List of German-language playwrights

This is a list of German-language playwrights.

A Herbert Achternbusch (1938–2022) Alois Außerer (1876–1950)

B Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005) Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) Leo Birinski (1884–1951) Nicolai Borger (born 1974) Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

D Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

F Gustav Freytag (1816–1895)

G Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

H Peter Handke (born 1942) Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946) Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991) Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938)

J Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) Hanns Johst (1890–1978)

K Georg Kaiser (1878–1945) Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Franz Xaver Kroetz (born 1946)

L Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)

M Andreas Mand (born 1959) Lucas Maius (1522–1598) Klaus Mann (1906–1949) Marius von Mayenburg (born 1972) Heiner Müller (1929–1995) Robert Musil (1880–1942) Johann Nestroy (1801–1862)

P Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934–2007)

S Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) Roland Schimmelpfennig (born 1967)

T Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853) Ernst Toller (1893–1939) Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935) Peter Turrini (born 1944)

W Robert Walser (1878–1956) Frank Wedekind (1864–1918) Peter Weiss (1916–1982) Franz Werfel (1890–1945) Urs Widmer (1938–2014)

Z Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)

List of German-language playwrights

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