1. Wilhelm Grimm (1786)

German Writer

One half of The Brothers Grimm alongside his brother Jacob Grimm. The brothers are known for their beloved fairy tales such as Rumpelstiltskin and Hansel and Gretel. Their best known publication...

2. Martin Walser (1927)

German Writer

A Twentieth-century German author, he won the 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and wrote such novels as Breakers and No Man's Land.

3. Peter Härtling (1933)

German Writer

A German author, poet, and children's writer, he is best known for Das war der Hirbel, a work that deals with childhood struggles, and for Oma, a children's novel that...

4. Volker Braun (1939)

German Writer

German poet, playwright and novelist who is remembered for works such as Die Kipper (1972) and Provokation fur mich (1965). He was the 1986 recipient of the Bremer Literature Prize.

5. Patrick Süskind (1949)

German Writer

A 20th and early 21st-century German fiction writer and playwright, he is best known for his 1985 novel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. He also published a popular 2006...

6. Thomas Mann (1875)

German Writer

German author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 and is recognized for his skill in incorporating symbolism, irony, psychology,...

7. Lutz Rathenow (1952)

German Writer

German writer who was surveilled by the Secret Police for his works criticizing the German Democratic Republic.

8. Juli Zeh (1974)

German Writer

Juli Zeh is a German writer. Her first book was Adler und Engel which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel. She traveled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001 which...

9. Petra Hammesfahr (1951)

German Writer

Petra Hammesfahr is an acclaimed German crime writer winner of several awards including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and Rhineland Literary Prize. She published her first novel at the age...

10. Annette Kolb (1870)

German Writer

This article is for Annette Kolb the author for Annette Kolb the tennis player see Annette Kolb Annette Kolb was the working name of German author and pacifist Anna Mathilde...

11. Anna Seghers (1900)

German Writer

Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname of the Dutch...

12. Luise Rinser (1911)

German Writer

Luise Rinser was a prolific German writer best known for her novels and short stories.

13. Dagmar von Mutius (1919)

German Writer

Dagmar von Mutius was a German writer.

14. Annemarie Reinhard (1921)

German Writer

Annemarie Reinhard was a German writer.

15. Eva Zeller (1923)

German Writer

Eva Zeller is a German poet and novelist. She lived in the former East Germany until 1956 then lived for six years in Namibia and now lives in Germany. Zeller...

16. Günter de Bruyn (1926)

German Writer

Günter de Bruyn is a German author.

17. Oscar Blumenthal (1852)

German Writer

Oscar Blumenthal or Oskar Blumenthal was a German playwright and drama critic.

18. Angelika Schrobsdorff (1927)

German Writer

Angelika Schrobsdorff is a German writer and actress. Her mother Else whose first marriage was to the author Fritz Schwiefert was an assimilated Jew; her father was a member of...

19. Günter Kunert (1929)

German Writer

Günter Kunert is a German writer who left the German Democratic Republic to live in the Federal Republic of Germany. Kunert was born in Berlin. After attending a Volksschule it...

20. Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929)

German Writer

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a German author poet translator and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich.

21. Stefanie Zweig (1932)

German Writer

Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Nirgendwo in Afrika which was based on her early life in Kenya. The film...

22. Carlos Rasch (1932)

German Writer

Carlos Rasch is a science fiction author whose works mostly appeared in East Germany before German reunification.

23. Alexander Graf Von Hachenburg (1847)

German Writer

24. Hans Krieger (1933)

German Writer

Hans Krieger is a German writer essayist journalist of influential weekly papers such as Die Zeit broadcaster and poet. He lives and works in Munich.

25. Brigitte Reimann (1933)

German Writer

Brigitte Reimann was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel Franziska Linkerhand.

26. Ingrid Noll (1935)

German Writer

Ingrid Noll is a German thriller writer. She has written several novels including Head Count Hell Hath No Fury and The Pharmacist as well as one television drama Bommels Billigflüge.

27. Adel Karasholi (1936)

German Writer

Adel Karasholi is a German and Arabic writer of Syrian origin.

28. Uwe Timm (1940)

German Writer

Uwe Timm is a German writer.

29. Helga Schubert (1940)

German Writer

Helga Schubert is a German Psychologist and author.

30. Hans Neuenfels (1941)

German Writer

Hans Neuenfels is a German writer poet film producer librettist theatre director and opera director.

31. Katja Lange-Müller (1951)

German Writer

Katja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas radio dramas and dramatic works. The daughter of Inge Lange an East German...

32. Harald Braem (1944)

German Writer

Harald Braem alias Wolfram vom Stein is a German writer and designer specialised in colour psicology. Harald Braem spent his childhood in Allendorf Westerwald. He went to primary and secondary...

33. Claudia Schmölders (1944)

German Writer

Claudia Schmölders also Claudia Henn-Schmölders is a cultural scholar author and translator.

34. Jan Zweyer (1953)

German Writer

Jan Zweyer )) is a German writer. Jan Zweyer is only his pen name. His real name is Rüdiger Richartz.

35. Jason Dark (1945)

German Writer

Jason Dark is the pseudonym of Helmut Rellergerd a highly prolific author of widely read horror detective fiction in the German language. His fertile and inventive imagination has been favourably...

36. Brigitte Riebe (1953)

German Writer

Brigitte Riebe is a German author of crime and feminist fiction. She writes thrillers under the pseudonym Lara Stern. She lives with her husband in Munich.

37. Ralf Rothmann (1953)

German Writer

Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist poet and dramatist.

38. Joachim Werneburg (1953)

German Writer

Joachim Werneburg is a German writer who specialises in lyric poetry and short prose.

39. Emine Sevgi Özdamar (1946)

German Writer

Emine Sevgi Özdamar is a Turkish-German actress director and author. Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry she found great inspiration in the...

40. Wolfgang Hohlbein (1953)

German Writer

gang Hohlbein is a German writer of science fiction fantasy and horror fiction who lives near Neuss North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife Heike is also a writer and often works with...

41. Bodo Kirchhoff (1948)

German Writer

Bodo Kirchhhoff is a German writer and novelist. He was born in Hamburg. In addition to writing literary fiction he has worked on various projects for German television. One of...

42. Arnold Stadler (1954)

German Writer

Arnold Stadler is a German writer essayist and translator. He was born April 9 1954 in Meßkirch in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

43. Tamara Bach (1976)

German Writer

Tamara Bach is a German writer.

44. Rainald Goetz (1954)

German Writer

Rainald Maria Goetz is a German author playwright and essayist.

45. Akif Pirinçci (1959)

German Writer

Akif Pirinçci is a German writer of Turkish origin who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae.

46. Christoph von Scheurl (1481)

German Writer

Christoph von Scheurl was a German jurist diplomat and humanist who became famous for arranging a humanistic friendship between Johann Eck and Martin Luther. Von Scheurl was born in Nuernberg....

47. Michael Szameit (1950)

German Writer

Michael Szameit is a German science fiction writer. Born 1950 in Priessen in East Germany he became an electrician before beginning to study physics which he had to abandon for...

48. Andreas Eschbach (1959)

German Writer

Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre they usually feature elements of...

49. Jenny Hirsch (1829)

German Writer

Jenny Hirsch was a German author and reformer.

50. Cora Stephan (1951)

German Writer

Cora Stephan is a German-speaking writer and essayist. She was born on 7 April 1951 in Strang near Bad Rothenfelde. As an author of crime fiction she is known under...