Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst in Germany.
Nicolaus Rohlfs was an 18th-century German mathematics teacher (arithmeticus) in Buxtehude and Hamburg who wrote astronomical calendars, a book about gardening, and other treatises that were continued by Matthias Rohlfs.
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Johann Rist was a German poet and dramatist best known for his hymns, which inspired musical settings and have remained in hymnals.
Erasmus Finx, aka Erasmus Francisci, was a German polymath, author, and writer of Christian hymns.
Georg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg.
Luise Rinser was a German writer, best known for her novels and short stories.
Hoimar von Ditfurth was a German physician and scientific journalist. He was the father of Christian von Ditfurth, a historian, and Jutta Ditfurth, a writer and journalist.
Eberhard Melchior was a writer who published a few works about German thermal spas around 1700.
Anton Kirchweger He was the editor or the author of the influential German hermetical book Aurea Catena Homeri ; Aurea Catena Homeri oder, Eine Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen. The book was read by Pietists and later influenced the young Goethe. It was first published in Leipzig in 1723, in the German language, followed by other editions: 1723, 1728, 1738 and 1757. Another Latin version was issued at Frankfurt in 1762. Sometime in the late eighteenth century Sigismund Bacstrom translated parts of the work into English. In 1891, part of the translation was published in the Theosophical Society journal Lucifer.
Wolfgang Weyrauch was a German writer, journalist, and actor. He wrote under the pseudonym name Joseph Scherer.
Christman Genipperteinga was a possibly ficticious German serial killer and bandit of the 16th century. He reportedly murdered 964 individuals over a 13-year period, from 1569 until his capture in 1581. Although records of Genipperteinga's alleged crimes first emerged shortly after his death, starting in 1581, historians are uncertain of Genipperteinga's existence. Similar tales of other serial-killing bandits were circulated in the Holy Roman Empire during and after his alleged life.
Theodor Undereyck was a Protestant pastor, spiritual writer and pioneer of pietism in the German Reformed Church.
The Deutsche Theatrum Chemicum is a collection of alchemical texts, predominantly in German translation, which was published in Nuremberg in three volumes by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736), the publisher, printer and bibliographer.
Johannes Praetorius was a German writer and historian.
Peter Hamm was a German poet, author, journalist, editor, and literary critic. He wrote several documentaries, including ones about Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. He wrote for the German weekly newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others. From 1964 to 2002, Hamm worked as contributing editor for culture for the broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. He was also a jury member of literary prizes, and critic for a regular literary club of the Swiss television company Schweizer Fernsehen.
Willi wills wissen was a children's program focused on factual issues and everyday occurrences, produced by Megaherz Film und Fernsehen on behalf of the Bayerischer Rundfunk with the Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht. The program was first broadcast on KiKA from 2002 to 2010, and was regularly repeated on Das Erste and some regional channels of the ARD. The producers were Franz Xaver Gernstl and Fidelis Mager.
Stefan Weidner is a German scholar of Islamic cultures, writer, and translator. Due to his contributions to the reception of Arabic and other Middle Eastern literatures, the German scholar of Modern Oriental Studies Stefan Wild described him as a "leading mediator of Middle Eastern poetry and prose into German".
