archaeology. He chose to write under a pseudonym to distance himself from his earlier work as a propagandist for the Third Reich.Ceram was born in Berlin. During World War II, he...

, actually Kurt W. Marek (1915–1972)
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...

 (1781–1838)
Helene Christaller
Helene Christaller
Helene Christaller was a German Protestant writer mostly of youth books, especially for girls. During the Nazi-Era her books were not printed because of their Christian tenor.- Literary works :* Gottfried Erdmann, 1908* Heilige Liebe, 1911...

 (1872–1953)
Hanns Cibulka
Hanns Cibulka
Hanns Cibulka was a German poet and diarist.- Works :* 1954 Märzlicht. Gedichte* 1959 Zwei Silben. Gedichte* 1960 Sizilianisches Tagebuch...

 (1920–2004)
Oscar Walter Cisek
Oscar Walter Cisek
Oscar Walter Cisek was a Romanian writer, diplomat, and art critic, who authored short stories, novels, poems and essays in both German and Romanian.-Biography:...

 (1897–1966)
Matthias Claudius
Matthias Claudius
Matthias Claudius was a German poet, otherwise known by the penname of “Asmus”.-Life:Claudius was born at Reinfeld, near Lübeck, and studied at Jena...

 (1740–1815)
Heinrich Joseph von Collin
Heinrich Joseph von Collin
Heinrich Joseph von Collin , Austrian dramatist, was born in Vienna, on 26 December 1771. He received a legal education and entered the Austrian ministry of finance where he found speedy promotion. In 1805 and in 1809, when Austria was under the heel of Napoleon, Collin was entrusted with important...

 (1772–1811)
Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Hedwig Courths-Mahler [he:tviç kurts ma:ler], née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler was a German writer. She used the pseudonyms Relham, H...

 (1867–1950)
Wolf-Ulrich Cropp
Wolf-Ulrich Cropp
Dr. Wolf-Ulrich Cropp is a German writer who, in his work as a businessman and authorized agent for national and international companies, travelled to every continent...

  (1941 born)
Alfons von Czibulka
Alfons von Czibulka
Alfons Freiherr von Czibulka, or Alfons Cibulka was a Czech-Austrian writer and painter....

 (1888–1969)

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Simon Dach
Simon Dach
Simon Dach was a Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns, born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia.-Early life:...

 (1605–1659)
Felix Dahn
Felix Dahn
Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn was a German lawyer, author and historian.-Biography:Julius Sophus Felix Dahn was born in Hamburg as the oldest son of Friedrich and Constanze Dahn who were notable actors at the city's theatre. The family had both German and French roots...

 (1834–1912)
Erich von Däniken
Erich von Däniken
Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is a Swiss author best known for his controversial claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, in books such as Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968...

 (born 1935)
Jason Dark
Jason Dark
Jason Dark is the pseudonym of Helmut Rellergerd , author of widely read horror detective fiction in the German language.- Life :...

 (born 1945)
Clark Darlton, actually Walter Ernsting (1920–2005)
Max Dauthendey
Max Dauthendey
Max Dauthendey was a German author and painter of the impressionistic period. Together with Richard Dehmel and Eduard von Keyserling he is regarded as one of the most influential authors of that period....

 (1867–1918)
Henriette Davidis
Henriette Davidis
Henriette Davidis is the most famous classic cookbook author in Germany, and the German cuisine culture is decisively marked by her contributions. Additionally, in her work Die Hausfrau she also discussed other areas of household management, from bookkeeping to animal husbandry...

 (1801–1876)
Franz Josef Degenhardt
Franz Josef Degenhardt
Franz-Josef Degenhardt was a German poet, satirist, novelist, and – first and foremost – a folksinger/songwriter with decidedly left-wing politics. He was also a lawyer, bearing the academic degree of Doctor of Law.Degenhardt was born in Schwelm, Westphalia...

 (born 1931)
Richard Dehmel
Richard Dehmel
Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel was a German poet and writer.- Life :...

 (1863–1920)
Michael Denis
Michael Denis
Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: SinedSined is an anagram of Denis. the Bard, was an Austrian poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist....

 (1729–1800)
Lorenz Diefenbach
Lorenz Diefenbach
Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist associated with the German Nationalist movement. By career he was a pastor, like his father, and a librarian.-Biography:He was 12 years pastor and librarian at Solms-Laubach...

 (1806–1883)
Dietmar von Aist
Dietmar von Aist
Dietmar von Aist was a Minnesinger from a baronial family of Upper Austria, documented between 1140 and 1171,whose work is representative of the lyric poetry of the Danube region.-Life:...

 (1140–1171)
Franz von Dingelstedt
Franz von Dingelstedt
Franz von Dingelstedt was a German poet, dramatist and theatre administrator.-Biography:Dingestedt was born at Halsdorf, Hesse-Kassel , Germany, and later studied at the University of Marburg nearby. In 1836 he became a master at the Lyceum in Kassel, from where he was transferred to Fulda in 1838...

 (1814–1881)
Artur Dinter
Artur Dinter
Artur Dinter was a German writer and Nazi politician.- Biography :Dinter was born in Mulhouse, in Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire to Josef Dinter, a customs adviser, and his wife Berta, née Hoffmann, and he was baptized in the Catholic Church.After doing his school-leaving examination, Dinter...

 (1876–1948)
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin was a German expressionist novelist, best known for the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz .- 1878–1918:...

 (1878–1957)
Heimito von Doderer
Heimito von Doderer
Heimito von Doderer was a famous Austrian writer.- Life and work :...

 (1896–1966)
Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin , whose real name was Hilde Palm , was a German lyric poet and writer. She was amongst the most important German-language poets of her time.-Biography:...

, actually Hilde Palm (1909–2006)
Hans Dominik
Hans Dominik (writer)
Hans Dominik was a German science fiction and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer .- External links :...

 (1872–1945)
Marion Dönhoff
Marion Dönhoff
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff was a German journalist who participated in the resistance against Hitler's National Socialists with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of the leading German...

 (1909–2002)
Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...

 (born 1955)
Tankred Dorst
Tankred Dorst
Tankred Dorst is a German playwright and storyteller.Tankred Dorst currently lives and works in Munich. His farces, parables, one-act-plays and adaptations are inspired by the theatre of the absurd and the works of Ionesco, Giraudoux and Beckett...

 (born 1925)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Anna Elisabeth von Droste-Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets.-Biography:...

 (1797–1848)
Slatan Dudow
Slatan Dudow
Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

 (1903–1963)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire...

 (1921–1990)
Karen Duve
Karen Duve
Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg...

 (born 1961)

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Johann Eberlin von Günzburg
Johann Eberlin von Günzburg
Johann Eberlin von Günzburg was a German theologian who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets.-Life:...

 (c. 1470–1533)
Georg Ebers
Georg Ebers
Georg Moritz Ebers , German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in the winter of 1873–74...

 (1837–1898)
Karl Egon Ebert
Karl Egon Ebert
Karl Egon Ebert was a Bohemian German poet, born in Prague.His poems, dramatic and lyric, are collected in 7 volumes, and enjoy a wide popularity in his country. He composed a poem called "Das erste Veilchen", or "The First Violet", which was set to music by Felix Mendelssohn....

 (1801–1882)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.She was born at the castle of Dubský...

 (1830–1916)
Dietrich Eckart
Dietrich Eckart
Dietrich Eckart was a German journalist and politician, together with Adolf Hitler one of the early key members of the Nazi Party and a participant of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.-Biography:...

 (1868–1923)
Johann Peter Eckermann
Johann Peter Eckermann
Johann Peter Eckermann , German poet and author, is best known for his work Conversations with Goethe, the fruit of his association with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last years of Goethe's life.-Biography:...

 (1792–1854)
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim O.P. , commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris...

 (c. 1260 – c. 1328)
Ernst Eckstein
Ernst Eckstein
Ernst Eckstein was a German humorist, novelist and poet.-Biography:From the university he went to Paris, and there completed his comic epos, Check to the Queen , and wrote Paris Silhouettes , the grotesque night-piece The Varzin Ghosts and the Mute of Seville...

 (1845–1900)
Werner Eggerath
Werner Eggerath
Werner Eggerath was an East German author and communist politician. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and its first secretary in Thuringia from 21 April 1946 to 1947, already having held that position in the Communist Party of Germany before its merger into the SED...

 (1900–1977)
Werner Egk
Werner Egk
Werner Egk , born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer.-Early career:He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augsburg when Egk was six. He studied at a Benedictine Gymnasium and entered the municipal...

 (1901–1983)
Albert Ehrenstein
Albert Ehrenstein
Albert Ehrenstein was an Austrian-born German Expressionist poet. His poetry exemplifies rejection of bourgeois values and fascination with the Orient, particularly with China. He spent most of his life in Berlin, but also travelled widely across Europe, Africa, and the Far East...

 (1886–1950)
Günter Eich
Günter Eich
Günter Eich was a German lyricist, dramatist, and author. He was born in Lebus, on the Oder River, and educated in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris....

 (1907–1972)
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school.Eichendorff is regarded as one of the most important German Romantics and his works have sustained high popularity in Germany from production to the present day.-Life:Eichendorff was born at Schloß...

 (1788–1857)
Ludwig Eichrodt
Ludwig Eichrodt
Ludwig Eichrodt was a German writer.Ludwig Eichrodt was born as a son of an officer Ludwig Friedrich Eichrodt and Elisabeth Eichrodt.- Literary works :...

 (1827–1892)
Carl Einstein
Carl Einstein
Carl Einstein , born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, and critic.Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague...

 (1885–1940)
Siegfried Einstein
Siegfried Einstein
Siegfried Einstein was a German-Jewish poet, novelist, essayist and journalist.-Life:The son of department store owner Max D. Einstein, Siegfried Einstein was born in the small city of Laupheim in Württemberg. His father was the owner of the city's largest department store...

 (1919–1983)
Michael Ende
Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German author of fantasy and children's literature. He is best known for his epic fantasy work The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver...

 (1929–1995)
Johann Jakob Engel
Johann Jakob Engel
Johann Jakob Engel was a German author.- Life :Engel studied theology at Rostock and Bützow, and philosophy at Leipzig, where he took his doctors' degree...

 (1741–1802)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Hans Magnus Enzensberger , is a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich.- Life :...

 (born 1929)
Gustav Ernst
Gustav Ernst
Gustav Ernst is an Austrian playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals, Wespennest and kolik....

 (born 1944)
Paul Ernst
Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist.-Novels:*Der schmale Weg zum Glück*Das Glück von Lautenthal*Der Schatz im Morgenbrotstal*Saat auf Hoffnung...

 (1866–1933)
Ernst Eschmann (1886–1953)
Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann
Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann
Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann was a German author, sociologist and playwright.-Some works:* Der faschistische Staat in Italien* Vom Sinn der Revolution...

 (1904–1987)
Richard Euringer
Richard Euringer
Richard Euringer was a German writer. Although active starting in the 1920s, he is best known for his later career, in which he was a supporter of the Nazis. His best-known work is probably Als Flieger in zwei Kriegen, published in 1941 by Philipp Reclam Jr. of Leipzig...

 (1891–1953)
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself...

 (1871–1943)

F

Ludwig Fahrenkrog
Ludwig Fahrenkrog
Ludwig Fahrenkrog was a German writer, playwright and artist. He was born in Rendsburg, Prussia, in 1867. He started his career as an artist in his youth, and attended the Berlin Royal Art Academy before being appointed a professor in 1913. He taught at the School of Arts and Crafts in Bremen from...

 (1867–1952)
Johannes Daniel Falk
Johannes Daniel Falk
Johannes Daniel Falk was a German poet.Falk was born in Danzig in the Polish province of Royal Prussia. In 1816 he wrote the German text O Du Fröhliche.. to the melody of one of the most popular Christmas songs, O Sanctissima. Falk was the founder of the Falk'sche Institute, a public education...

 (1768–1826)
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada , born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen in Greifswald, Germany, was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? and Every Man Dies Alone...

, actually Rudolf Ditzen (1893–1947)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...

 (1945–1982)
Jörg Fauser
Jörg Fauser
Jörg Fauser German writer, poet and journalist who was born in Bad Schwalbach and died in Munich....

 (1944–1987)
Gustav Theodor Fechner, pseudonym Dr. Mises (1801–1887)
Else Feldmann
Else Feldmann
Else Feldmann was an Austrian writer, playwright, poet, socialist journalist, and victim of the Holocaust....

 (1884–1942)
Kurt Feltz
Kurt Feltz
Kurt Feltz was a highly prolific German poet and song lyricist.-External links:...

, pseudonym Johnny Bartels (1910–1982)
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht....

 (1884–1958)
Johann Fischart
Johann Fischart
Johann Fischart was a German satirist and publicist.-Biography:Fischart was born, probably, at Strasbourg , in or about the year 1545, and was educated at Worms in the house of Kaspar Scheid, whom in the preface to his Eulenspiegel he mentions as his cousin and preceptor...

 (1546–1590)
Konrad Fleck
Konrad Fleck
Konrad Fleck was a thirteenth century German poet, who wrote in the Alemannic German dialect. Not much is known about his life: he may have been from Alsace or the Basel district.His works include a version of Floris and Blancheflour.-External links:*...

 (13th century)
Marieluise Fleißer
Marieluise Fleißer
Marieluise Fleißer was a German author and playwright.Her best known works are two plays, Purgatory in Ingolstadt and Pioneers in Ingolstadt . Bertolt Brecht persuaded the director Moriz Seeler to stage the first play, which Seeler retitled; Fleißer's original title was The Washing of Feet....

, actually Marieluise Haindl (1901–1974)
Paul Fleming (1609–1640)
Walter Flex
Walter Flex
Walter Flex was a German author responsible for Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten , a stunning war novel dealing with themes of humanity, friendship, and suffering during World War I....

 (1887–1917)
Gorch Fock
Gorch Fock (author)
Gorch Fock [ɡɔʀx fɔk] was the pseudonym of the German author Johann Wilhelm Kinau . Other pseudonyms he used were Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco....

, pseudonyms Jakob Holst and Giorgio Focco (1880–1916)
Hans Folz
Hans Folz
Hans Folz was a German author of the late medieval or early Renaissance period.Folz was born in Worms. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486. Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been...

 (c. 1437–1513)
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.-Youth:Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an...

 (1819–1898)
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué was a German writer of the romantic style.-Biography:He was born at Brandenburg an der Havel, of a family of French Huguenot origin, as evidenced in his family name...

 (1777–1843)
Hans Franck (1879–1964)
Julia Franck
Julia Franck
Julia Franck is a German writer.In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala...

 (born 1970)
Sebastian Franck
Sebastian Franck
Sebastian Franck was a 16th century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer.Franck was born about 1499 at Donauwörth, Bavaria. Because of this he styled himself Franck von Word...

 (1499 – c. 1543)
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

 (1929–1945)
Bruno Frank
Bruno Frank
Bruno Frank was a German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist.Frank studied law and philosophy in Munich, where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933...

 (1887–1945)
Leonhard Frank
Leonhard Frank
Leonhard Frank was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel, The Robber Band...

 (1882–1961)
Ludwig August Frankl (1810–1894)
Franzobel
Franzobel
Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer Stefan Griebl. He was born on March 1, 1967 in Vöcklabruck. He now lives in Vienna.- Books :* Der Wimmerldrucker. Ein Lexikaroman. Eigenverlag, 1990....

, actually Franz Stefan Griebl (born 1967)
Karl Emil Franzos
Karl Emil Franzos
Karl Emil Franzos was a German novelist.Karl Emil Franzos was a popular German author of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of eastern Europe, now largely in Ukraine, where the Habsburg and Russian empires met...

 (1848–1904)
Frauenlob, actually Heinrich von Meißen (1250/60–1318)
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Ferdinand Freiligrath was a German poet, translator and liberal agitator.-Biography:Freiligrath was born in Detmold, Principality of Lippe. His father was a teacher. He left a Detmold gymnasium at 16 to be trained for a commercial career in Soest...

 (1810–1876)
Gustav Frenssen
Gustav Frenssen
Gustav Frenssen was a German novelist. He wrote patriotically about his native country and promoted Heimatkunst in literature.-Biography:...

 (1863–1945)
Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.-Life:Freytag was born in Kreuzburg in Silesia...

 (1816–1895)
Alfred Hermann Fried
Alfred Hermann Fried
Alfred Hermann Fried was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911.- Life :...

 (1864–1921)
Erich Fried
Erich Fried
Erich Fried , an Austrian poet who settled in England, was known for his political-minded poetry. He was also a broadcaster, translator and essayist....

 (1921–1988)
Egon Friedell
Egon Friedell
Egon Friedell born Egon Friedmann, 21 January 1878, in Vienna, died 16 March 1938, in Vienna, was a prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer and theatre critic.- Early life :...

, actually Egon Friedmann (1878–1938)
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political...

 (1911–1991)
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich was a Swiss poet.-Biography:He was born in Brugg in the canton of Aargau, where his father was a teacher....

 (1796–1865)
Ludwig Fulda
Ludwig Fulda
thumb|200px|Ludwig FuldaLudwig Anton Salomon Fulda was a German writer and a poet with a strong social commitment.-Biography:...

, actually Ludwig Anton Salomon (1862–1939)
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke
Cornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...

 (born 1958)

G

Philipp Galen, actually Philipp Lange (1813–1899)
Ludwig Ganghofer
Ludwig Ganghofer
Ludwig Ganghofer was a German writer who became famous for his homeland novels.-Biography:Born in Kaufbeuren, he graduated from a gymnasium in 1873 and subsequently worked as a fitter in Augsburg engine works...

 (1855–1920)
Peter Gast (1854–1918)
Emanuel Geibel
Emanuel Geibel
Emanuel von Geibel , German poet and playwright, was born at Lübeck, the son of a pastor in the city.He was originally intended for his father's profession and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and romance philology. In 1838 he accepted a...

 (1815–1884)
Arno Geiger
Arno Geiger
Arno Geiger is an Austrian novelist.Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993...

 (born 1968)
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.-Biography:...

 (1715–1769)
Wilhelm Genazino
Wilhelm Genazino
Wilhelm Genazino is a German journalist and author.In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the...

 (born 1943)
Stefan George
Stefan George
Stefan Anton George was a German poet, editor, and translator.-Biography:George was born in Bingen in Germany in 1868. He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. He began to publish poetry in the 1890s,...

 (1868–1933)
Paul Gerhardt
Paul Gerhardt
Paul Gerhardt was a German hymn writer.-Biography:Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Fürstenschule in Grimma. The school was known for its pious atmosphere and stern discipline...

 (1602–1676)
Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt was a German writer, painter, caricaturist and poet.-Life:Robert Gernhardt studied Painting and German in Stuttgart and Berlin. He was one of the regular contributors to the satirical magazine Pardon, where he did the section Welt im Spiegel together with F. K. Waechter and F. W...

 (1937–2006)
Friedrich Gerstäcker
Friedrich Gerstäcker
Friedrich Gerstäcker was a German traveler and novelist.-Biography:He was the son of Friedrich Gerstäcker , a celebrated opera singer. After being apprenticed to a commercial house, he learnt farming in Saxony...

 (1816–1872)
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg was a German poet and critic.Gerstenberg was born in Tondern, Schleswig. After attending school in Husum and at the Christianeum Hamburg, and studying law at the University of Jena, he entered the Danish military service and took part in the Russian campaign of 1762...

 (1737–1823)
Kerstin Gier (born 1966)
Johannes Gilhoff (1861–1930)
Franz Karl Ginzkey
Franz Karl Ginzkey
Franz Karl Ginzkey was an austro-Hungarian officer, poet and writer...

 (1871–1963)
Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604–1670)
Friedrich Glauser
Friedrich Glauser
Friedrich Glauser was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion...

 (1896–1938)
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim was a German poet.- Life :Gleim was born at Ermsleben near Halberstadt. Having studied law at the University of Halle he became secretary to Prince William of Brandenburg-Schwedt at Berlin, where he made the acquaintance of Ewald von Kleist, whose devoted friend he...

 (1719–1803)
Albrecht Goes
Albrecht Goes
Albrecht Goes was a German writer and Protestant theologian.-Life:Albrecht Goes was born in 1908 in the Protestant rectory in Langenbeutingen. He spent his childhood there, but his mother died in 1911 and in 1915 he went to live with his grandmother in Berlin-Steglitz. He went to school there...

 (1908–2000)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...

 (1749–1832)
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Maria Goetz is a German author, playwright and essayist.After studying History and Medicine in Munich and earning a grade in each, he soon concentrated on his writing....

 (born 1954)
Melchior Goldast
Melchior Goldast
Melchior Goldast ab Haiminsfeld was a Swiss writer and an industrious though uncritical collector of documents relating to the medieval history and constitution of Germany....

 (1578–1635)
Claire Goll
Claire Goll
Claire Goll was a German-French writer and journalist. She was the spouse of Yvan Goll....

 (1891–1977)
Yvan Goll
Yvan Goll
Yvan Goll, born Isaac Lange , was a French-German poet who was perfectly bilingual and wrote in both French and German...

 (1891–1950)
Bogumil Goltz
Bogumil Goltz
Bogumil Goltz was a German humorist and satirist known mostly for his work Buch der Kindheit .-Biography:...

 (1801–1870)
Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter
Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter
Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter was a German poet and dramatist.He was born at Gotha. After the completion of his university course at Göttingen, he was appointed second director of the Gotha Archive. He subsequently went to Wetzlar, the seat of the imperial law courts, as secretary to the...

 (1746–1797)
Gottfried von Straßburg (died c. 1210)
Jeremias Gotthelf
Jeremias Gotthelf
Albert Bitzius , Swiss novelist, best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf, was born at Murten, where his father was pastor.In 1804 the home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental...

, actually Albert Bitzius (1797–1854)
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Johann Christoph Gottsched was a German author and critic.-Biography:He was born at Juditten near Königsberg, Brandenburg-Prussia, the son of a Lutheran clergyman...

 (1700–1766)
Johann Nikolaus Götz
Johann Nikolaus Götz
Johann Nikolaus Götz was a German poet from Worms.-Biography:He studied theology at Halle , where he became intimate with the poets Johann W. L. Gleim and Johann Peter Uz, acted for some years as military chaplain, and afterwards filled various other ecclesiastical offices...

 (1721–1781)
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist.Born in Detmold, Lippe, he wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony. He suffered from an unhappy marriage...

 (1801–1836)
Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf was a German author.He wrote several socialist-anarchist novels and narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical.In the beginning Graf wrote under his real name Oskar Graf...

 (1894–1967)
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...

 (born 1927)
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Ferdinand Gregorovius was a German historian who specialized in the medieval history of Rome. He is best known for Wanderjahre in Italien, his account of the walks he took through Italy in the 1850s, and the monumental Die Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter , a classic for Medieval and early...

 (1821–1891)
Felix Paul Greve (1879–1948)
Friedrich Griese
Friedrich Griese
Friedrich Griese was a German novelist. He was associated with the nationalist literary movement during the Third Reich.Griese wrote mostly about peasant life in northern Germany. His most important books were written before the advent of the Nazi government in 1933, so he cannot be considered...

 (1890–1975)
Franz Stephan Griese (1889–?)
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.-Biography:...

 (1791–1872)
Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy...

 (1785–1863)
Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm.-Life and work:...

 (1786–1859)
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was a German author.-Biography:Grimmelshausen was born at Gelnhausen. At the age of ten he was kidnapped by Hessian soldiery, and in their midst tasted the adventures of military life in the Thirty Years' War...

 (1621–1676)
Hans Gross
Hans Gross
Hans Gustav Adolf Gross was an Austrian criminal jurist and an examining magistrate. He is believed to be the creator of the field of criminalistics; he taught as a professor at the Chernivtsi University, Prague University and the University of Graz, and established the Institute of Criminology in...

 (1893–1981)
Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth , Low German poet, was born at Heide in Schleswig-Holstein.After studying at the seminary in Tondern , he became a teacher at the girls school in his native village, but in 1847 went to Kiel to qualify for a higher educational post. Ill health interrupted his studies and it was not...

 (1819–1899)
Anastasius Grün, actually Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg (1806–1876)
Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist.Asteroid 496 Gryphia is named in his honour.-Life and career:...

 (1616–1664)
Martin Grzimek
Martin Grzimek
Martin Grzimek, German author, born in Trutzhain in 1950.Having spent a number of years living and working in South America and the U.S., he now resides in a village near Heidelberg....

 (born 1950)
Martin Gumpert
Martin Gumpert
Martin Gumpert was a Jewish German-born American physician and writer.In 1936, he went to America. In 1942, he became a US citizen. Gumpert provided the German author Thomas Mann with information about the course of the disease of syphilis...

 (1897–1955)
Johann Christian Günther
Johann Christian Günther
Johann Christian Günther was a German poet from Striegau in Lower Silesia. After attending the gymnasium at Schweidnitz, he was sent in 1715 by his father, a country doctor, to study medicine at Wittenberg; but he was idle and dissipated, had no taste for the profession chosen for him, and came to...

 (1659–1723)
Albert Paris Gütersloh
Albert Paris Gütersloh
Albert Paris Gütersloh was an Austrian painter and writer.Gütersloh worked as actor, director, and stage designer before he focused on painting in 1921....

, actually Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber (1887–1973)
Karl Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century.-Life:...

 (1811–1878)

H

Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer , was a successful German author.-Life:...

 (1816–1877)
Erich Hackl
Erich Hackl
Erich Hackl is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Czech, though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world...

 (born 1954)
Peter Hacks
Peter Hacks
Peter Hacks was a German playwright, author, and essayist.Hacks was born in Breslau , Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht...

 (1928–2003)
Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner
Sebastian Haffner was a German journalist and author. He wrote mainly about recent German history....

 (1907–1999)
Friedrich von Hagedorn
Friedrich von Hagedorn
Friedrich von Hagedorn , German poet, was born at Hamburg, where his father, a man of scientific and literary taste, was Danish minister....

 (1708–1754)
Albrecht von Haller
Albrecht von Haller
Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet.-Early life:He was born of an old Swiss family at Bern. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had the more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind...

 (1708–1777)
Friedrich Halm, actually Eligius von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806–1871)
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann was a noted German philosopher, a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment.-Biography:...

 (1730–1788)
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856)
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...

 (born 1942)
Ferdinand Hanusch
Ferdinand Hanusch
Ferdinand Hanusch was an Austrian socialist politician....

 (1866–1923)
Thea von Harbou
Thea von Harbou
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German actress, author and film director of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria.-Early work:...

 (1888–1954)
Ernst Hardt
Ernst Hardt
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Hardt , born Ernst Stöckhardt,, was a German playwright, poet, and novelist.Hardt was born in Graudenz, West Prussia ....

, actually Ernst Stöckhardt (1876–1947)
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer
Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , German poet and translator, was born in Nuremberg.He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently traveled through the Netherlands, England, France and Italy...

 (1607–1658)
Otto Erich Hartleben
Otto Erich Hartleben
Otto Erich Hartleben was a German poet and dramatist from Clausthal, known for his translation of Pierrot Lunaire.-Childhood, Education and Marriage:...

 (1864–1905)
Peter Härtling
Peter Härtling
Peter Härtling is a German writer and poet. He is a member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and he received the Großes Verdienstkreuz for his major contribution to German literature.-Biography:...

 (born 1933)
Moritz Hartmann
Moritz Hartmann
Moritz Hartmann was a German poet and author.- Biography :Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik in Bohemia....

 (1821–1872)
Petra Hartmann
Petra Hartmann
Petra Hartmann is a German literature scientist, journalist and author.-Life:Petra Hartmann grew up in Sillium, a little village near Hildesheim. She visited a humanistic secondary school in Hildesheim and studied German language and literature, philosophy and politics at the University of Hannover...

 (born 1970)
Hartmann von Aue
Hartmann von Aue
Hartmann von Aue was a Middle High German poet. He introduced the courtly romance into German literature and, with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg, was one of the three great epic poets of Middle High German literature...

 (c. 1170 – c. 1220)
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hasenclever was a German Expressionist poet and playwright.-Biography:...

 (1890–1940)
Wilhelm Hasenclever
Wilhelm Hasenclever
Wilhelm Hasenclever was a German politician. He was an originally a tanner by trade, and later became a journalist and author...

 (1837–1889)
Wilhelm Hauff
Wilhelm Hauff
Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist.-Early life:Hauff was born in Stuttgart, the son of August Friedrich Hauff, a secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs, and Hedwig Wilhelmine Elsaesser Hauff...

 (1802–1827)
Eberhard Werner Happel
Eberhard Werner Happel
Eberhard Werner Happel was a German author, novelist, journalist and polymath.Happel wrote both fiction and nonfiction...

 (1647-1690)
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...

 (1862–1946)
Richard Hauptmann (1908–1970)
Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer
Marlen Haushofer née Marie Helene Frauendorfer was an Austrian author, most famous for her only novel translated into English, The Wall. Haushofer was born in Frauenstein in Upper Austria. She attended Catholic boarding school in Linz, and went on to study German literature in Vienna, as well as...

 (1920–1970)
Otto Hauser (1876–1944)
Albrecht Haushofer
Albrecht Haushofer
Albrecht Georg Haushofer was a German geographer, diplomat and author.Albrecht Haushofer's father was the retired General and geographer Karl Haushofer . His mother Martha . Albrecht had one brother, Heinz.Albrecht studied geography and history at Munich University...

 (1903–1945)
Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.-Early biography:Raoul Hausmann was...

 (1886–1971)
Adolf Hausrath, pseudonym George Taylor (1837–1909)
Julius Hay (1900–1975)
Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863)
Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer and dialectal poet, most famous for his collection of alemannic tales Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes .-Life:...

 (1760–1826)
Friedrich Heer
Friedrich Heer
Friedrich Heer was a historian born in Vienna. He received a PhD at the University in Vienna in 1938. Even as a student he came into conflict with pan-German thinking historians as a staunch opponent of National Socialism....

 (1916–1983)
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder by composers such as Robert Schumann...

 (1797–1856)
Helme Heine
Helme Heine
Helme Heine is a German writer, children's book author, illustrator and designer. He is the brother of Ernst Wilhelm Heine...

 (born 1941)
Willi Heinrich
Willi Heinrich
-Biography:Willi Heinrich was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, and during the Second World War he fought the Russians in the Eastern Front with the 1st Battalion 228th Jäger Regiment of the 101st Jäger Division, the infantry unit of the characters of Das Geduldige Fleisch , his most famous...

 (1920–2005)
Heinrich von Morungen
Heinrich von Morungen
Heinrich von Morungen or Henry of Morungen was a German Minnesinger.-Life:Almost nothing about his life can be deduced from Heinrich's songs. Possibly he is identical with the Hendricus de Morungen who is documented in Thuringia...

 (c. 1200–1222)
Heinrich von Mügeln (c. 1319 – c. 1380)
Heinrich von Veldeke
Heinrich von Veldeke
Hendrik van Veldeke is the first writer in the Low Countries that we know by name who wrote in a European language other than Latin. He was born in Veldeke, a hamlet on the territory of Spalbeek, which has been a community of Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium, since 1977...

 (c. 1150–1190/1200)
Helmut Heißenbüttel
Helmut Heißenbüttel
Helmut Heißenbüttel was a German novelist and poet. Among Heißenbüttel's works are Das Textbuch and Marlowe's Ende . He received the important Georg Büchner Prize in 1969...

 (1921–1996)
Kurt Held
Kurt Held
Kurt Kläber was a Jewish Communist and writer displaced from Germany during the Second World War. He has also been published under the pseudonym Kurt Held...

, actually Kurt Kläber (1897–1959)
Kerstin Hensel (born 1961)
Luise Hensel
Luise Hensel
Luise Hensel was a German religious author and poet.- Life :Luise Hensel, the sister of Wilhelm Hensel and the sister-in-law of the composer of Fanny Mendelssohn was born on March 30, 1798 in the small town of Linum in the German Federal State of Brandenburg. After the death of her father in 1809,...

 (1798–1876)
Wilhelm Herchenbach
Wilhelm Herchenbach
Wilhelm Herchenbach was a 19th century German author.Having attended school in Neunkirchen, Wilhelm Herchenbach decided to become a teacher himself...

 (1818–1889)
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.-Biography:...

 (1744–1803)
Judith Hermann
Judith Hermann
- Life :Hermann was born in West Berlin in the St. Joseph hospital. She grew up in the West Berlin neighborhood of Neukölln and remained there until the mid-nineties, when she moved to the district of Prenzlauer Berg in the former East Berlin....

 (born 1970)
Stephan Hermlin
Stephan Hermlin
Stephan Hermlin , real name Rudolf Leder, was a German author. He wrote, among other things, stories, essays, translations, and lyric poetry and was one of the more well-known authors of former East Germany.- Life :...

 (1915–1997)
Georg Herwegh
Georg Herwegh
Georg Friedrich Rudolph Theodor Herwegh was a German revolutionary poet.-Biography:He was born in Stuttgart on 31 May 1817, the son of an innkeeper...

 (1817–1875)
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl
Theodor Herzl , born Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl was an Ashkenazi Jew Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.-Early life:...

 (1860–1904)
Wilhelm Herzog
Wilhelm Herzog
Wilhelm Herzog was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist.- Life :...

 (1884–1960)
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...

 (1877–1962)
Helius Eobanus Hessus
Helius Eobanus Hessus
Helius Eobanus Hessus was a German Latin poet born at Halgehausen in Hesse-Kassel ....

, actually Eoban Koch (1488–1540)
Georg Heym
Georg Heym
Georg Heym was a German writer. He is particularly known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism.- Life :...

 (1887–1912)
Stefan Heym
Stefan Heym
Helmut Flieg was a German-Jewish writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949–1990, German Democratic Republic...

, actually Hellmuth Flieg (1913–2001)
Paul Heyse (1830–1914)
Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig
Wolfgang Hilbig was a German author. He wrote poetry and novels from 1976 to 2002. He was also a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.-References:...

 (1941–2007)
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a German author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing.-Biography:...

 (1916–1991)
Kurt Hiller
Kurt Hiller
Kurt Hiller also known as Keith Lurr and Klirr was a German essayist of high stylistic originality and a political journalist from a Jewish family. A socialist, he was deeply influenced by Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer, despising the philosophy of G. W. F...

 (1885–1972)
Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741–1796)
Rolf Hochhuth
Rolf Hochhuth
Rolf Hochhuth is a German author and playwright. He is best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy and remains a controversial figure for his plays and other public comments, such as his insinuation of Pope Pius XII's sympathies for Hitler's extermination of the Jews in the 1963 play The Deputy and...

 (born 1931)
Fritz Hochwälder
Fritz Hochwälder
Fritz Hochwälder also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Literature in 1966...

 (1911–1986)
Jakob van Hoddis
Jakob van Hoddis
Jakob van Hoddis was the pen name of a German-Jewish expressionist poet Hans Davidsohn, of which name "Van Hoddis" is an anagram...

, actually Hans Davidsohn (1887–1942)
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822)
Heinrich Hoffmann
Heinrich Hoffmann (author)
Heinrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter, an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving.- Early life and education:...

 (1809–1894)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
' , who used Hoffmann von Fallersleben as his pen name, was a German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", its third stanza now being the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.- Biography :Hoffmann was born in Fallersleben , Brunswick-Lüneburg,...

 (1798–1874)
Gert Hofmann
Gert Hofmann
Gert Hofmann was a German writer and professor of German literature. Hofmann was born in Limbach, Saxony and died in Erding ....

 (1931–1993)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal ; , was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.-Early life:...

 (1874–1929)
Robert Hohlbaum
Robert Hohlbaum
Robert Hohlbaum was an Austrian-German librarian, writer, and playwright. He was born as an industrialist Alois Hohlbaum in what is now Krnov in the Czech Republic, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and known by its German name, Jägerndorf.Hohlbaum studied at Graz and Vienna and received...

 (1886–1955)
Franz Hohler
Franz Hohler
Franz Hohler was born on 1 March 1943 in Biel/Bienne. He lives as an author and cabaret performer in Zurich. He is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, stories and novels. In 2002 he received the Kassel...

 (born 1943)
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...

 (1770–1843)
Karl von Holtei (1798–1880)
Hans Egon Holthusen
Hans Egon Holthusen
Hans Egon Holthusen was a German lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar.Holthusen was born in Rendsburg the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, the son of a Protestant clergyman...

 (1913–1997)
Arno Holz
Arno Holz
Arno Holz was a German naturalist poet and dramatist. He is best known for his poetry collection Phantasus .-Life and Works:...

 (1863–1929)
Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty
Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty
Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty was a German poet, known especially for his ballads.Hölty was born in the village of Mariensee in Hanover, where his father was pastor. In 1769 he went to study theology at the University of Göttingen...

 (1748–1776)
Barbara Honigmann
Barbara Honigmann
Barbara Honigmann is a German author and artist.Barbara Honigmann is the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her mother, Litzi Friedman, was the first wife of Kim Philby and her father, Georg Honigmann, was the chief...

 (born 1949)
Hans von Hopfen
Hans von Hopfen
Hans von Hopfen was a German poet and novelist.Hopfen was born in Munich. He studied law, and in 1853, having shown marked poetical promise, he was received into the circle of young poets whom King Maximilian II had gathered round him, and thereafter devoted himself to literature...

, actually Hans Mayer (1835–1904)
Ödön von Horvath
Ödön von Horváth
Edmund Josef von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist...

 (1901–1938)
Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780 – 856)
Ricarda Huch
Ricarda Huch
Ricarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as a historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.- Life :...

 (1864–1947)
Peter Huchel
Peter Huchel
Peter Huchel , born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet.-Life:Huchel was born in Lichterfelde near Berlin. From 1923 to 1926 Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg and Vienna. Between 1927 and 1930 he travelled to France, Romania, Hungary and Turkey...

 (1903–1981)
Norbert Hummelt
Norbert Hummelt
Norbert Hummelt is a German poet, essayist and translator.Hummelt studied German studies und English studies in Cologne until 1990. He worked together with Marcel Beyer and like him he started as a rather experimental writer, following Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and Thomas Kling. From 1988 to 1992 he...

 (born 1962)
Christian Friedrich Hunold
Christian Friedrich Hunold
Christian Friedrich Hunold was a German author who wrote under the pseudonym Menantes.- Biography :...

 (1681–1721)
Thomas Hürlimann
Thomas Hürlimann
Thomas Hürlimann is a Swiss playwright and novelist.His 1989 novel Das Gartenhaus was published as The Couple in the United States in 1991.-External links:*. Goethe-Instituts Website...

 (born 1950)
Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Hanns Dieter Hüsch was a German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator....

 (1925–2005)
Ulrich von Hutten
Ulrich von Hutten
Ulrich von Hutten was a German scholar, poet and reformer. He was an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church and a bridge between the humanists and the Lutheran Reformation...

 (1488–1523)

J

Heinrich Eduard Jacob
Heinrich Eduard Jacob
Heinrich Eduard Jacob was a German and American journalist and author. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised partly in Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the Nazi Party...

 (1889–1967)
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, socialite and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi...

 (1743–1819)
Johann Georg Jacobi
Johann Georg Jacobi
Johann Georg Jacobi was a German poet.The elder brother of the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Johann Georg was born at Pempelfort near Düsseldorf. He studied theology at Göttingen and jurisprudence at Helmstedt, and was appointed, in 1766, professor of philosophy in Halle. In this year he...

 (1740–1814)
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952....

 (1925–2000)
Jans der Enikel
Jans der Enikel
Jans der Enikel, i.e. "Jans the Grandson" was a Viennese poet and historian of the late 13th century. He wrote a Weltchronik and a Fürstenbuch , both in Middle High German verse....

Tommy Jaud
Tommy Jaud
Tommy Jaud is a German author, scriptwriter, and freelance author for many television productions.-Life:...

 (born 1970)
Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763-1825)
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...

 (born 1946)
Walter Jens
Walter Jens
Walter Jens is a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor, and writer.In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denies having applied for membership actively and claims having been forced to join the party...

 (born 1923)
Wilhelm Jensen
Wilhelm Jensen
Wilhelm Hermann Jensen was a German writer and poet.-Biography:Wilhelm Jensen was born at Heiligenhafen in Holstein , the natural son of Swenn Hans Jensen , the Mayor of the city of Kiel, later administrator of the German/Danish island of Sylt, who came of old patrician Frisian stock...

 (1837–1911)
Johannes von Tepl
Johannes von Tepl
Johannes von Tepl , also known as Johannes von Saaz , was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German ....

 (c. 1350 – c. 1415)
Albrecht von Johansdorf
Albrecht von Johansdorf
Albrecht von Johansdorf was a Minnesänger and a minor noble in the service of Wolfger of Erla. Documents indicate that his life included the years 1185 to 1209. He may have known Walther von der Vogelweide and is believed to have participated in a crusade...

 (c. 1185 – c. 1209)
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson was a German writer, editor, and scholar.- Life :Johnson was born in Kammin in Pomerania . His father was a Swedish-descent peasant from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pommern...

 (1934–1984)
Hanns Johst
Hanns Johst
Hanns Johst was a German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate.Hanns Johst was born in Seehausen as the son of an elementary school teacher. He grew up in Oschatz and Leipzig. As a juvenile he planned to become a missionary. When he was 17 years old he worked as an auxiliary in a Bethel Institution...

 (1890–1978)
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger was a German writer. In addition to his novels and diaries, he is well known for Storm of Steel, an account of his experience during World War I. Some say he was one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I...

 (1895–1998)
Peter Stephan Jungk
Peter Stephan Jungk
Peter Stephan Jungk is an American, German speaking novelist.-Life:Peter Stephan Jungk was born to futurologist Robert Jungk. He grew up in the United States and after 1957 in Vienna. From 1968 to 1970 he attended the Robert-Steiner-School in Berlin. He lived in Salzburg from 1970 till he took his...

 (born 1952)
Robert Jungk
Robert Jungk
Robert Jungk , also known as Robert Baum and Robert Baum-Jungk, was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons....

 (1913–1994)
Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling
Johann Heinrich Jung
Johann Heinrich Jung , best known by his assumed name of Heinrich Stilling, was a German author.-Life:He was born in the village of Grund in Westphalia...

, actually Johann Heinrich Jung (1740–1817)

K

Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...

 (1883–1924)
Friedrich Kaiser
Friedrich Kaiser
Friedrich Kaiser was an Austrian playwright. During his youth he was one of the most popular people in Vienna. Some of his plays were "Hans Hasenkopf" ; "Wer wird Amtmann" , "Palais und Irrenhaus" , "Des Krämers Töchterlein" , "Pater Abraham a Sancta Clara" as well as many others...

 (1814–1874)
Georg Kaiser
Georg Kaiser
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, was a German dramatist.-Biography:Kaiser was born at Magdeburg....

 (1878–1945)
Max Kalbeck
Max Kalbeck
Max Kalbeck was a German writer, critic and translator.-Education:Kalbeck studied music in Munich. In 1875 he became the music-critic for the Schlesische Zeitung and assistant director of the Breslau Museum...

 (1850–1921)
Mascha Kaléko
Mascha Kaléko
Mascha Kaléko, born Golda Malka Aufen on June 7, 1907 in Chrzanów, Austria ; died January 21, 1975 in Zürich) was a Jewish German language poet.- Biography :Her family moved from Galicia to Germany after World War I....

 (1907–1975)
David Kalisch
David Kalisch
David Kalisch was a German playwright and humorist.-Early life:...

 (1820–1872)
Wladimir Kaminer
Wladimir Kaminer
Wladimir Kaminer is a Russian-born German short story writer, columnist, and disc jockey of Jewish origin.Kaminer was born in Moscow, and after initially training as an audio engineer for theatre and radio, then studied dramaturgy at the Moscow Institute of Theater...

 (born 1967)
Hermann Kant
Hermann Kant
Hermann Kant is a German writer born in Hamburg noted for his writings during the time of East Germany. He won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1967.-References:...

 (born 1926)
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

 (1724–1804)
Hellmuth Karasek
Hellmuth Karasek
Hellmuth Karasek is a German journalist, literary critic, novelist and the author of many books on literature and film.Karasek was born in Brno. In 1944, when he was ten, his family escaped from Bielsko to Bernburg...

 (born 1934)
Ulrich Karger
Ulrich Karger
Ulrich Karger is an author and teacher of religion at a school for speech disabled children in Berlin.His publications are aimed at children and adults...

 (born 1957)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets...

 (1901–1974)
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.He was known in his professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of his doctoral students, and admired the man greatly. He became...

 (1719–1800)
Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.-Dresden 1899–1919:...

 (1899–1974)
Leo Katz (1892–1954)
Walter Kaufmann
Walter Kaufmann (author)
Walter Kaufmann is a German writer.Walter Kaufmann was the adopted son of a Jewish lawyer in Germany. He grew up in Duisburg, where he attended Steinbart High School. Later, his adoptive parents were captured by the Nazis and were murdered in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp...

 (born 1924)
Helmut Käutner (1908–1980)
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a German language author of both Austrian and German nationality. His work Die Vermessung der Welt is the best selling novel in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985...

 (born 1975)
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller , a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry .- Life and work :...

 (1819–1890)
Hans Peter Keller
Hans Peter Keller
Hans-Peter Keller was a German poet who authored several poem collections, e.g. Auch Gold rostet or Panoptikum aus dem Augenwinkel . In the 1960s Hans-Peter Keller was teacher for literature at the vocational school for librarians in Düsseldorf....

 (born 1915)
Werner Keller (born 1930)
Friedrich Kellner
Friedrich Kellner
August Friedrich Kellner was a mid-level official in Germany who worked as a justice inspector in Mainz and Laubach. During the First World War, Kellner was an infantryman in a Hessian regiment...

 (1885–1970)
Walter Kempowski
Walter Kempowski
Walter Kempowski was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle and the monumental Echolot , a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War.-Childhood :Walter Kempowski was born in...

 (1929–2007)
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican...

 (1571–1630)
Justinus Kerner
Justinus Kerner
Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner was a German poet and medical writer.-Life:He was born at Ludwigsburg in Württemberg...

 (1786–1862)
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr , born Alfred Kempner, was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ....

, actually Alfred Kempner (1867–1948)
Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr is a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the...

 (born 1923)
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun was a German author noteworthy both for her portrayals of life in the Weimar Republic as well as the early years of the Nazi Germany era.-Biography:...

 (1905–1982)
Eduard von Keyserling
Eduard von Keyserling
Eduard Graf von Keyserling was a Baltic German fiction writer and dramatist and an exponent of literary Impressionism.-Biography:...

 (1855–1918)
Johann Gottfried Kinkel (1815–1882)
Heinar Kipphardt (1922–1982)
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch is a German poet.She was born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony. She changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's anti-semitism. She studied biology in Halle and literature at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In...

 (born 1935)
Hans Hellmut Kirst
Hans Hellmut Kirst
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a distinguished German novelist and the author of 46 books, many of which were translated into English...

 (1914–1989)
Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. Known as the The raging reporter from Prague, Kisch was noted for his development of literary reportage and his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.- Biography :Kisch was born into a wealthy, German-speaking...

  (1885–1948)
Karin Kiwus
Karin Kiwus
Karin Kiwus is a German poet from Berlin. After studying journalism, German studies and politology she worked as an editor as well as a university teacher in Austin, Texas. She was the domestic partner of the German film director Frank Beyer until his death in 2006.-Works:*"Von beiden Seiten der...

 (born 1942)
Johann Klaj
Johann Klaj
Johann Klaj , German poet, was born at Meissen in Saxony.After studying theology at Wittenberg he went to Nuremberg as a "candidate for holy orders," and there, in conjunction with Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, founded in 1644 the literary society known as the Pegnitz order.In 1647 he received an...

 (1616–1656)
Ewald Christian von Kleist
Ewald Christian von Kleist
Ewald Christian von Kleist was a German poet and officer.-Life:Kleist was born at Zeblin, near Köslin in Farther Pomerania, to the von Kleist family of cavalry leaders...

 (1715–1759)
Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...

 (1777–1811)
Jochen Klepper
Jochen Klepper
Jochen Klepper was a German writer, poet and journalist.-Life:Klepper was born in Beuthen an der Oder , Silesia, the son of a Lutheran minister...

 (1903–1942)
Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann
Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann was a German writer. He is generally agreed to be the author of the 1804 novel Nachtwachen under the pseudonym Bonaventura.-Life:...

 (1777–1831)
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a German dramatist and novelist.-Biography:Klinger was born of humble parentage in Frankfurt. His father died when he was a child, and his early years were a hard struggle. He was enabled, however, in 1774 to enter the university of Gießen, where he studied law...

 (1752–1831)
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was a German poet.-Biography:Klopstock was born at Quedlinburg, the eldest son of a lawyer.Both in his birthplace and on the estate of Friedeburg on the Saale, which his father later rented, young Klopstock passed a happy childhood; and more attention having been given...

 (1724–1803)
Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge is an author and film director.-Early life, education and early career:Kluge was born in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....

 (born 1932)
Ruth Klüger
Ruth Klüger
Ruth Klüger is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine. She was born in Vienna and, after the Nazi annexation of Austria, she was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp together with her mother at the age of 11; her father had tried to flee abroad, but was...

 (born 1931)
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.-Early years:...

 (1925–2002)
Werner Koch
Werner Koch
Werner Koch is a German free software author. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU Privacy Guard . He was also Head of Office and German Vice-Chancellor of the Free Software Foundation Europe....

 (1926–1992)
Matthias Koeppel (born 1937)
Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen is one of the best known German authors of the post-war period.-Life:Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald to a seamstress. His father never accepted the fatherhood formally...

 (1906–1996)
Edlef Köppen (1893–1939)
Gerhard Kofler
Gerhard Kofler
Gerhard Kofler was an Austrian-Italian writer. He wrote poetry and essays in both Italian and German....

 (1949–2005)
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier is a contemporary Austrian writer and musician.He studied Politics and German at the University of Marburg, Germany, and Mathematics and Philosophy at the universities in Giessen and Frankfurt, Germany...

 (born 1949)
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.-Biography:...

 (1886–1980)
Gertrud Kolmar
Gertrud Kolmar
Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner , known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer. She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi Final Solution. Though she was a cousin of Walter Benjamin, little is known...

 (1894–1943)
Leopold Kompert
Leopold Kompert
Leopold Kompert was a Bohemian Jewish writer. He was born in Mnichovo Hradiště , Bohemia, and died in Vienna....

 (1822–1886)
Konrad von Würzburg
Konrad von Würzburg
Konrad von Würzburg was the chief German poet of the second half of the 13th century.As little is known of his life as that of any other epic poet of the age. By birth probably a native of Würzburg, he seems to have spent part of his life in Strassburg and his later years in Basel, where he died...

 (c. 1220–1287)
Heinz G. Konsalik
Heinz G. Konsalik
Heinz G. Konsalik, pseudonym of Heinz Günther was a German novelist. Konsalik was his mother's maiden name.During the Second World War he was a war correspondent that provided many experiences for his novels....

, actually Heinz Günther (1921–1999)
August Kopisch
August Kopisch
August Kopisch , was a German poet and painter.-Biography:Kopisch was born on 26 May 1799 in Breslau, Prussia...

 (1799–1853)
Paul Kornfeld
Paul Kornfeld (playwright)
Paul Kornfeld was a Czech-born German-language Jewish writer whose expressionist plays and scholarly treatises on the theory of drama earned him a specialized niche in influencing contemporary intellectual discourse....

 (1889–1942)
August von Kotzebue
August von Kotzebue
August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist.One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften...

 (1761–1819)
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist and journalist.-Early life:Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada...

 (born 1966)
Robert Kraft
Robert Kraft
Robert K. Kraft is an American business magnate. He is the Chairman and was the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio...

 (1869–1916)
Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, German culture, and German and Austrian...

 (1874–1936)
Helmut Krausser
Helmut Krausser
Helmut Krausser is a German author, poet and playwright who was born in Esslingen am Neckar.-Biography:Krausser lives in Munich and Berlin. He married Beatrice Renauer in 1991.In 1993 he received the Toucan Prize....

 (born 1964)
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz
Franz Xaver Kroetz is a German author, playwright, actor and film director. His plays have been translated and performed internationally.-Life:Kroetz attended an acting school in Munich and the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna...

 (born 1946)
Friedrich Adolf Krummacher
Friedrich Adolf Krummacher
Friedrich Adolf Krummacher was a German Reformed theologian. He was born at Tecklenburg, Westphalia.Having studied theology at Lingen and Halle, he became successively rector of the grammar school at Moers , professor of theology at Duisburg , preacher at Krefeld, and afterwards at Kettwig,...

 (1767–1845)
James Krüss
James Krüss
James Krüss was a German poet and writer.James Jacob Hinrich Krüss was born as the son of the electrician Ludwig Krüss and his wife Margaretha Krüss on Heligoland. In 1941, during World War II, the inhabitants of the island were evacuated to Arnstadt, Thuringia, later to Hertigswalde, near...

 (1926–1997)
Alfred Kubin
Alfred Kubin
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism.-Biography:...

 (1877–1959)
Adam Kuckhoff
Adam Kuckhoff
Adam Kuckhoff was a German writer, journalist, and resistance fighter in the Third Reich....

 (1887–1943)
Johannes Kuen (1606–1675)
Franz Theodor Kugler (1808–1858)
Johann Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.-Biography :Kuhnau was born in Geising, Saxony. He grew up in a religious Lutheran family. At age nine, he auditioned successfully for the Kreuzschule in Dresden...

 (1660–1722)
Michael Kumpfmüller
Michael Kumpfmüller
Michael Kumpfmüller is a German writer and former journalist.-Biography:Kumpfmüller was raised in Unterschleißheim near Munich. After graduating from high school in Garching in 1980 he moved to Tübingen. He attended the Leibniz Kolleg for a one year course in General studies...

 (born 1961)
Johann Kunckel (1630–1703)
Thor Kunkel
Thor Kunkel
Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug fiends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany...

 (born 1963)
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under...

 (born 1933)
Elisar von Kupffer
Elisar von Kupffer
Elisar von Kupffer was an artist, anthologist, poet, historian, translator, and playwright. He used the pseudonym 'Elisarion' for much of his writing.He studied at St. Petersburg and then Berlin...

 (1872–1942)
Hermann Kurz
Hermann Kurz
Hermann Kurz was a German poet and novelist.He was born at Reutlingen. Having studied at the theological seminary at Maulbronn and at the University of Tübingen, he became assistant pastor at Ehningen...

 (1813–1873)
Isolde Kurz
Isolde Kurz
Isolde Kurz , was a German poet and short story writer.She was born at Stuttgart, the daughter of Hermann Kurz. She is highly regarded among lyric poets in Germany with her Gedichte and Neue Gedichte . Her short stories, Florentiner Novellen Isolde Kurz (December 21, 1853 - April 5, 1944), was a...

 (1853–1944)
Kurt Kusenberg
Kurt Kusenberg
Kurt Kusenberg was a German author of short stories.Kusenberg was born in Göteborg, Sweden.His father was an engineer who worked in various countries, so Kusenberg grew up in Lisboa, Portugal and also lived with his parents in North Africa for some time. He studied fine arts in Munich...

 (1904–1983)

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Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of communist anarchism and an avowed pacifist. Landauer is also known for his study and translations of William Shakespeare's works into German...

 (1870–1919)
Karl Heinrich Lang (1764–1835)
Carl Lange
Carl Lange
Carl Georg Lange was a Danish physician and psychologist. He and William James independently developed the James-Lange theory of emotion, which posits that all emotions are developed from, and can be reduced to, physiological reactions to stimuli. Unlike James, Lange specifically stated that...

 (1885–1959)
Friedrich Lange (1898–1976)
Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works....

 (born 1951)
Elisabeth Langgässer
Elisabeth Langgässer
Elisabeth Langgässer was a German author and teacher. She is known for lyrical poetry and novels...

, actually E. L. Hoffmann (1899–1950)
Sophie von La Roche
Sophie von La Roche
Maria Sophie von La Roche was a German novelist. She was born in Kaufbeuren and died in Offenbach am Main.-Biography:...

 (1731–1807)
Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler was a Jewish German poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.-Biography:Schüler was born in...

 (1869–1945)
Kurd Laßwitz
Kurd Laßwitz
Kurd Lasswitz was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called the father of German science fiction He sometimes used the pseudonym Velatus....

 (1848–1910)
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube , German dramatist, novelist and theatre-director, was born at Sprottau in Prussian Silesia.-Life:He studied theology at Halle and Breslau , and settled in Leipzig in 1832...

 (1806–1884)
Josef Lauff
Josef Lauff
Josef Lauff was a German poet and dramatist.He was born at Cologne, the son of a jurist. He was educated at Münster in Westphalia, and entering the army served as a lieutenant of artillery at Thorn and subsequently at Cologne, where he attained the rank of captain in 1890...

 (1855–1933)
Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.- Life :...

 (1915–1973)
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet and physiognomist.-Early life:Lavater was born at Zürich, and educated at the Gymnasium there, where J. J. Bodmer and J. J...

 (1741–1801)
Richard Leander, actually Richard von Volkmann (1830–1889)
Benjamin Lebert
Benjamin Lebert
Benjamin Lebert is a German author. He was born in Freiburg. His first novel Crazy, was published when Lebert was only 16 years old...

 (born 1982)
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays. She came from a Protestant background, but converted to Catholicism in 1926. Most of Gertrud's writings come after this conversion...

 (1876–1971)
Nikolaus Lenau
Nikolaus Lenau
Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau , was a German language Austrian poet.-Biography:...

 (1802–1850)
Ellen Lenneck
Ellen Lenneck
Ellen Lenneck was the writing pseudonym of Martha Julie Antoinette Helene Weichardt , a German author of novels and novellas...

, pseudonym for Helene Weichardt (1851–1880).
Michael Lentz
Michael Lentz
Michael Lentz is a German author, musician, and performer of experimental texts and sound poetry.He was the winner of the 2001 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his book Muttersterben....

 (born 1964)
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.-Life:...

 (1751–1792)
Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz
Siegfried Lenz is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth...

 (born 1926)
Paul Leppin
Paul Leppin
Paul Leppin was a 20th century Bohemian writer of German language, who was born and lived in Prague.Although he wrote in German, he was in close contact with Czech literature. He translated Czech books and wrote articles on Czech literature...

 (1879–1945)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia was an Austrian poet, novelist, dramaturgist and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poesy, psychological novels describing the intrusion of otherworldly or unreal experiences into reality, and recreational...

 (1897–1976)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...

 (1729–1781)
Reinhard Lettau
Reinhard Lettau
Reinhard Lettau was a German-American writer. He never used his middle name, Adolf, if he could avoid it. He emigrated to the US in the middle of the 1950s and was a professor for German Literature at the University of California, San Diego from 1967. He was an active member of the Group 47...

 (1929–1996)
Rahel Levin (1771–1833)
Fanny Lewald
Fanny Lewald
Fanny Lewald was a German Jewish author-Biography:She was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. When seventeen years of age she accepted Christianity. She traveled in the German Confederation, France and Italy...

 (1811–1889)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany...

 (1742–1799)
Herbert Lichtenfeld
Herbert Lichtenfeld
Herbert Lichtenfeld was one of the most successful television screenplay writers in Germany. He wrote over 300 film scripts. Many of his scripts were successful in Germany.-Life:...

 (1927–2001)
Alfred Lichtenstein
Alfred Lichtenstein (writer)
Alfred Lichtenstein was a German expressionist writer.Lichtenstein grew up in Berlin as the son of a manufacturer. He finished a study of law in Erlangen...

 (1889–1914)
Heinz Liepman (1905–1966)
Detlev von Liliencron
Detlev von Liliencron
Baron Detlev von Liliencron born Friedrich Adolf Axel Detlev Liliencron was a German lyric poet and novelist from Kiel, the son of Louis Freiherr von Liliencron and Adeline von Harten....

 (1844–1909)
Paul Lindau
Paul Lindau
Paul Lindau was a German dramatist and novelist.-Life and Works:Lindau was born in Magdeburg as the son of a Protestant pastor. He was educated at Halle, Leipzig, and Berlin. He spent five years in Paris to further his studies, acting meanwhile as foreign correspondent to German papers...

 (1839–1919)
Erich Loest
Erich Loest
Erich Loest German writer who was born in Mittweida, Saxony. He also writes under following pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß.- Works :* Jungen, die übrig blieben, Leipzig 1950...

 (born 1926)
Friedrich von Logau (1604–1655)
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
Daniel Caspar , also spelled Daniel Casper, and referred to from 1670 as Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein, was a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat, poet, and chief representative of the Second Silesian School.-Family:The Casper and/or Caspar family came from the Brieg principality, first...

 (1635–1683)
Hermann Löns
Hermann Löns
Hermann Löns was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Löns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs...

 (1866–1914)
Jakob Lorber
Jakob Lorber
Jakob Lorber was a Styrian Christian mystic and visionary who promoted liberal Universalism. He referred to himself as "God's scribe". He wrote that on 15 March 1840 he began hearing an 'inner voice' from the region of his heart and thereafter transcribed what it said...

 (1800–1864)
Rudolf Lorenzen
Rudolf Lorenzen
Rudolf Lorenzen is the author of the novel Anything But A Hero , about an ordinary German boy who grows up in pre-war Germany, serves in the German army during WWII and finds his way in the shipping business afterwards...

 (born 1922)
Hieronymus Lorm, actually Heinrich Landesmann (1821–1902)
Ernst Lothar
Ernst Lothar
Ernst Lothar was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer.He was born Ernst Lothar Müller, and as Müller is common German surname, he dropped it. His brother, Hans Müller-Einigen, went the other way and added a surname.-Biography:...

, actually Ernst Lothar Müller (1890–1974)
Rudolph Lothar (1865–1933)
Emil Ludwig
Emil Ludwig
Emil Ludwig was a German author, known for his biographies.-Biography:Emil Ludwig was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novella, but also worked as a journalist...

, actually Emil Cohn (1881–1948)
Otto Ludwig (1813–1865)
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...

 (1483–1546)

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Paul Maar
Paul Maar
Paul Maar is one of the most important modern German writers for children and young people. He is a novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.-Life:...

 (born 1937)
John Henry Mackay
John Henry Mackay
John Henry Mackay was an individualist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of Die Anarchisten and Der Freiheitsucher . Mackay was published in the United States in his friend Benjamin Tucker's magazine, Liberty...

 (1864–1933)
Josef Mahlmeister (born 1959)
Erika Mann
Erika Mann
Erika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann.-Life:...

 (1905–1969)
Golo Mann
Golo Mann
Golo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.-Life:...

 (1909–1994)
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann
Luiz Heinrich Mann was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of pre-World War II German society led to his exile in 1933.-Life and work:Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann...

 (1871–1950)
Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann
- Life and work :Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. He began writing short stories in 1924 and the following year became drama critic for a...

 (1906–1949)
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

 (1875–1955)
Hans Marchwitza
Hans Marchwitza
Hans Marchwitza was a German writer, proletarian poet, and communist.- Life :Marchwitza was the son of miner Thomas Marchwitza and his wife Thekla Maxisch, and was born in Scharley near Beuthen in Upper Silesia. Already at fourteen years old Marchwitza was working underground in the mines...

 (1890–1965)
Giwi Margwelaschwili
Giwi Margwelaschwili
Giwi Margwelaschwili is a German-language Georgian writer and philosopher.He is the son of the notable Georgian intellectual Tite Margwelaschwili, who moved to Germany after the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 and was chairman of the Georgian political emigre organization in Berlin...

 (born 1927)
Karl von Marinelli
Karl von Marinelli
Karl Edler von Marinelli was an actor, theatre manager and playwright....

 (1745–1803)
Monika Maron
Monika Maron
Monika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began...

 (born 1941)
Friedrich von Matthisson
Friedrich von Matthisson
Friedrich von Matthisson was a German poet.-Biography:He was born at Hohendodeleben near Magdeburg, the son of the village pastor, on the 23rd of January 1761. After studying theology and philology at the university of Halle, he was appointed in 1781 master at the classical school Philanthropinum...

 (1761–1831)
Fritz Mauthner
Fritz Mauthner
Fritz Mauthner was a journalist and philosopher from Horschitz, Bohemia.He became editor of the Berliner Tageblatts in 1895, but is best known for his Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache , published in three parts in 1901 and 1902...

 (1849–1923)
Karl May
Karl May
Karl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...

 (1842–1912)
Marius von Mayenburg
Marius von Mayenburg
Marius von Mayenburg is a German playwright, translator, and also instructor.In 1994, Mayenburg began his studies at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. His first play, Haarmann, was first performed at Baracke in 1996.Fireface , written in 1997, was his breakthrough as a dramatist...

 (born 1972)
Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist.- Life :...

 (1907–2001)
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Mechthild of Magdeburg , a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit described her visions of God....

 (1210 – c. 1285)
Christoph Meckel
Christoph Meckel
Christoph Meckel is a German author and graphic artist.- Life :Christoph Meckel spent his youth in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he attended Gymnasium. In 1954/55 he studied graphic art at the Academy of Art in Freiburg im Breisgau, and in 1956 at the Academy of Art in München.Since 1956 he has...

 (born 1935)
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was a Romanian-born German-language poet. A Jew, she was a victim of the Holocaust and died at the age of 18 in a labor camp in Ukraine....

 (1924–1942)
Walter Mehring
Walter Mehring
Walter Mehring was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country.-Biographical:...

 (1896–1981)
Paul Melissus, actually Schede (1539–1602)
Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer.As an undergraduate, Menasse studied in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis "Der Typus des Außenseiters im Literaturbetrieb...

 (born 1954)
Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin...

 (born 1970)
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah is indebted...

 (1729–1786)
Wolfgang Menzel
Wolfgang Menzel
Wolfgang Menzel , German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg in Silesia.He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet.His first work,...

 (1798–1873)
Pascal Mercier (born 1944)
Johann Heinrich Merck
Johann Heinrich Merck
Johann Heinrich Merck , German author and critic, was born at Darmstadt, a few days after the death of his father, a chemist....

 (1741–1791)
Sophie Mereau (1770–1806)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was a Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Füße im Feuer" .-Biography:...

 (1825–1898)
Melchior Meyr
Melchior Meyr
Melchior Meyr was a German poet, novelist and philosopher.He read law and philosophy at Heidelberg and Munich. His greatest success was the Erzählungen aus dem Ries , remarkable as an accurate and sympathetic picture of rural life and character...

 (1810–1872)
Gustav Meyrink
Gustav Meyrink
Gustav Meyrink was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem.-Childhood:...

, actually Gustav Meyer (1868–1932)
Agnes Miegel
Agnes Miegel
Agnes Miegel was a German author, journalist, and poet. She received the Kleist Prize for lyric in 1913, the Herder Prize in 1936, the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt in 1940, the literature prize of the Bavarian Academy of Art in 1959 and the...

 (1879–1964)
Jo Mihaly
Jo Mihaly
Jo Mihaly was a German dancer and writer.-Early years and war diary:Kuhr grew up in Schneidemühl , then about 80 miles from the German-Russian border, now in Poland...

 (1902–1989)
Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch (born 1948)
Georg Mohr
Georg Mohr
Jørgen Mohr was a Danish mathematician. He travelled in the Netherlands, France, and England.Mohr was born in Copenhagen...

 (1870–1928)
Paul Möhring
Paul Möhring
Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring , aka Paul Mohr, was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.Möhring was physician to the Prince of Anhalt. In 1752 he published Avium Genera, an early attempt to classify bird species, which divided birds into four classes and shows the beginnings of the modern...

 (1890–1976)
Walter von Molo
Walter von Molo
Walter Ritter/Reichsritter von Molo was a Czech-born Austrian writer.- Life :...

 (1880–1958)
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German author and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on March 7, 1910...

 (1871–1914)
Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Morgner, , was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society.-Life:...

 (1933–1990)
Daniel Georg Morhof
Daniel Georg Morhof
Daniel Georg Morhof was a German writer and scholar.He was born at Wismar. He first studied jurisprudence and then literae humaniores at the University of Rostock, where his elegant Latin versification procured for him in 1660 the chair of poetry...

 (1639–1691)
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Romantic poet.-Biography:Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike , a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer...

 (1804–1875)
Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz was a German author, editor and essayist of the Sturm und Drang, late enlightenment, and classicist periods, influencing early German Romanticism as well...

 (1756–1793)
Johann Michael Moscherosch
Johann Michael Moscherosch
Johann Michael Moscherosch , German satirist and moralist, was born at Willstädt, on the Upper Rhine near Strasbourg. His bitterly brilliant but partisan writings graphically describe life in a Germany ravaged by the Thirty Years' War...

 (1601–1669)
Julius Mosen
Julius Mosen
Julius Mosen was a German poet and author of Jewish descent, associated with the Young Germany movement, and now remembered principally for his patriotic poem the Andreas-Hofer-Lied.-Life:...

, actually Julius Moses (1803–1867)
Johann Joseph Most (1846–1906)
Hans Much
Hans Much
Hans Much was a German author, writer and physician....

 (1880–1932)
Erich Mühsam
Erich Mühsam
Erich Mühsam was a German-Jewish anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic....

 (1878–1934)
Adam Heinrich Müller (1779–1829)
Friedrich Müller
Maler Müller
Friedrich Müller , German poet, dramatist and painter, is best known for his slightly sentimental prose idylls on countrylife. Usually known as Maler Müller .- Early life and education :...

 (called Maler Müller) (1749–1825)
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller
Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...

 (1929–1995)
Herta Müller
Herta Müller
Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...

 (born 1953)
Inge Müller
Inge Müller
Inge Müller was an East German poet.-Life:Inge Müller was born in Berlin in 1925. During World War II, she participated in the Reichsarbeitsdienst in different towns in Styria until she would be sent to Berlin as a Luftwaffe aide. Her parents died in an air strike...

 (1925–1966)
Wilhelm Müller
Wilhelm Müller
Wilhelm Müller was a German lyric poet.-Life:Wilhelm Müller was born at Dessau, the son of a tailor. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town and at the university of Berlin, where he devoted himself to philological and historical studies...

 (called Griechen-Müller) (1794–1827)
Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter
Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter
Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter was a German novelist and poet. He settled in Cologne, and became a popular poet, novelist, and chronicler of the Rhine region.-Biography:...

 (1816–1873)
Theodor Mundt
Theodor Mundt
thumb|200px|Theodor MundtTheodor Mundt was a German critic and novelist. He was a member of the Young Germany group of German writers.-Biography:Born at Potsdam, Mundt studied philology and philosophy at Berlin...

 (1808–1861)
Thomas Murner
Thomas Murner
Thomas Murner was a German satirist, poet and translator.He was born at Oberehnheim near Strasbourg. In 1490 he entered the Franciscan order, and in 1495 began travelling, studying and then teaching and preaching in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Paris, Kraków and Strasbourg itself...

 (1475–1536)
Johann Karl August Musäus
Johann Karl August Musaus
Johann Karl August Musäus was a German author from Jena. He studied theology at the university of Jena, and would have become the pastor of a parish but for the resistance of some peasants, who objected that he had been known to dance.From 1760–62 Musäus published in three volumes his first...

 (1735–1787)
Adolf Muschg
Adolf Muschg
Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.- His life :...

 (born 1934)
Robert Musil
Robert Musil
Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels...

 (1880–1942)
Christlob Mylius (1722–1754)

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Herbert Nachbar
Herbert Nachbar
Herbert Nachbar was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic.-Life:...

 (1930–1980)
Neidhart von Reuenthal (c. 1190 – c. 1245)
Johann Nestroy
Johann Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath...

 (1802–1862)
Alfred Neumann
Alfred Neumann (writer)
Alfred Neumann was a German writer of novels, stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as a translator into German. He was a recipient of the Kleist Prize in 1926 and his writings were banned during the Third Reich. He became a US citizen after moving to Los Angeles in 1941 where he stayed until...

 (1895–1952)
Karl Neumann (1916–1985)
Robert Neumann (1927–1977)
Eckhart Nickel
Eckhart Nickel
Eckhart Nickel is a German author and journalist.Nickel was born in Frankfurt am Main. After studying art history and literature in Heidelberg and New York City, he worked at various media outlets including the German lifestyle magazine Tempo, Arte television in Strasbourg, and Architectural Digest...

 (born 1966)
Friedrich Nicolai (1733–1811)
Ernst Niebergall (1815–1843)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

 (1844–1900)
Dieter Noll
Dieter Noll
Dieter Noll was a German writer. His best known work is the two volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt from the early 1960s which had sold over two million copies by his death.-Life:...

 1927–2008
Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels, including Head Count, Hell hath no Fury and The Pharmacist, as well as one television drama, Bommels Billigflüge...

 (born 1935)
Christine Nöstlinger
Christine Nöstlinger
Christine Nöstlinger is an Austrian writer.By her own admission, Nöstlinger was a wild and angry child. After finishing high school, she wanted to become an artist, and studied graphic arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna...

 (born 1936)
Helga M. Novak
Helga M. Novak
Helga M. Novak is a German German-Icelandic writer.Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig....

 (born 1935)
Novalis
Novalis
Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.-Biography:...

, actually Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801)

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Martin Opitz (1597–1639)
Ernst Ortlepp
Ernst Ortlepp
Ernst Ortlepp was a German poet.Ortlepp was born in Droyßig near Zeitz as the son of a Lutheran priest. He went to school in Pforta until he was 19 years old and then studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig...

 (1800–1864)
Andreas Osiander
Andreas Osiander
Andreas Osiander was a German Lutheran theologian.- Career :Born at Gunzenhausen in Franconia, Osiander studied at the University of Ingolstadt before being ordained as a priest in 1520. In the same year he began work at an Augustinian convent in Nuremberg as a Hebrew tutor. In 1522, he was...

 (1496–1552)
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky was a German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize. He was convicted of high treason and espionage in 1931 after publishing details of Germany's alleged violation of the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding an air force, the predecessor of the Luftwaffe, and...

 (1889–1938)
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Oswald von Wolkenstein
Oswald von Wolkenstein was a poet, composer and diplomat. In the latter capacity, he traveled through much of Europe, even as far as Georgia , and was inducted into the Order of the Dragon...

 (1377–1445)
Otfrid von Weißenburg
Otfrid of Weissenburg
Otfrid of Weissenburg was a monk at the abbey of Weissenburg and the author of a gospel harmony in rhyming couplets now called the Evangelienbuch. It is written in the South Rhine Franconian dialect of Old High German. The poem is thought to have been completed between 863 and 871...

 (c. 800–after 870)
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Emine Sevgi Özdamar , is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the...

 (born 1946)

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Oskar Panizza
Oskar Panizza
Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor...

 (1853–1921)
Harald Parigger
Harald Parigger
Harald Parigger, born 1953 in Flensburg, is a German writer. He studied history and German in Würzburg. He became a secondary school teacher and later worked at the House of Bavarian History in Munich. He has written a number of academic essays, poems, plays, short stories and historical novels,...

 (born 1953)
Jean Paul
Jean Paul
Jean Paul , born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.-Life and work:...

, actually Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825)
Erica Pedretti
Erica Pedretti
Erica Pedretti, née Schefter is a Swiss author and artist.Born in northern Moravia, Pedretti went to Switzerland in 1945. She studied art and has achieved both a career as a writer and as a painter and sculptress...

 (born 1930)
Annette Pehnt
Annette Pehnt
Annette Pehnt is a German writer and literary critic. She lives in Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg.After graduating from school in 1986 Pehnt performed voluntary social work in Belfast...

 (born 1967)
Ulrich Peltzer
Ulrich Peltzer
Ulrich Peltzer is a German novelist.-Life:Starting in 1975, Ulrich Peltzer studied philosophy and social psychology in Berlin. He graduated as a psychologist in 1982. Since then he has been working as a full-time author.He has written five novels...

 (born 1956)
Ernst Penzoldt
Ernst Penzoldt
Ernst Penzoldt is a German author, sculptor and painter.Penzoldt was born in Erlangen. He had three older brothers. His father Franz Penzoldt was a German professor in medicine. Since 1912 he studied sculpture in Weimar by German sculpture professor Albin Egger-Lienz. In Weimar he met his friend...

 (1892–1955)
Leo Perutz
Leo Perutz
Leopold Perutz was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 (1882–1957)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach....

 (1746–1827)
Jan Petersen, actually Hans Schwalm (1906–1969)
Julius Petri (1868–1894)
Ludwig Pfau
Ludwig Pfau
Karl Ludwig Pfau was a German poet, journalist, and revolutionary.-Poetry:...

 (1821–1894)
Karl Philberth (born 1929)
Karoline Pichler
Karoline Pichler
Karoline Pichler, also spelled Caroline Pichler, was an Austrian novelist. She was born in Vienna to Hofrat Franz Sales von Greiner and his wife Charlotte, née Hieronimus ....

 (1769–1843)
Heinz Piontek (1925–2003)
Willibald Pirckheimer
Willibald Pirckheimer
Willibald Pirckheimer was a German Renaissance lawyer, author and Renaissance humanist, a wealthy and prominent figure in Nuremberg in the 16th century, and a member of the governing City Council for two periods...

 (1470–1530)
August Graf von Platen, actually August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835)
Ulrich Plenzdorf
Ulrich Plenzdorf
Ulrich Plenzdorf was a German author and dramatist.-Life:Born in Berlin, Plenzdorf studied Philosophy in Leipzig, but graduated with a degree in film...

 (born 1934)
Luise von Ploennies
Luise von Ploennies
Luise von Ploennies was a German poet born at Hanau, the daughter of the naturalist Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler. In 1824 she married the physician August von Ploennies in Darmstadt. After his death in 1847 she resided for some years in Belgium, then at Jugenheim on the Bergstrasse, and finally...

 (1803–1872)
Johannes Praetorius
Johannes Praetorius
Johann Richter or Johannes Praetorius was a Bohemian German mathematician and astronomer.- Life :...

, actually Hans Schulz (1630–1680)
Paula von Preradović
Paula von Preradovic
Paula Preradović , known professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula Molden, was a Croatian and Austrian writer and narrator....

 (1887–1951)
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler is a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill ....

 (born 1923)
Robert Prutz
Robert Prutz
Robert Eduard Prutz was a German poet and prose writer.He was born at Stettin, modern day Szczecin. He studied philology, philosophy and history at Berlin, Breslau, and Halle, and in the last-named became associated, after taking his degree, with Arnold Ruge in the publication of the Hallesche...

 (1816–1872)
Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868–1927)
Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Prince was a German nobleman, who was an excellent artist in landscape gardening and wrote widely appreciated books, mostly about his travels in Europe and Northern Africa, published under the pen name of "Semilasso".- Life :He was born at Muskau Castle in Upper Lusatia, then ruled by...

 (1785–1871)

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Julye Rabinowich (born 1970)
Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe , German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born in Eschershausen ....

 (1831–1910)
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus
Rabanus Maurus Magnentius , also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis . He also wrote treatises on education and grammar and commentaries on the Bible...

 (c. 780 – 856), also Rhabanus or Hrabanus
Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1714–1771)
Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist.- Life and work :...

 (1790–1836)
Karl Wilhelm Ramler
Karl Wilhelm Ramler
Karl Wilhelm Ramler was a German poet.Ramler was born in Kolberg. After graduating from the University of Halle, he went to Berlin, where, in 1748, he was appointed professor of logic and literature at the cadet school...

 (1725–1798)
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.- Life :Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna...

 (born 1954)
Lutz Rathenow
Lutz Rathenow
Lutz Rathenow is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification...

 (born 1952)
Wolfgang Ratke
Wolfgang Ratke
Wolfgang Ratke was a German educational reformer.-Early life:...

 (1571–1635)
Sven Regener
Sven Regener
Sven Regener, born January 1, 1961 in Bremen, is a German musician and writer living in Berlin. In 1982 he recorded his first LP with the band Zatopek and in 1984 he joined Neue Liebe. In 1985 he founded the Berlin band Element of Crime together with Jakob Friderichs. He writes almost all their...

 (born 1961)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki is a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47. He is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and therefore was in Germany often called the 'Pope of literature' .-Life:Marcel...

 (born 1920)
Uwe Reimer
Uwe Reimer
Uwe Reimer was a German writer who wrote numerous books about history and social studies.-Biography:...

 (1948–2004)
Herbert Reinecker
Herbert Reinecker
Herbert Reinecker was a very prolific German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.Born in Hagen, Westphalia, Reinecker began to write short stories already as a high school student. In 1936 he moved to Berlin, where he became editor-in-chief of a youth magazine, Jungvolk...

 (born 1914)
Reinmar von Hagenau
Reinmar von Hagenau
Reinmar also known as Reinmar von Hagenau or Reinmar der Alte was the most important Minnesinger before Walther von der Vogelweide....

 (c. 1160/70–bef. 1210)
Reinmar von Zweter
Reinmar von Zweter
Reinmar von Zweter was a Middle High German poet of Spruchdichtung. The iconography in the Manesse Codex suggests that he may have been blind, since he is the only person represented in the manuscript with closed eyes and other people writing...

 (c. 1225 – c. 1250)
Ludwig Rellstab
Ludwig Rellstab
Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Rellstab was a German poet and music critic. He was born and died in Berlin. He was the son of the music publisher and composer Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab....

 (1799–1860)
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.-Life and work:...

, actually Erich Paul Remark (1898–1970)
Joscha Remus
Joscha Remus
Joscha Remus is a German author. Remus comes from a bukovinish-Moselle Franconian family. He studied biology, German and philosophy in Trier and Berlin....

 (born 1958)
Lothar Rendulic
Lothar Rendulic
Generaloberst Lothar Rendulic was an Austro-Hungarian and Austrian Army officer of Croatian origin who served as a German general during World War II. He commanded the 14. Infanterie-Division, 52. Infanterie-Division, XXXV Armeekorps, 2. Panzer-Armee, 20...

 (1897–1971)
Sir John Retcliffe
Sir John Retcliffe
Sir John Retcliffe was the pseudonym of the German writer Herrmann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche primarily remembered for his antisemitism and the extent to which his fiction indirectly contributed to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.-Life and work:Goedsche was born in Trachenberg, Silesia, then...

, actually Hermann Goedsche (1815–1878)
Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522)
Fritz Reuter
Fritz Reuter
Fritz Reuter was a novelist from Northern Germany who was one of the most prominent contributors to Low German literature.-Early life:...

 (1810–1874)
Hans Richter (1889–1940)
Hans Peter Richter
Hans Peter Richter
Hans Peter Richter was a German author. Born in Cologne, Germany, went to school in Germany, went to the university of Hannover,and later graduated in 1968. He also spent some of his life in the German army. Richter wrote many books for children and young adults...

 (1926–1993)
Hans Werner Richter
Hans Werner Richter
Hans Werner Richter was a German writer.Born in Neu-Sallenthin, Usedom, Richter is little known for his own works but found worldwide celebrity and acknowledgment as initiator, moving spirit and "grey eminence" of the Group 47, the most important literary association of the German Federal Republic...

 (1908–1993)
Frieda von Richthofen
Frieda von Richthofen
Frieda Freiin von Richthofen , a distant relative of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen, who is best known for her marriage to the British novelist D. H. Lawrence.-Life:...

 (1879–1956)
Brigitte Riebe
Brigitte Riebe
Brigitte Riebe is a German author of crime and feminist fiction. She writes thrillers under the pseudonym Lara Stern. She lives with her husband in Munich.-Life:...

 (born 1953)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke , better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language...

 (1875–1926)
Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz
Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher. His pen name Ringelnatz is usually explained as a dialect expression for an animal, possibly a variant of Ringelnatter, German for Grass Snake...

 (1883–1934)
Louise Rinser
Luise Rinser
Luise Rinser was a German writer.-Early life and education:...

 (1911–2002)
Heinz Risse (1898–1989)
Johann Rist (1607–1667)
Charlotte Roche
Charlotte Roche
Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche is a British-born German television presenter, actress, singer and author.- Life and career :...

 (born 1978)
Alexander Roda Roda
Alexander Roda Roda
Alexander Roda Roda was the pen name of Alexander/Sándor Friedrich Ladislaus Rosenfeld, an Austrian Jewish writer.-Biography:...

, actually Sandór Friedrich Rosenfeld (1872–1945)
Peter Rosegger
Peter Rosegger
Peter Rosegger was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria. He was a son of a farmer and grew up in the forests and fields. Rosegger went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary...

, actually Roßegger (1843–1918)
Peter Rosei
Peter Rosei
Peter Rosei is an Austrian literary writer.Rosei attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in law in 1968...

 (born 1946)
Ernst Rosmer, actually Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949)
Johann Leonhard Rost
Johann Leonhard Rost
Johann Leonhard Rost was a German astronomer and author from Nuremberg. He wrote under the alias Meletaon.The crater Rost on the Moon is named after him.-Bibliography:...

 (1688–1727)
Eugen Roth
Eugen Roth
Eugen Roth was a German lyricist and poet, he wrote mostly humorous verse.Roth was the son of the well-known Munich writer Hermann Roth. He volunteered for service in the first world war and was severely wounded. He studied history, art history, and philosophy earning in 1922 his doctorate degree...

 (1895–1976)
Friedrich Roth (1897–1970)
Friederike Roth
Friederike Roth
Frederike Roth is a German writer. She is especially active as a playwright.Roth won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1983.-References:...

 (born 1948)
Gerhard Roth
Gerhard Roth (writer)
Gerhard Roth is an Austrian writer.-Life:The son of a medical practitioner, Roth originally also wanted to study medicine himself, but soon focussed on literature. Initially, he earned his living as a computer programmer; he has been a freelance writer since 1976...

 (born 1942)
Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth, born Moses Joseph Roth , was an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and for his novel of Jewish life, Job as well as the seminal essay 'Juden auf Wanderschaft' translated in...

 (1894–1939)
Patrick Roth (born 1953)
Richard Roth
Richard Roth
Richard Roth is an American journalist, a CNN correspondent who covers the United Nations and was the host of Diplomatic License , a weekly program that was devoted to United Nations affairs. Roth is a CNN "original" — one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980...

 (1835–1915)
Stephan Ludwig Roth
Stephan Ludwig Roth
Stephan Ludwig Roth was a Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor....

 (1796–1849)
Toni Rothmund
Toni Rothmund
Toni Rothmund was a German writer and journalist.She wrote biographies, novels and tales.- Tales :* Die Bernsteinperle...

 (1877–1956)
Ludwig Rubiner (1881–1920)
Friedrich Rückert
Friedrich Rückert
Friedrich Rückert was a German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.-Biography:Rückert was born at Schweinfurt and was the eldest son of a lawyer. He was educated at the local Gymnasium and at the universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg. From 1816-1817, he worked on the editorial...

 (1788–1866)
Rudolf von Ems
Rudolf von Ems
Rudolf von Ems was a mediaeval Austrian epic poet.-Life:Rudolf von Ems was born in the Vorarlberg in Austria. He took his name from the castle of Hohenems near Bregenz, and was a knight in the service of the Counts of Montfort. His works were written between 1220 and 1254...

 (c. 1200 – c. 1253)
Rudolf von Fenis (died bef. 1196)

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Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet....

 (1833–1906)
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name....

 (1836–1895)
Hans Sachs
Hans Sachs
Hans Sachs was a German meistersinger , poet, playwright and shoemaker.-Biography:Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg . His father was a tailor. He attended Latin school in Nuremberg...

 (1494–1576)
Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs was a Jewish German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokeswoman for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews...

 (1891–1970)
Ernst von Salomon
Ernst von Salomon
Ernst von Salomon was a German writer and Freikorps member.He was born in Kiel, the son of a criminal investigation officer. From 1913 he was a cadet in Karlsruhe and Berlin-Lichterfelde; starting in 1919, he joined the Freikorps in the Baltic, where he fought against the Bolsheviks...

 (1902–1972)
Felix Salten
Felix Salten
Felix Salten was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is Bambi .-Life:...

, actually Siegmund Salzmann (1869–1945)
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann
Christian Gotthilf Salzmann was the founder of the Schnepfenthal institution, a school dedicated to new modes of education...

 (1744–1811)
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack was a German poet and historian of literature.-Background:He was born at Brüsewitz near Schwerin. Having studied jurisprudence at the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin, he entered the Mecklenburg state service and was subsequently attached to the...

 (1815–1894)
Jakob Schaffner
Jakob Schaffner
Jakob Schaffner was a leading Swiss novelist who became a supporter of Nazism.Born on 14 November 1875 in Basel, his father died at an early age before his mother emigrated to the United States, leaving him to be reared in an orphanage...

 (1875–1944)
Paul Schallück (1922–1976)
Rafik Schami
Rafik Schami
Rafik Schami is a Syrian-German author, storyteller and critic.-Biography:Born in Damascus, Syria in 1946, Schami is the son of a baker from an Syriac-Christian family. His schooling and university studies took place in Damascus. From 1965, Schami wrote stories in Arabic...

 (born 1946)
Paul Scheerbart
Paul Scheerbart
Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart was an author of fantastic literature and drawings. He was also published under the pseudonym Kuno Küfer and is best known for the book Glasarchitektur ....

 (1863–1915)
Leopold Schefer
Leopold Schefer
Leopold Schefer , German poet, novelist, and composer, was born in a small town in Upper Lusatia , only child of a poor country doctor.-Biography:...

 (1784–1862)
Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826–1886)
Johann Hermann Schein (1586–1630)
Johannes Scherr
Johannes Scherr
Johannes Scherr , was a German novelist and intellectual.- Biography :Scherr was born in Hohenrechberg, Württemberg. After studying philosophy and history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , he became master in a school conducted by his brother Thomas in Winterthur...

 (1817–1886)
Emanuel Schikaneder
Emanuel Schikaneder
Emanuel Schikaneder , born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer and composer. He was the librettist of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and the builder of the Theater an der Wien...

 (1751–1812)
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

 (1759–1805)
Roland Schimmelpfennig (born 1967)
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna....

 (1907–1974)
Johannes Schlaf
Johannes Schlaf
Johannes Schlaf was a German playwright, author, and translator and an important exponent of Naturalism. As a translator he was important for exposing the German-speaking world to the works of Walt Whitman, Émile Verhaeren and Émile Zola and is known as a founder of the "Whitman Cult" in Germany...

 (1862–1941)
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845)
Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829)
Johann Elias Schlegel
Johann Elias Schlegel
Johann Elias Schlegel , was a German critic and dramatic poet.-Life:He was educated at Schulpforta and at the University of Leipzig, where he studied law. In 1743 he became private secretary to his relative, von Spener, the Saxon ambassador at the Danish court...

 (1719–1749)
Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink is a German jurist and writer. He was born in Bethel, Germany, to a German father and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. Both his parents were theology students, although his father lost his job as a Professor of Theology due to the Nazis, and had to settle on being a...

 (born 1944)
Arno Schmidt
Arno Schmidt
Arno Schmidt was a German author and translator.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, son of a police constable, Schmidt moved with his widowed mother to Lauban and attended the secondary school in Görlitz. He then worked as a clerk in a textile company in Greiffenberg...

 (1914–1979)
Elke Schmitter
Elke Schmitter
Elke Schmitter is a German journalist and novelist.After studying philosophy in Munich, Schmitter worked as a journalist until 1994, when she became a full-time writer....

 (born 1961)
Max Schneckenburger
Max Schneckenburger
Max Schneckenburger was a German poet. The patriotic hymn "Die Wacht am Rhein" uses the text of a poem Schneckenburger wrote in 1840.Schneckenburger was born in Talheim near Tuttlingen, Württemberg...

 (1819–1849)
Louis Schneider
Louis Schneider (actor)
Louis Schneider was a German actor and author.-Biography:Schneider was born in Berlin, the son of George Abraham Schneider . At an early age he was engaged at the Royal Theatre, Berlin, where he soon rose to play leading comedy parts...

 (1805–1878)
Reinhold Schneider
Reinhold Schneider
Reinhold Schneider was a German poet who also wrote novels. Initially his works were less religious, but later his poetry had a Christian and specifically Catholic influence. His first works included Luís de Camões and Portugal He had written anti-war poems, which were banned in Nazi Germany...

 (1903–1958)
Robert Schneider (born 1961)
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...

 (1862–1931)
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre was a German writer.Schnurre was an important literary figure of post-war West Germany...

 (1920–1989)
Johanna Schopenhauer
Johanna Schopenhauer
Johanna Schopenhauer, née Trosiener , was a German author. She is today known primarily for being the mother of Arthur Schopenhauer.- Biography :...

 (1766–1838)
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder was a German actor, manager and dramatist.He was born in Schwerin. Shortly after his birth, his mother, Sophie Charlotte Bierreichel , separated from her husband, and, joining a theatrical company, toured with success in Poland and Russia...

 (1744–1816)
Rainer M. Schröder
Rainer M. Schröder
Rainer Maria Schröder, born 1951 in Rostock, is a German author of historical novels for all ages, juveniles and adults. He studied many different trades, including that of an opera singer. Since 1977 he has been a freelance journalist in Germany and the US. The backgrounds of his stories are...

 (born 1951)
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , was a German poet, born at Obersontheim in Swabia.He entered the university of Erlangen in 1758 as a student of theology. He led a dissolute life, and after two years' stay was summoned home by his parents...

 (1739–1791)
Levin Schücking
Levin Schücking
Levin Schücking was a German novelist. He was the uncle of Levin Ludwig Schücking.-Biography:Born into the Westphalian nobility on the estate of Klemenswerth, near Meppen, his mother, Sibilla Katharina née Busch was a poet who occasionally published, whilst his father was Paulus Modestus Schücking...

 (1814–1883)
Tony Schumacher (1848–1931)
Gustav Schwab
Gustav Schwab
Gustav Benjamin Schwab was a German writer, pastor and publisher.-Life:Gustav Schwab was born in Stuttgart, the son of a professor and was introduced to the humanities early in life...

 (1792–1850)
Werner Schwab
Werner Schwab
Werner Schwab was an Austrian playwright and visual artist.From 1978 to 1982 he studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. During the 1980s he worked as a sculptor and woodcutter....

 (1958–1994)
Achim Schwarze
Achim Schwarze
Achim Schwarze is a German author, his works include self-help books and are influenced by black humour and anarchism.-External links:*...

 (born 1958)
Alice Schwarzer
Alice Schwarzer
Alice Schwarzer is the most prominent contemporary German feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA.-Biography and positions:...

 (born 1942)
Franz Schuh
Franz Schuh (writer)
Franz Schuh is an Austrian novelist, literary critic and, above all, essayist in the tradition of Karl Kraus and Alfred Polgar. Schuh was born, and lives, in Vienna, where, just like his predecessors, he prefers to write in one of the traditional coffeehouses.- Select bibliography :* Liebe, Macht...

 (born 1947)
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...

 (1887–1948)
Charles Sealsfield
Charles Sealsfield
Charles Sealsfield was the pseudonym of Austrian-American journalist Carl Anton Postl , an advocate for a German democracy and author of Romantic novels with American backgrounds and travelogues....

, actually Karl Anton Postl (1793–1864)
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature...

 (1944–2001)
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...

, actually Netty Radvanyi (1900–1983)
Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte was cofounder of the German Stahlhelm paramilitary organization, a Nazi politician, and Minister for Labour of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945.-Life:...

 (1882–1947)
Gerd Semmer (1919–1967)
Walter Serner
Walter Serner
Walter Serner was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dadaism....

 (1889–1942)
Johann Gottfried Seume
Johann Gottfried Seume
Johann Gottfried Seume , German author, was born at Poserna .He was educated, first at Borna, then at the Nikolai school and University of Leipzig. The study of Shaftesbury and Bolingbroke wakened his interest in theology, and, breaking off his studies, he set out for Paris...

 (1763–1810)
Heinrich Seuse
Henry Suso
Henry Suso was a German mystic, born at Überlingen on Lake Constance on March 21, c. 1300; he died at Ulm, January 25, 1366; declared Blessed in 1831 by Gregory XVI, who assigned his feast in the Dominican Order to March 2...

 (c. 1300–1366)
Friedrich Sieburg (1893–1964)
Johannes Mario Simmel
Johannes Mario Simmel
Johannes Mario Simmel was an Austrian writer.He was born in Vienna and grew up in Austria and England. He was trained as a chemical engineer and worked in research from 1943 to the end of World War II...

 (born 1924)
Karl Simrock (1802–1876)
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak was a novelist and screenwriter. He made a name for himself in Hollywood with horror and science fiction films, most notably The Wolf Man and Donovan's Brain...

 (1902–2000)
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg is the author of a number of fantasy books for children. Her most famous contribution to the field of children's fantasy is "The Little Vampire" series which has sold over 10 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages...

 (born 1948)
Joseph von Sonnenfels
Joseph von Sonnenfels
Joseph von Sonnenfels was an Austrian and German jurist and novelist. He was among the leaders of the Illuminati movement in Austria, and a close friend and patron of Mozart. He is also the dedicatee of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 15, Op...

 (1733–1817)
Jura Soyfer
Jura Soyfer
Jura Soyfer was an important Austrian political journalist and cabaret writer.-Life:...

 (1912–1939)
Manès Sperber
Manès Sperber
Manès Sperber was an Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Heger and N.A. Menlos....

 (1905–1984)
Hilde Spiel (1911–1990)
Friedrich Spielhagen (1829–1911)
Carl Spitteler
Carl Spitteler
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919. His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems....

 (1845–1924)
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri was an author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.-Biography:In...

 (1827–1901)
Arnold Stadler
Arnold Stadler
Arnold Stadler is a German writer, essayist and translator.He was born April 9, 1954 in Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Life :...

 (born 1954)
Albert Steffen
Albert Steffen
Albert Steffen was a poet, painter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist. He joined the Theosophical Society in Germany in 1910, and the Anthroposophical Society in 1912 and became its president after the death of its founder, Rudolf Steiner, in 1925...

 (1884–1963)
Angela Steinmüller
Angela Steinmüller
Angela Steinmüller is a German mathematician and science fiction author. Together with her husband Karlheinz Steinmüller she has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms...

 (born 1941)
Karlheinz Steinmüller
Karlheinz Steinmüller
Karlheinz Steinmüller is a German physicist and science fiction author. Together with his wife Angela Steinmüller he has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms...

 (born 1950)
Adolf Stern
Adolf Stern
Adolf Stern was a German literary historian and poet.He was born in Leipzig. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena, and in 1868 was appointed professor of the history of literature in the Königlich-Sächsischen Polytechnikum of Dresden...

, actually Adolf Ernst (1835–1907)
Fritz Steuben
Fritz Steuben
Erhard Wittek , better known for his pen name Fritz Steuben, was a German author.- Biography :Steuben was born in Wongrowitz, Province of Posen. He participated in World War I...

, actually Erhard Wittek (1898–1981)
Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while almost entirely unknown to English readers.-Life:Born in Oberplan in Bohemia , he...

 (1805–1868)
Julius Stinde
Julius Stinde
Julius Stinde , German author, was born at Kirchnüchel in Holstein, the son of a clergyman.Having attended the gymnasium at Eutin, he was apprenticed in 1858 to a chemist in Lübeck. He soon tired of the shop, and went to study chemistry at Kiel and Giessen where he proceeded to the degree of...

 (1841–1905)
Max Stirner
Max Stirner
Johann Kaspar Schmidt , better known as Max Stirner , was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism...

 (1806–1856)
Helene Stöcker
Helene Stöcker
Helene Stöcker was a German feminist, pacifist and sexual reformer. Stöcker was raised in a Calvinist household and attended a school for girls which emphasized rationality and morality...

 (1869–1943)
Christian zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1748–1821)
Theodor Storm
Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm , commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German writer.-Life:Storm was born in Husum, at the west coast of Schleswig than an independent duchy and ruled by the king of Denmark...

 (1817–1888)
August Stramm
August Stramm
August Stramm was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the expressionists. He also served in the German Army and was killed in action during World War I....

 (1874–1915)
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauss is a German playwright, novelist and essayist.-Biography:Botho Strauss's father was a chemist. After finishing his secondary education, Strauss studied German, History of the Theatre and Sociology in Cologne and Munich, but never finished his dissertation on Thomas Mann und das Theater...

 (born 1944)
Erwin Strittmatter
Erwin Strittmatter
Erwin Strittmatter was a German writer. Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR....

 (1912-1994)
Eva Strittmatter
Eva Strittmatter
Eva Strittmatter was a German writer of poetry, prose, and children's literature. Her poetry books sold millions of copies, making her the most successful German poet of the second half of the 20th century....

 (1930-2011)
Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel is a German writer. She was born in 1974 in Potsdam.-Life:After leaving school, Antje Strubel Rávic first worked as a bookseller in Potsdam, and then studied in literature, psychology and American studies in New York. In New York she worked as a lighting assistant in a...

 (born 1974)
Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (born 1975)
Julius Sturm
Julius Sturm
Julius Sturm , German poet, was born at Köstritz in the principality of Reuss.He studied theology at Jena from 1837 to 1841, and was appointed preceptor to the hereditary prince Henry XIV of Reuss. In 1851 he became pastor of Göschitz near Schleiz, and in 1857 at his native village of Köstritz. In...

 (1816–1896)
Hermann Sudermann
Hermann Sudermann
Hermann Sudermann was a German dramatist and novelist.- Early career :He was born at Matzicken, a village just to the east of Heydekrug in the Province of Prussia , close to the Russian frontier...

 (1857–1928)
Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter.- Life and work :The public knows little about Patrick Süskind. He has withdrawn from the literary scene in Germany and never grants interviews or allows photos. He was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany...

 (born 1949)
Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind
Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind
Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind was a German writer, journalist and translator.Süskind was editorial journalist for politics with Süddeutsche Zeitung. Along with his own works he translated books into German, e.g...

 (1901–1970)
Süßkind von Trimberg
Süßkind von Trimberg
thumb|230px|right|Süßkind, der Jude von Trimberg , portrait from the Codex Manesse.Süßkind von Trimberg is given as the author of six poems in the Codex Manesse...

 (1230–1300)
Martin Suter
Martin Suter
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper , now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards...

 (born 1948)
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.-Biography:Suttner was born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of an impoverished Austrian Field Marshal,...

 (1843–1914)
Leonie Swann
Leonie Swann
Leonie Swann is the nom de plume of a German crime writer. She studied philosophy, psychology and English literature in Munich, and now lives in Berlin.-Work:...

 (born 1975)
Carmen Sylva, actually Elisabeth Queen of Romania (1843–1916)

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George Tabori
George Tabori
George Tabori was a Hungarian writer and theater director.-Life and career:Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis. His son Peter Tabori and again his son...

 (born 1914)
Rudolf Tarnow
Rudolf Tarnow
Rudolf Tarnow was a Low German writer.Rudolf Tarnow was born on February 25, 1867 in the city of Parchim, the oldest son of a shoemaker, Heinrich Tarnow, and his wife, Dorothea...

 (1867–1933)
Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler
Johannes Tauler was a German mystic theologian.- Life :He was born about the year 1300 in Strasbourg, and was educated at the Dominican convent in that city, where Meister Eckhart, who greatly influenced him, was professor of theology in the monastery school...

 (c. 1300–1361)
Gerhard Tersteegen
Gerhard Tersteegen
Gerhard Tersteegen , was a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau , which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Roman Catholic country.After being educated at the gymnasium of his native town,...

 (1697–1769)
Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of a Bavarian workday....

 (1867–1921)
Moritz August von Thummel
Moritz August von Thummel
Moritz August von Thümmel was a German humorist and satirical author.Thümmel was born on 27 May 1738 at Schönefeld near Leipzig. Educated at Roßleben, Thuringia, and the University of Leipzig, where he studied law, he held from 1761 until 1783 various offices in the ducal court of Saxe-Coburg,...

 (1738-1817)
Harry Thürk
Harry Thürk
Harry Thürk was a German writer.- Life :After attending trade school in Upper Silesia, Thürk began to work for the German train system . After being drafted in 1944 and participating in World War II, he returned home at the end of the war. However, he was forced to flee from Poland to Weimar...

 (1927–2005)
Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig Tieck
Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.-Early life:...

 (1773–1853)
Uwe Timm
Uwe Timm
-Life and work:Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943...

 (born 1940)
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller was a left-wing German playwright, best known for his Expressionist plays and serving as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, for six days.- Biography :...

 (1893–1939)
Friedrich Torberg
Friedrich Torberg
Friedrich Torberg is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer.- Biography :...

, actually Friedrich Kantor-Berg (1908–1979)
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.- Life and work :Trakl was born and lived the first 18 years of his life in Salzburg, Austria...

 (1887–1914)
B. Traven
B. Traven
B. Traven was the pen name of a German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. A rare certainty is that B...

 (1882–1969)
Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow
thumb|Ilija Trojanow Ilija Trojanow , is a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher.-Life:...

 (born 1965)
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of...

 (1890–1935)

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Ludwig Uhland
Ludwig Uhland
Johann Ludwig Uhland , was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.-Biography:He was born in Tübingen, then Duchy of Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry...

 (1787–1862)
Regina Ullmann
Regina Ullmann
Regina "Rega" Ullmann was a Swiss female poet.- Works :Lyrics:* Von der Erde des Lebens, 1910* Die Landstrasse, 1921* Die Barokkirche, 1925* Vom Brot der Stillen, 2 Bände, 1932...

 (1884–1961)
Ulrich von Liechtenstein
Ulrich von Liechtenstein
Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a medieval nobleman, knight, politician, and minnesanger. He was born in 1200 in Murau, located in present day Austria. After the usual noble training as a page and a squire to Margrave Heinrich of Istria, he was knighted by Duke Leopold VI of Austria in 1223...

 (c. 1198 – c. 1276)
Ulrich von Zatzikhofen (13th century)
Hermann Ungar
Hermann Ungar
Hermann Ungar was a Bohemian writer and an officer in Czechoslovakia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His novels were influenced by expressionism and psychoanalysis...

 (1893–1929)
Fritz von Unruh
Fritz von Unruh
Fritz von Unruh was a German Expressionist dramatist, poet, and novelist.-Biography:...

 (1885–1970)
Johann Peter Uz (1720–1796)

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Joachim Vadianus, actually Joachim von Watt (1484–1551)
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture...

, actually Valentin Ludwig Fey (1882–1948)
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense was a German biographer, diplomat and soldier.-Biography:He was born at Düsseldorf, with siblings including Rosa Maria Varnhagen. He studied medicine in Berlin, but spent more time on philosophy and literature, which he later studied more thoroughly at Halle and...

 (1785–1858)
Rahel Varnhagen
Rahel Varnhagen
Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen née Levin later Robert was a German-Jewish writer who hosted one of the most prominent salons in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the subject of a celebrated biography, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess written by Hannah Arendt...

 (1771–1833)
Berthold Viertel
Berthold Viertel
Berthold Viertel , born in Vienna, Austria was a screen writer and film director.-Arrival in America:He was married to screenplay writer and actress Salka Viertel from 30 April 1918 to 20 December 1947. The pair came to Los Angeles in 1928 planning to stay for just three years...

 (1885–1953)
Friedrich Theodor Vischer
Friedrich Theodor Vischer
Friedrich Theodor Vischer was a German writer on the philosophy of art.Born at Ludwigsburg as the son of a clergyman, Vischer was educated at Tübinger Stift, and began life in his father's profession...

 (1807–1887)
Johann Heinrich Voß
Johann Heinrich Voß
Johann Heinrich Voss was a German poet and translator, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey into German .-Life:Voss was born at Sommersdorf in Mecklenburg-Strelitz as the son of a farmer...

 (1751–1826)
Richard Voß
Richard Voß
Richard Voß was a German dramatist and novelist.-Biography:Voss was born at Neu-Grape near Pyritz, in Pomerania, the son of a country squire....

 (1851–1918)
Christian August Vulpius
Christian August Vulpius
Christian August Vulpius was a German novelist and dramatist. His sister married the noted German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.-Biography:...

 (1762–1827)
Rickson P Antony (1931–2001)

W

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck, he was a co-founder of German Romanticism....

 (1773–1798)
Heinrich Leopold Wagner
Heinrich Leopold Wagner
Heinrich Leopold Wagner , born in Strasbourg, was a German dramatist, known for his 1776 tragedy Die Kindermörderin.-Works:* Prometheus, Deukalion und seine Rezensenten, 1775* Der wohltätige Unbekannte, 1775...

 (1747–1779)
Jan Costin Wagner
Jan Costin Wagner
Jan Costin Wagner is a German crime fiction writer. His novels are set in Finland and feature detective Kimmo Joentaa.- Biography :...

 (born 1972)
Siegfried Wagner
Siegfried Wagner
Siegfried Wagner was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930.-Life:...

 (1869–1930)
Wilhelm Waiblinger
Wilhelm Waiblinger
Wilhelm Waiblinger was a German romantic poet, mostly remembered today in connection with Friedrich Hölderlin. After he had attended Gymnasium Illustre in Stuttgart, he was a student at the seminary of Tübingen in the 1820s, when Hölderlin, already mentally ill, lived there as a recluse in a...

 (1804–1830)
Walahfrid Strabo (c. 810 – 849)
Max Waldau
Max Waldau
Richard Georg Spiller von Hauenschild, better known by his pseudonym Max Waldau , was a German poet and novelist.-Life:...

 (1821 or 1825–1855)
Herwarth Walden
Herwarth Walden
Herwarth Walden was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines...

, actually Georg Lewin (1878–1941)
Martin Walser
Martin Walser
At first the speech did not cause a great stir. Indeed, the audience present in Church of St. Paul received the speech with applause, though Walser's critic Ignatz Bubis did not applaud, as confirmed by television footage of the event...

 (born 1927)
Robert Walser
Robert Walser (writer)
Robert Walser , was a German-speaking Swiss writer.-1878–1897:...

 (1878–1956)
Walther von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide is the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.-Life history:For all his fame, Walther's name is not found in contemporary records, with the exception of a solitary mention in the travelling accounts of Bishop Wolfger of Erla of the Passau diocese:...

 (c. 1170 – c. 1230)
Maxie Wander (1933–1977)
Gustav von Wangenheim
Gustav von Wangenheim
Gustav von Wangenheim was a German actor, screenwriter and director.- Life :Wangenheim was born Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim in Wiesbaden, Hesse, to parents Eduard Clemens Freiherr von Wangenheim and Minna Mengers...

 (1895–1975)
Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann was a Jewish-German writer and novelist.- Life :Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers...

 (1873–1934)
Frank Wedekind
Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...

 (1864–1918)
Hermann von Wedderkop
Hermann von Wedderkop
Hermann von Wedderkop was a German author.-Works:* Der Rhein von den Alpen bis zum Meere * Sizilien, schicksal einer insel * Die falsche Note; ein Musikroman...

 (1875–1956)
Armin T. Wegner
Armin T. Wegner
Armin Theophil Wegner was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author and a seminal figure in German Expressionism, a human rights activist, and a victim of Nazi persecution...

 (1886–1978)
Josef Magnus Wehner
Josef Magnus Wehner
Josef Magnus Wehner was a German writer and playwright. Celebrated as a "great German poet" his reputation is tainted by the militarism displayed in his work and his allegiance to the Nazi Party....

 (1891–1973)
Wilhelm Weigand
Wilhelm Weigand
Wilhelm Weigand was a German Neoromanticism and Realism period poet and writer...

 (1862–1949)
Peter Weiss
Peter Weiss
Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....

 (1916–1982)
Wilhelm Weitling
Wilhelm Weitling
Wilhelm Weitling was an important 19th-century European radical.Both praised and critiqued by disciples of the growing Marxist philosophy during the 19th century, Weitling was characterized as a "utopian socialist" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, although Engels also referred to Weitling as the...

 (1808–1871)
Ehm Welk
Ehm Welk
Emil Welk, known by his nickname Ehm Welk , was a German journalist, writer, professor and founder of Volkshochschulen...

 (1884–1966)
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet.- Biography :Born in Prague , Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner...

 (1890–1945)
Zacharias Werner (1768–1823)
Christian Wernicke
Christian Wernicke
Christian Wernicke was a German epigramist and diplomat. His surname has also been spelled Wernigke, Warneck, and Werneke.Wernicke was born in Elbing in the Polish province of Royal Prussia...

 (1661–1725)
Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg
Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg
Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg was a German writer and scholar, and liberal Catholic churchman as well as Vicar general and administrator of the Diocese of Constance...

 (1774–1860)
Ernst Wiechert
Ernst Wiechert
Ernst Wiechert was a German teacher, poet and writer.-Biography:Wiechert was born in Kleinort near Sensburg , East Prussia.He was one of the most widely read novelists in Germany during the 1930s...

 (1887–1950)
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...

 (1733–1813)
Adolf Wilbrandt
Adolf Wilbrandt
Adolf Wilbrandt was a German novelist and dramatist.-History:Wilbrant was born in Rostock. His father was a professor at the university in Rostock. He received early education in his native town, and then entered the university and engaged in the study of law...

 (1837–1911)
Ernst von Wildenbruch
Ernst von Wildenbruch
Ernst von Wildenbruch was a German poet and dramatist.-Biography:Wildenbruch was born at Beirut in Lebanon, the son of the Prussian consul-general, Ludwig von Wildenbruch...

 (1845–1901)
Bruno Wille
Bruno Wille
Bruno Wille was a German politician. He was born in Magdeburg.He tried to make an end to the collective ideology of the SPD from 1890 until 1892. Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, he wanted to end the tyranny of political parties and protect individuality...

 (1860–1928)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art...

 (1717–1768)
Eugen Gottlob Winkler
Eugen Gottlob Winkler
Eugen Gottlob Winkler was a German writer and essayist.He grew up in Stuttgart and studied Germanistics, Romantic philology and art history at Munich, Paris, Tübingen and Cologne....

 (1912–1936)
Heinrich Wittenwiler
Heinrich Wittenwiler
Heinrich Wittenwiler was a late medieval Alemannic poet . He is the author of a satirical poem entitled The Ring . He may be identical to an advocate to the bishop of Konstanz, mentioned in 1395. Heinrich may be of the family of the former rulers of Wittenwil in the Thurgau, who became destitute...

 (c. 1370–1420)
Karl August Wittfogel
Karl August Wittfogel
Karl August Wittfogel was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. Originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, after the Second World War Wittfogel was an equally fierce anticommunist.-Biography:...

 (1896–1988)
Gabriele Wohmann (born 1932)
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:...

 (born 1929)
Friedrich Wolf (1888–1953)
Julius Wolff
Julius Wolff
Julius Wolff was a German surgeon.-Biography:Julius Wolff was born on March 21, 1836, and received his doctorate in 1860 in the field of surgery for Bernhard von Langenbeck at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University to Berlin. In 1861 he settled down after the state examination as a general...

 (1834–1910)
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.-Life:...

 (1170–1220)
Karl Wolfskehl
Karl Wolfskehl
Karl Wolfskehl was a German Jewish author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He also translated from French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin and Middle High German into German....

 (1869–1948)
Hans Wollschläger
Hans Wollschläger
thumb|right|150px| Signature, 1988Hans Wollschläger was a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.-Biography:...

 (1935–2007)
Ernst von Wolzogen
Ernst von Wolzogen
Ernst von Wolzogen Ernst von Wolzogen Ernst von Wolzogen (April 23, 1855 - August 30, 1934 was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany.-Biography:Wolzogen came from a noble Austrian family; he studied Literature, Philosophy, and the history of art in Strasbourg and Leipzig. ...

 (1855–1934)
Paul Wühr
Paul Wühr
Paul Wühr is a German experimental author. Wühr currently lives on Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy and has written for Hanser-Verlag since 1970.- Novels :* Gegenmünchen, 1970* Das falsche Buch, 1983...

 (born 1927)

Z

Feridun Zaimoğlu
Feridun Zaimoglu
Feridun Zaimoğlu is a German author and visual artist of Turkish origin.Zaimoğlu has developed since 1995 to have become one of the important poets of contemporary German language...

 (born 1964)
Joseph Christian von Zedlitz (1790–1862)
Gertrud Zelinsky (born 1937)
Eva Zeller
Eva Zeller
Eva Zeller is a German poet and novelist. She lived in the former East Germany until 1956, then lived for six years in Namibia, and now lives in Germany....

 (born 1923)
Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760)
Kathinka Zitz-Halein
Kathinka Zitz-Halein
Kathinka Zitz was a German writer. Her maiden name was Halein. On June 3, 1837, she married a distant relative, the prominent Mainz attorney, and 1848 revolutionary, Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz...

 (1801–1877)
Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771–1848)
Karl Zuchardt
Karl Zuchardt
Karl Zuchardt was a German writer of historical novels.Zuchardt was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony...

 (1887–1968)
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright.-Biography:Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for military service...

 (1896–1977)
Unica Zürn
Unica Zürn
Unica Zürn was a German author and painter. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry, exhibitions of automatic drawing, and her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer.-Biography:...

 (1916–1970)
Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig was a German writer and anti-war activist.He is best known for his World War I tetralogy.-Life and work:Zweig was born in Glogau, Silesia son of a Jewish saddler...

 (1887–1968)
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most famous writers in the world.- Biography :...

 (1881–1942)
Stefanie Zweig
Stefanie Zweig
Stefanie Zweig Stefanie Zweig Stefanie Zweig (born 19 September 1932, Leobschütz (now Głubczyce, Upper Silesia) is a German Jewish writer.- Background :Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa, 1998), based on her early life in Kenya, which was...

 (born 1932)
Jan Zweyer
Jan Zweyer
Jan Zweyer, born 12 December 1953 in Frankfurt , is a German writer. Jan Zweyer is only his pen name. His real name is Rüdiger Richartz.-Career:...

 actually Rüdiger Richartz (born 1953)
Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst
Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst
Hans von Zwiedineck-Südenhorst was a German historian.He was born at Frankfurt-am-Main and studied at the University of Graz, where he became a professor in 1885. He died in Graz.Südenhorst's principal writings are:...

 (1845–1906)

See also


External links

  • German Wikipedia list of German-language writers
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