List of German women writers

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This is a list of women writers who were born in Germany or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A[]

  • Maximiliane Ackers (1896–1982), lesbian actress, novelist, scriptwriter
  • Martha Albrand (1914–1981), novelist
  • Helene Adler (1849–1923), German Jewish poet and educator
  • Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German Jewish political theorist
  • Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859), writer, novelist
  • Ludmilla Assing (1785–1859), short story writer, biographer
  • Anita Augspurg (1857–1943), feminist, lawyer, actress
  • Elisabeth Augustin (1903–2001), poet, short story writer, novelist, wrote in German and Dutch
  • Frau Ava (c.1060–1127), first woman writer in German

B[]

  • Angelika Brandt (born 1961), deep-sea biologist, non-fiction writer
  • Lily Braun (1865–1916), feminist writer
  • Christine Brückner (1921–1996), novelist, short story writer, children's writer
  • Traude Bührmann (born 1942), novelist, journalist, translator

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D[]

E[]

  • Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (in German: Liselotte von der Pfalz) (1652–1722), letter writer
  • Margareta Ebner, (1291–1351), diarist, mystic
  • Susanna Eger (1640–1713), cook and cookbook writer, author of Leipziger Kochbuch (1706)
  • Gisela Elsner (1937–1992), novelist
  • Helene von Engelhardt (1850–1910), Baltic German poet, writer, translator
  • Aslı Erdoğan (born 1967), human rights activist, novelist, columnist, one novel translated into English
  • Jenny Erpenbeck (born 1967), novelist
  • Nataly von Eschstruth (1860–1939), novelist

F[]

G[]

  • Miriam Gebhardt (born 1962), historian, non-fiction writer
  • Doris Gercke, (born 1937), pen name Mary-Jo Morell, crime thriller novelist
  • Karen Gershon, (1923–1993), German-born English poet, novelist, non-fiction writer
  • Glückel of Hameln (1646–1724), Yiddish-language diarist
  • Helga Goetze (1922–2008), poet and artist
  • Claire Goll (1890–1977), German-born poet, novelist, writing in German and French
  • Natalie Grams (born 1978), German physician, writer, scientific skeptic, former homeopath
  • Argula von Grumbach (1492–1554), poet, letter writer, first Protestant woman writer
  • Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), poet

H[]

  • Ida, Countess of Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880), German novelist
  • Thea von Harbou (1888–1954), novelist, screenwriter
  • Petra Hartmann (born 1970), journalist, novelist, children's writer
  • Uta-Maria Heim (born 1963), playwright, novelist, poet
  • Emmy Hennings (1885–1948), poet, performer
  • Ulrike Henschke (1830–1897), novelist and writer on educational theory.[2]
  • Luise Hensel (1798–1876), religious writer, poet
  • Clara Hepner (1860-1939), children's stories
  • Judith Hermann (born 1970), short story writer
  • Elisabeth von Heyking (1861–1925), novelist, travel writer, diarist
  • Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), mystic, playwright, poet writing in Latin
  • Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916), actress, novelist, short story writer
  • Karla Höcker (1901–1992), novelist, biographer
  • Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), novelist
  • Hrotsvith von Gandersheim (c.935–c.1002), dramatist, poet, writing in Latin
  • Therese Huber (1764–1829), novelist, short story writer, essayist, translator
  • Ricarda Huch (1864–1947), historian, novelist, poet

K[]

  • Yadé Kara (born 1965), Turkish-German novelist
  • Anna Louisa Karsch (1722–1791), poet, letter writer
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974), leading post-war poet, short story writer, essayist
  • Judith Kerr (1923–2019), German-born children's writer in English
  • Hedwig Kettler (1851–1937), short story writer, activist, education reformer
  • Irmgard Keun (1905–1982), novelist
  • Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858), novelist, non-fiction works on music, autobiographer
  • Sarah Kirsch (1935–2013), poet, translator
  • Karin Kiwus (born 1942), poet
  • Annette Kolb (1870–1967), novelist, pacifist, non-fiction writer
  • Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), poet
  • Clementine Krämer (1873–1942), short story writer, poet, social worker, activist
  • Ursula Krechel (born 1947), poet, novelist, playwright, critic
  • Brigitte Kronauer (1940–2019), novelist
  • Isolde Kurz (1853–1944), acclaimed poet, short story writer

L[]

  • Vera Lachmann (1904–1985), poet, classicist, educator
  • Hedwig Lachmann (1865–1918), author, translator and poet
  • Nuray Lale (born 1962), Turkish-German writer, translator
  • Ruth Landshoff (1904–1966), German-American actress, novelist, poet, columnist, wrote in German and English
  • Katja Lange-Müller (born 1951), novelist
  • Elisabeth Langgässer (1899–1950), poet, novelist
  • Sophie von La Roche (1730–1807), novelist
  • Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), poet, playwright
  • Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971), novelist, poet, essayist
  • Katerina Lemmel (1466–1533), letter-writer, nun
  • Ellen Lenneck (1851–1880), novelist, short story writer
  • Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), novelist, feminist
  • Sonia Levitin (born 1934), German-born English-language children's and young adults' writer, essayist
  • Sibylle Lewitscharoff (born 1954), novelist
  • Mechtilde Lichnowsky (1879–1958), poet, playwright, essayist
  • Angela Litschev (born 1978), Bulgarian-born German poet
  • Cornelia Lüdecke (born 1954), polar researcher, historian

M[]

  • Erika Mann (1905–1969), anti-Nazi writer, performer, daughter of Thomas Mann
  • E. Marlitt (Eugenie John, 1825–1877), novelist
  • Monika Maron (born 1941), essayist, political writer
  • Petra Mathers (born 1945), German-born American children's writer, illustrator
  • Mechthild of Magdeburg (c.1207–c.1282/94), mystic, writing in Low German
  • Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1240/41–1298), religious writer in Latin
  • Sophie Mereau (1770–1806), novelist, poet
  • Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903), political writer, memoirist
  • Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), journalist, writer, poet
  • Jo Mihaly (1902–1989), diarist, novelist, dancer
  • Irmtraud Morgner (1933–1990), novelist
  • Petra Morsbach (born 1956), novelist
  • Lisel Mueller (1924–2020), German-born American poet
  • Luise Mühlbach (1814–1873), historical novelist, many works translated into English
  • Inge Müller (1925–1966), poet, playwright, children's writer
  • Herta Müller (born 1953), Romanian-born German novelist, poet, and essayist, Nobel Prize winner

N[]

  • Benedikte Naubert (1752–1819), historical novelist
  • Friederike Caroline Neuber (1697–1760), playwright, actress
  • Charlotte Niese (1854–1935), non-fiction writer, poet
  • Ingrid Noll (born 1935), novelist
  • Helga M. Novak (1935–2013), poet, political writer

O[]

  • Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895), poet, journalist, feminist
  • Angelika Overath (born 1957), author, journalist
  • Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 1946), Turkish-born German novelist, playwright

P[]

R[]

  • Elisa von der Recke (Elisabeth Recke) (1754–1833), writer, poet from Courland
  • Eva Gabriele Reichmann (1897–1998), historian, works on anti-Semitism
  • Brigitte Reimann (1933–1973), novelist
  • Annemarie Reinhard (1921–1976), novelist, children's writer
  • Christa Reinig (1926–2008), poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, playwright
  • Gabriele Reuter (1859–1941), novelist, essayist, children's writer
  • Jutta Richter (born 1955), children's writer
  • Brigitte Riebe (also Laura Stern) (born 1953), novelist
  • Luise Rinser (1911–2002), novelist, autobiographer, children's writer
  • Ruth Margarete Roellig (1878–1969), novelist, travel writer, journalist
  • Anna Rosmus (born 1960), non-fiction writer, works on Nazi treatment of Jews
  • Friederike Roth (born 1948), playwright
  • Alice Rühle-Gerstel (1894–1943), journalist, psychologist, feminist
  • Anna Rüling, pen name of Theo Anna Sprüngli (1880–1953), journalist, LGBT activist

S[]

T[]

  • Fanny Tarnow (1779–1862), short story writer, playwright
  • Renata Thiele (born c.1960), Polish-born German novelist, short story writer, editor
  • Adrienne Thomas, pen name of Hertha A. Deutsch (1897–1980), autobiographical novelist
  • Dorothea Tieck (1799–1841), translator of Shakespeare
  • Canan Topçu (born 1965), Turkish-German writer, works on Turkish immigration in German

V[]

  • Rahel Varnhagen (1771–1833), essayist, correspondent
  • Clara Viebig (1862–1952), novelist, playwright
  • Helene Voigt-Diederichs (1875–1961), travel writer, novelist, short story writer

W[]

  • Marianne Weber (1870–1954), women's rights activist, nonfiction writer
  • Ruth Weiss (1928–2020), German-born American poet, performer, playwright
  • Anna Elisabet Weirauch (1887–1970), playwright, novelist
  • Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Siegel, 1928), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper.
  • Ottilie Wildermuth (1817–1877), children's writer, novelist, biographer
  • Gabriele Wohmann (1932–2015), novelist, short story writer
  • Christa Wolf (1929–2011), novelist, critic, essayist
  • Caroline von Wolzogen (1763–1847), novelist, biographer
  • Mathilde Wurm (1874–1935), politician, journalist

Z[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth (2001). The International Who's Who of Women 2002. p. 70. ISBN 1857431227.
  2. ^ von Rosling, Elly Frelin (1931). "Ulrike Henschke zur 100. Wiederkehr ihres Geburtstages". Die Frau: Monatsschrift für das gesamte Frauenleben unserer Zeit (in German). 38: 170–171.
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