This is a list of German-language playwrights.

A

  • Herbert Achternbusch (1938–2022)
  • Alois Außerer (1876–1950)

B

  • Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005)
  • Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989)
  • Leo Birinski (1884–1951)
  • Nicolai Borger (born 1974)
  • Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
  • Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

D

  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

F

  • Gustav Freytag (1816–1895)

G

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

H

  • Peter Handke (born 1942)
  • Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946)
  • Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991)
  • Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938)

J

  • Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946)
  • Hanns Johst (1890–1978)

K

  • Georg Kaiser (1878–1945)
  • Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811)
  • Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
  • Franz Xaver Kroetz (born 1946)

L

  • Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945)
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)

M

  • Andreas Mand (born 1959)
  • Lucas Maius (1522–1598)
  • Klaus Mann (1906–1949)
  • Marius von Mayenburg (born 1972)
  • Heiner Müller (1929–1995)
  • Robert Musil (1880–1942)
  • Johann Nestroy (1801–1862)

P

  • Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934–2007)

S

  • Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
  • Roland Schimmelpfennig (born 1967)

T

  • Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853)
  • Ernst Toller (1893–1939)
  • Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935)
  • Peter Turrini (born 1944)

W

  • Robert Walser (1878–1956)
  • Frank Wedekind (1864–1918)
  • Peter Weiss (1916–1982)
  • Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
  • Urs Widmer (1938–2014)

Z

  • Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977)
  • Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)

See also

  • List of Germans
  • List of German journalists
  • List of German-language authors
  • List of German-language philosophers
  • List of German-language poets