Walter Serner was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dadaism.
Alfred Schmidt was a German philosopher.
Klaus Merz, is a Swiss writer.
Günter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
Imanuel Geiss was a German historian.
Christoph W. Bauer is an Austrian author. He grew up in Lienz and Kirchberg in Tirol and is currently living in Innsbruck.
Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and author.
Jürg Amann was a Swiss author and dramatist. He has written radio plays, a biography of Robert Walser, and other works.
Jürg Schubiger was a Swiss psychotherapist and writer of children's books. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1996 for Als die Welt noch jung war.
Reinhard Jirgl is a German writer.
Gerhard Rühm is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist.
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).
Jan Wagner, is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
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.
Norbert Gstrein is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner. He grews up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.
Robert Sedlaczek is an Austrian journalist, Germanist and non-fiction author. He is best known for his works on aspects of the German language. In addition, he writes books and articles on cultural history topics. In his book Die Tante Jolesch und ihre Zeit. Eine Recherche he traced the history of the industrial family of the same name as well as the lawyer, Hugo Sperber. These people are characters in Friedrich Torberg's book Die Tante Jolesch.
Robert Schindel is an Austrian lyricist, director and author.
Stefan Weidner is a German Islamic studies scholar, writer, and translator. Due to his contributions to the reception of Arabic and other Middle Eastern literatures, the Islamic scholar Stefan Wild described him as a "leading mediator of Middle Eastern poetry and prose into German".
Hans Haid was an Austrian folklorist, mountain farmer and dialect poet.
Lydia Mischkulnig is an Austrian writer living in Vienna. The winner of the Bertelsmann-Literaturpreis writes mainly novels, narratives and radio plays.
