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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

A

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
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
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 Dürrenmatt

E

Günter 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
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
Hroswitha of Gandersheim
Dusty Hughes

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
Thomas Kyd

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
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
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
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