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List of famous playwrights

A

Herbert Achternbusch (* 1938), DE - Arthur Adamov (1908-1970), FR - Aischylos (????????), oder Aeschylos, Äschylos, Æschylos (525-456), GR - Ilse Aichinger (* 1921), AT - Étienne Aignan - Edward Albee (* 1928), US - Johann Georg Albini d.J. (1659-1714), DE - Jean Anouilh (1910-1987), FR - Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889), AT - John Arden (* 1930), GB - Aristophanes (446-385), GR - Fernando Arrabal (* 1932), ES - Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), FR - David Auburn (* 1969) - Nicolaus von Avancini (1611-1686), IT - Alan Ayckbourn (* 1939), GB -

B

Ba-Bl

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), AT - Jakob Balde (1604-1668), DE - Howard Barker (* 1946), UK - Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), DE - Peter Barnes - J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), UK - Philip Barry (1896-1949), US - Gabriel Barylli (* 1957), AT - Wolfgang Bauer (1941-2005), AT - Terry Baum - Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799), FR - Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), UK - Ulrich Becher (1910-1990), DE - Jürgen Becker (* 1932), DE - Jurek Becker (1937-1997), DE - Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), IR - Max Beckmann (1884-1950), DE - Brendan Behan (1923-1964), IR - Aleksandr Abramovic Bejderman (* 1949) UA - David Belasco (1853-1931) US - Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), DE - Ugo Betti (1892-1953), IT - Jakob Bidermann (1578-1639), DE - August Blanche -

Bo-Bu

Augusto Boal (1931-2009), BR - Eric Bogosian (* 1953), US - Robert Bolt (1924-1995), UK - Guy Bolton (1884-1979), US - Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947), DE - Dion Boucicault - John Bowen - Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), DE - Volker Braun (* 1939), DE - Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), DE - Hermann Broch (1886-1951), AT - Ferdinand Bruckner (1891-1958), AT - Christine Brückner (1921-1996), DE - Caspar Brülow (1585-1627), DE - Alfred Brust - Georg Büchner (1813-1837), DE - Oliver Bukowski - Abe Burrows (1910-1985), US - Henry James Byron -

C

Vojt?ch Cach - Caecilius Statius (220-168 v. Chr.) röm. - Daniel Call - Franz Callenbach - Elias Canetti - Veza Canetti - Cao Yu - Karel ?apek - Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912) - Paul Vincent Carroll - George Chapman - Klaus Chatten - Andrew Cherry (1762-1812) - Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) - Agatha Christie - Caryl Churchill - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) - Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) - Georges Courteline - Noël Coward - Johann Paul Crusius - Nilo Cruz -

D

Thomas Dekker - Ariel Dorfman - Tankred Dorst - Alexandre Dumas d. J. - Nell Dunn - Christopher Durang - Friedrich Dürrenmatt -

E

José Echegaray, (1832-1916) Spanien - David Edgar - Günter Eich - T. S. Eliot, GB - Gundi Ellert - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, D - Euripides, Antike -

F

Diego Fabbri, IT - Michael Fackelmann - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, D - Charles Simon Favart, FR - Jules Feiffer - Gustave Flaubert, FR - Ludwig Fels, D - Leandro Fernández de Moratín - Nathaniel Field - Friedrich Hermann Flayder - Marieluise Fleisser - John Fletcher - Dario Fo - Horton Foote - Hans Heinrich Formann - Jon Fosse, NO - Michael Frayn - David French - Gustav Freytag - Erich Fried - Brian Friel - Max Frisch - Franz Fuehmann - Athol Fugard -

G

Christoph Gahl - John Galsworthy - Federico García Lorca - Jean Genet - Katharina Gericke - David Gieselmann - William S. Gilbert - Jean Giraudoux - John Godber - Kermi Goell - Reinhard Goering - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Carlo Goldoni - Ivan Goll - Olympe de Gouges - Christian Dietrich Grabbe - Harley Granville-Barker - Jörg Graser - Günter Grass - Simon Gray - Lady Gregory - Alexander Sergejewitsch Gribojedow - Trevor Griffiths - Franz Grillparzer - Andreas Gryphius - Sacha Guitry - Albert Ramsdell Gurney - Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow -

H

Peter Hacks - Max Halbe - Johann Christian Hallmann - Peter Handke - Lorraine Hansberry - Ernst Hardt - David Hare - Walter Hasenclever - August Adolph von Haugwitz - Carl Hauptmann - Gerhart Hauptmann - Horst Hawemann - Friedrich Hebbel - David Elias Heidenreich - Christoph Hein - Lillian Hellman - Heinrich Henkel - Günter Herburger - Rudolf Herfurtner - Wolfgang Hildesheimer - Prince Hoare - Rolf Hochhuth - Fritz Hochwälder - Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Ludvig Holberg - Ödön von Horváth - Sidney Howard - Dusty Hughes - David Henry Hwang -

I

Henrik Ibsen - William Inge - Eugène Ionesco - David Ives -

J

Günter Jankowiak - Alfred Jarry - Elfriede Jelinek - Douglas Jerrold - Denis Johnston - Thomas Jonigk - Ben Jonson -

K

Georg Kaiser - Sarah Kane - Manfred Karge - George S. Kaufman - John B. Keane - Bernhard Kellermann - Joseph Kesselring - Thomas Kilroy - Heinar Kipphardt - Harald Kislinger - Heinrich von Kleist - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger - Václav Kliment Klicpera - Alexander Kluge - Gerd Knappe - Werner R. Koefler - Theodor von Kobbe - Oskar Kokoschka - Bernard-Marie Koltès - August von Kotzebue - Franz Kranewitter - Karl Kraus - Helmut Krausser - Margret Kreidl - Franz Xaver Kroetz - Nestor Kukolnik - Tony Kushner - Fitzgerald Kusz - Thomas Kyd -

L

Neil LaBute - Anna Langhoff - Else Lasker-Schüler - Carl Laszlo - Rolf Lauckner - Johann Anton Leisewitz - Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Reinhard Lettau - Nell Leyshon - Henry Livings - Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein - Dea Loher - Gerd Hergen Lübben - Craig Lucas - Charles Ludlam - Otto Ludwig -

M

Michael MacLennan - Wladimir Majakowski - David Mamet - Klaus Mann - Andreas Marber - Pierre de Marivaux - Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) - Christian Martin - Reinhold Massag - William Somerset Maugham - Marius von Mayenburg - Martin McDonagh - Terrence McNally - Charles L. Mee - Menander - David Mercer - Thomas Middleton - Arthur Miller (* 1915) - Felix Mitterer - Johann Sebastian Mitternacht (1613-1679) - Molière (1622-1673) - M. J. Molloy - John Mortimer - Karl Otto Mühl - Elfriede Müller - Harald Müller - Heiner Müller - Kaj Munk - Robert Musil -

N

Johann Nestroy - Peter Nichols - Marsha Norman -

O

Sean O'Casey - Eugene O'Neill - Gerlinde Obermeier - Clifford Odets - Joe Orton - John James Osborne - Albert Ostermaier -

P

Suzan-Lori Parks - Angelo Parra - Helmut Peschina - Carlo Pietzner - Arthur Wing Pinero - Winsome Pinnock - Harold Pinter - Luigi Pirandello, It. - Plautus, Antike - Ulrich Plenzdorf, DDR/D - Klaus Pohl - Alf Poss - Johann Ludwig Prasch - Peter Preses - J. B. Priestley - Publilius Syrus, Antike -

Q

(kein Eintrag) -

R

Jean Racine - Ferdinand Raimund - Terence Rattigan - Paul Rebhun - Gerlind Reinshagen - Erwin Riess - Rainer Maria Rilke - Moritz Rinke - Ludwig Robert - Lennox Robinson - Michaela Ronzoni - Jack Rosenthal - Roswitha von Gandersheim - Friederike Roth - Eugen Ruge - Willy Russell -

S

Sa-Se

Hans Sachs - Nelly Sachs - Victorien Sardou - William Saroyan - Jean-Paul Sartre - Michail Schatrow - Friedrich Schiller - Roland Schimmelpfennig - Einar Schleef - Johannes E. Schlegel - Horst Schloetelburg - Arno Schmidt - Simone Schneider - Arthur Schnitzler - Manuel Schöbel - Karl Schoenherr - Lothar Schreyer - Stefan Schütz - Werner Schwab - Brigitte Schwaiger - Robert Schenkkan - Georg Seidel -

Sh-Sp

Anthony Shaffer - Peter Shaffer (* 1926) - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - John Patrick Shanley - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - Rob Shearman - Sam Shepard (* 1943) - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Robert E. Sherwood - George Shiels - Larry Shue - Neil Simon - Geoffrey Skelton - Anna Deavere Smith - Sophokles - Reinhard Sorge - Wole Soyinka - Wolfhart Spangenberg (1567-1636?) - Kerstin Specht - Martin Sperr -

St-Sz

Ginka Steinwachs - Carl Sternheim - Nis-Momme Stockmann - Tom Stoppard - David Storey - Rudi Strahl - August Stramm - Botho Strauß, D - Marlene Streeruwitz - August Strindberg - Thomas Strittmatter, D - Preston Sturges - Patrick Süskind, D - Bernhard Studlar, AT - Alfred Sutro - Erwin Sylvanus - John Millington Synge - Gerarld Szyszkowitz -

T

George Tabori - Jean Tardieu - Henry Taylor - Terentius, Antike - Tian Han - Ludwig Tieck, D - Ernst Toller - Colorado Tolston - Anton Tschechow - Kurt Tucholsky, D - Peter Turrini -

U

Nicholas Udall - Rodolfo Usigli -

V

John Vanbrugh - Paula Vogel -

W

Friedrich Karl Waechter - Heinrich Leopold Wagner - Richard Wagner - Naomi Wallace - Martin Walser - Robert Walser - Theresia Walser - Wendy Wasserstein - Keith Waterhouse - John Webster - Frank Wedekind - Peter Weiss - Theodor Weißenborn - Nikolaus Welter - Franz Werfel - Timberlake Wertenbaker - Arnold Wesker - John Whiting - Urs Widmer - Hubert Wiedfeld - Adolf von Wilbrandt - Oscar Wilde - Thornton Wilder - Emlyn Williams - Tennessee Williams - August Wilson - Lanford Wilson - Elizabeth Wong, (* 1958), USA - William Wycherley -

X Y

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -

Z

Ingeborg von Zadow - Jose Zorrilla y Moral - Matthias Zschokke - Carl Zuckmayer - Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) -