Category
page 120th-century German translators
Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
Heinrich Böll
German writer (1917–1985)

Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)

Christian Morgenstern
German author (1871-1914)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
German writer and editor (1929–2022)

Alfred Schmidt
German philosopher and social scientist (1931-2012)

Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914–1979)
Reiner Kunze
German poet, writer, translator, and GDR dissident (born 1933)
Mirjam Pressler
German writer and translator (1940–2019)
Josef Pieper
German philosopher (1904-1997)
Hermann Kesten
German writer (1900–1996)
Peter Zadek
German theatre director (1926–2009)
Albert Ehrenstein
Austrian writer (1886–1950)
Oskar Pastior
German poet (1927–2006)
Paul Schmidt
German interpreter and translator (1899-1970)
Norbert Jacques
Luxembourgish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter (1880-1954)
Detlev Blanke
German interlinguistics lecturer (1941–2016)
Karl Krolow
German poet and translator (1915-1999)
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
Karl Dedecius
German translator (1921-2016)
Katharina Reiss
German linguist and translator (1923-2018)
Helmut Oberlander
Nazi war criminal, who fought Canadian government efforts to strip him of his Canadian citizenship and deportation to Germany (1924–2021)
Wolfgang Schadewaldt
German classical philologist, literary theorist and translator (1900–1974)
Jella Lepman
German journalist, writer, library founder (1891-1970)
René Schickele
German-French writer (1883-1940)
Erika Fuchs
German translator (1906-2005)
Hans Wollschläger
German writer (1935–2007)
Walter Ernsting
German writer (1920–2005)

Verena Stefan
German writer (1947-2017)

Theodor Haecker
German writer (1879-1945)

Georg Maurer
poet (1907-1971)
Harry Rowohlt
German author and translator (1945-2015)

Rosa Schapire
German art historian, author and translator (1874–1954)
Walter Bruno Henning
German linguist (1908 – 1967)

Ernst Buschor
German archaeologist and translator (1886–1961)
Paul Zech
German author (1881–1946)
Fritz Rudolf Fries
German writer (1935–2014)
Svetlana Geier
Russian translator (1923-2010)
Bertha Badt
German writer and Zionist (1885–1970)
Utta Danella
German writer (1920-2015)
Ludwig Rubiner
German translator and writer (1881–1920)
Gustav Just
German journalist and politician (1921-2011)
Karl Bormann
German philosopher (1928-2015)
Erik Simon
German translator and writer
Q1902018
German politician
Yu-chien Kuan
German university teacher and writer (1931–2018)
Brigitte Alexander
German author, actress, director and translator (1911–1995)
Peter Urban
German writer and translator (1941–2013)
Zsuzsanna Gahse
Hungarian-Swiss writer and translator (born 1946)
Curt Meyer-Clason
German translator and writer (1910–2012)
Erich Arendt
German translator (1903–1984)
Walter Liebenthal
German sinologist (1886–1982)
Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
German philologist
Waldtraut Lewin
German author (1937-2017)
Rudi Graetz
German writer
Peter de Mendelssohn
German-British writer, historian and essayist (1908–1982)
Hermine Speier
German classical archaeologist (1898–1989)
Marie Amelie von Godin
German activist (1882-1956)
Wieland Herzfelde
German publisher and writer (1896–1988)