List of dramatists
This is a list of notable dramatists:
See also Literature and Drama.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Arthur Adamov
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Aeschylus
- Ilse Aichinger
- Edward Albee
- Jean Anouilh
- Ludwig Anzengruber
- Aristophanes
- Fernando Arrabal
- Antonin Artaud
- Lilly Axster
- Alan Ayckbourn
B
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Ernst Barlach
- Peter Barnes
- Philip Barry
- Gabriel Barylli
- Wolfgang Bauer
- Pierre Beaumarchais
- Francis Beaumont
- Ulrich Becher
- J�rgen 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 Br�ckner
- Alfred Brust
- Georg B�chner
- Oliver Bukowski
C
- Daniel Call
- Elias Canetti
- Veza Canetti
- Ion Luca Caragiale
- George Chapman
- 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 D�rrenmatt
E
- G�nter Eich
- Gundi Ellert
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Euripides
F
- Michael Fackelmann
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Jules Feiffer
- Gustave Flaubert
- Ludwig Fels
- Marieluise Fleisser
- John Fletcher
- 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
- John Godber
- Kermi Goell
- Reinhard Goering
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Carlo Goldoni
- Ivan Goll
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe
- Harley Granville Barker
- J�rg Graser
- G�nter 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
- G�nter Herburger
- Rudolf Herfurtner
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Rolf Hochhuth
- Fritz Hochwaelder
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Ludvig Holberg
- �d�n von Horváth
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim
- Dusty Hughes
I
- Henrik Ibsen
- William Inge
- Eug�ne Ionesco
J
- G�nter 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 K�nig
- Oskar Kokoschka
- August von Kotzebue
- Karl Kraus
- Helmut Krausser
- Margret Kreidl
- Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Fitzgerald Kusz
- Thomas Kyd
L
- Neil LaBute (Bash, The Shape of Things)
- Anna Langhoff
- Else Lasker-Sch�ler
- Carl Laszlo
- Rolf Lauckner
- Johann Anton Leisewitz
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Reinhard Lettau
- Nell Leyshon
- 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
- Menander
- Thomas Middleton
- Arthur Miller
- Felix Mitterer
- Moli�re
- Jose Zorrilla y Moral
- John Mortimer
- Karl O. M�hl
- Elfriede M�ller
- Harald M�ller
- Heiner M�ller
- 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 Sch�bel
- Karl Schoenherr
- Lothar Schreyer
- Stefan Sch�tz
- 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 Strau�
- Marlene Streeruwitz
- August Strindberg
- Thomas Strittmatter
- Preston Sturges
- Patrick S�skind, (1949- )
- Erwin Sylvanus
- Gerarld Szyszkowitz
T
- George Tabori
- Jean Tardieu
- Terence
- Ludwig Tieck
- Ernst Toller
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Peter Turrini
U
- Nicholas Udall
- Rodolfo Usigli
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
See also