Category
page 1Writers from Hamburg
Siegfried Lenz
German author (1926-2014)

Hans Reichenbach
German–American philosopher

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

Wolf Biermann
German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

Jürgen Moltmann
German Reformed theologian (1926–2024)

Johann Mattheson
German composer and theorist (1681-1764)

Arno Schmidt
German poet (1914–1979)
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
German philosopher

Uwe Timm
German writer
Eduard Meyer
German ancient historian, Egyptologist and ancient orientalist (1855–1930)
Hermann Oldenberg
German indologist (1854–1920)
Walter Jens
German philologist and writer (1923–2013)
Felix Dahn
German lawyer, writer and historian (1834–1912)
Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Norwegian writer (1956–2025)
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
German poet
Hermann Kant
German writer (1926-2016)
Hans Erich Nossack
German writer (1901-1977)
Ralph Giordano
German writer and publicist (1923-2014)
Brigitte Kronauer
German writer (1940-2019)
Gorch Fock
Low German writer (1880–1916)
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
German author
Friedrich Gerstäcker
novelist and travel writer (1816–1872)
Friedrich von Hagedorn
German poet
H. A. Rey
Children's illustrator and writer (1898–1977)
Willi Bredel
German writer and politician (1901-1964)
August Neander
German theologian and church historian (1789-1850)
Jutta Bauer
German children's illustrator and writer (1955-2025)
Erwin Rohde
German classical philologist (1845–1898)
Claas Relotius
German journalist
Hans Henny Jahnn
German Expressionist playwright and writer (1894–1959)
Alice Herz
American-based German activist
Margret Rey
children's illustrator and writer, German Jewish American (1906–1996)
Michael Degen
German Israeli actor (1928–2022)
Hans Leip
German writer (1893–1983)
Barbara Aland
German theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History (1937–2024)
Adele Schopenhauer
German writer (1797-1849)
Gertrud Bing
scholar and Director of the Warburg Institute (1892–1964)
Gustav Friedrich Waagen
German art historian (1794–1868)
James H. Schmitz
American science fiction writer (1911–1981)
Percy Ernst Schramm
German historian and politician (1894-1970)
Johann Friedrich Gronovius
German-Dutch classical scholar, professor of Greek and history and librarian in Leiden (1611-1671), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Johannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611–1671)
Lisel Mueller
German-American poet and translator (1924-2020)
Ludmilla Assing
German writer (1821–1880)
Ludwig Preller
German classical philologist and writer (1809–1861)
Christian of Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
Lucas Holstenius
German humanist (1596-1661)
Lucille Eichengreen
German-born American Holocaust survivor, memoirist, speaker and insurance agent (1925-2020)
Stanisław Lubieniecki
Polish historian, astronomer
Jakob Bernays
German philologist (1824–1881)
Jan Wagner
German poet and translator (born 1971)
Kristiane Backer
German television journalist
Ottilie Assing
Feminist, freethinker, abolitionist (1819–1884)
Otto Brahm
German theatre director (1856–1912)
Adolph Goldschmidt
German art historian (1863-1944)

Doris Gercke
German writer (1937–2025)
Martin Hertz
German classical philologist (1818–1895)

Gustav Solomon Oppert
German Indologist (1836–1908)

Rosa Schapire
German art historian, author and translator (1874–1954)
Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt
German historian and orientalist (1861–1938)
Harry Rowohlt
German author and translator (1945-2015)