List of German-language playwrights

This is a list of German-language playwrights.

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

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

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

• Gustav Freytag (1816–1895)

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

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

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

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

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

• 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)

• Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934–2007)

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

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

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

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

• List of Germans
• List of German journalists
• List of German-language authors
• List of German-language philosophers
• List of German-language poets

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