Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Poets whose primary work was in the German language:See also: poetry, German literature, List of German-language authors
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1 A
- Achim von Arnim
- Bettina von Arnim
- Rose Ausländer
2 B
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Gottfried Benn
- Heinrich Böll
- Nicolas Born
- Bertolt Brecht
- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
- Clemens von Brentano
- Georg Büchner
- Wilhelm BuschWilhelm Busch ( April 15, 1832 ( Wiedensahl near Hannover) January 9, 1908 ( Mechtshausen) was a German painter and poet who is known for his satirical picture stories. After studying first mechanical engineering and then art in Dusseldorf, Antwerpen and
3 C
- Paul CelanPaul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (the pseudonymous adopts an anagram of his surname in Romanian, Ancel) ( November 23, 1920 approximately April 20, 1970), who is considered one of the few major poets of the post- World Wa
4 D
- Tankred DorstTankred Dorst ( December 19, 1925 in Oberlind (Sonneberg/Thuringen) ), german writer. Dorst, Tankred Dorst, Tankred.
- Annette von Droste-HülshoffAnnette von Droste ( January 10, 1797 May 25, 1848) was a 19th century German author. She was born into an aristocratic, Catholic family in Westphalia, educated by private tutors, and began to write as a child, though she published no work until she was f
- Friedrich DürrenmattFriedrich Durrenmatt ( January 5, 1921 December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was born in Konolfingen near Bern. The politically active author gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often
5 E
- Günter Eich
- Hans Magnus EnzensbergerHans Magnus Enzensberger (born 11 November 1929), is a German author and poet, also known under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr . He was born in Kaufbeuren. Between 1965 and 1975 he edited the magazine "Kursbuch". He was a member of " Group 47". Honours re
6 F
- Erich FriedErich Fried was born in 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He died in 1988 in Baden-Baden, Germany. He was a poet known for his political-minded poetry. Fried, Erich Fried, Erich.
- Max FrischMax Frisch ( May 15, 1911 April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of the German literature after World War II. He was born in 1911 in Zurich; his father was an architect. He enrolled at the Un
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