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Friedrich Schiller
German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
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German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
Paul Heyse
German writer (1830–1914)
Johann Gottfried Herder
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
Paul Klee
German-Swiss artist (1879–1940)
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Peter Handke
Austrian writer, playwright and film director (born 1942)
Alfred Kastler
French physicist (1902–1984)
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German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose (1813–1837)
Karl Kraus
Austrian playwright and publicist (1874–1936)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
Erich Kästner
German children's writer (1899–1974)
Karl May
German author (1842–1912)
Wilhelm Busch
German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)
Friedrich Hebbel
German poet and dramatist (1813-1863)
Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
Georg Trakl
Austrian poet (1887-1914)
Jean Arp
Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)
Ludwig Achim von Arnim
German poet and novelist
Paul Celan
French-Romanian poet and translator (1920–1970)
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian poet and author (1926–1973)
Wilhelm Hauff
German poet and novelist (1802–1827)
Stefan George
German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
Christian Morgenstern
German author (1871-1914)
Gottfried Benn
German novelist, poet (1886–1956)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
German writer and editor (1929–2022)
Johannes R. Becher
German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet (1747-1794)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German scholar and poet (1798–1874)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
German composer and writer (1797–1848)
Hugo Ball
German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
Hermann Broch
Austrian writer (1886-1951)
Wilhelm Müller
German poet (1794-1827)
Georg Herwegh
poet and politician (1817–1875)
Wolfgang Borchert
German playwright, and short story writer (1921–1947)
Georg Heym
German writer (1887-1912)
Wolf Biermann
German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
German writer (1777-1843)
Paul Gerhardt
German Lutheran theologian and hymn writer (1607-1676)
Rose Ausländer
Jewish poet from the Bukowina writing in German and English (1901-1988)
Theodor Körner
German poet (1791–1813)
Ernst Jandl
Austrian poet, dramatic and writer (1925–2000)
Alfred Andersch
prosaist, short story writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914-1980)
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
German writer of Baltic German origin (1751-1792)
Sarah Kirsch
German poet (1935–2013)
Heiner Müller
German writer, poet, and theatre director (1929–1995)
Richard Dehmel
German poet (1863-1920)
Georg Kaiser
German dramatist (1878-1945)
Friederike Mayröcker
Austrian poet (1924–2021)
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Yvan Goll
French-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)
Günter Eich
German poet and radio playwright (1907–1972)
Johannes Bobrowski
German author (1917–1965)
Günther Anders
German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
German novelist (1901-1974)
Arno Holz
German naturalist poet and dramatist (1863-1929)