Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

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1. Bertolt Brecht

   Author of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, Edward II: A Chronicle Play

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4. Max Frisch

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7. Heinrich Böll

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8. Friedrich Schiller

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10. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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11. Peter Weiss

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12. Günter Grass

    Author of The Flounder, The Rat, From the Diary of a Snail

13. Luigi Pirandello

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14. Heinrich von Kleist

    Author of Michael Kohlhaas, The Prince of Homburg, Sämtliche Werke

15. Theodor Fontane

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16. Jean Genet

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17. Harold Pinter

    Author of The Homecoming, Complete Works, Volume I, The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter
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18. Eugene O'Neill

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19. Eugene Ionesco

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20. Edward Albee

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