Editing List of German-language playwrights

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This is a list of [[German language|German-language]] [[playwright]]s.
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== A ==
*[[Herbert Achternbusch]]
*[[:de:Alois Außerer|Alois Außerer]] (1876–1950)

== B ==
*[[Wolfgang Bauer (writer)|Wolfgang Bauer]] (1941–2005)
*[[Thomas Bernhard]]
*[[Leo Birinski]]
*[[:de:Nicolai Borger|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 (writer)|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==
*{{Commons category-inline|Playwrights from Germany}}
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[[Category:Lists of dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Lists of writers by language]]
[[Category:German dramatists and playwrights| ]]
[[Category:Lists of German people by occupation|Playwrights]]