This is a list of notable East German authors. They spent at least part of their lives in the

Soviet occupation zone The Soviet Occupation Zone ( or german: Ostzone, label=none, "East Zone"; , ''Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii'', "Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany") was an area of Germany in Central Europe that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a c ...

(1945 to 1949) of

post-war Germany In Western usage, the phrase post-war era (or postwar era) usually refers to the time since the end of World War II. More broadly, a post-war period (or postwar period) is the interval immediately following the end of a war. A post-war period c ...

or in the

German Democratic Republic German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

(1949 to 1990). At least part of their notable work was on East German topics, irrespective of where and when it was published.

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Alexander Abusch Alexander Abusch (14 February 1902 27 January 1982) was a German journalist, non-fiction writer, and politician. According to one source he was born into a Jewish family in Kraków, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. Accordin ...

(1902–1982) :*

Bruno Apitz Bruno Apitz (28 April 1900 – 7 April 1979) was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Life and career Apitz was born in Leipzig, as the twelfth child of a washer woman. He attended school until he was fourteen, t ...

(1900–1979) :*

Annemarie Auer Annemarie Auer (10 June 1913 - 7 February 2002) was a German author and literary scholar. Life Annemarie Auer was born in Neumünster and grew up in nearby Kiel on Germany's north coast. After the war her father took part in the 1918 Kiel mut ...

(1913–2002)

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:* Helmut Baierl (1926–2005) :*

Kurt Barthel Kurt Barthel (1884–1969) is the father of the modern United States Naturism, nudist movement. Introduction He began the American League for Physical Culture in 1929 with an ad, first in the leading German nudist magazines published in Be ...

(1914–1967) :*

Johannes R. Becher Johannes Robert Becher (, 22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writin ...

(1891–1958) :*

Lilly Becher Lilly Becher ( Korpus, 27 January 1901, Nuremberg – 20 September 1978, Berlin) was a German writer, journalist and communist activist. Noted as one of the first Antifascism, anti-Nazi writers to produce documentary work dealing with the persec ...

(1901–1978) :*

Jurek Becker Jurek Becker (, probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is '' Jacob the Liar'', which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during W ...

(1937–1997) :*

Wolf Biermann Karl Wolf Biermann (; born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song "Ermutigung" and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976. Early life Biermann was b ...

(born 1936) :* Brigitte Birnbaum (born 1938) :*

Johannes Bobrowski Johannes Bobrowski (originally ''Johannes Konrad Bernhard Bobrowski''; 9 April 1917 – 2 September 1965) was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist. Life Bobrowski was born on 9 April 1917Bobrowski, Johannes (1984). ''S ...

(1917–1965) :* Inge Borde-Klein (1917–2006) :*

Thomas Brasch Thomas Brasch (19 February 1945 – 3 November 2001) was a German author, poet and film director. Life Born in Westow, Yorkshire, England, Thomas Brasch was the son of German Jewish Communist émigré parents. In 1947, the family returned to Eas ...

(1945–2001) :*

Volker Braun Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include ''Provokation für mich'' (''Provocation for me'') – a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, ''Die Kipper'' (''The Dumpers ...

(born 1939) :* Werner Bräunig (1934–1976) :*

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

(1898–1956) :*

Willi Bredel Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 in Hamburg – 27 October 1964 in East Berlin) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. Life and career Born in to the f ...

(1901–1964) :*

Elfriede Brüning Elfriede Brüning (8 November 1910 – 5 August 2014) was a German communist journalist and novelist. She also used the pseudonym Elke Klent. Life and career Elfriede Brüning was born in Berlin, the daughter of a cabinetmaker and a seamstress wh ...

(1910–2014) :*

Günter de Bruyn Günter de Bruyn (; 1 November 1926 – 4 October 2020) was a German author. Life Günter de Bruyn was born in Berlin in November 1926; his father Carl was a Catholic from Bavaria. Günter served as a Luftwaffenhelfer and soldier in World War II ...

(1926–2020)

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Hanns Cibulka Hanns Cibulka (20 September 1920, in Jägerndorf, Czechoslovakia – 20 June 2004, in Gotha, Germany) was a German poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by othe ...

(1920–2004) :* Walter Czollek (1907–1972)

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Gabriele Eckart Gabriele Eckart (born March 23, 1954 in Falkenstein/Vogtl., Falkenstein/Vogtland), is a German author. Life Gabriele Eckart studied Philosophy from 1972 to 1976 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She concluded her studies with the completi ...

(born 1954) :*

Adolf Endler Adolf Endler (20 September 1930 – 2 August 2009) was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Repu ...

(1930–2009) :*

Elke Erb Elke Erb (born 18 February 1938) is a German author-poet based in Berlin. She has also worked as a literary editor and translator. Biography Family provenance and early years Elke Erb was born at Rheinbach, Scherbach (today part of Rheinbach) i ...

(born 1938) :*

Fritz Erpenbeck Fritz Erpenbeck (born: Friedrich Johann Lambert Erpenbeck, 7 April 1897, Mainz – 7 January 1975, Berlin) was a German writer, director and actor. Biography Erpenbeck was born in to the family of a watchmaker and engineer. He trained as a lock ...

(1897–1975)

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Ingeborg Feustel Ingeborg Feustel (born Ingeborg Baumann: 1 January 1926 - 23 November 1998) was a German writer of books for children. She also wrote scripts for children's radio and television dramas. Until 1989 the small town where she lived and worked was in ...

(1926–1998) :*

Fritz Rudolf Fries Fritz Rudolf Fries (19 May 1935 – 17 December 2014) was a German writer and translator. Life Fritz Rudolf Fries was born in Bilbao, Spain. His mother was a German of Spanish descent, and his father a German businessman who was shot during the Se ...

(1935–2014) :* Jürgen Fuchs (1950–1999) :*

Franz Fühmann Franz Fühmann (15 January 1922 – 8 July 1984) was a German writer who lived and worked in East Germany. He wrote in a variety of formats, including short stories, essays, screenplays and children's books. Influenced by Nazism in his youth ...

(1922–1984) :*

Louis Fürnberg Louis Fürnberg (24 May 1909 in Jihlava, Moravia – 23 June 1957 in Weimar, East Germany) was a Czechoslovakian-German writer, poet and journalist, composer and diplomat. He wrote the ''Lied der Partei'' ("The Party is always right"), the song t ...

(1909–1957)

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Peter Gosse Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist. Life Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After an occupation as an engineer, he worked as a freelance writer in E ...

(born 1938) :* Sigrid Grabner (born 1942)

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Peter Hacks Peter Hacks (21 March 1928 – 28 August 2003) was a German playwright, author, and essayist. Hacks was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with T ...

(1928–2003) :*

Helmut Hauptmann Helmut Hauptmann (born 12 March 1928) is a German writer who was mainly active in the then East Germany. Life Helmut Hauptmann grew up in a working-class family in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Near the end of World War II, he served as a Luftwaffenhelfer ...

(born 1928) :* Otto Häuser (1924–2007) :*

Christoph Hein Christoph Hein (; born 8 April 1944) is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the GDR, he received secondary educati ...

(born 1944) :*

Stephan Hermlin Stephan Hermlin (; 13 April 1915 – 6 April 1997), real name ''Rudolf Leder,'' was a German author. He wrote, among other things, stories, essays, translations, and lyric poetry and was one of the more well-known authors of former East Germany. ...

(1915–1997) :*

Stefan Heym Helmut Flieg or Hellmuth Fliegel (10 April 1913 – 16 December 2001) was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym (). He lived in the United States and trained at Camp Ritchie, making him one of the Ritchie Boys of World War II. In ...

(1913–2001) :*

Wolfgang Hilbig Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet. Life Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 194 ...

(1941–2007) :*

Barbara Honigmann Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in East Berlin) is a German author, artist and theater director. Honigmann is the daughter of Jewish emigrant parents, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her pare ...

(born 1949) :*

Peter Huchel Peter Huchel (April 3, 1903 – April 30, 1981), born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet and editor. Life Huchel was born in Lichterfelde (now part of Berlin). From 1923 to 1926, Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg and ...

(1903–1981)

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Uwe Johnson Uwe or UWE may refer to * Uwe (given name) * University of the West of England, Bristol * UML-based web engineering * University Würzburg's Experimental miniaturized satellites for space research UWE-1 and UWE-2 * Uwe - Wreck in Blankenese Blank ...

(1934–1984)

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Heinz Kahlau Heinz Kahlau (6 February 1931 - 6 April 2012) was a German writer. He is remembered as one of the best known lyric poets in the German Democratic Republic. He wrote song lyrics, dramas and prose pieces. He was particularly well known for his ...

(1931–2012) :* Heinz Kamnitzer (1917–2001) :*

Hermann Kant Hermann Kant (; 14 June 1926 – 14 August 2016) was a German writer noted for his writings during the time of East Germany. He won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1967. He served the Stasi as an informer under the codename ''IM Martin''. Early life ...

(1926–2016) :*

Adel Karasholi Adel Karasholi (Arabic: عادل قرشولي. born October 15, 1936) is a German and Arabic writer. Life Already a published poet in his youth, he founded a literary magazine in Damascus which was banned by the Syrian government. He then began w ...

(born 1936) :*

Gisela Karau Gisela Karau (birth name: Wilczynski; 28 March 1932 in Berlin – 9 April 2010 in Berlin) was an East German journalist and author of children's literature. Born in Berlin, she was married and had two children. Life Gisela Karau was born i ...

(1932–2010) :* Walter Kaufmann (1924–2021) :*

Bernhard Kellermann Bernhard Kellermann (4 March 1879, Fürth, Kingdom of Bavaria – 17 October 1951) was a German author and poet. Life Bernhard Kellermann enrolled in 1899 at Technical University Munich initially in general studies, but later focused on G ...

(1879–1951) :*

Heinar Kipphardt Heinar Kipphardt (8 March 1922 - 18 November 1982) was a German writer. He came to prominence with the documentary theatre during the 1960s. He is best known for '' In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer'', a dramatization of the Oppenheimer securi ...

(1922–1982) :*

Rainer Kirsch Rainer Kirsch (17 July 1934 – 4 September 2015) was a German writer and poet. Life and career Kirsch was born in Döbeln in 1934. After graduating from high school, he studied history at the Klosterschule Roßleben and philosophy at the Marti ...

(1934–2016) :*

Sarah Kirsch Sarah Kirsch (; 16 April 1935 – 5 May 2013) was a German poet. Biography Sarah Kirsch was originally born Ingrid Bernstein in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony but had changed her first name to Sarah in order to protest against her father's an ...

(1935–2013) :*

Jurij Koch Jurij Koch (born 15 September 1936) is a German writer. He writes in both Sorbian languages as well as German. Koch's father worked in the nearby quarry, his mother worked several jobs at different farms. Jurij Koch went to school in Crostwitz, ...

(born 1936) :* Erich Köhler (1928–2003) :*

Wolfgang Kohlhaase Wolfgang Kohlhaase (13 March 1931 – 5 October 2022) was a German screenwriter, film director, and writer. He was considered "one of the most important screenwriters in German film history", and was one of the East Germany, GDR's most well-know ...

(1931–2022) :*

Helga Königsdorf Helga Königsdorf (13 July 1938 – 4 May 2014) was an East German author and physicist. Life She was born in Gera, a farmer's daughter. She went into academia and was appointed to the East Berlin Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1961 to 1990. ...

(1938–2014) :* Günther Krupkat (1905–1990) :*

Karsten Kruschel Karsten Kruschel (born 1959 in Havelberg) is a German science fiction writer, essayist and critic, who lives near Leipzig. His best known works are the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis winning novels ''Vilm'' and ''Galdäa''. Some of his short stor ...

(born 1959) :*

Günter Kunert Günter Kunert (; 6 March 1929 – 21 September 2019) was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann ...

(1929–2019) :*

Reiner Kunze Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact ...

(born 1933) :*

Alfred Kurella Alfred Kurella (2 May 1895 – 12 June 1975) was a German writer and functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in East Germany. Early years Kurella was born in Brieg, Silesia. Career In 1918, he became a member of the Ge ...

(1895–1975)

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:* Katja Lange-Müller (born 1951) :*

Waldtraut Lewin Waldtraut Lewin (8 January 1937 – 20 May 2017) was a German writer, dramaturge and stage director. Life Waldtraut Lewin was born in Wernigerode, a small town on the northeastern flank of the Harz Mountains, roughly equidistant between Hanove ...

(1937–2017) :*

Erich Loest Erich Loest (; 24 February 1926 – 12 September 2013) was a German writer born in Mittweida, Saxony. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen and Waldemar Naß. Life and career He was a conscript soldier in World War II a ...

(1926–2013) :*

Kito Lorenc Kito Lorenc (4 March 1938 – 24 September 2017) was a German writer, lyric poet and translator. He was a grandson of the writer and politician Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski. Lorenc attended the Sorbian boarding high school in Cottbus from 1952 to 1956 a ...

(1938–2017) :*

Peter Löw Peter Werner Maria Löw (born 21 October 1960) is a German lawyer and entrepreneur. Life Peter Löw was born in 1960 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. In 1987, he started his doctoral studies in history at the University of Münster under the supervi ...

(born 1941)

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Hans Marchwitza Hans Marchwitza (25 June 1890 – 17 January 1965) was a German writer, proletarian poet, and communist. Life Marchwitza was the son of miner Thomas Marchwitza and his wife Thekla Maxisch, and was born in Scharley (Szarlej) (now a part of Pi ...

(1890–1965) :*

Georg Maurer Georg Maurer (11 March 1907 – 4 August 1971) was a German poet, essayist, and translator. He wrote under the pseudonyms ''Juventus, murus,'' and ''Johann Weilau''. The son of a teacher, he was born in Szászrégen, Austria-Hungary (now in Roman ...

(1907–1971) :*

Karl Mickel Karl Mickel (12 August 1935 – 20 June 2000) was a German writer. Life Mickel was born in Dresden into a working-class family. There, he attended primary school from 1941 to 1949 and experienced together with his mother the bombing of Dresde ...

(1935–2000) :*

Irmtraud Morgner Irmtraud Morgner, (22 August 19336 May 1990), was a German writer, best known for works of magical realism concerned predominantly with the role of gender in East German society. Life Irmtraud Morgner was born in 1933 in Chemnitz, the daughter o ...

(1933–1990) :*

Heiner Müller Heiner Müller (; 9 January 1929 – 30 December 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdr ...

(1929–1995)

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Herbert Nachbar Herbert Nachbar (12 February 1930 in Greifswald – 25 May 1980 in East Berlin) was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic. Life Herbert Nachbar was the son of a fisherman in Greifswald, Province of Pomerania (1815–1945 ...

(1930–1980) :*

Erik Neutsch Erik Neutsch (21 June 193 – 20 August 2013) was one of the most successful writers in East Germany. Life Early years Erik Neutsch came from a working family. After successfully completing his high school career he joined, in 1949, the rulin ...

(1931–2013) :*

Dieter Noll Dieter Noll (31 December 1927 – 6 February 2008) was a German writer. His best known work is the two volume novel ''Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt'' from the early 1960s which had sold over two million copies by his death. The work was filmed i ...

(1927–2008)

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:* Bert Papenfuß (born 1956) :*

Hans Pfeiffer Hans Pfeiffer is a physicist best known for his contribution to the development of electron beam lithography. Life Dr. Pfeiffer received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1967 and joined IBM the following year. During ...

(1925–1998) :*

Ulrich Plenzdorf Ulrich Plenzdorf (; 26 October 1934 – 9 August 2007) was a German author and dramatist. Life Born in Berlin, Plenzdorf studied Philosophy in Leipzig, but graduated with a degree in film. He found work at DEFA. He became famous in both East an ...

(1934–2007) :*

Benno Pludra Benno Pludra (1 October 1925 – 27 August 2014) was a German children's author. He was born in Mückenberg, now Lauchhammer-West. Pludra wrote narratives and novels for children and teenagers. More than five million copies of his books have been ...

(1925–2014) :* Helmut Preißler (1925–2010) :*

Gert Prokop Gert Prokop (born 11 June 1932 in Richtenberg, died 1 March 1994 in Berlin from suicide) was a German writer of science fiction and crime fiction. He spent much of his life in the former East Germany. In crime fiction one of his best known works is ...

(1934–1994)

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:* Carlos Rasch (1932–2021) :*

Lutz Rathenow Lutz Rathenow (born 22 September 1952 in Jena) is a dissident German writer and poet who was haunted by the Secret Police until the German reunification. From then on, his fortunes changed, and he received several literary honors and awards. L ...

(born 1952) :*

Brigitte Reimann Brigitte Reimann (born 21 July 1933, Burg bei Magdeburg, d. 22 February 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel ''Franziska Linkerhand''. Life Brigitte Reimann was the daughter of Willi Rei ...

(1933–1973) :*

Ludwig Renn Ludwig Renn (born Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golßenau; 22 April 1889 – 21 July 1979) was a German author. Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin.''Oxford Companion to German Literature'', ed. Henr ...

(1889–1979) :* Günther Rücker (1924–2008)

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Wolfgang Schreyer Wolfgang Schreyer (20 November 1927 – 14 November 2017) was a German writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories. Life ...

(1927–2017) :*

Helga Schubert Helga Schubert (pseudonym for Helga Helm, born 7 January 1940 in Berlin) is a German psychologist and author. Life Helga Schubert is a daughter of a librarian, who was also active in economics, and of a Gerichtsassessor who died as a soldier in ...

(born 1940) :* Herbert Scurla (1905–1981) :*

Bernhard Seeger Bernhard Seeger (October 6, 1927 – March 14, 1999) was a German author. Life Bernhard Seeger was born to a locksmith in Roßlau. He attended the gymnasium and then a teaching education school in Köthen. In 1944, he joined the Nazi Party. ...

(1927–1999) :*

Anna Seghers Anna Seghers (; born ''Anna Reiling,'' 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), is the pseudonym of a German writer notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian ...

(1900–1983) :*

Fritz Selbmann Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Selbmann (29 September 1899 – 26 January 1975) was a German Communist politician and writer who served as a member of the national parliament (Reichstag) during 1932/33. He spent the twelve Nazi years first in pris ...

(1899–1975) :*

Erik Simon Erik Simon (born 21 August 1987 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a German ski jumper. He came in on 30th place in Kuopio 2009 as his best result in the World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually ...

(born 1950) :*

Gisela Steineckert Gisela Steineckert (born 13 May 1931) is a German writer known for her books and song lyrics. She has also written numerous radio plays and several film scripts. In terms of published output she was particularly prolific before 1989, but her pr ...

(born 1931) :*

Hans-Jürgen Steinmann Hans-Jürgen Steinmann (4 September 1929 in Żagań, Province of Lower Silesia – 22 September 2008 in Halle (Saale)) was a German writer. In 1979 he was awarded the Handel Prize. Works * ''Brücke ins Leben'', Berlin 1953 * ''Die Fremde'', H ...

(1929–2008) :* Angela Steinmüller (born 1941) :* Karlheinz Steinmüller (born 1950) :*

Erwin Strittmatter Erwin Strittmatter (14 August 1912 – 31 January 1994) was a German writer. Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR. Biography Strittmatter was born the son of a baker and foods wholesaler. Between 1924 and 1930 he attended ...

(1912–1994) :*

Eva Strittmatter Eva Strittmatter (née Braun; 8 February 1930 – 3 January 2011) was a German writer of poetry, prose, and children's literature. Her books of poems sold millions of copies, reportedly making her the most successful German poet of the second ha ...

(1930–2011) :* Michael Szameit (1950–2014)

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Harry Thürk Harry Thürk (8 March 1927 – 24 November 2005) was a German writer. Life In 1934, Thürk moved with his family to Neustadt. After attending trade school, he began to work for the German train system (Reichsbahn). After being drafted in 1944 ...

(1927–2005)

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Bodo Uhse Bodo Uhse (12 March 1904 in Rastatt, Grand Duchy of Baden – 2 July 1963 in Berlin) was a German writer, journalist and political activist. He was recognised as one of the most prominent authors in East Germany. Early years Uhse came from a Prus ...

(1904–1963)

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:* Maxie Wander (1933–1977) :* Inge von Wangenheim (1912–1993) :*

Erich Weinert Erich Bernhard Gustav Weinert (4 August 1890 in Magdeburg – 20 April 1953 in East Berlin) was a German Communist writer and a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Early life Weinert was born in 1890 in Magdeburg to a family supp ...

(1890–1953) :*

Günther Weisenborn Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was a German writer and fighter in the German Resistance against Nazism. He was notable for collaborating with Bertolt Brecht, along with Hanns Eisler, Slatan Dudow, on the play, '' The Mother ...

(1902–1969) :*

Grete Weiskopf Grete Weiskopf (11 May 1905 – 15 March 1966), known by the pseudonym Alex Wedding, was a German writer of children's and young adult fiction. Life Born Grete Bernheim in Salzburg, she initially worked as a typist, bookseller, and bank clerk in B ...

(1905–1966) :*

Ehm Welk Emil "Ehm" Welk (August 29, 1884 – December 19, 1966) was a German journalist, writer, professor and founder of ''Volkshochschulen'' (adult education centres). He became known for his work '' Die Heiden von Kummerow'' (''The Heathens of Kumme ...

(1884–1966) :* Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901–1979) :*

Walter Werner Walter Gotthard Werner (11 April 1883 – 8 January 1956) was a German actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1921 to 1956. Selected filmography References External links * 1883 births 1956 deaths German male film actor ...

(1922–1995) :*

Friedrich Wolf Friedrich Wolf may refer to: *Friedrich Wolf (writer) (1888–1953), German doctor and writer *Friedrich August Wolf Friedrich August Wolf (; 15 February 1759 – 8 August 1824) was a German classicist and is considered the founder of modern ...

(1888–1953) :*

Christa Wolf Christa Wolf (; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist.
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(1929–2011) :* Michael Wüstefeld (born 1951)

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Hedda Zinner Hedda Zinner, or Hedda Erpenbeck-Zinner (20 May 1904 – 4 July 1994), was a German political writer, actress, comedian, journalist and radio director. Biography Hedda Zinner was born in Lemberg on May 20, 1904. She attended the Acting Acade ...

(1905–1994) :*

Arnold Zweig Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer, pacifist and socialist. He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I. Life and work Zweig was born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia (now Głogów, Poland), the son ...

(1887–1968) :*

Gerhard Zwerenz Gerhard Zwerenz (3 June 1925 in Gablenz, Saxony – 13 July 2015) was a German writer and politician. From 1994 until 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). Life Gerhard Zwerenz was born in Gablenz ...

(1925–2015)

References

* Helmut Müller-Enbergs, Jan Wielgohs, Dieter Hoffmann (Editors): Wer war wer in der DDR? Ein biographisches Lexikon. Sonderausgabe. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 2000, * Michael Opitz, Michael Hofmann (Editors): Metzler Lexikon DDR-Literatur, J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 2009,

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