List of German-language playwrights

This is a list of German-language playwrights.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Contents: 

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

• External links

A

• Herbert Achternbusch
• Alois Außerer (1876–1950)

B

• Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005)
• Thomas Bernhard
• Leo Birinski
• Nicolai Borger
• Bertolt Brecht
• Georg Büchner

D

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt

F

• Gustav Freytag

G

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

H

• Peter Handke
• Gerhart Hauptmann
• Wolfgang Hildesheimer
• Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938)

J

• Elfriede Jelinek
• Hanns Johst

K

• Georg Kaiser
• Heinrich von Kleist
• Karl Kraus
• Franz Xaver Kroetz

L

• Else Lasker-Schüler
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

M

• Andreas Mand
• Lucas Maius
• Klaus Mann
• Marius von Mayenburg (born 1972)
• Heiner Müller
• Robert Musil
• Johann Nestroy

P

• Ulrich Plenzdorf

S

• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
• Roland Schimmelpfennig

T

• Ludwig Tieck
• Ernst Toller
• Kurt Tucholsky
• Peter Turrini

W

• Robert Walser
• Frank Wedekind
• Peter Weiss
• Franz Werfel
• Urs Widmer (1938–2014)

Z

• Carl Zuckmayer
• Stefan Zweig

See also

• List of Germans
• List of German journalists
• List of German-language authors
• List of German-language philosophers
• List of German-language poets

External links

• Media related to Playwrights from Germany at Wikimedia Commons