Poets whose primary work was in the German language:

See also: poetry, German literature, List of German language authors

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General

German writing authors were born and grow up in several countries.

Austrian authors

Erich Fried
Robert Musil
Peter Rosegger
Arthur Schnitzler
Georg Trakl
Stefan Zweig

Czech authors

Franz Kafka
Rainer Maria Rilke
Franz Werfel

German authors

Alfred Andersch
Achim von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim
Gottfried Benn
Heinrich Böll
Nicolas Born
Bertolt Brecht
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Clemens von Brentano
Georg Büchner
Wilhelm Busch
Tankred Dorst
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Günter Eich
Michael Ende
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Stefan George
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Karl Gutzkow
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Günter Grass
Gerhart Hauptmann
Johann Peter Hebel
Heinrich Heine
Georg Herwegh
Hermann Hesse
Rolf Hochhuth
Friedrich Hölderlin
Ernst Jünger
Erich Kästner
Gottfried Kinkel
Sarah Kirsch
Karin Kiwus
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Heinrich Mann
Klaus Mann
Thomas Mann
Karl May
Christian Morgenstern
Heiner Müller
Inge Müller
Helga M. Novak
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
Erich Maria Remarque
Friedrich Rückert
Nelly Sachs
Friedrich Schiller
Arno Schmidt
Anna Seghers
Theodor Storm
Botho Strauss
Patrick Süskind
Ludwig Tieck
Kurt Tucholsky
Walther von der Vogelweide
Martin Walser
Christa Wolf
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Hans Wollschläger

Swiss authors

Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Max Frisch
Jeremias Gotthelf
Friedrich Glauser
Gottfried Keller
Robert Walser

Romanian authors

Paul Celan
Rose Ausländer

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