List of playwrights

See also Literature and Drama.

A

Herbert Achternbusch

Arthur Adamov

Aeschylus

Ilse Aichinger

Edward Albee

Jane Anderson

Jean Anouilh

Ludwig Anzengruber

John Arden

Aristophanes

Fernando Arrabal

Antonin Artaud

Lilly Axster

Alan Ayckbourn

B

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ernst Barlach

Peter Barnes

J. M. Barrie

Philip Barry

Gabriel Barylli

Wolfgang Bauer

Pierre Beaumarchais

Francis Beaumont

Ulrich Becher

Jürgen Becker

Jurek Becker

Samuel Beckett

Max Beckmann

Eric Begosian

Brendan Behan

Gottfried Benn

Augusto Boal

Robert Bolt

Wolfgang Borchert

John Bowen

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

Paul Vincent Carroll

George Chapman

Klaus Chatten

Anton Chekhov

Caryl Churchill

Jean Cocteau

Pierre Corneille

Noel Coward

D

Thomas Dekker

Ariel Dorfman

Tankred Dorst

Alexandre Dumas fils

Nell Dunn

Christopher Durang

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

E

David Edgar

Günter Eich

T. S. Eliot

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

Gustav Freytag

Erich Fried

Brian Friel

Max Frisch

Franz Fuehmann

Athol Fugard

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

Lady Gregory

Trevor Griffiths

Franz Grillparzer

Andreas Gryphius

A.R. Gurney

Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow

H

Peter Hacks

Max Halbe

Peter Handke

Lorraine Hansberry

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

Denis Johnston

Thomas Jonigk

Ben Jonson

K

Georg Kaiser

Sarah Kane

Manfred Karge

George S. Kaufman

John B. Keane

Bernhard Kellermann

Thomas Kilroy

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

Tony Kushner

Fitzgerald Kusz

Thomas Kyd

L

Neil LaBute

Anna Langhoff

Else Lasker-Schüler

Carl Laszlo

Rolf Lauckner

Johann Anton Leisewitz

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Reinhard Lettau

Nell Leyshon

Henry Livings

Daniel C. Lohenstein

Dea Loher

Federico Garcia Lorca

Craig Lucas

Charles Ludlam

Otto Ludwig

M

David Mamet

Klaus Mann

Andreas Marber

Pierre de Marivaux

Christopher Marlowe

Christian Martin

William Somerset Maugham

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Marius von Mayenburg

Martin McDonagh

Terrence McNally

Charles L. Mee

Menander

David Mercer

Thomas Middleton

Arthur Miller

Felix Mitterer

Molière

M. J. Molloy

Jose Zorrilla y Moral

John Mortimer

Karl O. Mühl

Elfriede Müller

Harald Müller

Heiner Müller

Kaj Munk

Robert Musil

N

Johann Nestroy

Peter Nichols

Marsha Norman

O

Sean O'Casey

Eugene O'Neill

Gerlinde Obermeier

Clifford Odets

Joe Orton

John Osborne

Albert Ostermaier

P

Suzan-Lori Parks

Angelo Parra

Helmut Peschina

Carlo Pietzner

Arthur Wing Pinero

Winsome Pinnock

Harold Pinter

Luigi Pirandello

Plautus

Ulrich Plenzdorf

Klaus Pohl

Alf Poss

Peter Preses

J. B. Priestley

Q

(none listed)

R

Jean Racine

Ferdinand Raimund

Lutz Rathenow

Terence Rattigan

Paul Rebhun

Gerlind Reinshagen

Erwin Riess

Rainer Maria Rilke

Moritz Rinke

Lennox Robinson

Michaela Ronzoni

Friederike Roth

Eugen Ruge

Willy Russell

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

John Patrick Shanley

George Bernard Shaw

Sam Shepard

Robert E. Sherwood

George Shiels

Larry Shue

Neil Simon

Geoffrey Skelton

Anna Deavere Smith

Sophocles

Reinhard Sorge

Kerstin Specht

Martin Sperr

Ginka Steinwachs

Carl Sternheim

Tom Stoppard

David Storey

August Stramm

Botho Strauß

Marlene Streeruwitz

August Strindberg

Thomas Strittmatter

Preston Sturges

Patrick Süskind

Alfred Sutro

Erwin Sylvanus

John Millington Synge

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

Naomi Wallace

Martin Walser

Robert Walser

Theresia Walser

Wendy Wasserstein

Keith Waterhouse

Frank Wedekind

Peter Weiss

Theodor Weissenborn

Franz Werfel

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Arnold Wesker

Urs Widmer

Hubert Wiedfeld

Adolf von Wilbrandt

Oscar Wilde

Thornton Wilder

Emlyn Williams

Tennessee Williams

August Wilson

Lanford Wilson

William Wycherly

X

(none listed)

Y

William Butler Yeats

Z

Ingeborg von Zadow

Matthias Zschokke

Carl Zuckmayer

Stefan Zweig

See also

• Lists of authors
• List of American playwrights
• List of British playwrights
• List of British playwrights since 1950
• List of Canadian playwrights
• List of German playwrights
• List of Irish playwrights

Referenced By