Category
page 1German autobiographers
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
Günter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
Willy Brandt
German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Gerhart Hauptmann
German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
Mesut Özil
Turkish-German association football player
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
Philipp Lahm
German association football player
Nina Hagen
German singer, songwriter, and actress
Klaus Mann
German writer (1906–1949)
Dieter Bohlen
German songwriter, producer, singer, and television personality
Thomas Hitzlsperger
German footballer
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic (1920–2013)
Hildegard Knef
German actress, singer and writer (1925-2002)
Mario Adorf
German actor and writer (1930–2026)
Golo Mann
German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
Rudolf Otto
German theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist (1869-1937)
Hardy Krüger
German actor (1928–2022)
Erika Mann
German actress and writer (1905-1969)
Christiane F.
German author
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
German prince (1818–1893)
Emmy Göring
German actress, art collector (1893-1973)
Otto Carius
German pharmacist, military officer and highly decorated tank commander (1922-2015)
Sebastian Haffner
German journalist and author (1907–1999)
Ludwig Richter
German painter and engraver (1803-1884)
Rosa von Praunheim
German film director (1942–2025)
Bushido
German rapper
Uwe Timm
German writer
Günter Kunert
German writer (1929-2019)
Uwe Rösler
German association football manager and former player
Klaus Voormann
German musician and artist
Hans Staden
German conquistador
Sido
German rapper
Christoph von Schmid
German priest, writer and educator (1768–1854)
Emilie Schindler
Sudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust (1907-2001)
Carl Einstein
German art historian (1885-1940)
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
author, artist (1918-2007)
Heiner Lauterbach
German actor and voice actor
Peter Zadek
German theatre director (1926–2009)
Lilli Lehmann
German operatic soprano (1848–1929)
Deborah Feldman
American-German writer, known for her 2012 autobiography Unorthodox
Rolf Zacher
German actor (1941–2018)
Adolf Bernhard Marx
German composer and musicologist (1795–1866)
Johanna Kinkel
German composer and author, editor (1810–1858)
Charlotte Kerr
German actress (1927-2011)
Hape Kerkeling
German comedian
Sandra Völker
German swimmer
Rut Brandt
Norwegian resistance member (1920–2006)
Ernst Georg Ravenstein
English autobiographer of German descent (1834–1913)
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
German founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and famous transgender
Kurt Raab
German actor (1941–1988)
Charlotte von Kalb
German writer (1761-1843)
Edgar Selge
German actor
Uschi Obermaier
German model (born 1946)
Monika Mann
German novelist (1910-1992)
Angelika Schrobsdorff
German writer (1927–2016)
Samy Deluxe
German rapper