List of German-language authors
Encyclopedia
This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality
) who wrote fiction
, essay
s, or play
s in the German language
. It includes both living and deceased writers.
Most of the medieval
authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet
.
Editors familiar with contemporary German literature are particularly invited to contribute their input. If you add a name to the list, please also create an article stub.
See also
Nationality
Nationality is membership of a nation or sovereign state, usually determined by their citizenship, but sometimes by ethnicity or place of residence, or based on their sense of national identity....
) who wrote fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
, essay
Essay
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
s, or play
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
s in the German language
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
. It includes both living and deceased writers.
Most of the medieval
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet
Sobriquet
A sobriquet is a nickname, sometimes assumed, but often given by another. It is usually a familiar name, distinct from a pseudonym assumed as a disguise, but a nickname which is familiar enough such that it can be used in place of a real name without the need of explanation...
.
Editors familiar with contemporary German literature are particularly invited to contribute their input. If you add a name to the list, please also create an article stub.
See also
- List of German-language philosophers
- List of German-language playwrights
- List of German-language poets
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- Thomas AbbtThomas AbbtThomas 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 AdelungJohann Christoph AdelungJohann 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 AichingerIlse AichingerIlse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...
(born 1921) - Hermann AllmersHermann AllmersHermann 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 AltenbergPeter AltenbergPeter 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 AméryJean AméryJean 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 AnderschAlfred AnderschAlfred 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-SaloméLou Andreas-SaloméLou 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 AndresStefan AndresStefan 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 AngelErnst AngelErnst 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 SilesiusAngelus SilesiusAngelus 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 AnzengruberLudwig AnzengruberLudwig Anzengruber was an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet. He was born and died in Vienna.- Origins:...
(1839–1889) - Johann August ApelJohann August ApelJohann 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 ArndtErnst Moritz ArndtErnst 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 ArnimBettina von ArnimBettina von Arnim , born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a German writer and novelist....
(1785–1859) - Gottfried ArnoldGottfried ArnoldGottfried 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 AuernheimerRaoul AuernheimerRaoul 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 AusländerRose AusländerRose 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 BachmannIngeborg BachmannIngeborg 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 BallHugo BallHugo 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 BarlachErnst BarlachErnst 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 BartelsAdolf BartelsAdolf 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 BasedowJohann Bernhard BasedowJohann 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 BaumVicki BaumHedwig Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel , one of her first international successes....
(1888–1960) - Johannes R. BecherJohannes R. BecherJohannes 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 BeckerJurek BeckerJurek 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 BeheimMichael BeheimMichael 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 BenderHans BenderHans 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 BenjaminWalter BenjaminWalter 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 BennGottfried BennGottfried 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 BergengruenWerner BergengruenWerner 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 BernhardThomas BernhardThomas 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 BernhardiAugust Ferdinand BernhardiAugust 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 BichselPeter BichselPeter 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 BiermannWolf BiermannKarl 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 BobrowskiJohannes BobrowskiJohannes 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 BodmerJohann Jakob BodmerJohann 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 BöhmeJakob BöhmeJakob Böhme was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition...
(1575–1624) - Margarete BöhmeMargarete BöhmeMargarete 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 BöllHeinrich BöllHeinrich 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 BorchertWolfgang BorchertWolfgang 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 BornNicolas BornNicolas 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 BörneLudwig BörneKarl 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 BrandisMark BrandisNikolai 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 BrantSebastian BrantSebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...
(1457–1521) - Bertolt BrechtBertolt BrechtBertolt 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 BredelWilli BredelWilli 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 BrentanoClemens BrentanoClemens 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 BrinkmannRolf Dieter BrinkmannRolf 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 BrochHermann BrochHermann 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 BrockesBarthold Heinrich BrockesBarthold 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 BüchnerGeorg BüchnerKarl 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 BurgerHermann BurgerHermann 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 BürgerGottfried August BürgerGottfried 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 BustaChristine BustaChristine 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 CampeJoachim Heinrich CampeJoachim Heinrich Campe was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher.- Life :...
(1746–1818) - Elias CanettiElias CanettiElias 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 CarossaHans CarossaHans 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 CastelliIgnaz Franz CastelliIgnaz 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 CastonierElisabeth CastonierElisabeth 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 CelanPaul CelanPaul Celan was a poet and translator...
, actually Paul Antschel (1920–1970) - Conrad Celtis (1459–1508)
- C. W. CeramC. W. CeramC. 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 ChamissoAdelbert von ChamissoAdelbert 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 ChristallerHelene ChristallerHelene 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 CibulkaHanns CibulkaHanns Cibulka was a German poet and diarist.- Works :* 1954 Märzlicht. Gedichte* 1959 Zwei Silben. Gedichte* 1960 Sizilianisches Tagebuch...
(1920–2004) - Oscar Walter CisekOscar Walter CisekOscar 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 ClaudiusMatthias ClaudiusMatthias 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 CollinHeinrich Joseph von CollinHeinrich 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-MahlerHedwig Courths-MahlerHedwig 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 CroppWolf-Ulrich CroppDr. 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 CzibulkaAlfons von CzibulkaAlfons Freiherr von Czibulka, or Alfons Cibulka was a Czech-Austrian writer and painter....
(1888–1969)
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- Simon DachSimon DachSimon Dach was a Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns, born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia.-Early life:...
(1605–1659) - Felix DahnFelix DahnFelix 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 DänikenErich von DänikenErich 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 DarkJason DarkJason 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 DauthendeyMax DauthendeyMax 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 DavidisHenriette DavidisHenriette 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 DegenhardtFranz Josef DegenhardtFranz-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 DehmelRichard DehmelRichard Fedor Leopold Dehmel was a German poet and writer.- Life :...
(1863–1920) - Michael DenisMichael DenisJohann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: SinedSined is an anagram of Denis. the Bard, was an Austrian poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist....
(1729–1800) - Lorenz DiefenbachLorenz DiefenbachGeorg 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 AistDietmar von AistDietmar 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 DingelstedtFranz von DingelstedtFranz 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 DinterArtur DinterArtur 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 DöblinAlfred DöblinAlfred Döblin was a German expressionist novelist, best known for the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz .- 1878–1918:...
(1878–1957) - Heimito von DodererHeimito von DodererHeimito von Doderer was a famous Austrian writer.- Life and work :...
(1896–1966) - Hilde DominHilde DominHilde 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 DominikHans Dominik (writer)Hans Dominik was a German science fiction and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer .- External links :...
(1872–1945) - Marion DönhoffMarion DönhoffMarion 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 DörrieDoris DörrieDoris 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 DorstTankred DorstTankred 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-HülshoffAnnette von Droste-HülshoffAnna 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 DudowSlatan DudowSlatan 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 DürrenmattFriedrich DürrenmattFriedrich 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 DuveKaren DuveKaren 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 GünzburgJohann Eberlin von GünzburgJohann Eberlin von Günzburg was a German theologian who became prominent as the author of reformist flysheets and pamphlets.-Life:...
(c. 1470–1533) - Georg EbersGeorg EbersGeorg 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 EbertKarl Egon EbertKarl 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-EschenbachMarie von Ebner-EschenbachBaroness 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 EckartDietrich EckartDietrich 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 EckermannJohann Peter EckermannJohann 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 EckhartMeister EckhartEckhart 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 EcksteinErnst EcksteinErnst 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 EggerathWerner EggerathWerner 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 EgkWerner EgkWerner 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 EhrensteinAlbert EhrensteinAlbert 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 EichGünter EichGünter 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 EichendorffJoseph Freiherr von EichendorffJoseph 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 EichrodtLudwig EichrodtLudwig 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 EinsteinCarl EinsteinCarl 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 EinsteinSiegfried EinsteinSiegfried 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 EndeMichael EndeMichael 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 EngelJohann Jakob EngelJohann 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 EnzensbergerHans Magnus EnzensbergerHans 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 ErnstGustav ErnstGustav Ernst is an Austrian playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals, Wespennest and kolik....
(born 1944) - Paul ErnstKarl Friedrich Paul ErnstPaul 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 EschmannErnst Wilhelm EschmannErnst Wilhelm Eschmann was a German author, sociologist and playwright.-Some works:* Der faschistische Staat in Italien* Vom Sinn der Revolution...
(1904–1987) - Richard EuringerRichard EuringerRichard 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 EwersHanns Heinz EwersHanns 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)
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- Ludwig FahrenkrogLudwig FahrenkrogLudwig 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 FalkJohannes Daniel FalkJohannes 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 FalladaHans FalladaHans 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 FassbinderRainer Werner FassbinderRainer 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 FauserJörg FauserJörg 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 FeldmannElse FeldmannElse Feldmann was an Austrian writer, playwright, poet, socialist journalist, and victim of the Holocaust....
(1884–1942) - Kurt FeltzKurt FeltzKurt Feltz was a highly prolific German poet and song lyricist.-External links:...
, pseudonym Johnny Bartels (1910–1982) - Lion FeuchtwangerLion FeuchtwangerLion 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 FischartJohann FischartJohann 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 FleckKonrad FleckKonrad 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 FleißerMarieluise FleißerMarieluise 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 FlexWalter FlexWalter 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 FockGorch 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 FolzHans FolzHans 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 FontaneTheodor FontaneTheodor 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 FouquéFriedrich de la Motte FouquéFriedrich 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 FranckJulia FranckJulia 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 FranckSebastian FranckSebastian 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 FrankAnne FrankAnnelies 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 FrankBruno FrankBruno 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 FrankLeonhard FrankLeonhard 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)
- FranzobelFranzobelFranzobel 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 FranzosKarl Emil FranzosKarl 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 FreiligrathFerdinand FreiligrathFerdinand 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 FrenssenGustav FrenssenGustav Frenssen was a German novelist. He wrote patriotically about his native country and promoted Heimatkunst in literature.-Biography:...
(1863–1945) - Gustav FreytagGustav FreytagGustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.-Life:Freytag was born in Kreuzburg in Silesia...
(1816–1895) - Alfred Hermann FriedAlfred Hermann FriedAlfred 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 FriedErich FriedErich 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 FriedellEgon FriedellEgon 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 FrischMax FrischMax 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 FröhlichAbraham Emanuel FröhlichAbraham 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 FuldaLudwig Fuldathumb|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 FunkeCornelia FunkeCornelia 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...
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- Philipp Galen, actually Philipp Lange (1813–1899)
- Ludwig GanghoferLudwig GanghoferLudwig 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 GeibelEmanuel GeibelEmanuel 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 GeigerArno GeigerArno 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 GellertChristian Fürchtegott GellertChristian 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 GenazinoWilhelm GenazinoWilhelm 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 GeorgeStefan GeorgeStefan 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 GerhardtPaul GerhardtPaul 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 GernhardtRobert GernhardtRobert 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 GerstäckerFriedrich GerstäckerFriedrich 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 GerstenbergHeinrich Wilhelm von GerstenbergHeinrich 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 GinzkeyFranz Karl GinzkeyFranz Karl Ginzkey was an austro-Hungarian officer, poet and writer...
(1871–1963) - Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604–1670)
- Friedrich GlauserFriedrich GlauserFriedrich 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 GleimJohann Wilhelm Ludwig GleimJohann 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 GoesAlbrecht GoesAlbrecht 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 GoetheJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann 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 GoetzRainald GoetzRainald 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 GoldastMelchior GoldastMelchior 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 GollClaire GollClaire Goll was a German-French writer and journalist. She was the spouse of Yvan Goll....
(1891–1977) - Yvan GollYvan GollYvan Goll, born Isaac Lange , was a French-German poet who was perfectly bilingual and wrote in both French and German...
(1891–1950) - Bogumil GoltzBogumil GoltzBogumil Goltz was a German humorist and satirist known mostly for his work Buch der Kindheit .-Biography:...
(1801–1870) - Friedrich Wilhelm GotterFriedrich Wilhelm GotterFriedrich 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 GotthelfJeremias GotthelfAlbert 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 GottschedJohann Christoph GottschedJohann 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 GötzJohann Nikolaus GötzJohann 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 GrabbeChristian Dietrich GrabbeChristian 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 GrafOskar Maria GrafOskar 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 GrassGünter GrassGünter 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 GregoroviusFerdinand GregoroviusFerdinand 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 GrieseFriedrich GrieseFriedrich 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 GrillparzerFranz GrillparzerFranz 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 GrimmJacob GrimmJacob 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 GrimmWilhelm GrimmWilhelm Carl Grimm was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm.-Life and work:...
(1786–1859) - Hans Jakob Christoffel von GrimmelshausenHans Jakob Christoffel von GrimmelshausenHans 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 GrossHans GrossHans 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 GrothKlaus GrothKlaus 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 GryphiusAndreas GryphiusAndreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist.Asteroid 496 Gryphia is named in his honour.-Life and career:...
(1616–1664) - Martin GrzimekMartin GrzimekMartin 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 GumpertMartin GumpertMartin 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 GüntherJohann Christian GüntherJohann 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 GüterslohAlbert Paris GüterslohAlbert 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 GutzkowKarl GutzkowKarl Ferdinand Gutzkow was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century.-Life:...
(1811–1878)
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- Friedrich Wilhelm HackländerFriedrich Wilhelm HackländerFriedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer , was a successful German author.-Life:...
(1816–1877) - Erich HacklErich HacklErich 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 HacksPeter HacksPeter 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 HaffnerSebastian HaffnerSebastian Haffner was a German journalist and author. He wrote mainly about recent German history....
(1907–1999) - Friedrich von HagedornFriedrich von HagedornFriedrich 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 HallerAlbrecht von HallerAlbrecht 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 HamannJohann Georg HamannJohann 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 HandkePeter HandkePeter 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 HanuschFerdinand HanuschFerdinand Hanusch was an Austrian socialist politician....
(1866–1923) - Thea von HarbouThea von HarbouThea 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 HardtErnst HardtFriedrich 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 HarsdörfferGeorg Philipp HarsdorfferGeorg 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 HartlebenOtto Erich HartlebenOtto Erich Hartleben was a German poet and dramatist from Clausthal, known for his translation of Pierrot Lunaire.-Childhood, Education and Marriage:...
(1864–1905) - Peter HärtlingPeter HärtlingPeter 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 HartmannMoritz HartmannMoritz Hartmann was a German poet and author.- Biography :Hartmann was born of Jewish parentage at Duschnik in Bohemia....
(1821–1872) - Petra HartmannPetra HartmannPetra 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 AueHartmann von AueHartmann 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 HasencleverWalter HasencleverWalter Hasenclever was a German Expressionist poet and playwright.-Biography:...
(1890–1940) - Wilhelm HasencleverWilhelm HasencleverWilhelm Hasenclever was a German politician. He was an originally a tanner by trade, and later became a journalist and author...
(1837–1889) - Wilhelm HauffWilhelm HauffWilhelm 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 HappelEberhard Werner HappelEberhard Werner Happel was a German author, novelist, journalist and polymath.Happel wrote both fiction and nonfiction...
(1647-1690) - Gerhart HauptmannGerhart HauptmannGerhart 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 HaushoferMarlen HaushoferMarlen 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 HaushoferAlbrecht HaushoferAlbrecht 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 HausmannRaoul HausmannRaoul 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 HebelJohann Peter HebelJohann 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 HeerFriedrich HeerFriedrich 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 HeineHeinrich HeineChristian 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 HeineHelme HeineHelme Heine is a German writer, children's book author, illustrator and designer. He is the brother of Ernst Wilhelm Heine...
(born 1941) - Willi HeinrichWilli 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 MorungenHeinrich von MorungenHeinrich 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 VeldekeHeinrich von VeldekeHendrik 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 HeißenbüttelHelmut HeißenbüttelHelmut 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 HeldKurt HeldKurt 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 HenselLuise HenselLuise 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 HerchenbachWilhelm HerchenbachWilhelm Herchenbach was a 19th century German author.Having attended school in Neunkirchen, Wilhelm Herchenbach decided to become a teacher himself...
(1818–1889) - Johann Gottfried HerderJohann Gottfried HerderJohann 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 HermannJudith 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 HermlinStephan HermlinStephan 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 HerweghGeorg HerweghGeorg 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 HerzlTheodor HerzlTheodor 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 HerzogWilhelm HerzogWilhelm Herzog was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist.- Life :...
(1884–1960) - Hermann HesseHermann HesseHermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature...
(1877–1962) - Helius Eobanus HessusHelius Eobanus HessusHelius Eobanus Hessus was a German Latin poet born at Halgehausen in Hesse-Kassel ....
, actually Eoban Koch (1488–1540) - Georg HeymGeorg HeymGeorg Heym was a German writer. He is particularly known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism.- Life :...
(1887–1912) - Stefan HeymStefan HeymHelmut 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 HilbigWolfgang HilbigWolfgang 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 HildesheimerWolfgang HildesheimerWolfgang 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 HillerKurt HillerKurt 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 HochhuthRolf HochhuthRolf 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 HochwälderFritz HochwälderFritz 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 HoddisJakob van HoddisJakob 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 HoffmannHeinrich 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 FallerslebenAugust 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 HofmannGert HofmannGert Hofmann was a German writer and professor of German literature. Hofmann was born in Limbach, Saxony and died in Erding ....
(1931–1993) - Hugo von HofmannsthalHugo von HofmannsthalHugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal ; , was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.-Early life:...
(1874–1929) - Robert HohlbaumRobert HohlbaumRobert 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 HohlerFranz HohlerFranz 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 HölderlinFriedrich HölderlinJohann 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 HolthusenHans Egon HolthusenHans 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 HolzArno HolzArno 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 HöltyLudwig Heinrich Christoph HöltyLudwig 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 HonigmannBarbara HonigmannBarbara 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 HopfenHans von HopfenHans 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 HorvathÖdön von HorváthEdmund Josef von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist...
(1901–1938) - Hrabanus Maurus (c. 780 – 856)
- Ricarda HuchRicarda HuchRicarda 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 HuchelPeter HuchelPeter 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 HummeltNorbert HummeltNorbert 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 HunoldChristian Friedrich HunoldChristian Friedrich Hunold was a German author who wrote under the pseudonym Menantes.- Biography :...
(1681–1721) - Thomas HürlimannThomas HürlimannThomas 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 HüschHanns Dieter HüschHanns Dieter Hüsch was a German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator....
(1925–2005) - Ulrich von HuttenUlrich von HuttenUlrich 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)
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- Heinrich Eduard JacobHeinrich Eduard JacobHeinrich 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 JacobiFriedrich Heinrich JacobiFriedrich Heinrich Jacobi was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, socialite and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi...
(1743–1819) - Johann Georg JacobiJohann Georg JacobiJohann 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 JandlErnst JandlErnst 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 EnikelJans der EnikelJans 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 JaudTommy JaudTommy 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 JelinekElfriede JelinekElfriede 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 JensWalter JensWalter 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 JensenWilhelm JensenWilhelm 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 TeplJohannes von TeplJohannes 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 JohansdorfAlbrecht von JohansdorfAlbrecht 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 JohnsonUwe JohnsonUwe 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 JohstHanns JohstHanns 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 JüngerErnst JüngerErnst 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 JungkPeter Stephan JungkPeter 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 JungkRobert JungkRobert 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-StillingJohann Heinrich JungJohann 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)
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- Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz 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 KaiserFriedrich KaiserFriedrich 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 KaiserGeorg KaiserFriedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, was a German dramatist.-Biography:Kaiser was born at Magdeburg....
(1878–1945) - Max KalbeckMax KalbeckMax 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 KalékoMascha KalékoMascha 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 KalischDavid KalischDavid Kalisch was a German playwright and humorist.-Early life:...
(1820–1872) - Wladimir KaminerWladimir KaminerWladimir 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 KantHermann KantHermann 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 KantImmanuel KantImmanuel 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 KarasekHellmuth KarasekHellmuth 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 KargerUlrich KargerUlrich 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 KaschnitzMarie Luise KaschnitzMarie 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 KästnerAbraham Gotthelf KästnerAbraham 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 KästnerErich KästnerEmil 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 KaufmannWalter 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 KehlmannDaniel KehlmannDaniel 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 KellerGottfried KellerGottfried Keller , a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry .- Life and work :...
(1819–1890) - Hans Peter KellerHans Peter KellerHans-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 KellnerFriedrich KellnerAugust 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 KempowskiWalter KempowskiWalter 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 KeplerJohannes KeplerJohannes 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 KernerJustinus KernerJustinus Andreas Christian Kerner was a German poet and medical writer.-Life:He was born at Ludwigsburg in Württemberg...
(1786–1862) - Alfred KerrAlfred KerrAlfred Kerr , born Alfred Kempner, was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ....
, actually Alfred Kempner (1867–1948) - Judith KerrJudith KerrJudith 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 KeunIrmgard KeunIrmgard 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 KeyserlingEduard von KeyserlingEduard 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 KirschSarah KirschSarah 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 KirstHans Hellmut KirstHans Hellmut Kirst was a distinguished German novelist and the author of 46 books, many of which were translated into English...
(1914–1989) - Egon Erwin KischEgon Erwin KischEgon 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 KiwusKarin KiwusKarin 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 KlajJohann KlajJohann 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 KleistEwald Christian von KleistEwald 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 KleistHeinrich von KleistBernd 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 KlepperJochen KlepperJochen 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 KlingemannErnst August Friedrich KlingemannErnst 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 KlingerFriedrich Maximilian KlingerFriedrich 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 KlopstockFriedrich Gottlieb KlopstockFriedrich 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 KlugeAlexander KlugeAlexander Kluge is an author and film director.-Early life, education and early career:Kluge was born in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany....
(born 1932) - Ruth KlügerRuth KlügerRuth 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 KnefHildegard KnefHildegard 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 KochWerner KochWerner 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 KoeppenWolfgang KoeppenWolfgang 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 KoflerGerhard KoflerGerhard Kofler was an Austrian-Italian writer. He wrote poetry and essays in both Italian and German....
(1949–2005) - Michael KöhlmeierMichael KöhlmeierMichael 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 KokoschkaOskar KokoschkaOskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.-Biography:...
(1886–1980) - Gertrud KolmarGertrud KolmarGertrud 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 KompertLeopold KompertLeopold Kompert was a Bohemian Jewish writer. He was born in Mnichovo Hradiště , Bohemia, and died in Vienna....
(1822–1886) - Konrad von WürzburgKonrad von WürzburgKonrad 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. KonsalikHeinz G. KonsalikHeinz 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 KopischAugust KopischAugust Kopisch , was a German poet and painter.-Biography:Kopisch was born on 26 May 1799 in Breslau, Prussia...
(1799–1853) - Paul KornfeldPaul 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 KotzebueAugust von KotzebueAugust 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 KrachtChristian KrachtChristian 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 KraftRobert KraftRobert 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 KrausKarl KrausKarl 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 KrausserHelmut KrausserHelmut 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 KroetzFranz Xaver KroetzFranz 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 KrummacherFriedrich Adolf KrummacherFriedrich 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 KrüssJames KrüssJames 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 KubinAlfred KubinAlfred 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 KuckhoffAdam KuckhoffAdam 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 KuhnauJohann KuhnauJohann 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 KumpfmüllerMichael KumpfmüllerMichael 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 KunkelThor KunkelThor 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 KunzeReiner KunzeReiner 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 KupfferElisar von KupfferElisar 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 KurzHermann KurzHermann 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 KurzIsolde KurzIsolde 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 KusenbergKurt KusenbergKurt 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...
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- Gustav LandauerGustav LandauerGustav 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 LangeCarl LangeCarl 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-MüllerKatja Lange-MüllerKatja 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 LanggässerElisabeth LanggässerElisabeth Langgässer was a German author and teacher. She is known for lyrical poetry and novels...
, actually E. L. Hoffmann (1899–1950) - Sophie von La RocheSophie von La RocheMaria Sophie von La Roche was a German novelist. She was born in Kaufbeuren and died in Offenbach am Main.-Biography:...
(1731–1807) - Else Lasker-SchülerElse Lasker-SchülerElse 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 LaßwitzKurd LaßwitzKurd 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 LaubeHeinrich LaubeHeinrich 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 LauffJosef LauffJosef 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 LavantChristine LavantChristine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.- Life :...
(1915–1973) - Johann Kaspar LavaterJohann Kaspar LavaterJohann 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 LebertBenjamin LebertBenjamin 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 FortGertrud von Le FortGertrud 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 LenauNikolaus LenauNikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau , was a German language Austrian poet.-Biography:...
(1802–1850) - Ellen LenneckEllen LenneckEllen 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 LentzMichael LentzMichael 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 LenzJakob Michael Reinhold LenzJakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.-Life:...
(1751–1792) - Siegfried LenzSiegfried LenzSiegfried 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 LeppinPaul LeppinPaul 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-HoleniaAlexander Lernet-HoleniaAlexander 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 LessingGotthold Ephraim LessingGotthold 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 LettauReinhard LettauReinhard 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 LewaldFanny LewaldFanny 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 LichtenbergGeorg Christoph LichtenbergGeorg 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 LichtenfeldHerbert LichtenfeldHerbert 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 LichtensteinAlfred 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 LiliencronDetlev von LiliencronBaron 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 LindauPaul LindauPaul 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 LoestErich LoestErich 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 LohensteinDaniel Casper von LohensteinDaniel 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 LönsHermann LönsHermann 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 LorberJakob LorberJakob 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 LorenzenRudolf LorenzenRudolf 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 LotharErnst LotharErnst 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 LudwigEmil LudwigEmil 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 LutherMartin LutherMartin 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 MaarPaul MaarPaul 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 MackayJohn Henry MackayJohn 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 MannErika MannErika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann.-Life:...
(1905–1969) - Golo MannGolo MannGolo 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 MannHeinrich MannLuiz 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 MannKlaus 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 MannThomas MannThomas 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 MarchwitzaHans MarchwitzaHans 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 MargwelaschwiliGiwi MargwelaschwiliGiwi 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 MarinelliKarl von MarinelliKarl Edler von Marinelli was an actor, theatre manager and playwright....
(1745–1803) - Monika MaronMonika MaronMonika 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 MatthissonFriedrich von MatthissonFriedrich 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 MauthnerFritz MauthnerFritz 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 MayKarl MayKarl 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 MayenburgMarius von MayenburgMarius 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 MayerHans MayerHans 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 MagdeburgMechthild of MagdeburgMechthild of Magdeburg , a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit described her visions of God....
(1210 – c. 1285) - Christoph MeckelChristoph MeckelChristoph 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-EisingerSelma Meerbaum-EisingerSelma 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 MehringWalter MehringWalter 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 MenasseRobert MenasseRobert 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 MenasseEva MenasseEva 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 MendelssohnMoses MendelssohnMoses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah is indebted...
(1729–1786) - Wolfgang MenzelWolfgang MenzelWolfgang 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 MerckJohann Heinrich MerckJohann 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 MeyerConrad Ferdinand MeyerConrad 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 MeyrMelchior MeyrMelchior 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 MeyrinkGustav MeyrinkGustav 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 MiegelAgnes MiegelAgnes 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 MihalyJo MihalyJo 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 MohrGeorg MohrJørgen Mohr was a Danish mathematician. He travelled in the Netherlands, France, and England.Mohr was born in Copenhagen...
(1870–1928) - Paul MöhringPaul MöhringPaul 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 MoloWalter von MoloWalter Ritter/Reichsritter von Molo was a Czech-born Austrian writer.- Life :...
(1880–1958) - Christian MorgensternChristian MorgensternChristian 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 MorgnerIrmtraud MorgnerIrmtraud 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 MorhofDaniel Georg MorhofDaniel 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 MörikeEduard MörikeEduard 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 MoritzKarl Philipp MoritzKarl 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 MoscheroschJohann Michael MoscheroschJohann 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 MosenJulius MosenJulius 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 MuchHans MuchHans Much was a German author, writer and physician....
(1880–1932) - Erich MühsamErich MühsamErich 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 MüllerMaler MüllerFriedrich 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 MüllerHeiner MüllerHeiner 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 MüllerHerta MüllerHerta 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 MüllerInge MüllerInge 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 MüllerWilhelm MüllerWilhelm 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 KönigswinterWolfgang Müller von KönigswinterWolfgang 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 MundtTheodor Mundtthumb|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 MurnerThomas MurnerThomas 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 MusäusJohann Karl August MusausJohann 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 MuschgAdolf MuschgAdolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.- His life :...
(born 1934) - Robert MusilRobert MusilRobert 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 NachbarHerbert NachbarHerbert Nachbar was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic.-Life:...
(1930–1980) - Neidhart von Reuenthal (c. 1190 – c. 1245)
- Johann NestroyJohann NestroyJohann 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 NeumannAlfred 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 NickelEckhart NickelEckhart 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 NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
(1844–1900) - Dieter NollDieter NollDieter 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 NollIngrid NollIngrid 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 NöstlingerChristine NöstlingerChristine 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. NovakHelga M. NovakHelga 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) - NovalisNovalisNovalis 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 OrtleppErnst OrtleppErnst 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 OsianderAndreas OsianderAndreas 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 OssietzkyCarl von OssietzkyCarl 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 WolkensteinOswald von WolkensteinOswald 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 WeißenburgOtfrid of WeissenburgOtfrid 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 ÖzdamarEmine Sevgi ÖzdamarEmine 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...
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- Oskar PanizzaOskar PanizzaLeopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor...
(1853–1921) - Harald PariggerHarald PariggerHarald 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 PaulJean PaulJean 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 PedrettiErica PedrettiErica 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 PehntAnnette PehntAnnette 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 PeltzerUlrich PeltzerUlrich 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 PenzoldtErnst PenzoldtErnst 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 PerutzLeo PerutzLeopold 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 PestalozziJohann Heinrich PestalozziJohann 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 PfauLudwig PfauKarl Ludwig Pfau was a German poet, journalist, and revolutionary.-Poetry:...
(1821–1894) - Karl Philberth (born 1929)
- Karoline PichlerKaroline PichlerKaroline 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 PirckheimerWillibald PirckheimerWillibald 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 PlenzdorfUlrich PlenzdorfUlrich 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 PloenniesLuise von PloenniesLuise 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 PraetoriusJohannes PraetoriusJohann Richter or Johannes Praetorius was a Bohemian German mathematician and astronomer.- Life :...
, actually Hans Schulz (1630–1680) - Paula von PreradovićPaula von PreradovicPaula 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 PreußlerOtfried PreußlerOtfried Preußler is a German children's books author. His best-known works are The Robber Hotzenplotz and The Satanic Mill ....
(born 1923) - Robert PrutzRobert PrutzRobert 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-MuskauHermann von Pückler-MuskauPrince 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...
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- Julye Rabinowich (born 1970)
- Wilhelm RaabeWilhelm RaabeWilhelm Raabe , German novelist, whose early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus, was born in Eschershausen ....
(1831–1910) - Rabanus MaurusRabanus MaurusRabanus 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 RaimundFerdinand RaimundFerdinand Raimund was an Austrian actor and dramatist.- Life and work :...
(1790–1836) - Karl Wilhelm RamlerKarl Wilhelm RamlerKarl 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 RansmayrChristoph RansmayrChristoph 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 RathenowLutz RathenowLutz Rathenow is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification...
(born 1952) - Wolfgang RatkeWolfgang RatkeWolfgang Ratke was a German educational reformer.-Early life:...
(1571–1635) - Sven RegenerSven RegenerSven 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-RanickiMarcel Reich-RanickiMarcel 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 ReimerUwe ReimerUwe Reimer was a German writer who wrote numerous books about history and social studies.-Biography:...
(1948–2004) - Herbert ReineckerHerbert ReineckerHerbert 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 HagenauReinmar von HagenauReinmar 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 ZweterReinmar von ZweterReinmar 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 RellstabLudwig RellstabHeinrich 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 RemarqueErich Maria RemarqueErich 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 RemusJoscha RemusJoscha 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 RendulicLothar RendulicGeneraloberst 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 RetcliffeSir John RetcliffeSir 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 ReuterFritz ReuterFritz 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 RichterHans Peter RichterHans 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 RichterHans Werner RichterHans 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 RichthofenFrieda von RichthofenFrieda 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 RiebeBrigitte RiebeBrigitte 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 RilkeRainer Maria RilkeRené 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 RingelnatzJoachim RingelnatzJoachim 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 RinserLuise RinserLuise Rinser was a German writer.-Early life and education:...
(1911–2002) - Heinz Risse (1898–1989)
- Johann Rist (1607–1667)
- Charlotte RocheCharlotte RocheCharlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche is a British-born German television presenter, actress, singer and author.- Life and career :...
(born 1978) - Alexander Roda RodaAlexander Roda RodaAlexander Roda Roda was the pen name of Alexander/Sándor Friedrich Ladislaus Rosenfeld, an Austrian Jewish writer.-Biography:...
, actually Sandór Friedrich Rosenfeld (1872–1945) - Peter RoseggerPeter RoseggerPeter 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 RoseiPeter RoseiPeter 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 RostJohann Leonhard RostJohann 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 RothEugen RothEugen 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 RothFriederike RothFrederike Roth is a German writer. She is especially active as a playwright.Roth won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1983.-References:...
(born 1948) - Gerhard RothGerhard 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 RothJoseph RothJoseph 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 RothRichard RothRichard 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 RothStephan Ludwig RothStephan Ludwig Roth was a Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor....
(1796–1849) - Toni RothmundToni RothmundToni Rothmund was a German writer and journalist.She wrote biographies, novels and tales.- Tales :* Die Bernsteinperle...
(1877–1956) - Ludwig Rubiner (1881–1920)
- Friedrich RückertFriedrich RückertFriedrich 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 EmsRudolf von EmsRudolf 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 SaarFerdinand von SaarFerdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet....
(1833–1906) - Leopold von Sacher-MasochLeopold von Sacher-MasochLeopold 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 SachsHans SachsHans 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 SachsNelly SachsNelly 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 SalomonErnst von SalomonErnst 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 SaltenFelix SaltenFelix Salten was an Austrian author and critic in Vienna. His most famous work is Bambi .-Life:...
, actually Siegmund Salzmann (1869–1945) - Christian Gotthilf SalzmannChristian Gotthilf SalzmannChristian Gotthilf Salzmann was the founder of the Schnepfenthal institution, a school dedicated to new modes of education...
(1744–1811) - Adolf Friedrich von SchackAdolf Friedrich von SchackAdolf 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 SchaffnerJakob SchaffnerJakob 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 SchamiRafik SchamiRafik 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 ScheerbartPaul ScheerbartPaul 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 ScheferLeopold ScheferLeopold 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 ScherrJohannes ScherrJohannes 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 SchikanederEmanuel SchikanederEmanuel 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 SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann 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 SchirachBaldur von SchirachBaldur 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 SchlafJohannes SchlafJohannes 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 SchlegelJohann Elias SchlegelJohann 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 SchlinkBernhard SchlinkBernhard 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 SchmidtArno SchmidtArno 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 SchmitterElke SchmitterElke 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 SchneckenburgerMax SchneckenburgerMax 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 SchneiderLouis 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 SchneiderReinhold SchneiderReinhold 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 SchnitzlerArthur SchnitzlerDr. 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 SchnurreWolfdietrich SchnurreWolfdietrich Schnurre was a German writer.Schnurre was an important literary figure of post-war West Germany...
(1920–1989) - Johanna SchopenhauerJohanna SchopenhauerJohanna Schopenhauer, née Trosiener , was a German author. She is today known primarily for being the mother of Arthur Schopenhauer.- Biography :...
(1766–1838) - Friedrich Ludwig SchröderFriedrich Ludwig SchröderFriedrich 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. SchröderRainer M. SchröderRainer 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 SchubartChristian Friedrich Daniel SchubartChristian 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 SchückingLevin SchückingLevin 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 SchwabGustav SchwabGustav 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 SchwabWerner SchwabWerner 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 SchwarzeAchim SchwarzeAchim Schwarze is a German author, his works include self-help books and are influenced by black humour and anarchism.-External links:*...
(born 1958) - Alice SchwarzerAlice SchwarzerAlice 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 SchuhFranz 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 SchwittersKurt SchwittersKurt 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 SealsfieldCharles SealsfieldCharles 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. SebaldW. G. SebaldW. 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 SeghersAnna SeghersAnna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...
, actually Netty Radvanyi (1900–1983) - Franz SeldteFranz SeldteFranz 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 SernerWalter SernerWalter Serner was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dadaism....
(1889–1942) - Johann Gottfried SeumeJohann Gottfried SeumeJohann 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 SeuseHenry SusoHenry 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 SimmelJohannes Mario SimmelJohannes 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 SiodmakCurt SiodmakCurt 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-BodenburgAngela Sommer-BodenburgAngela 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 SonnenfelsJoseph von SonnenfelsJoseph 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 SoyferJura SoyferJura Soyfer was an important Austrian political journalist and cabaret writer.-Life:...
(1912–1939) - Manès SperberManès SperberManès 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 SpittelerCarl SpittelerCarl 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 SpyriJohanna SpyriJohanna 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 StadlerArnold StadlerArnold 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 SteffenAlbert SteffenAlbert 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 SteinmüllerAngela SteinmüllerAngela 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 SteinmüllerKarlheinz SteinmüllerKarlheinz 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 SternAdolf SternAdolf 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 SteubenFritz SteubenErhard 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 StifterAdalbert StifterAdalbert 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 StindeJulius StindeJulius 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 StirnerMax StirnerJohann 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 StöckerHelene StöckerHelene 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 StormTheodor StormHans 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 StrammAugust StrammAugust 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 StraußBotho StraußBotho 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 StrittmatterErwin StrittmatterErwin Strittmatter was a German writer. Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR....
(1912-1994) - Eva StrittmatterEva StrittmatterEva 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 StrubelAntje Rávic StrubelAntje 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 SturmJulius SturmJulius 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 SudermannHermann SudermannHermann 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 SüskindPatrick SüskindPatrick 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 SüskindWilhelm Emanuel SüskindWilhelm 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 TrimbergSüßkind von Trimbergthumb|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 SuterMartin SuterMartin 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 SuttnerBertha von SuttnerBertha 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 SwannLeonie SwannLeonie 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 TaboriGeorge TaboriGeorge 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 TarnowRudolf TarnowRudolf 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 TaulerJohannes TaulerJohannes 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 TersteegenGerhard TersteegenGerhard 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 ThomaLudwig ThomaLudwig 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 ThummelMoritz August von ThummelMoritz 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 ThürkHarry ThürkHarry 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 TieckLudwig TieckJohann 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 TimmUwe 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 TollerErnst TollerErnst 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 TorbergFriedrich TorbergFriedrich Torberg is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer.- Biography :...
, actually Friedrich Kantor-Berg (1908–1979) - Georg TraklGeorg TraklGeorg 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. TravenB. TravenB. 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 TrojanowIlija Trojanowthumb|Ilija Trojanow Ilija Trojanow , is a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher.-Life:...
(born 1965) - Kurt TucholskyKurt TucholskyKurt 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 UhlandLudwig UhlandJohann 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 UllmannRegina UllmannRegina "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 LiechtensteinUlrich von LiechtensteinUlrich 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 UngarHermann UngarHermann 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 UnruhFritz von UnruhFritz 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 ValentinKarl ValentinKarl 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 EnseKarl August Varnhagen von EnseKarl 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 VarnhagenRahel VarnhagenRahel 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 ViertelBerthold ViertelBerthold 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 VischerFriedrich Theodor VischerFriedrich 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 VoßJohann Heinrich VoßJohann 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 VoßRichard VoßRichard 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 VulpiusChristian August VulpiusChristian 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)
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- Wilhelm Heinrich WackenroderWilhelm Heinrich WackenroderWilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck, he was a co-founder of German Romanticism....
(1773–1798) - Heinrich Leopold WagnerHeinrich Leopold WagnerHeinrich 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 WagnerJan Costin WagnerJan Costin Wagner is a German crime fiction writer. His novels are set in Finland and feature detective Kimmo Joentaa.- Biography :...
(born 1972) - Siegfried WagnerSiegfried WagnerSiegfried 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 WaiblingerWilhelm WaiblingerWilhelm 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 WaldauMax WaldauRichard Georg Spiller von Hauenschild, better known by his pseudonym Max Waldau , was a German poet and novelist.-Life:...
(1821 or 1825–1855) - Herwarth WaldenHerwarth WaldenHerwarth Walden was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines...
, actually Georg Lewin (1878–1941) - Martin WalserMartin WalserAt 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 WalserRobert Walser (writer)Robert Walser , was a German-speaking Swiss writer.-1878–1897:...
(1878–1956) - Walther von der VogelweideWalther von der VogelweideWalther 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 WangenheimGustav von WangenheimGustav 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 WassermannJakob WassermannJakob 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 WedekindFrank WedekindBenjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...
(1864–1918) - Hermann von WedderkopHermann von WedderkopHermann 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. WegnerArmin T. WegnerArmin 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 WehnerJosef Magnus WehnerJosef 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 WeigandWilhelm WeigandWilhelm Weigand was a German Neoromanticism and Realism period poet and writer...
(1862–1949) - Peter WeissPeter WeissPeter 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 WeitlingWilhelm WeitlingWilhelm 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 WelkEhm WelkEmil Welk, known by his nickname Ehm Welk , was a German journalist, writer, professor and founder of Volkshochschulen...
(1884–1966) - Franz WerfelFranz WerfelFranz 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 WernickeChristian WernickeChristian 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 WessenbergIgnaz Heinrich von WessenbergIgnaz 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 WiechertErnst WiechertErnst 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 WielandChristoph Martin WielandChristoph 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 WilbrandtAdolf WilbrandtAdolf 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 WildenbruchErnst von WildenbruchErnst 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 WilleBruno WilleBruno 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 WinckelmannJohann Joachim WinckelmannJohann 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 WinklerEugen Gottlob WinklerEugen 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 WittenwilerHeinrich WittenwilerHeinrich 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 WittfogelKarl August WittfogelKarl 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 WolfChrista WolfChrista 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 WolffJulius WolffJulius 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 EschenbachWolfram von EschenbachWolfram 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 WolfskehlKarl WolfskehlKarl 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 WollschlägerHans Wollschlägerthumb|right|150px| Signature, 1988Hans Wollschläger was a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.-Biography:...
(1935–2007) - Ernst von WolzogenErnst von WolzogenErnst 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 WührPaul WührPaul 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...
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- Feridun ZaimoğluFeridun ZaimogluFeridun 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 ZellerEva ZellerEva 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-HaleinKathinka Zitz-HaleinKathinka 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 ZuchardtKarl ZuchardtKarl Zuchardt was a German writer of historical novels.Zuchardt was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony...
(1887–1968) - Carl ZuckmayerCarl ZuckmayerCarl 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 ZürnUnica ZürnUnica 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 ZweigArnold ZweigArnold 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 ZweigStefan ZweigStefan 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 ZweigStefanie ZweigStefanie 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 ZweyerJan ZweyerJan 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-SüdenhorstHans von Zwiedineck-SüdenhorstHans 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
- List of German-language philosophers
- List of German-language playwrights
- List of German-language poets
- Lists of authors
External links
- German Wikipedia list of German-language writers
- Sophie A digital library of works by German-speaking women