WFrank-Markus Barwasser is a German political satirist and journalist. On stage, he almost always acts as the character of Erwin Pelzig, wearing a corduroy hat.
WJan Böhmermann is a German satirist and television presenter. He has also worked as a comedy writer and producer.
WSebastian Brant was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff.
WThomas Brussig is a German writer best known for his satirical novels that deal with the German Democratic Republic.
WHeinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published comic illustrated cautionary tales from 1859, achieving his most notable works in the 1870s. Busch's illustrations used wood engraving, and later, zincography.
WFranz Josef Degenhardt was a German poet, satirist, novelist, and – first and foremost – a folksinger/songwriter (Liedermacher) with decidedly left-wing politics. He was also a lawyer, bearing the academic degree of Doctor of Law.
WChristian Ehring is a German comedian and author.
WFedor Alexis Flinzer was an author, educator and one of the greatest German illustrators of the Gründerzeit, who was called Raphael of Cats.
WRobert Gernhardt was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.
WMax Goldt is a German satirical author and musician.
WBogumil Goltz was a German humorist and satirist known mostly for his work Buch der Kindheit.
WHans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen was a German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus and the accompanying Simplician Scriptures series.
WDieter Hildebrandt was a German Kabarett artist.
WEdgar Hilsenrath was a German-Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor. He wrote several fictional novels that gave an unvarnished view of the Holocaust which were partly based on his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. His main works are Night, The Nazi and the Barber, and The Story of the Last Thought. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, he lived in Palestine and France, before settling in New York City in 1951 where he lived for 24 years and published his first novels. Although he was a naturalized United States citizen, he chose to return to Germany in 1975 where he lived until his death in 2018.
WWladimir Kaminer is a Russian-born German short story writer, columnist and disc jockey of Jewish origin.
WEmil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
WCarl Arnold Kortum was a German physician, but best known for his writing and poetry.
WGünter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. When he signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
WGeorg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
WWalter Mehring was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic. He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country.
WSteffen Möller is a German teacher, actor, satirist and stand-up artist, living and performing in Poland and Germany. Known there from the Europa da się lubić TV show and the M jak miłość soap opera. He was also the host for the first season of the Polish edition of the TV show Wetten, dass..?. Since 2008 he has performed on various stand-up comedy tours in Germany, Poland and Austria.
WJohann Michael Moscherosch, German statesman, satirist, and educator, was born at Willstätt, on the Upper Rhine near Strassburg.
WAlexander Moszkowski was a German satirist, writer and philosopher of Polish-Jewish descent. He was the brother of the composer and pianist Moritz Moszkowski.
WThomas Murner, OFM was a German satirist, poet and translator.
WJohann Karl August Musäus was a popular German author and one of the first collectors of German folk stories, most celebrated for his Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–1786), a collection of German fairy tales retold as satires.
WOtto Nückel was a German painter, graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist. He is best known as one of the 20th century's pioneer wordless novelists, along with Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward.
WDieter Herbert Nuhr is a German comedian, cabaret artist, author and television presenter.
WE. O. Plauen was the pseudonym of Erich Ohser, a German cartoonist best known for his strip Vater und Sohn.
WAndreas Rebers is a Kabarett artist, author and musician from Munich. His shows often incorporate performances on the accordion or the piano.
WMathias Richling is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist.
WFriedrich von Sallet was a German writer, most notable for his political and religion-critiquing poems.
WWilfried Schmickler is a German comedian and cabaret artist.
WJohann Balthasar Schupp was a German satirical author and a writer of Christian lyrics. After 1654, his having switched mid-career to a position as a high-profile Lutheran pastor, the content and populist approach of Schupp's sermons and of the printed pamphlets which he now started to publish brought him into increasingly acrimonious conflict with Hamburg's (relatively) conservative church establishment.
WMartin Sonneborn is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He is a founder and federal chairman of Die PARTEI. He was editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Titanic from 2000 to 2005 and works for Spiegel Online and ZDF.
WKai Henrik Twilfer is a German merchant and author.
WVicki Vomit is a German satirical musician and comedian. He lives in Erfurt. He is the cousin of Tamara Danz. He was a member of the German Heavy Metal Band "Blitzz", who released just one Album with Steamhammer/SPV in 1989.
WKarl Julius Weber was a German writer.
WChristian Weise, also known under the pseudonyms Siegmund Gleichviel, Orontes, Catharinus Civilis and Tarquinius Eatullus, was a German writer, dramatist, poet, pedagogue and librarian of the Baroque era. He produced a large number of dramatic works, noted for their social criticism and idiomatic style. In the 1670s he started a fashion for German "political novels". He has also been credited with the invention of the mathematical Euler diagram, though this is uncertain.