List of German language poets

Poets whose primary work was in the German language:

See also: poetry, German literature

Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 General 1.1 Austrian authors 1.2 Czech authors 1.3 German authors 1.4 Swiss authors

General

German writing authors were born and grow up in several countries.

Austrian authors

Erich Fried[?]

Peter Rosegger

Arthur Schnitzler

Georg Trakl

Stefan Zweig

Czech authors

Franz Kafka

Rainer Maria Rilke

Franz Werfel

German authors

Alfred Andersch

Achim von Arnim[?]

Bettina von Arnim[?]

Heinrich Böll

Bertolt Brecht

Clemens von Brentano

Georg Büchner[?]

Wilhelm Busch

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Michael Ende

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Stefan George[?]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hans Magnus Enzensberger[?]

Günter Grass

Gerhart Hauptmann

Heinrich Heine

Hermann Hesse

Rolf Hochhuth

Friedrich Hölderlin

Ernst Jünger

Erich Kästner

Johann Gottfried Kinkel

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Heinrich Mann

Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

Karl May

Christian Morgenstern

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)[?]

Erich Maria Remarque

Friedrich Rückert

Friedrich Schiller

Arno Schmidt

Theodor Storm

Botho Strauss[?]

Patrick Süskind[?]

Ludwig Tieck

Kurt Tucholsky

Walther von der Vogelweide

Martin Walser[?]

Christa Wolf[?]

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Hans Wollschläger[?]

Swiss authors

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Max Frisch[?]