Irmgard Schneeberger, also known by her pen name Sandra Paretti (Regensburg, 5 February 1935 - Zurich, 13 March 1994) was a German writer. [1]
Herbert Achternbusch was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel Die Alexanderschlacht, before turning to low-budget films. He had a love-hate relationship with Bavaria which showed itself in his work. Some of his controversial films, such as Das Gespenst, were presented at the Berlinale festival.
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.
Max Goldt is a German writer, columnist and musician.
Erika Pluhar is an actress, singer and author from Austria and was born on 28 February 1939 in Vienna.
Kemal Kurt was an author, translator and photographer.
Klausbernd Vollmar is a German scientific psychologist (Diplompsychologe) specializing in the language of symbols in dreams, art and advertisements.
Max von der Grün was a German novelist.
Amelie Fried is a German writer and television presenter. Her father, Kurt Fried, is the creator-publisher of Schwäbische Donauzeitung, nowadays a part of Südwest Presse. She studied journalism and film at university. She has worked extensively in television and has published numerous books. Her 2008 book Schuhhaus Pallas. Wie meine Familie sich gegen die Nazis wehrte deals with her family's persecution in Nazi Germany. The book received significant media attention and has been the subject of much debate.
Peter Przygodda was a German filmmaker, best known for editing Wim Wenders' films. Przygodda died of cancer, aged 69, in 2011.
Gero von Boehm is a German director, journalist and television presenter.
Karl Krolow was a German poet and translator. In 1956 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. He was born in Hanover, Germany, and died in Darmstadt, Germany.
Walter Höllerer was a German writer, literary critic and a literature graduate.
Carmen-Maja Antoni is a German actress.
Heinrich Rombach was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Würzburg. He is known for developing structural ontology.
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).
Wolfgang Hohlbein wrote more than 200 books. All his books are written in German; only 11 of his books have been translated into English. This is the list of all books written by Wolfgang Hohlbein.
Rainer Kunad was a German conductor and composer, especially of opera.
Milena Moser is a Swiss writer. Her first language is Swiss German. She has emigrated to the United States twice, in 1998 and again in 2015, but German remains the language in which she writes, and in which by 2018 more than twenty of her novels had been published.
Wolfgang Winkler was a German actor. Born in Görlitz, he was best known for starring in films such as The Rabbit Is Me, Das Mädchen auf dem Brett and I Was Nineteen, as well as playing Hauptkommissar Herbert Schneider in the television series Polizeiruf 110.
Gerhard Branstner was a German writer.