Category
page 2Writers from Berlin
Elke Erb
German poet and translator (1938–2024)
Ursula Kuczynski
German spy (1907-2000)
Thomas Brussig
German writer
Irmgard Keun
German writer (1905-1982)
Henriette Herz
German writer (1764-1847)
Günter de Bruyn
German writer (1926–2020)
Claus Offe
German political sociologist
Katja Petrowskaja
German writer and journalist
Jakob van Hoddis
German poet (1887–1942)
Kurt Aland
German theologian and biblical scholar (1915–1994)
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
German academic, philosopher, editor and pacifist (1869-1966)
Sybille Bedford
writer (1911–2006)
Prince Adalbert of Prussia
Prussian admiral; fifth child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and Princess Marie Anna of Hesse-Homburg
Adolf Brand
German writer (1874-1945)
Leopold Andrian
Austrian writer and diplomat (1875-1951)
Max Dessoir
German philosopher (1867–1947)
Adolf Kirchhoff
German classical philologist and epigrapher (1826–1908)
Kurt Hiller
German essayist and activist (1885–1972)
Paul Schmidt
German interpreter and translator (1899-1970)
Herwarth Walden
German artist and art collector (1878-1941)
Herbert Selpin
German film director (1904–1942)
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
German psychologist & scholar (1798–1854)
Arthur Rosenberg
German historian refugee from Nazis because of Jewish heritage (1889-1943)
Else Ury
German Jewish novelist (1877–1943)
Max Jakob Friedländer
German curator and art historian (1867-1958)
Paul Oskar Kristeller
German-American philosopher and art historian (1905-1999)
Richard Wagner
German-Romanian writer (1952–2023)
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
German founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf and famous transgender
Gertrud Kolmar
German writer and holocaust victim (1894–1943)
Karl Ludwig Michelet
German philosopher (1801–1893)
Wilhelm Wackernagel
Swiss philologist
Benedict Friedlaender
German writer and sexuologist (1866–1908)
Rudolf Wittkower
German-American art historian
Helmina von Chézy
German journalist (1783-1856)
Peter Huchel
German poet (1903–1981)
Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach
German politician (1795-1877)
Carsten Peter Thiede
German archaeologist (1952–2004)
Reinhard Jirgl
writer
Franz Hessel
German writer and translator (1880-1941)
Lotte H. Eisner
German film historian (1896-1983)
Adolf Glassbrenner
German writer (1810-1876)
Franz Rosenthal
German arabist (1914–2003)
Hedwig Conrad-Martius
German philosopher (1888–1966)
Ernst Dümmler
German historian (1830-1902)
Eduard Fraenkel
German-British classical philologist (1888–1970)
Albert Hague
American songwriter (1920–2001)
Ingeborg Drewitz
German writer (1923-1986)
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
German historian and politician (1811-1886)
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
German-American social philosopher (1888-1973)
Angelika Schrobsdorff
German writer (1927–2016)
Siegfried Jacobsohn
German writer (1881–1926)
Max Herrmann
German theatrologist (1865–1942)
Theodor Mundt
German author and critic (1808–1861)
Elisabeth Bürstenbinder
German writer (1838-1918)
Peter Schneider
German writer and screenplayer (1940-2026)
Eduard Magnus
German painter (1799-1872)
Hans Ferdinand Massmann
Prussian gymnast and philologist (1797–1874)
Hans Behrendt
German film director and screenwriter (1889-1942)
Julius Eduard Hitzig
German writer
Reinhard Sorge
German poet (1892-1916)