Editing List of German-language authors (section)

==L==
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*[[Gustav Landauer]] (1870–1919, nf)
*[[Karl Heinrich Lang]] (1764–1835, nf)
*[[Katja Lange-Müller]] (born 1951, f/d)
*[[Elisabeth Langgässer]], pseudonym of E. L. Hoffmann (1899–1950, p/f)
*[[Sophie von La Roche]] (1730–1807, f)
*[[Else Lasker-Schüler]] (1869–1945, p/f/d)
*[[Kurd Laßwitz]] (1848–1910, f/nf)
*[[Heinrich Laube]] (1806–1884, d/f)
*[[Josef Lauff]] (1855–1933, p/d)
*[[Christine Lavant]] (1915–1973, p)
*[[Johann Kaspar Lavater]] (1741–1801, p/nf)
*[[Richard Leander]], pseudonym of Richard von Volkmann (1830–1889, p/f)
*[[Benjamin Lebert]] (born 1982, f/nf)
*[[Gertrud von Le Fort]] (1876–1971, f/p/nf)
*[[Nikolaus Lenau]] (1802–1850, p)
*[[Ellen Lenneck]], pseudonym for Helene Weichardt (1851–1880, f)
*[[Michael Lentz]] (born 1964, p)
*[[Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz]] (1751–1792, p/d/nf)
*[[Siegfried Lenz]] (1926–2014, f/nf/d)
*[[Paul Leppin]] (1879–1945, f)
*[[Alexander Lernet-Holenia]] (1897–1976, p/f/d)
*[[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] (1729–1781, nf/d)
*[[Reinhard Lettau]] (1929–1996, nf/f)
*[[Rahel Levin]] (1771–1833, nf)
*[[Fanny Lewald]] (1811–1889, f/nf)
*[[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]] (1742–1799, nf)
*[[Herbert Lichtenfeld]] (1927–2001, d)
*[[Alfred Lichtenstein (writer)|Alfred Lichtenstein]] (1889–1914, p/f)
*[[Heinz Liepmann]] (1905–1966, f/nf)
*[[Detlev von Liliencron]] (1844–1909, p/f)
*[[Kurt Linck]] (born 1889, nf)<ref name="Linck1913">{{Citation |author=Kurt Linck |title=De antiquissimis veterum quae ad Iesum Nazarenum spectant testimoniis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQI3AAAAMAAJ |year=1913 |publisher=A. Töpelmann}}</ref>
*[[Paul Lindau]] (1839–1919, d/f)
*[[Mira Lobe]] (1913-1995, ch)
*[[Erich Loest]] (1926–2013, f/d)
*[[Friedrich von Logau]] (1604–1655, p)
*[[Daniel Casper von Lohenstein]] (1635–1683, d/nf/p)
*[[Hermann Löns]] (1866–1914, f/nf/p)
*[[Jakob Lorber]] (1800–1864, nf)
*[[Rudolf Lorenzen]] (1922–2013, f)
*[[Hieronymus Lorm]], pseudonym of Heinrich Landesmann (1821–1902, p/nf)
*[[Ernst Lothar]], pseudonym of Ernst Lothar Müller (1890–1974, f)
*[[Rudolf Lothar]] (1865–1933, d/f)
*[[Emil Ludwig]], pseudonym of Emil Cohn (1881–1948, nf)
*[[Otto Ludwig (writer)|Otto Ludwig]] (1813–1865, d/f/nf)
*[[Martin Luther]] (1483–1546, nf)
*[[J. J. Lynx]] (c. 1900 – unknown date of death, nf)
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