List of German-language poets
Poets whose primary work was in the German language:
See also: poetry, German literature, List of German language authors
General
German writing authors were born and grow up in several countries.
Austrian authors
Czech authors
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