List of German-language playwrights
This is a list of German-language playwrights.
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Wolfgang Bauer
- Thomas Bernhard
- Bertolt Brecht
- Georg Büchner
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Georg Kaiser
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Karl Kraus
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Klaus Mann
- Heiner Müller
- Robert Musil
- Johann Nestroy
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
- Friedrich Schiller
- Roland Schimmelpfennig
- Ludwig Tieck
- Ernst Toller
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Martin Walser
- Robert Walser
- Frank Wedekind
- Franz Werfel
- Urs Widmer
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Stefan Zweig
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