WNikolaus Becker was a German lawyer and writer. His one poem of note was the 1840 "Rheinlied" which was set to music over 70 times, the most famous setting being Die Wacht am Rhein.
WHeinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
WNicolas Born was a German writer.
WJohn Brugman, O.F.M., was a 15th-century Franciscan friar, who became a renowned preacher in the Netherlands
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.
WBaroness Anna Elisabeth Franziska Adolphine Wilhelmine Louise Maria von Droste zu Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, was a 19th-century German writer and composer. She was one of the most important German poets and author of the novella Die Judenbuche.
WFrank Findeiß is a German poet.
WFerdinand Freiligrath was a German poet, translator and liberal agitator, who is considered part of the Young Germany movement.
WFrank Goosen is a German cabaret artist and author.
WChristian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists, calling him "a drunken Shakespeare" and Sigmund Freud described Grabbe as "an original and rather peculiar poet."
WFriedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer, was a successful German author.
WWalter Georg Alfred Hasenclever was a German Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power and he went into exile in France; however, there he was imprisoned as a "foreign enemy". He died in Les Milles near Aix-en-Provence.
WWilhelm Herchenbach was a 19th-century German author.
WNorbert Hummelt is a German poet, essayist and translator.
WThe Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems and essays.
WThorsten Libotte is a German writer and poet.
WJürgen Neffe is a German writer.
WKarl Otten was German expressionist writer and broadcaster.
WAugust Stramm was a German war poet and playwright who is considered the first of the expressionists. Stramm's radically experimental verse and his major influence on all subsequent German poetry has caused him to be compared to Ezra Pound, Guillaume Apollinaire, James Joyce, and T.S. Eliot. A reserve officer in the Imperial German Army, Stramm was called up to active service at the outbreak of World War I and was killed in action on the Eastern Front.
WMonsignor Wilhelm Imkamp is a German Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and church historian. A member of the Papal household, he was appointed as a Prelate of Honour of His Holiness in 2006 and an Apostolic Protonotar in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Imkamp serves as a consultant for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, The German Association of the Holy Land, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the Order of Parfaite Amitié.