Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer.
Ingo Schulze is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director at the State Theatre in Altenburg 45 km south of Leipzig for two years. After sleeping through the events of the night of 9 November 1989, Schulze started a newspaper with friends. He was encouraged to write. Schulze spent six months in St Petersburg which became the basis for his debut collection of short stories 33 Moments of Happiness (1995).
Durs Grünbein is a German poet and essayist.
Arnold Stadler is a German writer, essayist and translator.
Ursula Krechel is a German writer.
Felicitas Hoppe is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.
Josef Haslinger is an Austrian writer.
Hermann Karl Lenz was a German writer of poetry, fiction stories, and novels. A major part of his work includes 10 volumes in a semi-autobiographical novel cycle about the alter-ego figure "Eugen Rapp". In the 1970s he published the 7-volume Schwäbische Chronik.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success of his first novel Der Verlorene. Treichel has also worked as an opera librettist, most prominently in collaboration with the composer Hans Werner Henze.
Mirko Bonné is a German writer and translator.
Ernest Wichner is a German writer, editor, and literary translator.
Lutz Seiler is a German poet and novelist.
Clemens J. Setz, is an Austrian writer and translator.
Matthias Nawrat is a German writer.
Burkhard Spinnen is a German author.
Klaus Modick is a German author and literary translator.
Peter Kurzeck was a German writer.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Robert Schindel is an Austrian lyricist, regisseur and author.
