List of German-language playwrights

This is a list of German-language playwrights.

A[]

• Herbert Achternbusch

B[]

• Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005)
• Thomas Bernhard
• Leo Birinski
• 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

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