Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

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1. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

   Author of The Visit, The Pledge, The Physicists

2. Max Frisch

   Author of Homo Faber, Andorra, The Fire Raisers
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3. Bertolt Brecht

   Author of Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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4. Friedrich Schiller

   Author of Maria Stuart, Wilhelm Tell, Intrigue and love

5. Heinrich Böll

   Author of The Clown, Group Portrait With Lady, Billiards at Half-Past Nine

6. Georg Büchner

   Author of Woyzeck, Woyzeck /Leonce und Lena, Dantons Tod
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7. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

   Author of Nathan the Wise, Emilia Galotti, Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück
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8. Heinrich Mann

   Author of Man of Straw, The Blue Angel

9. Thomas Mann

   Author of Buddenbrooks, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years, Tonio Kröger
   All: (1 member)

10. E. T. A. Hoffmann

    Author of The Devil's Elixirs, Das Fräulein von Scuderi, The Sand Man
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11. Elias Canetti

    Author of Auto-da-Fé, The Voices of Marrakesh, The Torch in My Ear

12. Heinrich von Kleist

    Author of Michael Kohlhaas, The Broken Jug, The Prince of Homburg

13. Siegfried Lenz

    Author of The German Lesson, So zärtlich war Suleyken, The Heritage

14. Arthur Schnitzler

    Author of Traumnovelle, Fraulein Else, Casanova's Return to Venice

15. Theodor Fontane

    Author of Effi Briest, Der Stechlin, Frau Jenny Treibel

16. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Author of Faust, Part One, Iphigenia in Tauris, Poetry

17. Thomas Bernhard

    Author of The Loser, Concrete, Gargoyles

18. Martin Walser

    Author of Ein fliehendes Pferd, Ehen in Philippsburg. SZ-Bibliothek Band 9, Ein springender Brunnen

19. Carlo Lucarelli

    Author of Almost Blue, Via delle Oche, L' isola dell'angelo caduto

20. Samuel Beckett

    Author of Murphy, More Pricks Than Kicks, Three Plays: Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and What Where