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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



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