German male poets

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian (1759–1805)

German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), better known by his pen name Novalis (; ), was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.

German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)

German writer (1830–1914)

German poet

German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)

German writer (1871–1950)

German novelist and poet (1819–1898)

German theologian (1892–1984)

German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose (1813–1837)

German children's writer (1899–1974)

German writer (1895–1998)

German poet and botanist (1781–1838)

German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)

German poet and dramatist (1813-1863)

German poet, writer and linguist

German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)

Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)

German singer (born 1963)

German poet and novelist

German poet, writer, and critic (1773–1853)

German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)

German knight and poet (1170–1220)

German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624)

German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

German poet and novelist (1802–1827)

German poet and politician (1787–1862)

German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)

German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (1788–1866)

German author (1871-1914)

German poet and novelist (1778–1842)

German novelist, poet (1886–1956)

German poet (1804–1875)

History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)

German scholar, poet and reformer (1488-1523)

German writer and editor (1929–2022)

German writer

German humanist and satirist

German poet (1740-1815)

German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker (1494–1576)

German poet (1747-1794)

German writer

German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)

German poet and author (1792–1854)

German artist (1887–1948)

German historian, writer and politician (1769-1860)

German writer and academic (1944-2001)

German author (1812–1882)

German poet (1794-1827)

leading poet of the Middle High German period

poet and politician (1817–1875)

German poet (1796-1835)

German playwright, and short story writer (1921–1947)

German writer (1887-1912)