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Annette Kolb
Annette Kolb, born Anna Mathilde Kolb (1870–1967), was a German-French novelist, essayist, and translator whose pacifist Briefe einer Deutsch-Französin (1916) brought bans, exile, and persecution by the Third Reich.
Arno Schmidt
Arno Otto Schmidt (1914–1979) was a German novelist, essayist, and translator, one of postwar German literature's most idiosyncratic experimental writers, best known for the three-column monumental novel Zettel's Traum.
Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) was a German-Jewish novelist and anti-war writer whose 1927 novel Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa became a defining war novel of the Weimar Republic.
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, also published as Marien Kind, was an Austrian baroness and novelist (1871–1955) who led German-language Catholic historical fiction before her books were banned under the Nazis.
Ernst Weiß
Ernst Weiß (1882–1940) was an Austrian physician and writer of German-language expressionist fiction, a friend of Franz Kafka, who died in Paris exile in 1940 and is best known for Der Augenzeuge.
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) was a German-language novelist, dramatist, and poet born in Budapest, admired for his Paracelsus trilogy and later stigmatized as a Nazi-era writer for his völkisch ideology.
Frank Thiess
Frank Thiess, real name Frank Theodor Thieß (1890–1977), was a German novelist and essayist of Baltic German origin whose bestselling naval novel Tsushima (1936) sold several hundred thousand copies.
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet, a leading figure of German expressionism known for The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette.
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays whose work joined the Renouveau catholique; her novella Die Letzte am Schafott inspired Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmélites.
Gustav Frenssen
Gustav Frenssen (1863–1945) was a German novelist and former Lutheran pastor whose Dithmarschen peasant novels, especially Jörn Uhl (1901), made him one of Germany's most-read writers.
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada, pen name of Rudolf Ditzen (1893–1947), was a German novelist whose bestsellers Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947) brought him fame.
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann, in full Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), was a German satirical novelist and essayist, brother of Thomas Mann, best known for Professor Unrat and Der Untertan.
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an Austrian Jewish novelist and essayist who wrote The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil and fled to America in 1938.
Hermann Kesten
Hermann Kesten (1900–1996) was a German novelist and editor of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement who, in exile from the Nazis, published and rescued persecuted German-language writers.
Hermann Lenz
Hermann Lenz (1913–1998) was a German writer known for a nine-volume autobiographical novel cycle around his alter ego Eugen Rapp; he won the 1978 Georg Büchner Prize.
Hermann Stehr
Hermann Stehr (1864–1940) was a German novelist and short-story writer from Habelschwerdt, Silesia, whose religious-mystical fiction about Silesian peasants culminated in Der Heiligenhof (1918).
Ina Seidel
Ina Seidel (1885–1974) was a German writer and poet whose bestselling family novel Das Wunschkind (1930) made her one of Germany's most widely read authors.
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun (1905–1982) was a German novelist of the Weimar era, best known for Gilgi and The Artificial Silk Girl and her exile novels against Nazi Germany.
Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann was a German novelist and essayist from Fürth, one of the most widely read German-language authors of the early twentieth century, best known for Der Fall Maurizius (1928).
Karl Heinrich Waggerl
Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897–1973) was an Austrian writer and former schoolteacher whose rural novels, including Brot (1930), sold over 7 million copies in 12 languages.
Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (1906–1949) was a German novelist, essayist, and playwright, son of Thomas Mann, best known for the exile novel Mephisto and his antifascist exile work.
Leonhard Frank
Leonhard Frank (1882–1961) was a German novelist, dramatist, and pacifist who first became known with Die Räuberbande (1914) and was a leading writer of the Weimar Republic.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and anti-fascist exile whose historical novels, including Jud Süss (1925), made him one of the most widely translated German authors.
Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921) was a German author, publisher, and satirist, regarded as the Bavarian writer par excellence, known for the Lausbubengeschichten and the comedy Moral.
Paul Ernst (German writer)
Paul Ernst (1866–1933) was a German writer of novels, novellas, and dramas, a chief representative of German Neuklassik who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ricarda Huch
Ricarda Huch (1864–1947) was a German poet, novelist, and historian, the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts' poetry section and a public opponent of the Nazi regime.
Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was a Swiss writer known for the novels The Tanners, The Assistant, and Jakob von Gunten and for his microscopic pencil manuscripts.
Rudolf Hans Bartsch
Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952) was an Austrian novelist and former military officer, one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of pre-war and interwar Austria, best known for the Schubert novel Schwammerl (1912).
Stefan Andres
Stefan Andres (1906–1970) was a German novelist and playwright, a left-Catholic author who spent the Nazi years in exile in Positano and wrote Wir sind Utopia there in 1941.
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) was a German novelist, translator, and editor who made the division of Germany his central subject; his four-volume Jahrestage (1970–1983) is a major twentieth-century German novel.