List of dramatists

List of notable dramatists authors

Literature -- Drama -- Dramatists

A

Arthur Adamov

Herbert Achternbusch[?]

Aeschylus

Ilse Aichinger[?]

Edward Albee

Jean Anouilh

Ludwig Anzensgruber[?]

Aristophanes

Fernando Arrabal[?]

Antonin Artaud

Lilly Axster[?]

Alan Ayckbourn

B

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ernst Barlach[?]

Peter Barnes[?]

Philip Barry[?]

Gabriel Barylli[?]

Wolfgang Bauer[?]

Pierre Beaumarchais

Ulrich Becher[?]

Jürgen Becker[?]

Jurek Becker[?]

Samuel Beckett

Max Beckmann

Gottfried Benn

Thomas Bernhard[?]

Augusto Boal

Robert Bolt

Wolfgang Borchert[?]

Thomas Brasch[?]

Volker Braun[?]

Bertolt Brecht

Hermann Broch[?]

Ferdinand Bruckner[?]

Christine Brückner[?]

Alfred Brust[?]

Georg Büchner[?]

Oliver Bukowski[?]

C

Daniel Call[?]

Elias Canetti

Veza Canetti[?]

Ion Luca Caragiale[?]

Klaus Chatten[?]

Anton Chekhov

Jean Cocteau

Pierre Corneille

Noel Coward

D

Thomas Dekker[?]

Ariel Dorfman[?]

Tankred Dorst[?]

Alexandre Dumas fils

Nell Dunn[?]

Christopher Durang

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

E

Günter Eich[?]

Gundi Ellert[?]

Hans Magnus Enzensberger[?]

Euripides

F

Michael Fackelmann[?]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Jules Feiffer[?]

Gustave Flaubert

Ludwig Fels[?]

Marieluise Fleisser[?]

Dario Fo

Horton Foote[?]

Michael Frayn[?] (Noises Off,Copenhagen)

Gustav Freytag[?]

Erich Fried[?]

Max Frisch[?]

Franz Fuehmann[?]

G

Christoph Gahl[?]

John Galsworthy

Jean Genet

Katharina Gericke[?]

David Gieselmann[?]

William S. Gilbert

Jean Giraudoux

Kermi Goell[?]

Reinhard Goering[?]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Carlo Goldoni

Ivan Goll[?]

Christian Dietrich Grabbe[?]

Harley Granville Barker[?]

Jörg Graser[?]

Günter Grass

Simon Gray[?]

John Guare[?]

Franz Grillparzer[?]

Andreas Gryphius[?]

A.R. Gurney[?]

Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow[?]

H

Peter Hacks[?]

Max Halbe[?]

Peter Handke

Ernst Hardt[?]

David Hare[?]

Walter Hasenclever[?]

Carl Hauptmann[?]

Gerhart Hauptmann

Horst Hawemann[?]

Friedrich Hebbel[?]

Christoph Hein[?]

Lillian Hellman

Heinrich Henkel[?]

Günter Herburger[?]

Rudolf Herfurtner[?]

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Rolf Hochhuth

Fritz Hochwaelder[?]

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Ludvig Holberg

Ödön von Horváth[?]

I

Henrik Ibsen

William Inge

Eugène Ionesco

J

Günter Jankowiak[?]

Alfred Jarry

Elfriede Jelinek[?]

Thomas Jonigk[?]

Ben Jonson

K

Franz Kafka

Georg Kaiser[?]

Sarah Kane

Manfred Karge[?]

Bernhard Kellermann[?]

Heinar Kipphardt[?]

Harald Kislinger[?]

Heinrich von Kleist

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

Alexander Kluge[?]

Gerd Knappe[?]

Werner R. Koefler[?]

Karl König[?]

Oskar Kokoschka

August von Kotzebue[?]

Karl Kraus[?]

Helmut Krausser[?]

Margret Kreidl[?]

Franz Xaver Kroetz[?]

Fitzgerald Kusz[?]

L

Neil LaBute[?] (Bash[?], The Shape of Things)

Anna Langhoff[?]

Else Lasker-Schüler[?]

Carl Laszlo[?]

Rolf Lauckner[?]

Johann Anton Leisewitz[?]

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz[?]

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Reinhard Lettau[?]

Daniel C. Lohenstein[?]

Dea Loher[?]

Federico Garcia Lorca

Charles Ludlam

Otto Ludwig[?]

M

David Mamet

Klaus Mann

Andreas Marber[?]

Pierre de Marivaux

Christopher Marlowe

Christian Martin[?]

William Somerset Maugham

Marius von Mayenburg[?]

Terrence McNally[?]

Thomas Middleton

Arthur Miller

Felix Mitterer[?]

Molière

Jose Zorrilla y Moral

John Mortimer

Karl O. Mühl[?]

Elfriede Müller[?]

Harald Müller[?]

Heiner Müller[?]

Kaj Munk

Robert Musil

N

Eugene O'Neill

Johann Nestroy[?]

Marsha Norman[?] ('Night, Mother)

O

Gerlinde Obermeier[?]

Clifford Odets[?]

Joe Orton

John Osborne

Albert Ostermaier[?]

P

Angelo Parra

Helmut Peschina[?]

Carlo Pietzner[?]

Arthur Wing Pinero

Winsome Pinnock[?]

Harold Pinter

Luigi Pirandello

Plautus

Ulrich Plenzdorf[?]

Klaus Pohl[?]

Alf Poss[?]

Peter Preses[?]

Q

(none listed)

R

Jean Racine

Ferdinand Raimund[?]

Lutz Rathenow[?]

Terence Rattigan

Paul Rebhun[?]

Gerlind Reinshagen[?]

Erich M. Remarque

Erwin Riess[?]

Rainer Maria Rilke

Moritz Rinke[?]

Michaela Ronzoni[?]

Friederike Roth[?]

Eugen Ruge[?]

Willy Russell (Educating Rita)

S

Hans Sachs[?]

Nelly Sachs[?]

William Saroyan

Jean-Paul Sartre

Peter Sattmann[?]

Friedrich Schiller

Roland Schimmelpfennig[?]

Einar Schleef[?]

Johannes E. Schlegel[?]

Horst Schloetelburg[?]

Arno Schmidt

Simone Schneider[?]

Arthur Schnitzler

Manuel Schöbel[?]

Karl Schoenherr[?]

Lothar Schreyer[?]

Stefan Schütz[?]

Werner Schwab[?]

Brigitte Schwaiger[?]

Georg Seidel[?]

Anthony Shaffer

Peter Shaffer

William Shakespeare

George Bernard Shaw

Sam Shepard

Robert E. Sherwood[?]

Neil Simon

Geoffrey Skelton[?]

Anna Deavere Smith[?]

Sophocles

Reinhard Sorge[?]

Kerstin Specht[?]

Martin Sperr[?]

Ginka Steinwachs[?]

Carl Sternheim[?]

Tom Stoppard

August Stramm[?]

Botho Strauß[?]

Marlene Streeruwitz[?]

August Strindberg

Thomas Strittmatter[?]

Preston Sturges[?]

Patrick Süskind[?], (1949- )

Erwin Sylvanus[?]

Gerarld Szyszkowitz[?]

T

George Tabori[?]

Jean Tardieu[?]

Terence

Ludwig Tieck

Ernst Toller[?]

Kurt Tucholsky

Peter Turrini[?]

U

Nicholas Udall

V

John Vanbrugh

W

Friedrich K. Waechter[?]

Heinrich Leopold Wagner[?]

Martin Walser[?]

Robert Walser[?]

Theresia Walser[?]

Wendy Wasserstein[?]

Frank Wedekind[?]

Peter Weiss[?]

Theodor Weissenborn[?]

Franz Werfel

Urs Widmer[?]

Hubert Wiedfeld[?]

Adolf von Wilbrandt[?]

Oscar Wilde

Thornton Wilder

Tennessee Williams

August Wilson

Lanford Wilson

William Wycherly[?]

X

(none listed)

Y

(none listed)

Z

Ingeborg von Zadow[?]

Matthias Zschokke[?]

Carl Zuckmayer[?]

Stefan Zweig