Annette Pehnt is a German writer and literary critic. She lives in Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg.
Arnold Stadler is a German writer, essayist and translator.
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation, he became a dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
Dimitré Dinev is a Bulgarian-born Austrian writer. He is best known for his play Kozha i nebe, which controversially won the Askeer prize in 2007.
Reinhard Jirgl is a German writer.
Hanns-Josef Ortheil is a German author, scholar of German literature, and pianist. He has written many autobiographical and historical novels, some of which have been translated into 11 languages, according to WorldCat: French, Dutch, Modern Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Lithuanian, Japanese, Slovenian, and Russian.
Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg and lives in Berlin since 1992 but moved to Cologne in 2020. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, as well as dramas and radio plays. For her literary works, she has won a wide range of awards.
Wolfgang Kauer is an Austrian author who lives in Salzburg. He writes novels, short stories, audio plays, and poems in German.
Michael Kleeberg, is a German writer and translator. He studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg. He lived in Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he lives in Berlin as a full-time writer and translator from English and French.
Gerhard Zwerenz was a German writer and politician. From 1994 until 1998 he was a member of the Bundestag for the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).
Marianne Fritz was an Austrian writer and novelist. She is known for her multi-volume series of novels dealing with the history of Austria in the twentieth century. Her work is noted for its experimental nature and extraordinary length.
Rudolf Greinz was an Austrian writer. He was born as the eldest of five children of Anton Greinz and his wife Maria. His younger brothers Hugo (1873–1946) and Hermann (1879–1938) were also writers. In 1879 the family moved to Salzburg; his father had been transferred there.
Ludwig Julius Eisenberg was an Austrian writer and encyclopedist. He wrote a lexicon of stage artists, among other publications.
Peter Kurzeck was a German writer.
Hedwig Forstreuter, was a German journalist and writer.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Miguel Herz-Kestranek is an Austrian actor and author.
Robert Schindel is an Austrian lyricist, director and author.
The Mainzer Stadtschreiber is an annual German literature award. It is awarded by ZDF, 3sat and the city of Mainz and was founded in 1984. The award is endowed with €12,500. Additionally the laureate receives the right to live in the town clerk's domicile in the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz for one year. Together with ZDF, the recipient is able to produce a documentary based on a free choice of topic.
Lydia Mischkulnig is an Austrian writer living in Vienna. The winner of the Bertelsmann-Literaturpreis writes mainly novels, narratives and radio plays.
