Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, …

Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 - April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

Johanna Spyri (June 12, 1827 - July 7, 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for "Heidi". Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theater whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author gained fame largely due to his avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire. One of his leading sentences was: "A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn". Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

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Gregor von Rezzori (born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo; May 13 1914 - April 23 1998) was an Austrian-born German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector. He was fluent in German, Romanian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, French, and English; during his life, von Rezzori was successively a citizen of Austria-Hungary, Romania, and the Soviet Union, …

Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born naturalized German natural scientist, and author of popular scientific and political philosophy books (includes those on Richard Wagner, Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe) as well as proponent of a nationalist and pan-Germanic antisemitism.

Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende is Ende's best known work. Other books include "Momo" and "Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer" (Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver). Michael Ende's works have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 20 million copies, and have been adapted into motion pictures, stage plays, operas and audio books. He died in Stuttgart (Germany) of stomach cancer.

Giwi Margwelaschwili (born December 14, 1927 in Berlin) is a German-language Georgian writer and philosopher. He is the son of the notable Georgian intellectual Tite Margwelaschwili who moved to Germany after the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 and was chairman of the Georgian political emigrant's organization in Berlin. Due to allied bombing he attended four different gymnasium schools in Berlin and participated in the anti-Fascist youth movement "Swing Kids".

Heinrich Bolleter was from 1989 to 2006 the bishop of the United Methodist Church of Central and Southern Europe which comprises the countries Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Tunisia.

Micha Josef Berdyczewski, or Mikhah Yosef Bin-Gorion (surname also written "Berdichevsky") was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar. He appealed for the Jews to change their way of thinking, freeing themselves from dogmas ruling the Jewish religion, tradition and history, but is also known for his work with pre-modern Jewish myths and legends. He wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish and German.

Christine Nöstlinger is an Austrian writer. By her own admission, Nöstlinger was a wild and angry child. After finishing high school, she wanted to become an artist, and studied graphic arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. She worked as a graphic artist for a few years, before marrying a journalist, Ernst Nöstlinger, with whom she had two daughters. Today she alternates between her home in Vienna and a country house in Lower Austria.

Lev Nussimbaum (1905 - 1942) was a prolific Jewish writer who reinvented himself as a Muslim under the pseudonyms Essad Bey and Kurban Said. Despite his being an ethnic Jew, his politics were such that, before his origins were discovered, the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds".

Hugo Sonnenschein (May 25, 1890, Gaya near Brno (now Kyjov) - July 20, 1953, Mírov, near Prague) was an Austrian writer from Bohemia.

Oscar Walter Cisek was a Romanian writer, diplomat, and art critic, who authored short stories, novels, poems and essays in both German and Romanian.

Tite Margwelaschwili (German: "Titus von Margwelaschwili") (1891-1946) was a Georgian philosopher and writer, PhD of the University of Halle-Wittenberg (1914). He studied at the University of Leipzig and did a doctor's degree in history at the University Halle-Wittenberg. His career in Georgia was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1921.

John Louis Nuelsen (1867-1946) was a German-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1908. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, as a college and seminary professor and theologian, and as an author and editor.

Wolf Wondratschek (b. August 14, 1943) is a German author. He was born in Rudolstadt in Thuringia.

Abdoldjavad Falaturi was a German scholar of Iranian origin. He studied Islam (theology, sharia, ...) in Iran, up to the highest possible level, before going to Germany where he studied philosophy (up to Ph.d.) He has also written several other official publications (together with Udo Tworushka) for education in Germany on Islamic theology (initially "Der Islam im Unterricht.

Rudolf Kassner was an Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher. Rudolf Kassner is not a well-known author, hence this article proceeds initially by way of an introduction to Kassner’s life and works to an elaboration of specific areas of study. Rudolf Kassner: A Biographical Sketch Unfortunately, there exists till date no authentic biography of Rudolf Kassner. The life-sketch I am providing here is based on his three major autobiographical works, …

Malwida von Meysenbug (October 28, 1816, Kassel - April 23, 1903, Rome) was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner. She also met the French writer Romain Rolland in Rome in 1890, and is the author of "Memories of an Idealist". She published the first volume anonymously in 1869. Her father Carl Rivalier descended from a family of French Huguenots, and received the title of Baron of Meysenbug from Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel.

Sylvanus Charles Breyfogel was an American Bishop of the Evangelical Association, elected in 1891.

William W. Orwig (25 September 1810 - 29 May 1889) was a Bishop of the Evangelical Association in the United States, elected in 1859. He is considered one of the most famous historical figures of the Evangelical Association.

Ioseb Iremashvili (1878-1944) was a Georgian politician and author. A boyhood friend, and later political adversary, of Joseph Stalin, he is primarily known for his book "Stalin und die Tragödie Georgiens" (Berlin, 1932), the first memoir of Stalin's childhood