LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hartmann von Aue	Poet	c. 1170	c. 1210	Der arme Heinrich
Walter Benjamin	Philosopher	15-Jul-1892	26-Sep-1940	The Arcades Project
Gottfried Benn	Poet	2-May-1886	7-Jul-1956	Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot
Heinrich Böll	Novelist	21-Dec-1917	16-Jul-1985	The Train Was On Time
Sebastian Brant	Author	1457	10-May-1521	Ship of Fools
Bertolt Brecht	Playwright	10-Feb-1898	14-Aug-1956	Mother Courage and Her Children
Georg Büchner	Playwright	17-Oct-1813	19-Feb-1837	Leonce and Lena
Gottfried August Bürger	Poet	31-Dec-1747	8-Jun-1794	Lenore
Simon Dach	Poet	29-Jul-1605	15-Apr-1659	German lyrical poet
Alfred Döblin	Novelist	10-Aug-1878	26-Jun-1957	Berlin Alexanderplatz
Dietrich Eckart	Playwright	23-Mar-1868	25-Dec-1923	Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
Günter Eich	Poet	1-Feb-1907	20-Sep-1972	Züge im Nebel
Einhard	Author	c. 770 AD	14-Mar-840 AD	Biographer, friend of Charlemagne
Theodor Fontane	Author	30-Dec-1819	20-Sep-1898	Before the Storm
Bruno Frank	Playwright	13-Jun-1878	20-Jun-1945	Storm in a Teacup
Stefan George	Poet	12-Jul-1868	4-Dec-1933	Algabal
Goethe	Author	28-Aug-1749	22-Mar-1832	Most influential German writer
Oskar Maria Graf	Author	22-Jul-1894	28-Jun-1967	Wir sind Gefangene
Günter Grass	Author	16-Oct-1927		German novelist, The Tin Drum
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen	Novelist	c. 1621	17-Aug-1676	Simplicius Simplicissimus
Friedrich von Hagedorn	Poet	23-Apr-1708	28-Oct-1754	German Anacreontic poet
Moritz Hartmann	Poet	15-Oct-1821	13-May-1872	German patriotic poet
Wilhelm Hauff	Poet	29-Nov-1802	18-Nov-1827	Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
Gerhart Hauptmann	Playwright	15-Nov-1862	6-Jun-1946	Die Weber
Friedrich Hebbel	Playwright	18-Mar-1813	13-Dec-1863	Die Niebelungen Trilogie
Heinrich Heine	Poet	13-Dec-1797	17-Feb-1856	Buch der Lieder
Johann Gottfried Herder	Philosopher	25-Aug-1744	18-Dec-1803	Sturm und Drang movement
Hermann Hesse	Author	2-Jul-1877	9-Aug-1962	Siddhartha
Georg Heym	Poet	30-Oct-1887	16-Jan-1912	Der ewige Tag
Paul von Heyse	Author	15-Mar-1830	2-Apr-1914	L'Arrabbiata
Hildegard von Bingen	Religion	16-Sep-1098	17-Sep-1179	Scivias seu Visiones
E. T. A. Hoffmann	Author	24-Jan-1776	25-Jun-1822	Das Fräulein van Scuderi
Friedrich Hölderlin	Poet	20-Mar-1770	7-Jun-1843	Hyperion
Karl von Holtei	Poet	24-Jan-1798	12-Feb-1880	German proto-Vaudevillian
Hrosvitha	Playwright	c. 935 AD	c. 1000 AD	Female medieval dramatist
Ulrich von Hutten	Poet	21-Apr-1488	29-Aug-1523	Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
Georg Kaiser	Playwright	25-Nov-1878	4-Jun-1945	The Gardener of Toulouse
Hermann Kesten	Novelist	28-Jan-1900	1996	I, the King
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger	Playwright	17-Feb-1752	9-Mar-1831	Sturm under Drang
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	Poet	2-Jul-1724	14-Mar-1803	Messias
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz	Poet	12-Jan-1751	24-May-1792	Sturm und Drang movement
Siegfried Lenz	Author	17-Mar-1926		Deutschstunde
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Playwright	22-Jan-1729	15-Feb-1781	Laokoon
Emil Ludwig	Author	25-Jan-1881	17-Sep-1948	German biographer
Otto Ludwig	Playwright	11-Feb-1813	25-Feb-1865	Der Erbförster
Karl May	Author	25-May-1842	30-Mar-1912	Bestselling German novelist
Karl Philipp Moritz	Novelist	15-Sep-1757	26-Jul-1793	Anton Reiser
Herta Müller	Author	17-Aug-1953		German writer
Rabanus Maurus	Author	c. 776 AD	4-Feb-856 AD	Carolingian religious scholar
R. E. Raspe	Author	1737	1794	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Erich Maria Remarque	Novelist	22-Jun-1898	25-Sep-1970	All Quiet on the Western Front
Rainer Maria Rilke	Poet	04-Dec-1875	29-Dec-1926	Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
Friedrich von Schiller	Playwright	10-Nov-1759	9-May-1805	Wallenstein
Charlotte von Stein	Author	25-Dec-1742	6-Jan-1827	Friend of Goethe and Schiller
Theodor Storm	Poet	14-Sep-1817	4-Jul-1888	Schimmelreiter
Patrick Süskind	Author	26-Mar-1949		Perfume, The Story of a Murderer
Tannhäuser	Poet	c. 1200	c. 1270	13th c. German Minnesinger
Ludwig Tieck	Novelist	31-May-1773	28-Apr-1853	Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen
Ernst Toller	Playwright	1-Dec-1893	22-May-1939	Transformation
Walther von der Vogelweide	Poet	c. 1170	c. 1230	Medieval German lyric poet
Carl von Clausewitz	Military	1-Jun-1780	16-Nov-1831	On War
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin	Poet	15-Sep-1584	13-Feb-1653	Geistliche und weltliche Gedichte
Frank Wedekind	Playwright	24-Jul-1864	9-Mar-1918	Playwright born before his time
Christa Wolf	Novelist	18-Mar-1929	1-Dec-2011	Divided Heaven
Wolfram von Eschenbach	Poet	c. 1170	c. 1220	Parzival

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