Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

male, deceased (1924) (New York, United States)
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my...
Education: Law at German University of Prague
Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane

male, deceased (1898)
Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

female, deceased (1916)
Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was an Austrian writer. With her psychological novels she is...

Ödön von Horváth

male, deceased (1938)
Ödön (Edmund Josef) von Horváth, born December 9 1901 in Susak, a suburb of Fiume, Austria-Hungary (today called Rijeka, Croatia), and killed by a f...
Gregor von Rezzori

Gregor von Rezzori

male, deceased (1998)
Gregor von Rezzori (born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo; May 13 1914 - April 23 1998) was an Austrian-born German-language novelist, memoirist,...
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

female, deceased (1942)
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was a Romanian-born German-language poet. A Jew, she was a victim of the Holocaust and died at the age of 18 in a labor...
Georg Kreisler

Georg Kreisler

male, 87 years old
Georg Kreisler (born 18 July 1922, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-American German-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author. He was...
Walter Serner

Walter Serner

male, deceased (1942)
Walter Serner was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto "Letzte Lockerung" was an important text of Dadaism. Walter Serner was born...

Sandra Hüller

female
Sandra Hüller studied theater from 1996-2000 at the Hochschule Für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch", Berlin. She appeared from 1999-2001 at the Jena Th...
Giwi Margwelaschwili

Giwi Margwelaschwili

male, 81 years old
Giwi Margwelaschwili (born December 14, 1927 in Berlin) is a German-language Georgian writer and philosopher. He is the son of the notable Georgian...