* 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer ( d. 1697 )

* 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet

The German poet Unica Zürn, who made extensive use of anagram techniques, came to regard obsession with anagrams as a " dangerous fever ", because it created isolation of the author.

* 1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet ( d. 1815 )

* 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet ( d. 1803 )

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

* 1933 – Stefan George, German poet ( b. 1868 )

* 1797 – Heinrich Heine, German poet ( d. 1856 )

* 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( b. 1715 )

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

* 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet ( d. 1927 )

* 1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

* 1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet ( d. 1831 )

* 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( d. 1769 )

* 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet ( d. 1909 )

* 1956 – Gottfried Benn, German poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author ( d. 1941 )

* 1966 – Julia Neigel, German singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

In 1943 the German biblical scholar Martin Noth suggested that this history was composed by a single author / editor, living in the time of the Exile ( 6th century BCE ).

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip.

* 1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author ( d. 1989 )

* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

* 1888 – Thea von Harbou, German author and actress ( d. 1954 )

* 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer, German author and dramatist ( d. 1977 )

Several well-known horror enthusiasts publicly criticized the German ban on the movie, including author Stephen King ( who gave it a rave review in the November 1982 issue of Twilight Zone ).

** Ruodlieb ( Latin ), by a German author

* 1910 – Irmgard Keun, German author ( d. 1982 )

* 1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author ( d. 2007 )

* 1834 – Felix Dahn, German author ( d. 1912 )

* Günter Grass ( born 1927 ), German author and playwright

The novel also explores the motive of doppelgänger, the term which was coined by another German author ( and supporter of Hoffmann ) Jean Paul in his humorous novel Siebenkäs ( 1796-1797 ).

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

File: Nida ThomasMann cottage. jpg | Horse head gables on German author Thomas Mann's cottage in Nida, Lithuania

* 1809 – Heinrich Hoffmann, German painter and author ( d. 1894 )