Max Frisch (1911–1991)

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1. Max Frisch

   Author of Homo Faber, Andorra, The Fire Raisers

2. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

   Author of The Visit, The Pledge, The Physicists

3. Thomas Bernhard

   Author of Wittgenstein's Nephew, Gargoyles, The Voice Imitator

4. Heinrich Böll

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

5. Friedrich Schiller

   Author of Maria Stuart, Wilhelm Tell, Intrigue and love

6. Thomas Mann

   Author of Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian LeverKuhn as told by a friend, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years

7. Bertolt Brecht

   Author of Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

8. Peter Handke

   Author of The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man's-Bay

9. Elias Canetti

   Author of Auto-da-Fé, The Voices of Marrakesh, The human province

10. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    Author of Nathan the Wise, Emilia Galotti

11. Martin Walser

    Author of Tod eines Kritikers, Ein springender Brunnen, Halbzeit

12. Heinrich Mann

    Author of Man of Straw, The Blue Angel

13. Theodor Fontane

    Author of Effi Briest, Der Stechlin, Frau Jenny Treibel

14. Günter Grass

    Author of My Century, Headbirths: Or the Germans Are Dying Out, From the Diary of a Snail

15. Alfred Andersch

    Author of Flight to Afar, Efraim, Winterspelt

16. Gottfried Keller

    Author of Kleider machen Leute, A Village Romeo and Juliet, Green Henry

17. Georg Büchner

    Author of Woyzeck, Dantons Tod, Gesammelte Werke

18. Siegfried Lenz

    Author of The German Lesson, The Heritage, An Exemplary Life

19. Gerhart Hauptmann

    Author of Bahnwärter Thiel, Der Biberpelz, Three Plays : The Weavers, Hannele, the Beaver Coat

20. Robert Musil

    Author of The Confusions of Young Törless, Drei Frauen, The Enthusiasts (PAJ Books)