This is a list of German-language playwrights.

A

• Herbert Achternbusch

B

• Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005)
• Thomas Bernhard
• Leo Birinski
• Nicolai Borger
• Bertolt Brecht
• Georg Büchner

D

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt

F

• Gustav Freytag

G

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

H

• Peter Handke
• Gerhart Hauptmann
• Wolfgang Hildesheimer
• Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938)

J

• Elfriede Jelinek
• Hanns Johst

K

• Georg Kaiser
• Heinrich von Kleist
• Karl Kraus
• Franz Xaver Kroetz

L

• Else Lasker-Schüler
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

M

• Andreas Mand
• Lucas Maius
• Klaus Mann
• Marius von Mayenburg (born 1972)
• Heiner Müller
• Robert Musil
• Johann Nestroy

P

• Ulrich Plenzdorf

S

• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
• Roland Schimmelpfennig

T

• Ludwig Tieck
• Ernst Toller
• Kurt Tucholsky
• Peter Turrini

W

• Robert Walser
• Frank Wedekind
• Peter Weiss
• Franz Werfel
• Urs Widmer (1938–2014)

Z

• Carl Zuckmayer
• Stefan Zweig

See also

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

External links

• Media related to Playwrights from Germany at Wikimedia Commons

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)