Category
page 1Austrian male poets
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Peter Handke
Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)
Karl Kraus
Austrian playwright and publicist (1874–1936)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)

Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet (1887-1914)

Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
Alfred Brendel
Austrian composer and pianist (1931–2025)

Peter Rosegger
Austrian poet and writer (1843-1918)

Erich Fried
Austrian writer (1921–1988)

Ernst Jandl
Austrian poet, dramatic and writer (1925–2000)

Ludwig Anzengruber
Austrian dramatist (1839-1889)
Raoul Hausmann
Austrian photographer and sculptor (1886–1971)
H. C. Artmann
Austrian poet, writer, and translator (1921–2000)
Robert Hamerling
Austrian poet (1830–1889)
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
Austrian psychiatrist, poet and philosopher (1806-1849)
Jovan Sterija Popović
Serbian playwright, poet and pedagogue (1806-1856)
Ulrich von Liechtenstein
Austrian poet and nobleman
Der von Kürenberg
German poet
Albert Ehrenstein
Austrian writer (1886–1950)
Michael Denis
Austrian entomologist and writer
Richard Beer-Hofmann
Austrian Jewish writer persecuted by Nazis (1866-1945)
Leopold Andrian
Austrian writer and diplomat (1875-1951)
Dietmar von Aist
German minnesänger, poet and composer
Konrad Bayer
Austrian writer and poet (1932–1964)

Rudolf von Ems
medieval epic poet (1200-1254)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer (1897–1976)
Josef Weinheber
Austrian poet (1892–1945)
Friedrich Achleitner
Austrian poet and architectural critic (1930-2019)
Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
Austrian writer (1806–1871)
Arik Brauer
Austrian painter, graphic artist, stage designer, singer and poet (1929–2021)
Alfred Meissner
Austrian writer (1822–1885)
Franzobel
Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl. He was born on 1 March 1967 in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria. In 1997, he won the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and in 1998, the Kassel Literary Prize, amongst numerous other literary awards. In 2017, he won the prestigious Nicolas Born Prize and was long-listed for the German Book Prize for his novel Das Floß der Medusa. He now lives in Vienna.
Clemens J. Setz
Austrian writer and translator
Wolfgang Bauer
Austrian writer (1941-2005)
Johann Philipp Neumann
Austrian physicist, librarian and poet (1774-1849)
Alfred Kolleritsch
Austrian writer and poet (1931–2020)
Anton Wildgans
Austrian poet and playwright (1881-1932)

Aloys Blumauer
Austrian writer
Jans der Enikel
Austrian poet and medieval chronicler
Felix Braun
Austrian writer (1885–1973)
Franz Karl Ginzkey
Austrian writer (1871–1963)
Theodor Kramer
Austrian writer (1897-1958)
Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle
Austrian poet (1825–1892)
Gerd Honsik
Austrian writer, neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier (1941–2018)
Richard von Schaukal
Austrian poet (1874-1942)
Lorenz Leopold Haschka
Austrian writer
Walther Eidlitz
Austrian writer (1892–1976)
Peter Waterhouse
Austrian writer
Eduard Duller
German writer, historian and clergyman (1809-1853)
August Silberstein
Austrian publicist, writer and revolutionary (1827-1900)
Raoul Schrott
Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and broadcaster

Hugo Huppert
Poet and writer (1902-1982)
Robert Bodanzky
Austrian writer
Humbert Fink
Austrian writer and journalist (1933–1992)
Gerhard Fritsch
Austrian author and poet (1924-1969)
Marx Augustin
Austrian musician and poet
Constantin Isopescu-Grecul
Romanian politician, jurist, and journalist (1871-1938)

Georg Bydlinski
Austrian writer
Hans Stoiber
Austrian poet (1918–2015)