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Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956) was a German physician, poet, and essayist who won notoriety with Morgue (1912), supported the Nazis in 1933, and was banned from publishing in 1938.
Gustav Falke
Gustav Falke (1853–1916) was a German poet and writer from Lübeck, a leading poet-impressionist whose lyric verse, Hamburg novels, and children's books were set to music by composers including Richard Strauss and Arnold Schönberg.
Gustav Schwab
Gustav Schwab, full name Gustav Benjamin Schwab, was a German writer, pastor, and Stuttgart Gymnasium teacher known for his retelling of Greek myths, Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Alterthums.
Heinrich Landesmann
Heinrich Landesmann, known by the pen name Hieronymus Lorm, was an Austrian poet, novelist, and philosopher who became deaf and blind and devised the Lorm alphabet.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) was an Austrian poet and author, among the most influential European writers of the twentieth century, known for Die gestundete Zeit and Malina.
Jakob van Hoddis
Jakob van Hoddis was the pen name of Hans Davidsohn (1887–1942), a German-Jewish Expressionist poet best known for "Weltende" (1911), considered the opening work of German Expressionism.
Johann Peter Hebel
Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826) was a German-language author, Protestant theologian, and schoolman best known for the Alemannic dialect poems Allemannische Gedichte and his popular calendar stories.
Joseph Victor Widmann
Joseph Victor Widmann (1842–1911) was a Swiss journalist, poet, and leading literary critic who edited the feuilleton of Bern's Der Bund from 1880 until his death.
Joseph von Eichendorff
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857) was a German lyric poet and novelist of the Romantic movement, born in Silesia, best known for the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts.
Julius Gersdorff
Julius Gersdorff was a German poet and songwriter, born in Stettin in 1849, who was nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of 600 to 700 songs.
Jürgen Becker
Jürgen Becker (1932–2024) was a German writer, poet, and radio drama author based in Cologne who won the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germany's richest literary award, in 2014.
Klabund
Klabund was the pen name of Alfred Georg Hermann Henschke (1890–1928), a German poet, dramatist, and translator who adapted Asian literature; his play Der Kreidekreis (1925) later inspired Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth, full name Claus Johannes Groth, was a German poet and philologist from Heide who established Low German as a literary language with his 1852 collection Quickborn.
Manfred Hausmann
Manfred Hausmann (1898–1986) was a German lyric poet and writer in Bremen, known for the novels Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken and Abel mit der Mundharmonika.
Martin Greif (poet)
Martin Greif, born Friedrich Hermann Frey, was a German poet and dramatist (1839–1911) who lived in Munich and Vienna, known for nature lyrics and the play Agnes Bernauer.
Max Bewer
Max Bewer (1861–1921) was a German poet, publicist, and librettist who won fame defending Bismarck after 1890 and later wrote antisemitic pamphlets and patriotic verse.
Max Mell
Max Mell (1882–1971) was an Austrian poet and playwright, praised by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose mystery play Das Apostelspiel was the most popular amateur drama of the interwar period.
Oskar Loerke
Oskar Loerke (1884–1941) was a German poet, prose writer, critic, and editor in Berlin whose lyric work ranks among the most influential in twentieth-century German poetry.
Otto Ernst
Otto Ernst was the pen name of Otto Ernst Schmidt (1862–1926), a Hamburg schoolteacher turned writer whose 1900 comedy Flachsmann als Erzieher satirized the authoritarian German schoolmaster.
Paul Celan
Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel (1920–1970), was a Romanian-born German-language Jewish poet and translator who survived the Holocaust, settled in Paris in 1948, and became known for "Todesfuge."
Peter Huchel
Peter Huchel, born Helmut Huchel (1903 to 1981), was a German poet and chief editor of the East German journal Sinn und Form until 1962.
Peter Rosegger
Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) was an Austrian narrative writer, poet, and journalist from Styria whose works, translated into more than 22 languages, depicted mountain peasant life.
Peter Rühmkorf
Peter Rühmkorf (1929–2008) was a German poet, essayist, and playwright known for virtuosic, politically engaged verse; he won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1993 and performed his poems with jazz accompaniment.
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze, born 1933 in Oelsnitz, is a German writer known for his poetry and his conflict with the East German SED regime, moving west in 1977.
Reinhold Schneider
Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958) was a German Catholic poet, novelist, and moral essayist whose wartime resistance writings earned him the epithet "the conscience of Germany"; he won the 1956 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt was a German poet, satirist, and cartoonist who co-founded the magazine Titanic in 1979 and wrote more than 50 books of comic poetry and prose.
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975) was a German poet, novelist, and translator who renewed German lyric poetry through American influences, best known for the novel Keiner weiß mehr.
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer, born Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer (1901–1988), was a German-language poet from Czernowitz in the Bukovina who survived its ghetto and became one of the widely read postwar German lyric poets.
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962) was a German poet, translator, hymn writer, and interior architect known as the "last humanist," who co-founded Die Insel and translated Homer and Shakespeare.
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch, born Ingrid Bernstein (1935–2013), was a German poet known for dense nature imagery, who protested Biermann's 1976 expatriation and left East Germany in 1977.