Germany
See also: List of German-language playwrights; List of German-language authors
- (1616–1664) Andreas Gryphius (Latin language and German language)
- (1700–1766) Johann Christoph Gottsched
- (1724–1803) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
- (1729–1781) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- (1737–1823) Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
- (1749–1825) Maler Müller
- (1749–1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- (1751–1792) Jakob Lenz
- (1752–1806) Johann Anton Leisewitz
- (1752–1831) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
- (1759–1805) Friedrich Schiller
- (1759–1814) August Wilhelm Iffland
- (1761–1819) August von Kotzebue
- (1770–1843) Friedrich Hölderlin
- (1774–1829) Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner
- (1777–1811) Heinrich von Kleist
- (1788–1857) Baron Joseph von Eichendorff
- (1796–1840) Karl Lebrecht Immermann
- (1801–1836) Christian Dietrich Grabbe
- (1806–1884) Heinrich Laube
- (1811–1878) Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
- (1813–1837) Georg Büchner
- (1813–1863) Friedrich Hebbel
- (1813–1865) Otto Ludwig
- (1816–1895) Gustav Freytag
- (1858–1921) Carl Hauptmann
- (1862–1946) Gerhart Hauptmann
- (1865–1944) Max Halbe
- (1866–1933) Paul Ernst
- (1870–1938) Ernst Barlach
- (1873–1942) Georg Hirschfeld
- (1876–1947) Ernst Hardt
- (1878–1945) Georg Kaiser
- (1882–1961) Leonhard Frank
- (1884–1958) Lion Feuchtwanger
- (1886–1969) Johannes von Guenther
- (1887–1936) Reinhard Goering
- (1887–1945) Bruno Frank
- (1888–1960) Curt Goetz
- (1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld
- (1890–1940) Walter Hasenclever
- (1891–1944) Max Mohr
- (1892–1986) Friedrich Michael
- (1894–1959) Hans Henny Jahnn
- (1895–1952) Alfred Neumann (German language and English language)
- (1895–1958) Friedrich Forster
- (1898–1956) Bertolt Brecht
- (1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth
- (1906–1970) Stefan Andres
- (1906–1972) Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
- (1910–1990) Ulrich Becher
- (1916–1991) Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- (1920–1994) Hans Günter Michelsen
- (1921–1947) Wolfgang Borchert
- (1922–1982) Heinar Kipphardt
- (born 1925) Tankred Dorst
- (1926–1998) Gerd Oelschlegel
- (born January 1927) Leopold Ahlsen
- (born October 1927) Günter Grass
- (1928–2003) Peter Hacks
- (born 1931) Rolf Hochhuth
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